Four Decades in Infant Mental Health
What can we do about children who withdraw from loving care, or parents lost in the hurts of their own childhood? This book gathers 25 stories from 41 years in infant mental health, revealing how our earliest attachment experiences support or confound our later development.
Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.
Energy and Geopolitics, Volume 1
In an era of abundant energy, our greatest challenge is sustainable development. This book explains the fundamentals of energy and reviews all major sources: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and renewables. It is an essential guide to the complex geopolitics of energy.
This book explains how plants perceive their environment, communicate, and modify their behavior. It explores intriguing aspects of plant memory and intelligence, from their perception of sound and touch to communication with other plants, animals, and microorganisms.
A major problem of contemporary physics is the incompatibility of its two greatest theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity. There is a lack of an over-arching framework to unite them. This book provides an accessible guideline to a possible framework.
This collection of qualitative studies explores current educational issues concerning teachers, students, and parents. Using scientific yet comprehensible methods, it investigates attitudes and behaviours on topics of international relevance, making research accessible to all.
The legitimacy of the university in Africa is questioned due to its exclusionary and colonial legacy. This volume reimagines the decolonial African university as a site of multilingualism and cognitive justice, centering indigenous languages and knowledge systems.
Solar PV power is intermittent. This book provides an understanding of this variability and its impacts on power systems. It explores the sources of intermittency, from solar irradiation to dust, and the consequences for power system design and operation.
This volume provides an overview of pedagogies and research methodologies that reflect the urgent need to develop intercultural competence in professions like law, medicine, and business. The book highlights approaches across disciplines, promoting collaborative efforts.
A valuable resource for teachers and researchers, this book focuses on assessment in world Englishes. It presents case studies and new methods for evaluating learners in multilingual settings, considering their diverse styles and different local norms.
A Look at China and Sino-Belarus Cooperation
A guide to China’s new era under Xi Jinping. It explores the centralization of power, the anti-corruption fight, and strengthening diplomacy. This book examines the rapprochement with Russia, rising tensions with the US, and controversies of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Collaborative Working in Academic Research Projects
This guide to the principles of socioformation offers insights into collaborative working for building knowledge and research. It provides the reader with a clear analysis of collaborative processes, distinguishing them from cooperative working.
The Peak Time of Entertainment in China
This detailed study of the Tang Dynasty entertainment system covers institutions of the government and city commoners. The book clarifies confusion with the later Song Dynasty and resolves the question of the origin of Ci in ancient Chinese art and literature.
This book interrogates the lived experience of gender across three generations. It penetrates the surface of change to uncover the invisible layers that transmit gender, challenging patriarchal dynamics and arguing for a power focused on developing our full human potential.
We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
This book covers the design and quality control of microwave devices using simulation and measurement. It describes methods for designing simulators of microwave amplifiers and oscillators, enabling accurate measurements and effective quality control that minimizes costs.
This book presents distinctive perspectives on the utility and limitations of science and technology in national security. The decisions being made to equip, train, and lead the future force need wisdom from experienced scientists, engineers, and innovators.
Why Organised Violence Thrives in Nigeria
This book investigates the core issues that sustain organised political violence in Nigeria. Focusing on elite political culture and State governance, it examines zero-sum politics and identity politics. An invaluable resource for security scholars and analysts.
Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
Vulnerability Studies in the Americas
This book assesses climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in South America and Canada. The result of a seven-year project, it fills a gap in academic literature with unique comparative case studies of the global North and South.