Melissa Kang

You're ready for this book if you're curious about how consent works, you don't know how to actually TALK about consent, or you just find it confusing!Packed with reassuring advice on how to say no, w

Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird and messy - and asking questions about it can be even worse. But it doesn't have to be like that!Packed with honest advice on managing A

This important book explores adolescent health and well-being through an ecological and developmental lens, drawing on international comparative studies and data sources to provide valuable contextual insights. Recognising that children and adolescents are not a homogenous group, this book highlights the importance of age distinctions in shaping health needs, risks, and protective behaviours. Adolescent development, the epidemiology and social determinants of adolescent health, health literacy and health promotion are foundational themes woven throughout the chapters.It explores how gender influences both health behaviors and outcomes, emphasising the need for a nuanced understanding of adolescent well-being. By presenting data comparisons across time and socio-demographic groups, this book sheds light on disparities related to gender, ethnicity (including Black and minority ethnic and Indigenous populations), age, geography, and socioeconomic status, offering valuable insights into th

The rise of China on the international stage is one of the most significant developments in contemporary geopolitics. Mainstream Western international relations theories argue that the rise of a new g

Cyclic Plasticity of Engineering Materials: Experiments and Models comprehensively introduces experimental observations and constitutive models of cyclic plasticity for materials, and applies this to

An accessible introduction to Walter Benjamin's theory of the media Provides a close reading of Benjamin's work on the intersection between media and modern experience Examines the relevance and imp

An accessible introduction to Walter Benjamin's theory of the media Provides a close reading of Benjamin's work on the intersection between media and modern experience Examines the relevance and imp

This volume contains 16 of the papers selected for the August 2011 conference with the other 25 being published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the Journal of materials science. The

This book is an introduction to the fundamentals and processes for micro and nano molding for plastic components. In addition to the basics, the book covers applications details and examples. The book

This book is an introductory book on improving the quality of a process or a system, primarily through the technique of statistical process control (SPC). There are numerous technical manuals availabl

As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to suff