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Reframing failure in digital scholarship
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the digital humanities community. Through a series of reflections on failed, broken or challenging aspects of digital scholarship and practice, the book normalises failur...
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Advances in non-destructive testing of egg quality
A wide range of non-destructive techniques have been proven to be useful tools for shell egg quality and freshness evaluation. They might be a strategic solution to replace – or highly reduce – traditional destructive and laboratory level methods for shell egg quality and freshness assessment. In...
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Exploring digital cultural heritage
As more of the world’s cultural heritage is digitised and born-digital, the questions posed by new digital archives and collections will bring complexity and challenges, but also opportunities. This book is an accessible starting point for those interested in the past, present and future of digit...
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Strategies and solutions to reduce emissions from layer production systems in europe
This chapter focuses on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), ammonia, particulate matter (PM), odours and volatile organic compounds from layer production systems. It discusses the types of emissions and the factors affecting them. The chapter then provides an overview of the options to miti...
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Improving sustainability of egg production by extending the laying period for hens
This chapter explores the multifaceted impact of extending laying cycles in commercially kept laying hens, revealing its significance in achieving sustainability across biological, societal, environmental, and economic dimensions. Genetic selection for prolonged laying cycles has not only realize...
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Advances in understanding eggshell formation and its composition in table eggs
The shell is the only part of the egg that is not consumed, yet its quality is critical to the marketing of eggs. This is especially true as recent developments in egg production systems towards free-range hens and longer production cycles have affected shell quality, particularly its mechanical ...
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Postcards, translators and esperanto pioneers
Esperanto has a rich and multifaceted history. Delving into a fascinating microhistory of a Scottish family and the ways in which they used Esperanto to build transnational networks across Europe, this book shows how ordinary Esperanto speakers used the language in its early decades. It explores ...
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Instant insights: cultural and physical weed control methods
This book provides a detailed overview of the main cultural and physical methods used to control weeds in agriculture, ranging from the use of crop rotations and cover crops, to flame weeding and thermal weed control techniques.
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Organised militarism in interwar britain
This book is the first full-length study of militarism and militaristic associational culture in interwar Britain. Focusing on the ideas, aims, and activities of the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire – two extra-parliamentary organisations established to promote naval and aeria...
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Law and justice in the 1950s
Written for historians and legal specialists alike, this book reveals the stories behind the laws of 1950s England and Wales. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies, it examines the social, political and economic contexts surrounding the considerable breadth of legal developments in the d...
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Biofortification of eggs with micronutrients
This chapter underscores the potential of fortifying eggs with essential micronutrients to address widespread dietary deficiencies. It emphasizes the need to enhance nutrient intake in populations globally, summarizing recent research on enriching eggs with vitamins and trace minerals crucial for...
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One-welfare approach to assessing egg quality
Once basic requirements are met, consumers’ perception of product quality is directed to animal welfare. Both in and beyond Europe, animal farming systems for egg production and laying hens are transitioning from indoor cage to cage-free systems (often still based on high stocking densities and s...
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Assessing and reducing the environmental impact of egg production systems
Once basic requirements are met, consumers’ perception of product quality is directed to animal welfare. Both in and beyond Europe, animal farming systems for egg production and laying hens are transitioning from indoor cage to cage-free systems (often still based on high stocking densities and s...
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Pasteurization treatments of whole and liquid egg products: optimizing safety and quality parameters
Eggs are consumed all over the world as table egg or egg products. The safety of eggs is thus a major concern for both egg industry and consumers, as they may be quite easily contaminated by both pathogenic and/or spoilage bacteria. Despite the natural arsenal of antimicrobial defenses of eggs, t...
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Developing and implementing shell egg quality standards
This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of shell egg quality standards, emphasizing the importance of egg quality in poultry science due to its impact on food safety, nutrition, and commercial viability. It delineates the multifaceted nature of egg quality, examining both external (eggshel...
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Advances in innovative postharvest egg pasteurization and disinfection technologies to optimize egg safety and quality
Eggs and egg products are staple foods worldwide. The main pathogens associated with egg and egg products are Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter spp., Escherichia spp., and Staphylococcus spp. Composition of the egg products influence the inactivation or survival of microorgan...
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Instant insights: environmental impact of poultry production
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental impact of poultry production systems and considers best practices for mitigating key emissions.
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Regulation of calcium metabolism in laying hens
In laying hens, calcium (Ca) is of great importance in the eggshell, which requires for synthesis the deposition of about 2.2 g of Ca in the form of Ca carbonate (CaCO3). As egg production will be repeated daily over a long period (50 to 80 weeks), the hen finally exports huge amounts of body Ca ...
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Advances in understanding and exploiting the genetics of egg quality
Today’s egg layer industry has been shaped by implementation of some of the genetic advancements and market feedback, which has guided egg quality trait definitions aligned to specific customer demands. In this chapter we will discuss the definition of egg quality traits from their genetic perspe...
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Migrating borders and citizenship in law
Devyani Prabhat’s groundbreaking book examines the multifarious ways in which law operates with borders, demarcating not only nations and territories, but people and migrants, residents and foreigners. From worldwide to the nation, family to the workplace, this interdisciplinary study explores th...
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Disappearance
Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining systems. This book provides a much-need critique, which offers new thinking and aesthetic responses to understanding the deep political, cultural and philosophical sta...
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Scarab typology and archaeological context
A detailed review of scarab development in the first half of the second millennium BC aiming to provide an archaeological chronology for Syria-Palestine in the early second millennium BC.
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China as context
China as context challenges the marginalization of Chinese-grounded ideas in academia, arguing that neglecting China distorts our understanding of global complexities. Through diverse ethnographic perspectives, this volume repositions China, urging a holistic, post-global approach to the social s...
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A confucian theory of power
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and active dimensions of Confucian power as responsibility, which undergirds “responsibility meritocracy” and “Confucian active c...
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Threads of globalization
Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.
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Migration and social policy in a changing world
This book bridges social policy and migration studies, exploring responses from the Industrial Revolution to today. Through global case studies, it offers a comprehensive analysis of migrant experiences and host society policies, providing insights for scholars and policymakers.
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Wendy toye
This book delves into the groundbreaking career of Wendy Toye, a trailblazing director, choreographer and creative force in British cinema and television. Through an in-depth exploration of her works, it examines her impact on post-war filmmaking, her virtuosity of movement and storytelling, and ...
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Methods for ecocritical art history
An indispensable survey of methods in ecocritical art history.Ecocriticism is one of the most important and exciting developments in current art history. This is the first book to provide a survey of its methods, showing what they can offer art historians. It also indicates what the interdiscipli...
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‘survival capitalism’ and the big bang
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...
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The sociology of sovereignty
The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power.
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Slave trading in the early middle ages
This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe.
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International law in europe, 700–1200
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned i...
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Ida lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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European union health policy
The first book-length analysis of EU health policy since the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing the creation of the European Health Union and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, this volume offers a timely and accessible analysis of the EU’s health policy, institutions and governance.
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The penny politics of victorian popular fiction
Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised, intermittently radicalised working-class audiences by supplementing its violent, counter-cultural entertainments with openly political content.
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England’s military heartland
This is the first book to portray what it is like to live next to a British Army base. Investigating the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, it draws on voices from both sides of the divide.
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Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism
Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neolib...
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Resistance and its discontents in south asian women's fiction
Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women’s fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, pa...
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Border abolitionism
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.
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Kazuo ishiguro
Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new t...
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