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The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present
The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy,...
Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

World Market Price of Oil: Impacting Factors and Forecasting (SpringerBriefs in Economics)
World Market Price of Oil: Impacting Factors and Forecasting (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil. The authors construct ARIMA and Trend models to forecast oil prices, taking into consideration outside factors such as political turmoil and solar activity on the price of oil. Incorporating historical and contemporary market trends, the...

Crowdfunding in China: A New Institutional Economics Approach (Contributions to Management Science)
Crowdfunding in China: A New Institutional Economics Approach (Contributions to Management Science)

China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA. Crowdfunding in China, however, differs significantly from its counterpart in the West. This book reveals that Chinese crowdfunding is a product of the country’s dynamic internet sector, which is...

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media
The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media
"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag’s On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." –...
Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry
Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry
This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new...
Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education: Multilingual Perspectives
Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education: Multilingual Perspectives

This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally. It illustrates the current state of multimodal composing and literacies, with an emphasis on English learners' language and literacy development. 

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The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond...
How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography
How to Make Maps: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.

This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who...

Academic Tourism: Perspectives on International Mobility in Europe (Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management)
Academic Tourism: Perspectives on International Mobility in Europe (Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management)
This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education. A wide range of themes are explored from various...
A New Hypothesis on the Anisotropic Reynolds Stress Tensor for Turbulent Flows: Volume II: Practical Implementation and Applications of an Anisotropic ... (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 125)
A New Hypothesis on the Anisotropic Reynolds Stress Tensor for Turbulent Flows: Volume II: Practical Implementation and Applications of an Anisotropic ... (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 125)
This self-contained, interdisciplinary book encompasses mathematics, physics, computer programming, analytical solutions and numerical modelling, industrial computational fluid dynamics (CFD), academic benchmark problems and engineering applications in conjunction with the research field of anisotropic turbulence. It focuses on theoretical...
Headaches and Mild Brain Trauma: A Practical Therapy Guide (The Brain Injuries Series)
Headaches and Mild Brain Trauma: A Practical Therapy Guide (The Brain Injuries Series)

This important book describes the biopsychosocial nature of persisting and complex headache presentations following a mild brain trauma and offers a predominantly cognitive behavioural therapy programme to guide patients toward better health and less pain.

The book provides both a robust theoretical underpinning and...

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