Domestic Production and Procurement of Medicines in Nigeria
This book reports on Nigeria’s on-going efforts to improve medicine accessibility. It presents the status of local drug production, articulates the key challenges impeding it, and explores how they could be addressed through plausible policies.
The first book to apply Bourdieu’s theory to management and innovation. It links his concepts to a practical toolkit of methods, showing researchers and students how to model organisational systems and perform business ethnographies from a Bourdieusian perspective.
This book presents a theory of nonlinear response in charged media, yielding Burnett transport coefficients to model heat and mass flows. It applies these methods to extreme scenarios, from gas-phase nuclear reactors to a spacecraft landing on Mars. For specialists.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
This book makes sense of the political, cultural, and social change in North Africa since the Arab Spring. It argues that the region needs a new political paradigm—one that eschews a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach for solutions reflecting the cultural realities of its societies.
This book covers the spatial anisotropy of induced optical effects in crystalline materials. It details analytical descriptions, 3D geometric representations, and experimental methods for studying electro-, piezo-, elasto-, and acousto-optic phenomena.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.
This book explores the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Through multidisciplinary case studies from around the world, it sheds light on the rush for land, extractivism, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance by local communities.
Precarity in Culture
By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.
How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.
A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.
The Musical World of Alan Hovhaness
This book explores the work of American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness in the context of East-West cultural interactions. It analyzes Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean musical traditions in his works, evaluating his complex identity and the phenomenon of “Armenian-ness”.
Aquifer characterisation is essential for groundwater modelling, but traditional methods are time-consuming and expensive. This volume explores how geophysical techniques overcome these limitations, providing high-resolution subsurface data through detailed case studies.
Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
Culture and Technology Integration in Higher Education
This book investigates technology implementation from a cultural perspective. Through an ethnographic study, it examines how culture impacts teachers’ technology adoption at personal, collegial, and institutional levels, upsetting top-down efforts to change.
Dietary Induction Models of Nutritional Disorders in Rodents
From lab to clinic: Explore dietary models of disease in pre-clinical studies. Leading experts in nutrition and bioethics offer an essential guide to translational research, shaping future clinical work for students and health professionals.
This book focuses on community-based health care, with community health workers as a critical workforce. It explores case studies and techniques for successful community engagement, showing why understanding people’s perspectives is vital to health improvement.
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