This book presents exciting findings on the sources of test score gaps, using powerful DNA-based methods to analyze race, socio-economic status, and ancestry. It also considers the policy question of how these findings should be disseminated to the public.
An essential guide to how legal systems interact and evolve in an interconnected world. Featuring contributions from leading experts, it provides a comparative analysis of contemporary challenges like digital governance, climate justice, and human rights.
Violence Impacting Children and Youth
This book provides informative perspectives on violence impacting children and youth in the Global South. It examines trends, dynamics, and experiences, enabling policymakers, educators, and social workers to develop useful strategies to protect them.
Whistleblowing and Whistleblowers in Africa
This book examines whistleblowing’s crucial role in combating corruption in Africa. Drawing on case studies and lived experiences from across the continent, it provides deep insights into the challenges whistleblowers face and the mechanisms for promoting accountability.
This is the first comprehensive account of Franz Kafka’s significant impact on British and Irish novelists. It explores how writers from Samuel Beckett and Kazuo Ishiguro to W. G. Sebald and Ali Smith adapted his techniques and devices for their own purposes.
This book shows how to solve real-world earth observation and urban society problems using geospatial big data analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. Learn to apply cutting-edge techniques to satellite images and geospatial data to extract new insights and solve diverse issues.
This book measures the properties of shaly rocks, focusing on Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC). We use XRD, SEM, and log analysis to study clay minerals for applications in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and drilling fluids, concluding with oil and gas from shales.
This work reinterprets the history of Sardinia, not as an isolated hinterland, but as a province well-inserted in the Roman ecumene. Drawing on decades of advanced research, it explores the persistence of Nuragic and Punic elements despite the push towards “Romanisation”.
Culture and Society in Ancient Greece
In Ancient Greece, society and culture are embedded in Nature, but center on a human logos. This meaning is marked by a tragic, dialectical thinking that oscillates between chaos and cosmos—as if culture were born of the abyss, yet in a ceaseless struggle against it.
Foreign Direct Investment in the Eastern Mediterranean
A timely analysis of foreign direct investment in the Eastern Mediterranean, exploring how capital is shaped by economics, sustainability, and culture. It provides country profiles and examines trends in sectors like energy, technology, tourism, and the Blue Economy.
This book reimagines Dido and Aeneas as a site of cultural memory, tracing how artists and audiences have reshaped its meaning across boundaries. It reveals how Dido’s lament continues to be significant precisely because it is never the same.
This book explores Muslim cemeteries in Dagestan during the Qajar century. Through multilingual tombstone inscriptions, it reveals the influence of Iran, historical migrations, and Shiite theology following the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Karbala.
Next-Gen Supply Chains
This forward-looking anthology redefines supply chain management for an era of technological disruption. Covering topics from AI and Blockchain to Green Supply Chains, it provides a roadmap to build the next generation of resilient, transparent, and sustainable supply chains.
This book explores how IoT and Big Data are reshaping cities and industries. Focusing on the convergence of smart manufacturing and urban governance, it uses case studies to offer practical strategies for building the intelligent, interconnected ecosystems of tomorrow.
Value as Optics
This book explores the genesis of value to create a meeting point for science and religion. Bringing giants like Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Taylor into dialogue, it establishes that our disposition to the world is not rationalistic but relational—one of mutual inherence.
Crossing the Boundaries in English Language Teaching
This volume offers international perspectives on major challenges in the teaching of English. It provides contextual analysis and pedagogical recommendations to help teachers and students overcome obstacles in learning, assessment, and professional development.
This book compiles global research on eight key functional grains, from oats to quinoa. It covers their nutritional properties and food development, with a special focus on using fermentation to improve the sensory and nutrition profiles of the final products.
Detecting Sherlock’s Descendants
This book explores the history of British detective fiction, analyzing the evolution of the investigator since Sherlock Holmes. It reveals Holmes’s legacy and the genre’s development by embedding them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and political context.
Great Contemporary Legal Systems
An overview of the world’s major legal systems, from Western common and civil law to Islamic and Chinese traditions. It explores the tension between tradition and innovation, exemplified by the paradox of China’s rise as an economic superpower amid lagging human rights.
This collection highlights the divisive issue of the admission of women into the sacramental diaconal priesthood of the Christian Church from the Orthodox theological perspective, although the contributions also offer theological argumentation for the wider Christian community.
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