Constructed Environment for Tourism
This book explores sustainable tourism in Northeast India, an emerging destination at risk of overexploitation. It introduces the constructed environment: a forward-looking framework for investment and development that redefines sites as “perfect destinations” for all.
Nigerian Foreign Policy and Its Role in Africa’s Peacekeeping Landscape
This book critically examines Nigeria’s role as a dominant force in African diplomacy and its leadership in peacekeeping missions. It explores how Nigeria navigates conflict resolution and interrogates the political, economic, and strategic motivations behind its foreign policy.
Iconic movies offer insight into our culture, revealing what we value, fear, or hope to become. Does the rise of superheroes suggest Americans feel powerless? What does it mean that movies have gotten darker? Without data, it’s just speculation. This book uses data analytics.
A working manual for design and process engineers, this book offers analytical solutions and process optimization for impurity diffusion in silicon, gallium arsenide, and other semiconductor materials used in the fabrication of microelectronics devices and microsystems.
The Patrimony of the Religious Orders in Spanish American Colonial Cities
This book documents the historical and architectural patrimony of religious orders in Spanish American cities. It provides a visual record, historical information, and details on current use for specialists and a general audience.
Ocean Diffraction
This book maps Indigenous awareness onto Western science to address today’s environmental and equality issues. A way forward is provided in Ngaru Whenua Ocean Diffraction, a decolonised framework uniting the Māori wave pattern for navigation with the science of diffraction.
Bridging Theory and Practice in Translation Pedagogy
For translator trainers, this book presents the eDOcation approach, connecting theory with practice. It treats translation as discovery, where understanding emerges through doing, enhancing linguistic competence, confidence, and creative initiative.
Shifting Mindsets for Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa’s development crisis is not rooted in resources or policy, but in mindset. This book introduces the Ubuntu-Maat Mindset Model, a pioneering African framework for collective responsibility, and offers a roadmap to unlock the continent’s true potential from within.
Urban and Rural Life in Roman Sardinia
This work presents the history of ancient Sardinia not as a peripheral, poor island, but as a vast, populous, and fertile province deeply inserted in the Roman world. It demonstrates how Roman legacies profoundly influence the plural identity of today’s Sardinia.
American Diplomacy During the Gwangju Uprising
This study explores a failure of the Carter administration during South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising. As hundreds of citizens were murdered by the military, the US failed to intervene, instead pursuing trade deals and creating an unresolved diplomatic failure.
Collaboration, Exchange and Transformation in Literary and Cultural Practices
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
Grassroots Feminist Economies
Grassroots feminist economies champion social justice against systemic barriers. Rooted in the African principle of utu-ubuntu—“I am because you are”—women mobilize collective strengths, fostering solidarity and communal well-being to craft a more equitable economic landscape.
This multidisciplinary book explores artisanal maritime fishing from the Middle Ages to the present. Featuring international case studies, it links past, present, and future socio-environmental challenges to preserve the heritage and collective memory of fishing communities.
This book details using nanotechnology to propagate ornamental trees and shrubs in Africa by cuttings. It studies plant responses to obtain the best rooting qualities and new seedling growth, ensuring their suitability for commercial marketing.
Access and the Making of Mass Higher Education
This book explains the growth of Access to Higher Education, pivoting between the 1970s and today. Comparing Britain and Australia, it examines how hierarchies create new inequalities. Access is a hope that lives on, as long as people demand and support it for a better future.
The Self, the Other and the World
This book examines Joseph Conrad’s narratives and the protagonists’ confrontation with alterity—the self, the other, and the external world. It uniquely links Conradian ethics to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that the meeting with the Other determines self-knowledge.
Trade and Gender
How can Indian law empower female entrepreneurs? This book challenges societal norms and calls for reforms to laws on credit, property, and trade. It offers actionable solutions for an equitable landscape that enables women’s participation in global business and leadership.
Generative AI and LLMs are revolutionizing healthcare. With expert contributions, this book explores applications from virtual health assistants to clinical decision support, demonstrating the potential to improve outcomes, minimize costs, and provide more accessible care.
This pioneering book offers a statistical approach to analysing the styles of the Trinity of Carnatic music. It demonstrates that Indian music, adhering to the Markov property, is neither deterministic nor random, opening new avenues for research in comparative music.
A groundbreaking exploration of how generative AI is redefining gait. Using cutting-edge models like GANs and VAEs, this book demonstrates their potential to revolutionize research, diagnostics, and personalized healthcare by bridging biomechanics and AI for next-gen solutions.
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