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Featuring traditional knowledge, the book Phytoadaptogenic Properties of Medicinal Plants offers an insight into diverse medicinal plants with their inherent phytotherapeutic characteristics. Since the prehistoric era, botanicals have been enlisted at...

Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem examines the transformative relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and the global music industry, considering both ethical and practical dimensions. This updated edition offers a comprehensive...

In 1999, the European People's Party (EPP) emerged as the largest political group in the European Parliament, maintaining its dominance for more than 25 years and influencing the direction of the EU through five consecutive Presidencies of the European...

Connected to Place looks at place-based systems change as a real-world solution to our growing environmental and social crises. Distilling lessons from a thirty-year career in the social sector, Matt Biggar offers a practical guide to creating conditions...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and their growing significance in environmental applications. With their highly ordered, porous structures and tunable properties, COFs offer innovative solutions for...

This book provides an overview of multiple aspects of spatial language understanding and explores recent trends of modeling based on very large foundational models and their applications. The authors address the following five main themes: spatial...

Past, Present and Future, first published in 1867, is the magnum opus of Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969). Prior was the founding father of tense-logic: Past, Present, and Future presents his tense-logic as a powerful and precise formalism for the...

The book Eco-Resilience Biology: An Exploration of Climate-Forest Connection offers comprehensive information on the dynamic interactions between forest ecosystems and changing climate regimes. As climate change accelerates, understanding the resilience...

This book synthesises narrative research on men convicted of intimate femicide/feminicide in Latin America. Based on repeated biographical interviews conducted across eight countries, it offers a sociological exploration of the perpetrators' lives and...

Moral philosophy has traditionally strived towards abstraction and universalization, its claims tending to leave behind the specificity of bodies, individuals' lives, situations, culture, and history. Yet there are ways of thinking and doing moral...

First published in 1937, Introduction to Educational Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the science of psychology and its applications in the field of education. It deals with important themes like individual needs; emotion and personality...

This fourth edition of Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers, Rooms and Headphones explains the physical and perceptual processes that are involved in sound reproduction and demonstrates how to use these processes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591813460Author Ruediger DahlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient Publications

Following Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed over 120,000 trailers for emergency housing. Produced from engineered wood containing toxic amounts of formaldehyde, these shelters were vectors of illness and death...

In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma. Kim Lee turns to the "spoiled" - the racialized, gendered body and all that it consumes, wrecks,...

In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma. Kim Lee turns to the "spoiled" - the racialized, gendered body and all that it consumes, wrecks,...

Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of...

A classic in the field of Medical Humanities, the late Philip Sandblom's study of art and ill health first appeared in English in 1982. This is a new, extended version, based on the definitive Swedish edition of 2022. In riveting analyses of the...

The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language argues that the practice of philosophizing is significantly influenced by linguistic structures. Against the widespread view that all languages are reducible to the...

The Fifteenth Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine provides an overview of all that is relevant in practice at the interface between medicine and law. Its long-standing reputation as one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of...

This timely book examines how screen industry development has emerged as a vital strategy for economic and cultural regeneration in England's post-industrial regions.While Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool have become established creative hubs, this...

This book examines how historical injustices, especially enslavement, colonialism, and systemic racism, continue to impact societies today. Drawing on global case studies, from the legacies of transatlantic slavery and colonialism in the Americas, to...

Originally published in 1986, Slow Grows the Child came out of a symposium held in Washington D.C. in 1984 which brought together researchers and practitioners in the field producing recommendations for future research. It was the beginning of an...

Breeding for improved results is not a new phenomenon, but with current issues such as climate change, food insecurity and the need for greater sustainability within the agriculture industry, breeding and genetic improvement is a fundamental aspect of...

Are the effects of hypnosis real or imagined?Is intelligence determined by nature or nurture?Will ordinary people perform acts of cruelty if ordered to do so by authority figures?Are anorexia and bulimia nervosa forms of depression?Why do some groups...

Decision theory is a uniquely interdisciplinary field of study with contributions from economics, statistics, mathematics, philosophy, operations research, and psychology. The 1970s had seen important changes in research on behavioral decision theory in...

During the early twentieth century maternal and child welfare became a national issue for the first time. The child and maternal welfare movement had a significant material and ideological effect on women and it is therefore important to understand the...

He didn't just chase cybercriminals-he became one of them.In this electrifying blend of true crime, cyber espionage, and undercover spycraft, former U.S. Secret Service agent Richard LaTulip recounts his covert mission to infiltrate one of the world's...

Comparative in approach and organised around key themes, such as the media, political participation and elections, European Politics guides you through the political institutions, processes and issues that matter in Europe today. In this fifth edition,...

Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence. It is not merely academic-it is ceremonial: a remembering, a return, and a song to generations yet to come.This is a project of...

The book Anatomy of IoT Botnets and Detection Methods delves into the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), specifically focusing on the anatomy, behavior, and detection of IoT-based botnets. As IoT...

SPSS Basics, seventh edition, is the ideal introduction to the SPSS software for students undertaking their first statistics or quantitative research project. Each chapter presents different analyses and/or graph techniques step by step with figures to...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As an outcome of the European Green Deal, European Climate Pact Ambassadors (ECPAs) were established to promote climate action within their networks at both a local and an EU level. This book...

This book demystifies the concept of AI-driven creativity with an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles, algorithms, and applications of generative AI. It begins with a coverage of AI fundamentals, followed by a technical discussion...

Decades of research reveal that human error is a significant contributor to vehicle crashes, accounting for over 90 % of incidents. Humans possess inherent physical, visual, and cognitive limitations that can lead to accidents on the road. This book...

While the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) continue to redefine industrial infrastructure, the need for proactive, intelligent, and scalable cybersecurity solutions has never been more pressing. This book provides a...

Heart failure is an important and ever-expanding sub-speciality of cardiology. Many professional bodies working in healthcare are now developing specialist expertise in heart failure. With advances in medical therapy, the prognosis of the condition has...

There are a number of ways of approaching the study of social policy, the most common is perhaps the division by 'service'. A different approach is by 'group'. Another is first to isolate a concept - for example, social justice or equality - and then to...

Google is typically thought of as a tech giant and the world's largest search engine, but it was also among the first tech companies to invest in news. After 9/11, the company recognized the economic and social value of up-to-the-minute information and...

Written by Jose Dimas Lujan Castillo and Ron Veen - seasoned developers with deep expertise in Java and Kotlin - this practical guide teaches Kotlin through side-by-side Java comparisons, real-world examples, and clear explanations of modern language...