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Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)
by José Lingna NafaféThis groundbreaking study tells the story of the highly organised, international legal court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century. The case, presented before the Vatican, called for the freedom of all enslaved people and other oppressed groups. This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition debate is generally believed to have been dominated by white Europeans in the eighteenth century. By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the first book of its kind, Lingna Nafafé underscores the exceptionally complex nature of the African liberation struggle, and demystifies the common knowledge and accepted wisdom surrounding African slavery.
Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria's Queer Men Speak
by Olumide Femi Makanjuola and Jude DibiaLove Offers No Safety: Nigeria's Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a glimpse into what it means to survive as a queer man in Nigeria. From Tunji, who takes us back to the thriving networking community before social media, to Chukwori, who struggles to reconcile his need to serve God with his sexuality, and Abdulkarim, who frustratingly wonders if he'll ever stop working twice as hard to be accepted, these stories are full of contradictions, anger, resiliency, profound insight, and radical hope. With heightened levels of oppression, violence, and discrimination faced by LGBTQ Nigerians due to the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law, these voices remind us of what the queer community in Nigeria has always been fighting for - the freedom to be themselves, love themselves, and love each other, despite being viewed as unworthy. Love Offers No Safety is a heart-breaking yet hopeful reminder that love knows no boundaries and offers no safety, but it is worth fighting for.
Machine Learning and the Internet of Things in Solar Power Generation (Smart Engineering Systems: Design and Applications)
by Prabha Umapathy Abinaya Inbamani Suman Lata Tripathi Jude Hemanth Shelej KheraThe book investigates various MPPT algorithms, and the optimization of solar energy using machine learning and deep learning. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in diverse engineering domains including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and environmental.This book: Discusses data acquisition by the internet of things for real-time monitoring of solar cells. Covers artificial neural network techniques, solar collector optimization, and artificial neural network applications in solar heaters, and solar stills. Details solar analytics, smart centralized control centers, integration of microgrids, and data mining on solar data. Highlights the concept of asset performance improvement, effective forecasting for energy production, and Low-power wide-area network applications. Elaborates solar cell design principles, the equivalent circuits of single and two diode models, measuring idealist factors, and importance of series and shunt resistances. The text elaborates solar cell design principles, the equivalent circuit of single diode model, the equivalent circuit of two diode model, measuring idealist factor, and importance of series and shunt resistances. It further discusses perturb and observe technique, modified P&O method, incremental conductance method, sliding control method, genetic algorithms, and neuro-fuzzy methodologies. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in diverse engineering domains including electrical, electronics and communication, computer, and environmental.
Machine Learning for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with Analytic Solver Data Mining
by Galit Shmueli Peter C. Bruce Kuber R. Deokar Nitin R. PatelMACHINE LEARNING FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS Machine learning—also known as data mining or predictive analytics—is a fundamental part of data science. It is used by organizations in a wide variety of arenas to turn raw data into actionable information. Machine Learning for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with Analytic Solver® Data Mining provides a comprehensive introduction and an overview of this methodology. The fourth edition of this best-selling textbook covers both statistical and machine learning algorithms for prediction, classification, visualization, dimension reduction, rule mining, recommendations, clustering, text mining, experimentation, time series forecasting and network analytics. Along with hands-on exercises and real-life case studies, it also discusses managerial and ethical issues for responsible use of machine learning techniques. This fourth edition of Machine Learning for Business Analytics also includes: An expanded chapter on deep learning A new chapter on experimental feedback techniques, including A/B testing, uplift modeling, and reinforcement learning A new chapter on responsible data science Updates and new material based on feedback from instructors teaching MBA, Masters in Business Analytics and related programs, undergraduate, diploma and executive courses, and from their students A full chapter devoted to relevant case studies with more than a dozen cases demonstrating applications for the machine learning techniques End-of-chapter exercises that help readers gauge and expand their comprehension and competency of the material presented A companion website with more than two dozen data sets, and instructor materials including exercise solutions, slides, and case solutions This textbook is an ideal resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level courses in data science, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is also an excellent reference for analysts, researchers, and data science practitioners working with quantitative data in management, finance, marketing, operations management, information systems, computer science, and information technology.
Machine Learning for Edge Computing: Frameworks, Patterns and Best Practices (ISSN)
by Amitoj SinghThis book divides edge intelligence into AI for edge (intelligence-enabled edge computing) and AI on edge (artificial intelligence on edge). It focuses on providing optimal solutions to the key concerns in edge computing through effective AI technologies, and it discusses how to build AI models, i.e., model training and inference, on edge. This book provides insights into this new inter-disciplinary field of edge computing from a broader vision and perspective. The authors discuss machine learning algorithms for edge computing as well as the future needs and potential of the technology. The authors also explain the core concepts, frameworks, patterns, and research roadmap, which offer the necessary background for potential future research programs in edge intelligence.The target audience of this book includes academics, research scholars, industrial experts, scientists, and postgraduate students who are working in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) or edge computing and would like to add machine learning to enhance the capabilities of their work. This book explores the following topics: Edge computing, hardware for edge computing AI, and edge virtualization techniques Edge intelligence and deep learning applications, training, and optimization Machine learning algorithms used for edge computing Reviews AI on IoT Discusses future edge computing needs Amitoj Singh is an Associate Professor at the School of Sciences of Emerging Technologies, Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University, Punjab, India.Vinay Kukreja is a Professor at the Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India.Taghi Javdani Gandomani is an Assistant Professor at Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran.
Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home
by PJ Gallagher'An absolutely brilliant read' Patrick Kielty, Late Late Show, RTÉ‘Blisteringly honest . . . hilarious, traumatic, joyful and terrifying. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy read!’ Liz Nugent'Gloriously unabashed . . . vibrant, poignant and surprisingly hopeful' Irish Times I grew up in a psychiatric experiment crossed with an alcoholic experiment. . . . a place run by two people who were extraordinarily drunk and guarded by a potentially vicious dog with a brain tumour.PJ Gallagher spent much of his childhood knocking back Lucozade with the local alcoholics in his parents' northside pub. But the chaos that reigned for his first ten years was nothing compared to what happened when - having lost the pub - his mum took in six psychiatric patients from the local hospital to give them 'care in the community'.Worst. Idea. Ever.Madhouse is PJ's riotous life story. Covering everything from dogs, motorbikes and the art of small talk, to the lessons of mental breakdown and finally figuring out love, this is PJ unbound. Most surprising - to PJ more than anyone - is the prospect of becoming a dad in his late forties, when he always thought of 'family' as a trap.Madhouse is the funny, insightful and moving story of someone just trying to keep his head above water - and how he is making sense of it all at last!'Terrifically honest, as well as a being funny and sad' Matt Cooper, The Last Word, Today FM 'Delivered in Gallagher’s brilliantly blunt northside brogue, evoking a shade of Roddy Doyle' Irish Independent 'Tells his story with humour and insight making it feel as though you are chatting with an old friend' Irish Examiner'Bold, anarchic . . . relates wild antics and traumas from his tumultuous life with both humour and perceptive clarity' Business Post'So open . . . amazing for understanding and trying to destroy the stigma [of mental health struggles] . . . a great read' Elaine Crowley, Ireland AM, Virgin Media
The Maiden: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
by Kate Foster'A masterpiece' — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me.Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn't the only woman in Forrester's life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead . . .'Exceptional — a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' — Daily Mail'Riveting . . . the tension persists until the last page’ — The Times*The Maiden was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction on 05/03/2024
Majeshir Ganit class 2 - NCERT - 23
by National Council of Educational Research and Trainingइयत्ता दुसरीसाठी असलेले आनंददायी गणित असे नाव असलेले गणिताचे पाठ्यपुस्तक NEP 2020, NCF-FS 2022 तसेच पायाभरणीच्या टप्प्यासाठीचा अभ्यासक्रम यांच्या शिफारसी डोळ्यासमोर ठेवून तयार केले आहे। बालवाटिका 1 ते 3 तसेच पहिली झाल्यावर (3-8 वर्षे वयात) दुसरीत जाणाऱ्या मुलाला अंकांचे ज्ञान झालेले असते, असे यात गृहीत धरले आहे। परंतु, आपल्या देशातील विविधता बघता, कदाचित काही मुलांची एकदम शाळेत पहिलीत गेल्यावरच पहिल्यांदा अंकांची ओळख होत असेल, असेही होऊ शकते। हे क्रमिक पुस्तक तयार करताना अशा परिस्थितीचाही विचार केलेला आहे। वयाच्या या टप्प्यावरील मुले मुक्तपणे खेळणे, खेळणी यात रमतात। हे लक्षात घेऊन, अवकाशीय समज, अंकहाताळणी, गणितीय आणि संगणकीय संकल्पना इ। शिकवण्यासाठीच्या उपक्रमांमध्ये खेळ, खेळणी यांचा वापर करण्यासाठी पुष्कळ वाव ठेवलेला आहे। यामुळे प्रत्येक नवीन संकल्पना किंवा कौशल्य शिकताना मूर्त वस्तूंकडून चित्रस्वरूपाकडे व त्याकडून अमूर्त कल्पनांपर्यंतचे संक्रमण सहजपणे होऊ शकते। सर्वांगीण विकासासाठी अनुभवातून शिक्षण हे उद्दिष्ट डोळ्यासमोर ठेवून, इयत्ता दुसरीसाठी असलेल्या आनंददायी गणित या पुस्तकामध्ये, वर्गात आणि वर्गाबाहेर करण्यासारखे अनेक उपक्रम दिले आहेत। यातील सर्व प्रकरणांमध्ये, उपक्रमाधारित कार्यांच्या माध्यमातून गणितीय संकल्पनांचे आकलन करून दिले आहे। सक्तीने, नाखुषीने गणित शिकण्याऐवजी, आपण खेळ खेळत आहोत अशा भावनेने मुलांनी हे उपक्रम करावेत आणि त्याद्वारे गणितीय संकल्पना आपोआप रुजाव्यात, अशा प्रकारचे वातावरण निर्माण करण्याचा प्रयत्न या पुस्तकातून केलेला आहे।
Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867–1918: The Young Uranians (ISSN)
by Eric L. TribunellaIn his 1908 cultural and historical study of homosexuality titled The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, Edward Irenæus Prime-Stevenson includes a section on homosexual juvenile fiction, perhaps the first attempt to identify a body of children’s literature about male homosexuality in English. Known for pioneering the explicitly gay American novel for adults, Stevenson was also one of the first thinkers to take seriously the possibility and value of homosexual children, whom he called "young Uranians." This book takes as its starting point Stevenson’s catalog of homosexual boy books around the turn of the century and offers a critical examination of these works, along with others by gay writers who wrote for children from the mid-nineteenth century through the end of World War I. Stevenson’s list includes Eduard Bertz, Howard Sturgis, Horace Vachell, and Stevenson himself—to which Horatio Alger, John Gambril Nicholson, and E.F. Benson are added. Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, these boy books can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
Mamiaith
by Patricia Forde Mari GeorgeWedi'r cynhesu byd eang daeth y Toddi Mawr. Wedyn, daeth yr Arch. Mae rheolwr newydd yr Arch eisiau gwahardd siarad am byth. Ond Crefftwr Geiriau ydi Mair, a'i gwaith yw cadw'r geiriau'n fyw. Yng nghysgodion y coed, mae hi a'r crefftwyr eraill yn dysgu'r plant am iaith, cerddoriaeth a chelf. [After the global warming came the Great Thaw. Following that came the Ark, whose new governor wants to prohibit speech for ever. Mair is a Word Crafter, and her work is to keep words alive. In the shadows of the trees, she and the other crafters teach the children about language, music and art.]
Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector (Cornerstones of Public Procurement)
by Darin L. Matthews Linda L. StanleyManaging Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector, Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement, stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods, materials, and services, but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination. Designed to educate the public procurement professional on ways to realize enhanced cost savings, it offers an introduction to the history of transportation, as well as industry terminology and accepted practices. Authors Darin Matthews and Linda Stanley explore recent transportation industry evolutions, including the development of important technologies like package tracing, delivery notification, and drone delivery, and ways to successfully integrate this technology. Sustainability in transportation—including product packaging, material reuse, and reduced emissions for delivery vehicles— is likewise examined. Through the use of case studies and transportation industry resources, Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector, Second Edition offers a complete package for professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of logistics and transportation, as well as for university courses on transportation, supply chain management, and public procurement.
A Marriage of Fortune: The captivating new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
by Anne O'Brien'A compelling tale of a family caught up in the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses... Be warned: it's dangerously addictive' TRACY BORMANEngland. 1469.A fortunate marriage will change history.A scandal could destroy everything...Margaret Paston, matriarch of the Paston family, knows that a favourable match for one of her unruly daughters is the only way to survive the loss of their recently acquired Caister Castle. But as the War of the Roses rages on, dangerous enemies will threaten even her best laid plans.Margery Paston, her eldest daughter, has always strived to uphold the Paston name and do her mother proud. But when she loses her heart to a man below her station, she must make a terrible choice: will she betray her family and risk everything for a chance at true love?Anne Haute, first cousin to the Queen, is embroiled in a longstanding betrothal to Sir John Paston, the eldest son and heir to the Paston seat. But despite his promises, Anne can't help but doubt that he will ever keep his word and make her his wife...In the midst of civil war, each of these women must decide: Head or heart? Love or duty? Reputation- or scandal?Praise for A Marriage of Fortune:'Anne O'Brien gets right inside the heads of her medieval characters!' JOANNA HICKSON'Magnificently researched... an enthralling story of strong women and advantageous marriages. I was completely hooked!' CLARE MARCHANTA beautifully researched novel told with understanding, subtlety and a deft touch. Time travel at its best' JOANNA COURTNEY
A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Fred VulteePresenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. Because securitization studies the construction of threats to societal structures as well as political-institutional structures, this book addresses security framing as a question of identity and the ability of political-cultural elites and media actors to manipulate it. After setting out how its theories work together, the book turns to news and its effects: How do media accounts make empirical sense of the world when they are bound by the need to make social-cultural sense first? How does "security" look in competing news accounts, and how do securitizing frames affect attitudes toward policies and political elites? Last, the book asks how academics and professionals can address the challenges to a democratic public’s role in decision-making created by the manipulation of security.Bringing together distinct fields within communication studies to reflect on the pressing issue of securitization, this book will be a key resource for scholars and students working in the fields of mass communication, policy studies, critical linguistics and international relations, as well as risk and crisis communication.
Medienpädagogische Professionalisierung in der beruflichen Weiterbildung: Eine Studie aus Perspektive der biografischen Medienforschung (Medienbildung und Gesellschaft #52)
by Lukas DehmelDas Buch setzt sich in einer qualitativ konzeptualisierten empirischen Analyse mit der medienpädagogischen Professionalisierung einer medienaffinen Zielgruppe von Lehrenden innerhalb der beruflichen Weiterbildung auseinander. Zusammenfassend geht es hierbei um die den gesamten Lebensverlauf begleitenden Prozesse und Prozeduren zur individuellen Beschäftigung mit Medien, um im Zusammenhang mit dem eigenen Lehrprozedere kompetent mit ihnen zu agieren. Die Arbeit schließt hier an Überlegungen aus der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildungswissenschaft an und entwickelt sie mit Bezug auf medienpädagogische Forschungsansätze und Konzepte weiter. Zentral wichtig ist hierbei die Annahme, dass zugehörige medienverwiesene Vorgänge in den Biografien der Lehrenden nicht nur auf einer Ebene des Lehrens und Lernens ablaufen. Die Studie definiert zudem eine inhaltliche und eine organisatorische Ebene medienpädagogischer Professionalisierung und macht sie ebenso zum Gegenstand der qualitativ ausgerichteten Analyse. Dafür knüpft die Untersuchung an die biografietheoretischen Ideengrundlagen zur Beschreibung individueller Professionalisierung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung an und verbindet sie mit dem in der Medienpädagogik entwickelten Analyseparadigma der biografischen Medienforschung.
Meetings with Moths: Discovering Their Mystery And Extraordinary Lives
by Katty BairdMossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
by Jackie KohnstammMax and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt – where they will starve to death. Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative stones recently placed outside their old home. The discovery compels her to open a long-closed cupboard of haunting family papers, piece together the story of the family she never knew and find her place in it. With searing prose and meticulous detective work, Jackie Kohnstamm offers a gripping and poignant portrait of an ordinary family and reveals a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
by Chiara Giuliani Kate HodgsonWith a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.
Mental Action and the Conscious Mind (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
by Michael BrentMental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind. Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary accounts of the conscious mind often ignore the role of mental action and agency in shaping consciousness. This collection aims to establish the centrality of mental action for discussions of agency and mind. The thirteen original essays provide a wide-ranging vision of the various and nuanced philosophical issues at stake. Among the questions explored by the contributors are: Which aspects of our conscious mental lives are agential? Can mental action be reduced to and explained in terms of non-agential mental states, processes, or events? Must mental action be included among the ontological categories required for understanding and explaining the conscious mind more generally? Does mental action have implications for related topics, such as attention, self-knowledge, self-control, or the mind-body problem? By investigating the nature, scope, and explanation of mental action, the essays presented here aim to demonstrate the significance of conscious mental action for discussions of agency and mind. Mental Action and the Conscious Mind will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and philosophy of agency, as well as to philosophically inclined cognitive scientists.
Microbes in Agri-Forestry Biotechnology (Advances and Applications in Biotechnology)
by Gustavo Molina Zeba Usmani Minaxi Sharma Abdelaziz Yasri Vijai Kumar GuptaThis book explores recent advances on the use of microbes for agri-forestry biotechnological applications. It provides technical concepts and discussions on the use of microorganisms for processes such as bioprocessing, bioremediation, soil enhancement, aquaponics advances, and plant-host symbiosis. The book provides an overview of the microbial approach to the tools and processes used in agriculture and forestry that make or modify products, improve plants for specific uses, and make use of livestock in agricultural systems. The authors discuss the main process conditions that enhance agri-forestry applications with the use of microbes and introduce the use of genetically modified (GM) microbes in agrobiotechnology. Finally, the authors explore the main technological advances in the production of secondary metabolites with potential applications in agri-forestry. This book is intended for biotechnologists, biologists, bioengineers, biochemists, microbiologists, food technologists, enzymologists, and related researchers.
Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes: Industrial Enzymes (Advances and Applications in Biotechnology)
by Gustavo Molina Minaxi Sharma Vipin Chandra Kalia Franciele Maria Pelissari Vijai Kumar GuptaEnzymes are biological molecules of great relevance. In addition to the fundamental role in metabolic reactions, they have diverse applications in industrial processes in generating products of great commercial utility for the most diverse areas. Thus, industries seek to expand research to select microorganisms capable of producing enzymes according to their commercial objectives. Considering the diversity of the microbiota kingdom, as well as the diversity of mode of action of different classes of enzymes, this is an area that deserves constant investments to elucidate new applications, considering that these biological catalysts have great selectivity and a diversity of mode of action, reusable, and operate under mild process conditions, becoming the bridge for the development of sustainable processes and for adding value to commercial products. This book is intended for bioengineers, biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, microbiologists, food technologists, enzymologists, and related professionals/ researchers.• Explores recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste into enzymes • Explores the main technological advances in the recovery of residues and their use for the production of enzymes• Provides technical concepts on the production of various enzymes of commercial interest • Presents the main classes of enzymes obtained from alternative raw materials.
Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes: Food Ingredients (Advances and Applications in Biotechnology)
by Gustavo Molina Minaxi Sharma Vipin Chandra Kalia Franciele Maria Pelissari Vijai Kumar GuptaFood ingredients are important molecules of the most diverse chemical classes responsible for conferring nutrition, stability, color, flavor, rheological and sensorial characteristics, in addition to several other important uses in the food industry. In this way, the production routes of these ingredients have gained more and more attention from consumers and producing industries, who expect that, in addition to their technological properties, these ingredients are still obtained without synthetic means, with savings of natural resources and mainly with less environmental impact. This book is intended for bioengineers, biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, microbiologists, food technologists, enzymologists, and related professionals/ researchers. • Explores recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste into food ingredients • Provides technical concepts on the production of various food ingredients of commercial interest• Explores novel technologically advanced strategies for the extraction of bioactive compounds from food wastes• Presents important classes of food ingredients obtained from alternative raw materials• Presents sustainable food waste resources and management strategies• Presents different pretreatment technologies and green extraction methodologies to support a green environment in the circular economy concept.• Challenges in applications of re-derived bioactive compounds from food wastes in food formulations
Midwifery and Sexuality
by Sam Geuens Woet L. Gianotten Ana Polona MivšekThis first open-access book on midwifery and sexuality integrates sexual health into the care for the pregnant and postpartum couple. It addresses sexuality and intimacy from an education and prevention perspective instead of just focusing on treating problems, aiming to foster the development of sexual well-being and happy couplehood.Sexuality and intimacy are essential elements in the bonding of the couple and the parents-to-be. That process can be seriously hampered by sexual problems due to mutual misunderstanding, fear and sexual troubles (especially when the natural processes of conceiving, pregnancy and delivery are disturbed). In this phase of life, disruption of intimacy, sexuality and sexual relationship is a significant risk factor for developing couple and family problems. The need for such a book stems from the very limited attention given to this health area in the daily practice of most midwives and related healthcare professionals. In building aclose relationship with the couple through frequent, intense, longstanding contact, the midwife acquires a perfect position to address sexuality and intimacy. With 36 authors from 14 countries, the book comprises five modules: 1. Sexuality; 2. Sexual aspects of the various phases of reproduction when things develop without complications; 3. Sexual aspects when those same phases deviate from physiology; 4. Special topics on sexuality relevant to daily midwifery practice; 5. Teaching, learning, skills and competencies with regard to sexuality. This new practical textbook guides healthcare professionals such as midwives, obstetricians, gynaecologists, nurses, general practitioners, pelvic floor therapists, etc., by offering both basic knowledge and skills on sexual health and wellbeing, combined with modern sexological knowledge, like the entirely new topic of sexual aspects of preconception care.
Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System (ISSN)
by Regina SerpaMigrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of ‘crimmigration’ control systems in the US and the UK. The book advances ‘housing sacrifice’ as a concept to understand journeys in and out of homelessness and the coping strategies migrants employ. Undergirded by persuasive empirical research, it offers a compelling case for a ‘social citizenship’ right to housing guaranteed across social, political and civil realms of society. The book is structured around the 30 life stories of people who have migrated to the capital cities of Boston and Edinburgh from Central America and Eastern Europe. The narratives are complemented by interviews with a range of stakeholders (including frontline caseworkers, activists and policymakers). Guided by the tenets of critical realist theory, this book offers a biographical inquiry into the intersections of race, class and gender and provides insight into the everyday precarity homeless migrants face, by listening to them directly. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers across a range of fields including housing, immigration, criminology, sociology, and human geography.
Milton's Loves: From Amity to Caritas in the Paradise Epics (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Rosamund PaiceThis book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical ideals, social conventions, and the rather messier ways in which love emerges in practice. Love, so central to Milton’s view of Edenic joy and obedience to God, unsettles earthly and heavenly communities and is the origin of Miltonic transgression. Milton’s Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including why Milton’s God is so difficult for readers to connect to, Satan’s apparent heroism, Milton’s radical theology, and the nature of Milton’s muse. It is a book that will appeal to students and scholars of Milton and early modern studies more broadly and is structured in a way that will aid easy reference.
Mindfulness in Multicultural Education: Critical Race Feminist Perspectives
by Kathryn Esther McIntoshGrounded in critical race feminism, this book explores mindfulness as an empowering approach in multicultural education. The author explores how learners of multicultural education—by (re)centering the body through mindfulness with concrete strategies and scaffolded practice—can be empowered to handle the activated emotions and deep self-inquiry that come with the work of social justice, liberation, and anti-racism. This book includes counter stories of students of colors and offers both an epistemological and a curricular approach to mindfulness in multicultural education, including discussion of theory and key principles in addition to ten modules with practices to engage learners. These modules can be directly applied as the basis for curricular changes in teacher education and university-wide social justice courses, or they can be independently read by learners interested in enhancing their wellbeing and social justice. Written for teacher preparation and university social justice courses, this book encourages educators to contextualize their mindfulness practice within a critique of systems of oppression and ask questions about how mindfulness can empower action towards a more just society.