Torrefaction of Biomass for Energy Applications
Torrefaction of Biomass for Energy Applications
Teaching Mathematics to Deaf Children
From an early age, deaf children excel in thinking about and remembering what they learn through visual spatial instruction. This strength in information processing can be used in the mathematics classroom to achieve better learning outcomes. This...
Therapeutic and Nutritional Uses of Algae
Algae have been used since ancient times as food, fodder, fertilizer and as source of medicine. Nowadays seaweeds represent an unlimited source of the raw materials used in pharmaceutical, food industries, medicine and cosmetics. They are nutritio...
Edible Seaweeds of the World
Seaweed is used in many countries for very different purposes - directly as food, especially in sushi, as a source of phycocolloids, extraction of compounds with antiviral, antibacterial or antitumor activity and as biofertilizers. About four mill...
Security, Emancipation and the Politics of Health
This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health. Building on the work of the 'Welsh School' of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security l...
Drawing Game
Lose the fear of drawing and discover just how much fun it is! This book provides hours of doodling activity for anyone with a pen. Look at the world differently by making crazy and inventive drawings around simple household objects. For The Drawi...
Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement
Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement
Healthcare as a Universal Human Right
This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens' fundamental right to basic healthcare. Grounded in the philosophical position that healthcare...
Countdown to Socialism
This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vo...
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal
A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as "horizontal" and "leaderless" swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. Many saw its subsequent ebb as proof of the need to go back ...
Mannen Som Sökte Svar Vart Pojken Som Hittade Hem - Mitt Livs Resa
Detta är boken om Sebastian Nyberg som är adopterad ifrån Chile. Sebastian bestämde sig efter att han blivit far för andra gången att han ville söka efter sin biologiska familj speciellt sin mamma. Med hjälp av sin fru Nicole så fann dom familjen i Chile efter några månaders kontakt via sociala medier så bestämde sig Sebastian för att åka ner och träffa familjen. Till sin hjälp hade Sebastian med sig sin svärfar Harry som stöd samt Harrys syster Marianne som tolk. Boken handlar om mötet emellan Sebastian och hans familj där man får vara med och följa den här fantastiska resan ifrån Sebastians perspektiv.
Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an...
Urban Planning in North Africa
There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the ...
Governing Urban Africa
This book explores some of the key challenges confronting the governance of cities in Africa, the reforms implemented in the field of urban governance, and the innovative approaches in critical areas of local governance, namely in the broad field ...
Jumping the S-Curve
Jumping the S-Curve
Fundamentals of Natural Computing
Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural C...
Big Bang Disruption
Based on extensive research by the Accenture Institute for High Performance and interviews from over 30 industries, this book intends to give you the tools to take control of your future.
Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics
Describing the processes in stars which produce the chemical elements for planets and life, this book shows how similar processes may be reproduced in laboratories using exotic beams, and how these results can be analyzed. Beginning with one-chann...
Membrane Technology
Membrane Technology - a clean and energy saving alternative to traditional/conventional processes. Developed from a useful laboratory technique to a commercial separation technology, today it has widespread and rapidly expanding use in the chemica...
Developing Innovation in Online Learning
Action research has become a valued research and educational development technique -an innovative approach through which a group of participants engage in self-reflection to improve practice. Developing Innovation in Online Learning introduces act...
Understanding Minimalism
Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program - the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist pr...
Vygotsky and Marx
This important book fills two interrelated gaps in the field of psychology, first by developing a Marxist orientation to psychology and second by explaining how psychological pioneer Lev Vygotsky contributed greatly to this trend. Through outlinin...
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies
This book provides an assessment of the legacy, challenges and future directions of Critical Theory in the fields of International Relations and Security Studies. This book provides 'first-hand' interviews with some of the pioneers of Critical The...
Pivot to the Future
Disruption by digital technologies? That's not a new story. But what is new is the "wise pivot," a replicable strategy for harnessing disruption to survive, grow, and be relevant to the future. It's a strategy for perpetual reinvention a...
Maternal Immunization
Immunization during pregnancy with currently recommended vaccines prevents infection in the mother, the unborn fetus, and the young infant, and there is an increasing focus from different stakeholders to use this approach for other infection...
Street Mathematics and School Mathematics
People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wron...
Children Doing Mathematics
Children Doing Mathematics
Genetic Translation Studies
Genetic Translation Studies
Senior Leadership Teams
An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO--right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any o...
Hälsoekonomi - Begrepp och tillämpningar
Detta är tredje upplagan av läroboken i hälsoekonomi avsedd för utbildningar inom alla grenar av hälso- och sjukvården. Hälsoekonomi utgår från olika välfärdsteorier, vilket innebär att frågorna om samhällets ansvar för hälsa står i fokus. Det cen...
Genetic Translation Studies
Examining the research possibilities, debates and challenges posed by the emerging field of genetic translation studies, this book demonstrates how, both theoretically and empirically, genetic criticism can shed much-needed light on translators' a...
Chinese Folktales
Chinese Folktales
Handbook on the Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
In recent years, there has been a marked proliferation in the literature on economic approaches to ecosystem management, which has created a subsequent need for real understanding of the scope and the limits of the economic approaches to ecosystem...
Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans
As governments around the world work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the trans-disciplinary topic of oceans management is fast being recognized as one of the most important challenges of the twenty-first century. This ...
Control as Movement
The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but...