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Psychology Essentials for Behavior Analysts provides new and developing Behaviour Analysts with important background information from the field of psychology. This information is directly applicable to the field of behavior analysis and currently lacking...

The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we’re using it, and its impact on our health? This easy-to-read guide is designed to provide...

A Research Agenda for Gender and Health critically examines a diverse range of health topics relating to gender. Employing a global range of empirical case studies, expert authors assert that gender equality is fundamental to creating healthier societies...

The WebGPU Sourcebook: High-Performance Graphics and Machine Learning in the Browser explains how to code web applications that access the client’s graphics processor unit, or GPU. This makes it possible to render graphics in a browser at high speed and...

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which is grounded in the understanding that ‘a person is a person through other persons’. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars of African philosophy, the book first argues that...

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross-pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi-modal art forms.Through the lens of expressive arts therapy, the authors demonstrate how writing can reveal the unexpected that emerges from...

The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s This Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. This is...

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural History’s David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. As one of the most visited human evolution exhibits in the world and the largest such exhibit in the United States of America, it has...

The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modernwar of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two writers embedded in the conflict–the young Russian officer Lev Tolstoy, and William Howard Russell, an Irish...

This book offers an introduction to political philosophy, the study of the role of government in our lives. It discusses what political philosophy is about, its most important and enduring questions, and how to do political philosophy well. Throughout...

Why has so much of our recent attention been focused on AI while RI is all but forgotten? And why are we spending so much energy debating the future of AI rather than that of its human original? Why can’t those who are concerned about AI and those who...

Gramsci's theory of common sense is a meta-narrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci's perspective and how his theories translate into South Asian society.It explores Gramsci’s historicism...

This book offers a radically different introduction to law, one that reflects the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid technological developments of our time.Traditionally, law has been about historic principles and rules and their...

From the pen of highly esteemed trade scholar Alan Sykes, this book presents a rigorous introduction to the law and economics of modern international trade agreements.With a bottom-up approach that requires neither a background in international trade law...

Originally published in 1985, this book was a study of one example of an all-purpose, unitary, borough council in the UK. It covers the years since the democratization of the borough councils in 1835, through the attainment of county borough status in...

This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the...

No figure in the Labour movement has attracted such extremes of emotion as has James Ramsay MacDonald. Loved and almost worshipped for more than 30 years, his formation of the National Government in August 1931 incurred hatred, bitterness and contempt...

Embark on an illuminating voyage through the biological foundations of human nature and development with Psychobiological Footprints through Human Development. This unique volume unveils the intricate dance between genetics, neuroscience, and...

Originally published in 1971, Homes in High Flats was written at a time when multi-storey flats were a popular solution to the world-wide need for mass housing because they could be produced with speed. However, the social implications of domestic...

Students of acupuncture and Chinese medicine recognize Zhang Zhongjing as the author of two seminal texts, that are among the most influential in Chinese medical history: the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders (Shāng Hán Lùn, 伤寒论) and Essential...

This book looks at the way in which resilience has been promoted as a resource for nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic and addresses its limitations as a response to the potential trauma of working in intense healthcare contexts. Traynor examines the...

This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxists thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first-time side by side.Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took...

This book provides sample exercises, techniques, and solutions to employ mathematical modeling to solve problems in Operations Research and Business Analytics. Each chapter begins with a scenario and includes exercises built on realistic problems faced...

First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and beginning with a defence of that somewhat unpopular pursuit. The first part of the book is mainly constructive in...

Click chemistry involves highly efficient, reliable, and stereoselective reactions that can synthesize new materials cost-effectively. The first volume entitled “Click Chemistry: Fundamentals and Synthesis” covers the fundamentals, mechanisms, kinetics,...

Real-time applications are becoming the norm today. But building a model that works properly requires real-time data from the source, in-flight stream processing, and low latency serving of its analytics. With this practical book, data engineers, data...

Offering a wide-range coverage, this book provides fundamentals as well as the applied science and technology involved in the whole hydrogen value chain, including production, storage, transportation, and utilization. It discusses some challenges and...

Nature, with its unassuming yet prodigious character, unfolds its assembly and adaptability guided by the principles of thermodynamics and supramolecular chemistry. Every entity in nature, regardless of its form, adheres to these fundamental principles...

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease. It includes an introduction to the key characteristics...

This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the Quantity Surveying profession. It begins by explaining the construction industry structure followed by the quantity surveying practice modalities, professional ethics, roles of regulatory...

The new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease. It includes an introduction to the key characteristics...

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity. Rooted in anthropology, but multidisciplinary in scope, it surveys the many socio-cultural and socio-economic errors, foibles, and...

This new edition provides a model and road map to answer clinical questions related to intervention effectiveness research, quality improvement, and program evaluation. It offers clear and simple guidance for all phases of a clinical inquiry projects...

This book discusses the treatment of cultural products within international trade law, focusing on preferential trade agreements.Trade and culture intersect when cultural products are involved. These mainly encompass cinema, broadcasting, music, videos,...

This book gives readers a rich and detailed understanding of what it is like to work with a diverse range of couple presentations from a CBT perspective.The book starts by outlining the principle conceptual insights and therapeutic strategies of two...

Being on call as a pediatric resident or a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow can cause great anxiety. In addition to the relatively common patient with chemotherapy-related fever and neutropenia, there is the anticipation of problems that a trainee...

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-century...

The dark universe contains matter and energy unidentifiable with current physical models, accounting for 95% of all the matter and energetic equivalent in the universe. The enormous surplus brings up daunting enigmas, such as the cosmological constant...

This new volume provides in-depth and detailed knowledge about the latest research in image processing and computer vision techniques. Explaining the machine learning algorithms and models involved, the authors differentiate between the various...

Analytic philosophy of religion and philosophical theology are known for being focused on issues pertaining specifically to Judeo-Christian theism. This volume answers the call for novel work on a broader range of ideas about the spiritual, engaging with...