This textbook covers topics from the basics to complex pathologies and treatment options. With insights from leading experts, this is a valuable source for healthcare professionals and a guiding light for treating the most intricate spinal deformities.
This book summarizes 75 years of developments in blood banking, from post-WWII to the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the evolving science, medical practice, and policy debates through a unique social lens that distinguishes this work from other writings.
Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy, Wittgenstein and the Concept of Mind
Oxford philosophers sparked a revolution by arguing that psychological expressions do not describe internal states. This study details the anti-cognitivist critique, reconstructs the cognitivist objections to it, and shows how Wittgenstein’s later writings help overcome them.
A History of the American Nonprofit Sector
This history of the American nonprofit sector covers its independence in a seminal 19th-century Supreme Court decision, its 20th-century professionalization, and modern challenges like lobbying. It also analyzes nonprofits in pop culture. A key text for researchers and students.
This book describes mathematical methods for calculating nuclear characteristics and intercluster potentials. It discusses phase shift analysis of elastic scattering at low and astrophysical energies and investigates three-body models of light nuclear nuclei.
This book explores the ecological aspects of climate change using the ecological footprint model. Featuring case studies from the Danube River and data from a research station north of the Polar Circle, it is of interest to students, teachers, and scientists.
New-Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase
New-Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) is among the most worrying bacterial resistance markers. This book displays a full picture of NDM, tracking it from its discovery to its global spread, and highlighting the mutations that give it stability and enable fast transfer.
This book explores the complexities of academic writing in English for graduate students and researchers. It clarifies how to communicate discipline-related content and is ideal for non-native speakers studying for master’s and PhD qualifications or academic publishing.
Legal Machine Translation Explained
This book bridges a gap in the literature with an in-depth analysis of machine translation in legal practice. It explores whether MT is reliable for legal documents and how practitioners can use it as a draft for post-editing, tackle its shortcomings, and supplement the tools.
This book shares the poignant, captivating, and hard-to-believe true tales of four teachers in Indonesia. Described as modern dervishes, they sowed the seeds of successful education through altruism and teamwork, even rescuing three orphans from the aftermath of a tsunami.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
Medical Specialisation at the London Hospital
The development of specialty skills in the late 19th and 20th centuries transformed medicine. For the first time, patients could expect accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. Specialty skills defined innovations in hospital and family practice, a legacy that continues today.
Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.
Discover the communities of coping that form in everyday work routines. Through storytelling, breaks, and socialising, employees can manage stress and improve well-being. This book reveals how to build strong emotional cultures through trust, connection, and open communication.
Karen Blixen’s Existentialism
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
This book presents insights into the work of actor Krishnan Nair, unique in the field of Kathakali. Through his superb ability to connect with audiences and his sheer charisma, Nair achieved his burning ambitions: ensuring Kathakali performers gained status and a decent wage.
Modern industrial society is a fluke of history. This book argues our world is the result of accidental events, not inherent European values. Our advanced civilization is an unexpected explosion, unique and unlikely to be found anywhere else in the universe.
This book is about shifting road users’ negative attitudes towards positive mindsets. It presents a new spectrum of attitudes to replace outdated binary systems, showing attitudes are not expressed as approve-disapprove but as a range of at least ten distinct mindsets.
How to Get a Paper Published in Academic Journals
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the thinking, writing, and polishing of a paper. It pinpoints what journals look for and covers common mistakes in data analysis and writing and how to rectify them. For students and those new to publishing, this book is invaluable.