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Books, readers and libraries in fiction
This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...
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A nicaraguan exceptionalism?
In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...
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Designed for play: children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space, 1840–2010
An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, this title demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and re...
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New world objects of knowledge
With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...
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Understanding alba: progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in latin america and the caribbean
This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond...
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Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in latin america
This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and ...
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Rethinking past and present in cuba
This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...
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Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the caribbean and beyond
Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...
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Materials technology for the energy and environmental nexus, volume 1
The ‘materials nexus’ represents the role or connection of materials in building the path for greener energy and sustainable environment. This two-volume set covers the state-of-the-art of materials technology for greener energy and sustainable environment, including current issues, anticipated d...
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Plasma modeling (second edition)
Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling. In this updated second edition, an extensive new part is added that discusses methods to calculate data needed in plasma modeling, such as thermodynamic and transport...
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Philosophy of physics
This book outlines three different approaches to philosophy of physics, and highlights their differences by showing how they engage specific topics and issues, including method, discovery, and theory.
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Web content mining
This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data mining and web mining. After this in...
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Essential concepts in metamaterials
An introductory book for graduate students and researchers in transformation optics and metasurfaces. Including practical guidance, this book will allow those new to the subject to immediately commence working in this exciting research area. In order to carry out the numerous examples in the book...
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Breast cancer and medical imaging
This book presents detailed explanations of the topics of breast cancer and the medical imaging modalities that are used for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring.
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Solving climate change
This book explains how the world can stabilize Earth’s climate and minimize future damage from climate change, presenting the latest analytical tools and data for those who want to help solve the biggest collective challenge humanity has ever faced.
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The physics of emergence (second edition)
This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. It would be suitable for physicists, scientists, und...
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Energy density functional methods for atomic nuclei
Energy Density Functional Methods for Atomic Nuclei provides a thorough and updated presentation of energy density functional (EDF) techniques in atomic nuclei. Incorporating detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures, a coherent narrative of topics that have hitherto rarely...
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Secondary ion mass spectrometry and its application to materials science (second edition)
In this edition, a more detailed overview of the principles of SIMS is given, and of how the development of dual-beam instruments has blurred the traditional fields of dynamic and static SIMS to enable greater analytical possibilities. This is an ideal text for final year undergraduates, first ye...
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Integrability using the sine-gordon and thirring duality
This book provides a description of the duality between two integrable systems: the 1+1-dimensional Sine-Gordon model and the 1+1-dimensional Thirring model. It’s an opportunity for a focussed study of integrability in its wider breadth of interest, maintaining a clear ultimate purpose in mind: u...
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Nuclear data
This course text provides an intermediate level treatment on the topic of the nuclear structure, focussing on the collective properties of atomic nuclei. The book goes into more detail on the specific topic of collective motion in nuclei, which has two major aspects: rotation and vibration.
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Imaging modalities for biological and preclinical research: a compendium, volume 2
This compendium is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of currently available biological and preclinical imaging methods, including their benefits and limitations. Volume 2 covers in-vivo imaging techniques, correlative multimodal imaging and emerging imaging technologies.
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Neutron and x-ray reflectometry
This book introduces the techniques of neutron and x-ray reflectometry and presents the studies carried out to date, using the techniques to understand emerging phenomena at the interfaces of thin films.
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Elliptical mirrors
Elliptical Mirrors: Applications in microscopy discusses the importance of the elliptical mirror; the third solution after parabolic reflectors and lenses for which apodization factors were established in 1921 and 1959 respectively. This detailed and highly insightful book will be an important re...
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Sustainable urban development
This research and reference text covers the most recent advancements in the implementation of sustainability principles to built environments. It engages the perspectives of a wide range of professionals, including architects, engineers, geographers, and more. Interdisciplinary in nature, it is i...
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External field and radiation stimulated breast cancer nanotheranostics
Nano drug-delivery systems responding to cellular local stimuli, such as pH, temperature and reductive agent’s activation, i.e. enzymes, could effectively provide passive-mode desirable release but fail in disease treatment following the biological rhythms of brain tumor. This book is a compilati...
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Technical fundamentals of radiology and ct
Technical Fundamentals of Radiology and CT is intended to cover all issues related to radiology and computed tomography, from the technological point of view, both for understanding the operation of all devices involved and for their maintenance. It is intended for students and a wide range of pr...
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Introductory notes on planetary science
This textbook provides a physics-based tour of introductory planetary science concepts for undergraduate students majoring in astronomy or planetary science. It shows how principles and equations learned in introductory physics classes can be applied to study many aspects of planets, including dy...
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Computational intelligence based solutions for vision systems
This book discusses various vision systems, their classifications and design strategies. It is essential reading for academic and industrial researchers to understand the computational intelligence research domain as related to vision systems and their applications.
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Random telegraph signals in semiconductor devices
As semiconductor devices move to the nanoscale, random telegraph signals have become an issue of major concern to the semiconductor industry. This book aims to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of one of the most challenging issues facing the semiconductor industry, from the fundament...
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Charged beam dynamics, particle accelerators and free electron lasers
Charged Beam Dynamics, Particle Accelerators and Free Electron Lasers summarises different topics in the field of accelerators and of Free Electron Laser (FEL) devices. It explains how to design both a FEL device and the accelerator providing the driving beam. Covering both theoretical and experi...
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Energetics science and technology
This text provides an interdisciplinary view of energetics technology and introduces connected topics within the field. It presents a coherent overview of energetic materials technology to show the interdependences and the possibility of greater interaction.
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Strongly interacting quantum systems, volume 1
This book presents a detailed account of the theory and methods to tackle systems of strongly interacting particles from a bottom-up approach. It gives a detailed overview of the relevant and current research literature in the field, and is a valuable tool for researchers and graduate students.
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Research collaboration
A practical approach to support researchers in their collaborations. Demonstrates the potential of collaboration, drawing on real-world experience of facilitating and advising collaborations ‘in the wild’. Provides tools and approaches that will help readers develop the skills and behaviours that...
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Elementary cosmology (second edition)
This book presents a history of cosmology, covering the scientific developments from the time of the early Greek philosophers until the present day. It introduces the most important discoveries in cosmology, and how they altered our perceptions of the origin, size, structure, and evolution of the...
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Gamma-ray burst correlations
Gamma-ray Burst Correlations presents an overview of the observational correlations; their physical interpretations, their use as redshift estimators, and their potential use as cosmological tools. The author describes the existing correlations as well as broaching the possible meaning and contro...
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Fundamentals of industrial instrumentation (second edition)
This book establishes the physical principles with mathematical analysis and practical techniques used to measure variables most important for Instrumentation applications. This text book will provide students and recent graduates with the knowledge to design and build the measurement systems for...
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The terahertz acoustic laser: a quantum treatment
This book describes the novel acoustic laser that operates in the highly desirable terahertz frequency regime while also presenting operation at lower gigahertz frequency. Providing a comprehensive understanding, topics will include a quantum treatment of the stimulated emission based upon a nonl...
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Thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte brushes
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Modern interferometry for length metrology
Modern Interferometry for Length Metrology: Exploring limits and novel techniques gives an overview of refined traditional methods and novel techniques in the field of length and distance metrology. Within the book advanced solutions, which can be used for various applications and can help provid...
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Biomaterials
A biomaterial is defined as a substance that has been engineered to take a form which, alone or as part of a complex system, is used to direct, by control of interactions with components of living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostics procedures. The modern field of biomaterials c...
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Graphene-based sensors
This book serves as a comprehensive exploration into the realm of graphene-based sensors, delving into the intricate fusion of nanomaterials and sensing mechanisms that underpin their remarkable capabilities.
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Surface nmr for hydrogeology
Surface nuclear magnetic resonance (SNMR) is a newly developed, non-invasive geophysical method designed for groundwater prospecting. This book provides an overview of the SNMR method and deals with some of the most pervasive problems faced by the SNMR methodology. The book is intended for a wide...
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Sensors for marine biosciences
The book explores cutting-edge sensor technologies for marine biosciences, emphasizing their applications in pollution monitoring, pathogen detection, and ecosystem sustainability.
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Practical terahertz electronics: devices and applications, volume 2
This research and reference text provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the state-of-the-art in terahertz electronics research. Volume two focuses on optical devices and their applications. Intended for researchers and professionals in the field, the text is an essential reference f...
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A concise introduction to quantum mechanics (second edition)
This extended and updated second edition course text presents a logical and concise introduction to the basic concepts, applications, and physical meaning of quantum mechanics. Numerous applications of wave mechanics and Dirac notation are provided, including angular momentum, perturbation theory...
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Modeling and design photonics by examples using matlab®
Modeling and Design Photonics by Examples with MATLAB® is a comprehensive study of computational photonics that will help readers to use modeling as an effective tool for designing and optimizing photonic systems.
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Inside the stars
This book describes the historical development of our current understanding of stellar interiors. It is a non-mathematical exposition intended for anyone interested in this subject.
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Climate engineering
Written by one of the leading active researchers into climate engineering this textbook will educate those interested in climate engineering. Written in an unbiased manner and provides a detailed description of the various technologies being discussed that might be deployed to ameliorate or rever...
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