Queer beyond london

Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.

Debating medieval europe

This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050.

Carbon colonialism

Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

Before gender

This ground-breaking book rewrites trans history, presenting the stories of thirty extraordinary trans people who lived between 1850 and 1950. Featuring kids, activists, workers and athletes, it reveals the reality of trans lives in an era before the concept of gender became an everyday term.

Crafting crime fiction

Whether you are writing a police procedural or a psychological thriller, a contemporary or historically set novel, this book will help you identify the right beginning, middle and end of your crime novel. It will help you recognise your talent and realise your ambition in practical and realistic ...

The black atlantic’s triple burden

This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.

In the company of wolves

This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.

Mrs dalloway

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Virginia Woolf a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.

The fairy tales of jim henson

This book provides a new perspective on the work of Jim Henson, the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales.

Information science

What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question by providing a detailed definition and analysis of information science and how it differs from data science and library science.Drawing on a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science unique...

The campaign for nuclear disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the culture and social groups that the campaign mobilized to "ban the bomb".

The disorderly society

In a broad and erudite narrative, Bobo Lo argues that the future of global governance is not in a return to dominant US leadership and great power competition but in a more inclusive and flexible order, driven by a common purpose in meeting universal challenges.

Social preferences

An introdution to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – which explains in clear, untechnical language how experimental research in this area has provided economists with much greater understanding of economic behaviour.

Equity and trusts

Equity and Trusts is written for students on LLB and law conversion courses and will also be useful for those on any SQE pathway. The book provides students with all they need to understand the complexities of the English law of equity and trusts in principle and in practice.

Pollyanna

Essay film and narrative techniques

The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking and includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers. 40 illus.

Soil biology, soil health and ecosystem services: an overview

This chapter provides an overview of soil biology, health and ecosystem services. The authors present an update on previous work by integrating the chemical and physical components of soil health with that of the biologically mediated processes and further define how environmental conditions may ...

Implementing a digital twin for flexible operation of agricultural robotics

Developments in precision weed management systems for precision agriculture

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Campylobacter in poultry meat

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Advances in measuring soil organic carbon stocks and dynamics at the profile scale

Accurate estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and dynamics along the soil profile is challenging due to the immense diversity and complexity of soils leading to the spatio-temporal variability of the parameters of interest. It is conducted in a wide range of different frameworks with di...

Agriculture practices to improve soil carbon storage in upland soil

Increasing carbon storage in soils is one way of mitigating climate change. Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils through improved management is particularly interesting, because of low costs and technical readiness. In this chapter, we synthesize current knowledge on the impact of managemen...

Bioreactors for cell multiplication in cultured meat product development

Cultured meat holds a great promise with its potential to satisfy the growing demand for meat while reducing harm to animals and the negative environmental impact of livestock husbandry at the same time. However, high cell numbers are required for sufficient meat production. Consequently, high ce...

Cultured meat technology: an overview

This chapter provides an overview of current cultured meat technology. It starts by first discussing the limitations of conventional food systems, focusing on the environmental, social and economic impacts these systems can have. The chapter moves on to provide a rationale for a transition to cel...

Environmental impacts of seaweed cultivation: kelp farming and preservation

This chapter provides an overview of the environmental impacts of the supply chain for preserved seaweed. The supply chain includes the hatchery, marine infrastructure, deployment of juveniles and monitoring during cultivation (grow-out of seaweed), harvest, transport back to shore and preservati...

Managing housing and stocking density to optimize health, welfare and production in pig herds

This chapter describes major husbandry- and management-related factors affecting health, welfare and production efficiency in different swine husbandry systems. Given the current transformation in pig production, there are several conflicting goals which need to be addressed during design and ada...

Use of bacillus spp. as bacterial biocontrol agents to control plant diseases

Biocontrol agents (BCAs) based on plant growth promoting rhizobacteria have recently been developed as alternatives to chemical pesticides. Among those beneficial bacteria, Bacillus spp. are one of the most promising BCAs. A wide range of bioactive secondary metabolites (BSMs) are involved in bio...

Exofrontiers

This book is a compendium of key scientific questions, challenges, and opportunities across different areas of exoplanetary science. It provides a starting point for researchers, experts and non-experts alike, to obtain a quick overview of the forefront of exoplanetary science and a vision for th...

Quantum mechanics of the diatomic molecule (second edition)

In this book, the authors describe how quantum mechanics can be used to predict and analyze diatomic molecule spectra in a gaseous state by discussing the calculation of their spectral line intensities. The book provides a comprehensive overview on diatomic molecule fundamentals before emphasisin...

Ultra poincaré chaos and alpha labeling

Ultra Poincaré chaos offers an alternative to Lorenz chaos, showcasing alpha unpredictability, which is a characteristic of an isolated motion. Alpha labeling is a valuable mathematical structure for studying complexity, as well as for the entirety of dynamical systems theory. Additionally, uniqu...

Orbital angular momentum states of light (second edition)

This book provides an in-depth introduction to modelling of long-range propagation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes as well as more general structured light beams through atmospheric turbulence.

Introduction to metalens optics

This book provides an overview of the basic optics of the metalens, providing an introduction for students, scientists and engineers. The scope of this book is to introduce the optical fundamentals and basic optical design methods of a m etalens, where light propagation can be modelled by simple,...

Problems and solutions in rotational mechanics

This book is an extensive resource covering many concepts and topics within rotational mechanics, including over more than four hundred examples and problems with solutions. This book is an ideal resource for aspiring students looking to master the concepts of rotational mechanics, as well as lec...

Medical and dental guidance notes (second edition)

This second edition addresses the safe use of ionising radiations (e.g., radioactive substances, X-rays, protons, neutrons, and electron beams) in the UK. These notes include general best practices of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R) 2017. Following the instructions...

Green by design

This book offers an in-depth examination of bio-polymeric materials, emphasizing their interfacial science, including key functional groups, physical phenomena, and interactions within specific environments. It highlights these materials as sustainable alternatives that go beyond merely replacing...

Silicene-based layered materials

This book explores in detail the most up-to-date research in silicene-related systems, including few-layer silicene, sliding bilayer silicene, adatom-doped silicene, atom substituted silicene and silicene with substrate.

Effective science communication (third edition)

This book is a practical guide for scientists to articulate their research compellingly to both their peers and other audiences, bridging the communication gap in the scientific community.

Astrophysical recipes

Astrophysical Recipes: The art of AMUSE delves into the ways in which computational science and astrophysics are connected and how the bridge between observation and theory are understood. This book provides a unique outline of the basic principles of performing simulations for astrophysical phen...

Design and shielding of radiotherapy treatment facilities

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavol...

Spatially fractionated, microbeam and flash radiation therapy

As an essential text for physicists, radiation oncologists and researchers, this textbook comprehensively addresses the physics of novel heterogeneous radiation approaches, in the context of clinical application and biology. Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy technologies and techniques, pl...

Ultrafast lasers and optics for experimentalists (second edition)

This book is an accessible introduction to the world of ultrafast lasers and optics, explaining key principles and practical use cases.

Creativity for scientists and engineers

Filled with examples of creativity in science and engineering, and including a contributed chapter in which 13 contemporary scientists and engineers tell their own stories, this book is a practical ‘how to’ guide on how to have good ideas on demand, how to judge between good ideas and bad ones, a...

Cryogenic technologies at the european spallation source

This book describes the design, construction and commissioning of the cryogenic systems at the European Spallation Source, a new Big Science Facility. It also describes the experiences and lessons learned in building a complex cryogenic system in a brand new laboratory with significant in-kind co...