A hands-on guide to solving industrially relevant problems. Master basic and advanced calculations for key chemical industry processes. Features real-life exercises with answers, covering complex installations with recycle-loops and cascades of reactors.
This book explores the ecology of Mediterranean evergreen oaks, vital for biodiversity. It details Quercus calliprinos’s role in combating climate change and the forest management needed to conserve crucial species like Quercus ilex and Quercus suber.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
Master the teaching of listening and speaking. This guide provides practical techniques to overcome challenges, engaging assessment tools to build on student strengths, and innovative ways to use technology. An essential, resource-rich springboard for boosting these core skills.
An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History
Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.
This book is a comprehensive overview of clay science, covering the characterization and application of clay minerals. Explore applications in pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment, construction, and agriculture. An important reference for researchers, scientists, and engineers.
Complexes of Natural Flavonoids with Transition Metals
The beneficial effects of plants are associated with flavonoids, which bind metals to form complexes. This book summarizes the scientific evidence on the structure, chemistry, and biological function of these metal-flavonoid complexes and their effect on disease.
This book explains the theory and technology of converting electric energy to other forms, such as thermal, chemical, or mechanical. It offers new calculation methods and operating principles for electrotechnological equipment widely used in Eastern Europe.
Political Communication in Japan
This book examines political communication in Japan, contrasting the short, disruptive terms of the DPJ (2009-12) with the long rule of Abe Shinzō’s LDP (2012-20). It focuses on campaign strategies, media systems, and new theories of persuasion and social influence.
An Introduction to Georgian Art Music
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
This book explores history and Althusser’s ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
Does science matter in economics? This volume answers in the negative. It is argued that science simply doesn’t matter in economics, has never mattered and will probably never matter. Instead, the field has redefined the laws of physics and psychology to carve out its own set.
This is the first English book on the Finland-Swedish author Runar Schildt (1888-1925). A cosmopolitan writer, his work bears witness to the turbulent birth of modern Finland amid the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War, offering vital insights into European history.
This book introduces a new analytical framework for cultural linguistics. By incorporating semiotics into cultural conceptualization, it offers new insights into the interplay between language and culture, shedding light on culturally-constructed concepts.
This book provides an insightful analysis of Korea’s remarkable economic growth, tracing its development from one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to a global high-tech leader. It explores the role of trade, R&D, and technology, with implications for developing countries.
A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
This theoretical biography of Ye focuses on 2016-2021, thinking psychoanalytically about his complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression, and his art. Taking him seriously and avoiding stigma, the author attempts to see him from his mother Donda’s point of view.
Youths with chronic conditions are now thriving into adulthood, but less is known about how their parents prepare them. This book explores parents’ beliefs and behaviors to help healthcare professionals provide more effective resources and support for these families.
This book concisely highlights various science laws, their formulas, and applications. These laws are fundamental to our understanding of the natural world and provide the foundation upon which many scientific theories are built.
Democracy Challenged in the 2022 Presidential Succession in Kenya
An intense struggle defined Kenya’s 2022 presidential succession, driven by the incumbent president’s determination to shape the outcome. This book explores the tools an Imperial President used to circumvent restrictions, revealing the barriers to democracy in Africa.
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