The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
A Patient’s Perspective on Spastic Tetraparesis Diagnosis
Unlike books by doctors that ignore the spastic tetraparesis diagnosis, this is written by someone with personal experience. It overviews how the condition affects the body, daily challenges, and ways to overcome them—from walking aids to exploring disability and sexuality.
Taichi Meets Motor Neuroscience
Is Taichi Chuan more than soft gymnastics? This book shows it is a master key for communication between Western and Eastern cultures. Defined as meditation in motion, it explores East-West points of convergence in cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition, robotics, and dance.
For healthcare professionals, the assessment of sarcopenia and frailty is essential to personalized medicine. This book provides practical assessment tools, reviews key findings from the literature, and suggests treatment modifications for frail patients across clinical settings.
Creativity, a Profile for Our Species
A profound reflection on the brain and mind. This book charts the search for talent in the brain, analyzing historical icons from Descartes to van Gogh, and features the author’s unique, direct analysis of Einstein’s brain tissue.
This book explores overlooked medical history, from Native American wound care superior to European practices to ancient texts that answer Hippocratic questions. It traces the history of surgery and critiques the for-profit health care system, suggesting reforms for the future.
Christianity and Islam
Challenging the belief that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, this book shows how the two faiths radically disagree. They present contradictory views on the nature of God, the divinity of Jesus, the crucifixion, human nature, sin, and scripture.
This work highlights the Haitian Lakou, a form of libertarian communism. To free people from the exploitation and climate change of neoliberal capitalism, it must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level.
This book explores the interdependence between environment and economics, searching for solutions to environmental problems. It provides an overview of the field with case studies and policies, making it a useful introduction for students, teachers, and academicians.
The Ecological Footprint of Tourism
This book provides a methodological approach to calculating the Ecological Footprint of Tourism (TEF). Through a Greek case study, it offers insights on the TEF as a sustainability indicator under the pressures of climate change, mass tourism, and the energy transition.
This book explains the rationale and value of routine blood tests. A valuable guide for health care providers, it allows professionals to effectively assess blood test results and explain them to patients.
Exploring Personality and Performance in The Beatles
Go beyond the music to discover the secret of The Beatles’ global success. This book explores how personality, image, and unity created a phenomenon you could love without listening, as seen through the unique lens of the world’s best tribute acts.
This book is a gateway to the future of agriculture, exploring the intersection of genetics and innovation. It covers molecular plant breeding from genetic markers and mapping to advanced topics like genomics, bioinformatics, gene transfer, and intellectual property rights.
The Rose and Irish Identity
This collection of essays explores the exchange between Ireland and the Pacific Northwest using the rose—its petals and thorns—as a guide. Historians and writers examine overlooked aspects of colonialism, from biased courts and organized resistance to grief and poetry.
This book discusses the state of the art of OSL dating of Late Quaternary deposits in the Amazonian lowlands. It introduces OSL dating principles, applications, sampling, statistical methods, and techniques adapted for this challenging region.
Distinguished scholars offer fresh insights into the latest developments in linguistics and translation studies, challenging existing ideas with depth and lucidity.
This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.
The Roots of Western Swing
This book details the early history of Western swing—a hybrid of country, jazz, and blues. In the 1930s, musicians influenced by jazz foregrounded improvisation and blues expression to develop an original style that reached its peak popularity in the 1940s.
18 Stories of the Skin
When disease tears our skin apart, the trauma is both physical and emotional. This book gathers patient stories to find the fundamental humanity, compassion, and empathy for those who suffer, seeking to dignify each life in the face of an illness that is not their fault.
Italian-Soviet Relations from 1943-1946
After Mussolini’s government collapsed and Italy surrendered to the Allies, the nation was torn. Two rival Italian governments faced each other as the Allies advanced. Amidst this chaos, relations with the Soviet Union resumed. This book reconstructs this delicate moment.