This book presents a soft-sensing technique using spectral data to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. It’s a practical guide for researchers, engineers, and students who need a modelling method for small sample data to solve real-world control challenges.
This book unifies Freud’s scattered writings on healing to spell out exactly what happens in successful psychotherapy. It clarifies the healing process for neurotic, borderline, and psychotic illnesses, adding a new level of precision to the therapeutic process.
Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
Historical Trends in Georgian Traditional and Sacred Music
This review of Georgian ethnomusicology is a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in traditional music. Amid the growing popularity of Georgian choral singing, this volume is essential for both ethnomusicologists and enthusiasts.
This analysis of masterpieces by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, and others demonstrates that reality “imitates” literary possibilities. These works should be treated not as mere fiction, but as paradigms on whose basis we grasp and understand the actual world.
Gathering the theoretical grounds for research in Gestalt therapy, this work introduces useful research methods and presents relevant research projects. It fills a void in an area that requires more information by sharing some of the Gestalt research that is emerging.
Market Place
This book explores how ‘food quarters’ have emerged in three transforming London markets. It reveals how the interplay between design and food-focused social practices enriches urban life and sustainability, while paradoxically contributing to gentrification.
The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity
The truss is an extremely efficient structure that has gone through the centuries almost unchanged. But when was it born? This is the first book to address this question, tracing the evolution of roof carpentry that led to the invention across the whole of Antiquity.
The people of a small town absorbed by Mexico City share memories of the games, food, and streets of their past. This book presents a way to build a future that rescues the community’s identity, which still binds them together in spite of the city’s segregating trends.
Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.
This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
This book analyses the transposition of irony and humour as cultural translation, bridging different worldviews. Exploring underrepresented cultures like Finland and Romania, this transdisciplinary volume will interest translation scholars, linguists, teachers, and practitioners.
This book offers human resources practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to applying quantile regression to indices of diversity in an organizational setting. With examples throughout, it illustrates how to analyze the IQV, Shannon, Simpson, and other indices.
Truth, Dare or Promise
This book explores the innovations and limitations of art and documentary. International practitioners and theorists address themes of personal experience and representations of the past, examining the overlaps between gallery installation and cinematic screening.
Ludwig Minkus La Bayadère
Ludwig Minkus’s score for La Bayadère conjures an exotic India, where a world of rivalry and death contrasts with a realm of dreams and transcendent love, realized in the famous Kingdom of the Shades. Here for the first time is the piano score of the entire ballet.
This publication studies suffrage, citizenship and parliamentary reforms in various socio-political contexts. By highlighting national differences, this collection argues that the age of suffrage narratives based on universal emancipation is over.
Modern Administrative Law in the 21st Century
Administrative law is a guardian of governmental actions, ensuring accountability and justice. This book offers a comparative perspective on global governance challenges and serves as a practical guide for navigating the complexities of administrative law and digital governance.
The Punctuated Evolution of Civilisations
This book explores the relationship between climate and civilization, arguing that history is shaped by societal responses to climate pulsations. This theory helps to explain the clash of civilizations, disclosing the invisible hand behind war and peace.
Young Children as Active Citizens
Young Children as Citizens explores how children can participate in civic life as social actors with rights. It presents research-based case studies where policy-makers and educators listened to children’s views on public issues, enhancing a democratic society.
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