Mainframe Computer Systems
This volume describes General Electric’s venture into mainframe computers. GE pioneered commercial timesharing, and its hardware was used to develop the BASIC language and the influential Multics system. Unable to compete with IBM, GE sold its computer division to Honeywell.
This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
On Translating Arabic and English Media Texts
A must-read coursebook for students of media translation between English and Arabic. Adopting a practical approach, it introduces the linguistic features of news stories and media texts. Packed with extensive vocabulary, exercises, and seven types of media texts.
Cinema and Intermediality
This book investigates what the “inter-” of “intermediality” entails in cinema. Essays explore how film positions itself “in-between” media and arts through analyses of directors like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda.
Implementation of Oil Related Environmental Policies in Nigeria
Violent conflict in the Niger Delta stems from government failure to implement environmental policies. Government and oil company activities destroy the environment, and the resulting frustrations of local groups manifest as violence against them.
This textbook explains the mechanical properties of smooth muscle, a vital tissue implicated in diseases like high blood pressure and asthma. It is the only book with functional models and easy-to-follow mathematical derivations, linking the muscle cell to the laws of physics.
Narrating the Past
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
This textbook is a unique treatise on the present status of particle physics summarised for physics students at an introductory level: it provides insights into essential experimental and theoretical techniques and will gradually deepen the reader’s understanding of the field.
Psychological Realism in 19th Century Fiction
This study applies psychoanalytic theories to nineteenth-century fiction like Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre, illuminating the psyches of their characters. It brings forth a novel view of criticism, arguing that an approach dismissive of the psychological aspect is incomplete.
Beyond Capitalism
The digital revolution isn’t just updating capitalism—it’s forging a new system. As profound as the industrial revolution, this transformation is born from the convergence of global crises. This book reveals the world that comes next.
For online programs to succeed, institutions must support course design, communication, and students. This volume investigates these issues and will interest practitioners of online teaching, design, and administration of successful online programs.
For those who investigate the sources of vector-borne disease, this book presents procedures in straightforward language. It explains techniques for developing a comprehensive surveillance system and for detecting a disease prior to the infection of a human index case.
Sound is a major tool for studying the ocean environment and marine life. Understanding Ocean Acoustics focuses on environmental research using low frequencies relevant to fish and sea mammals, covering geoacoustic properties missing in most books on underwater acoustics.
This book provides insights into the dynamics of control systems, highlighting the first-time use of Morse theory to describe global dynamics. It is an accessible source of definitions, examples, theorems, and open questions for students, researchers, and professionals.
This volume publishes work by emerging researchers in the history of medicine, exploring topics from medical classics and the effects of war to conceptions of blood. It features the paper by keynote speaker Dr Thomas Schlich and is well-illustrated.
This volume explores the descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism. Focusing on the 18th-century exodus from Portugal to Brazil, it examines the contemporary search for Jewish roots. After centuries, how authentic is their lost Sefardi heritage?
This book explores topical issues in language and literature. It examines Cameroon’s linguistic colonial legacy, translation as a creative exercise, translator education, and the clash between Confucian and communicative classroom teaching in China.
Nietzsche’s Will to Power
Belliotti’s text adds to Nietzschean scholarship in its analysis of the concept of power as preliminary to addressing Nietzsche’s psychological notion of will to power. He argues that it cannot be understood as merely a first-order drive to attain and exert power.
How Life Emerges from Inanimate Matter
This book describes how life emerges from inanimate matter. It analyzes this transition as it occurs in space, from simple particles to individuals; in time, through biological evolution; and in embryonic development, offering a unique, multi-disciplinary analysis of all three.
This collection offers examples of excellence, innovation and ingenuity as they occur in honours colleges and programs throughout the USA, discussing what we can do to contribute to human knowledge, to empower creativity and to make positive futures through education.
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