By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Film as an Expression of Spirituality
What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.
Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness in Modernist Storyworlds
This volume explores the representation of minds in literary texts, focusing on modernism. Through cognition and emotion, these essays reveal the nexus between mind and narrative, arguing that experientiality is fundamental to all genres, from poetry to the novel.
Public Health, Mental Health and Human Rights
This book analyzes a project to build culture-sensitive mental health services in Northern Iraq, a region impacted by war and genocide. Focusing on the Yazidi minority, it reviews the challenges encountered and solutions developed, providing guidelines for similar projects.
Teaching the Shoah
This collection of essays and creative pieces showcases new ways to teach the Nazi genocide. Featuring academic contributions, a play, and a short story, it addresses the overarching question: how can and should the Shoah be taught to share its most important lessons?
This book demonstrates fractional calculus’ use to model natural phenomena and new processes in advanced technologies. The focus is on modelling, results, and interpretations, rather than theorems. A source for students and scientists modelling nonlinear and hereditary phenomena.
Explore stancetaking’s theory and practice across diverse contexts, from political trials to informal chats. Analyzing events like the COVID-19 pandemic, this interdisciplinary volume offers key applications for teaching and improving inter-ethnic communication.
This volume engages with how the idea of the human features in African societies and scholarship. Contributors are concerned with the urgent imperative of rescuing what it means to be humane in a world being pushed towards a dystopic future by climate change and fundamentalism.
The Mysterious and Obvious in American Diplomacy
This book analyses how the Monroe Doctrine established a US policy of interference and preventive strikes. It proves this doctrine remains the basis for American diplomacy, a tool of domination used by presidents from Monroe to Trump.
At the intersection of material science and manufacturing, this book details the incremental forming of aluminum alloy. Based on extensive research, it combines theoretical simulations with experimental findings, leading to unique results with significant impact.
Fixing Healthcare Delivery
With up to one in four hospitalized patients experiencing an adverse event, our healthcare system needs a fix. This field manual, illustrated with real patient stories, equips readers to apply the Toyota Production System to create efficient, error-minimizing healthcare systems.
Design Concepts for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
This book proposes a quantitative shaking evaluation for seismic-resistant buildings, with guidance to calculate the shaking quantity scale. It also demonstrates using Artificial Intelligence to predict this scale, which is highly important for earthquake early warning systems.
East Jerusalem Palestinian Students’ Experiences in Israeli Academia
Through the captivating stories of East Jerusalem youth, this book reveals their fight for an education in Israel—a journey of navigating cultural barriers, challenging disparities, and forging identities within a landscape of conflict.
This book presents a collection of personality and psychopathology scales, developed originally in Arabic and translated into English. Suitable for surveys and large-sample studies, these scales are useful in psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, and social sciences.
The Reality behind Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym’s published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
This book presents a simplified deliberation of fractional calculus for beginners and researchers. It shows why classical Newtonian calculus fails to describe actual systems, and discusses applications of non-integer differentiation in different areas of science and engineering.
These papers on northern Russia’s Ice Age reveal former arctic ice sheets and a unique Siberian glaciation. They tackle the debated size and age of the last glaciation, crucial for global climate models, early human migration, and even the distribution of petroleum reserves.
The Trinity of Mass and Newton’s Way
This book argues that physics has only one concept of mass, an idea that originates not with Einstein, but with Isaac Newton. In his Principia, Newton introduced mass as a single measure of inertia, weight, and gravity. So why was this true legacy so profoundly misunderstood?
This book investigates municipal solid waste in India, covering both urban and rural challenges. It considers waste prevention strategies like recycling and reuse, and highlights the connection between waste management, clean water, and sanitation from an Indian perspective.
This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.