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Over the centuries, agriculture has developed through technological steps illustrated by various agricultural revolutions. This book describes and analyses significant agricultural changes since the mid-1960s in the context of development, innovation and...

This valuable book identifies common obstacles in any endeavor that can impact on success and offers highly-accessible exercises to help readers overcome them. Featuring expertise from dozens of high-level performers about their journey to the top of...

Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity advances a novel methodological approach — pop culture as political object — to capture the centrality of popular culture as an object of a broad range of political contests and debates that...

Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new avenues of scientific research that can be...

In a post-COVID-19 pandemic era of cost-of-living crises and global displacements of people due to conflicts and climate challenges, food poverty is a growing and ever-pressing issue across both the Global North and the Global South. Presenting a...

This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic, and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum mechanics, supported by numerous solved exercises. Aiming to be both exhaustive and educational, it minimises overly formal aspects by presenting the wave mechanical approach to quantum mechanics...

In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-level policy development, as well as interfaith negotiations. Meanwhile, scholarship on religious freedom...

This best-selling textbook, now in its 6th Edition, provides the essential strategies and tools that occupational therapists need to design and organize client groups for enhanced, theory-based therapeutic interventions for physical, mental health and...

The aim of this book is to explore the definitions and fundamentals of offensive security vs defensive Security and describe the different tools and technologies for protecting against cyber threats. The book offers strategies of a practical aspects of...

This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality.This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsche,...

This book demonstrates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to uncover the patterns of classroom dialogue and increase the productivity of dialogue.In this book, the author uses a range of data mining techniques to explore the productive features...

Smart grid is a new generation of power grids that is expected to enhance its reliability and reduce carbon footprint by integrating distributed resources. Microgrid technology allows the integration of renewable energies, which come in three modes: AC,...

This book explains geometric quantization from a physicist’s perspective. After presenting the general formalism, it delves into several examples reflecting current research interests in high-energy physics and condensed matter physics. Applications...

The field of aviation neuropsychology helps us to understand and improve human performance and safety in the aerospace industry, both for the estimated 300,000+ commercial pilots and the 4.5 billion passengers they transport every year. This handbook...

This book explores how the EU externally governs through agriculture and rural development, and how this external governance shapes rural spaces in Georgia.Analysing two EU policy instruments – Geographical Indications and the LEADER rural development...

Human rights movements and organizations all over the world cite the pursuit and preservation of dignity as one of their goals, but the legal implications of this term are highly contested. In Dignity and Judicial Authority, Rachel Bayefsky offers a...

This important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.Addressing the pressures of...

Few studies have explored the lives of imprisoned transgender women and none consider non-binary prisoners. Transgender and Non-Binary Prisoners’ Experiences in England and Wales fills this gap by delving deep into their ordeals. Drawing on a three-year...

Why are some authoritarian regimes highly competitive and others highly unified? Do they function differently? And what does it mean for our understanding of democracy and democratization? In The Social Roots of Authoritarianism, Natalia Forrat describes...

This insightful book offers professionals a comprehensive guide for navigating the new way of diagnosing and understanding personality difficulties and disorders introduced in the ICD-11. Through in-depth clinical examples, these experienced authors...

Introduction to Audiologic Rehabilitation, Eighth Edition offers a comprehensive exploration of aural rehabilitation spanning across the lifespan. Written in an accessible style for undergraduate students, the text covers the fundamentals, methods of...

This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy, and providers of health services. Including contributions from...

Evaluation and Management of Cleft Lip and Palate: A Developmental Perspective, Second Edition provides fundamental knowledge of cleft palate anomalies and the current state of evidence-based practice relative to evaluation and management. The text...

The statistical mechanical theory of liquids and solutions is a fundamental area of physical sciences with important implications in other fields of science and industrial applications. Statistical Mechanics of Liquids and Solutions: Intermolecular...

This book unveils the secrets of extraordinarily successful games and hands you a smarter way to create exceptional engagement and convert it into revenue. It teaches you detailed LiveOps techniques that show you how to keep your game appealing through...

Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration.Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we are not? How does one both imagine and...

WebAssembly is a powerful new technology for developing and running applications on the web, in browsers, and elsewhere. Learning how to harness this technology is essential to understanding the future of web development. By using WebAssembly to run code...

First published in 1978, Israel focuses on the pluralistic structure of Israel and its internal conflicts. The author distinguishes five major plural divisions: Palestinian Arabs in the occupied territories versus Israeli citizens; Israeli Arabs versus...

The Elements of Polymer Science and Engineering, Fourth Edition, is a textbook for one- or two-semester introductory courses in polymer science and engineering taught primarily to senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in a variety of...

Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011, and 2023. Uncover the impact these events have had on our understanding of the planet we call...

An integrated approach to inorganic chemistry that provides students with a unified and contemporary view of the field. Highlighting modern research and real-life applications, Inorganic Chemistry takes a one-of-a-kind approach to a difficult and dense...

The present customer consumption models with short product lifecycles result in an increasing number of used products that need to be collected and reused or disposed. Both legal regulations and consumer concerns regarding these issues have led companies...

This book represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam. It situates TED Talks on Islam as postsecular (secular’s renewed interest in faith) discourse and asks how TED represents and narrates Islam. It also examines the...

Mit diesem Buch wird eine Neuübersetzung der vor 50 Jahren erschienenen, richtungsweisenden Biografie von Karl Marx vorgelegt. Isaiah Berlins Biografie ist eine hellsichtige bis in die feinsten Verästelung vordringende Einführung in das Denken von Karl...

This book begins by introducing bio-inspired data-driven computation techniques, discussing bio-inspired swarm models, and highlighting the development of interactive bio-inspired energy harvesting systems to drive transportation infrastructure. It...

Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact? In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the...

From his days working under the Nine Old Men and creating layout for Disney classics like Aladdin and Hercules to more than a decade of teaching animation to the rising generation at CalArts, Dan Hansen has accumulated a lifetime of knowledge and is...

The text contains all the essential elements of communication principles, devices, circuits, antennas, and systems covering the electromagnetic spectrum from KHz to MHz of radio frequency (RF) that was developed in the formative stage of wireless...

Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration.Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we are not? How does one both imagine and...