Metagenomics for Legume Crop Improvement offers a comprehensive and timely exploration of the enormous potential hidden within legume-associated microbial communities. Legumes play a crucial role in global food security and sustainable agriculture due to their natural symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing and plant growth–promoting microbes. Yet, despite their significance, the microbiomes surrounding legumes remain poorly understood. This book aims to bridge that gap by...

Nanomaterials have rapidly emerged as a revolutionary tool across diverse fields including modern agriculture. The properties of nanomaterials, such as size in nanometres, high surface area-to-volume ratio, offering innovative solutions to enables nutrient uptake and targeted and efficient release to tissues to aid in enhancing nutrient assimilation and metabolism. These formulations enhance crop productivity, resilience to climatic change, disease management, and stress tolerance. This bo...

The Problem This Story Solves:Many young children struggle with sudden change — losing a favorite toy, moving to a new room, or facing a routine that suddenly shifts. These small disruptions can feel overwhelming to a toddler's world, often leading to frustration, tears, or anxiety when things don't go as planned.The Story:When a playful breeze sweeps away Scarlet the ladybug's cozy petal bed, she must search the garden for a new plac...

For more than a decade, Mishra tells us, he has pondered a book about the Buddha—whether a historical novel about Siddhartha Gautama, the man who brought about "a revolution of ideas in North India" more than two and a half millennia ago, or a study of his teachings and their influence on Western writers. But, as these projects foundered, Mishra came to accept that his own journey of self-discovery was beginning. The final product mixes an account of the Buddha with the story of Mishra's p...

Pip is a playful little panda who loves to zoom, zip, and build towers with his colorful blocks. But when bedtime arrives, he doesn't want to stop the fun! Follow Pip and Mama Mei through a gentle bedtime routine filled with baths, brushing teeth, pajamas, and storytime.This charming children's story teaches kids the importance of sleep, healthy routines, and responsibility. Children will learn how resting on time keeps their "magic battery" full, how to manage emotions when playti...

Global Food Tourism Case Studies provides comprehensive examination of food tourism through international case studies demonstrating diverse culinary tourism manifestations globally. The text explores how food experiences connect tourists with destinations, cultures, and local communities through authentic gastronomy. Through analysis of successful food tourism initiatives worldwide, the material reveals best practices, challenges, and opportunities. Each chapter presents specific food tou...

Journalism and Mass Communication Overview is a foundational guide tailored for students worldwide who are beginning their journey in media studies, preparing for careers in newsrooms, digital content creation, public policy, or media research. This comprehensive resource combines global perspectives with accessible explanations of core journalism and mass communication concepts. The book covers journalism history, principles, and practices across print, broadcast, and digital media platfo...

Print and Broadcast Journalism provides a foundational text bridging theoretical and practical aspects of print and broadcast journalism, recognizing their distinct yet interconnected evolution. Written in accessible language, this book is aimed at a global academic audience across journalism programs. This comprehensive resource examines traditional print journalism alongside broadcast media practices in television and radio. Content covers news gathering, reporting, writing, editing, and...

Journalism and Social Responsibility examines modern journalism issues including social media ethics, citizen journalism, and media literacy challenges. In an era of rapid information flow, journalism faces unprecedented ethical and structural challenges. The book delves into complex ethical dilemmas—balancing public interest with privacy, truth with harm, speed with accuracy, and advocacy with impartiality. Modern issues such as social media ethics, citizen journalism credibility, media l...

Infra-red-guided [(IR)-guided)] weapons are no less important than laserguided munitions considering their usage in tactical warfare. While laserguided munitions are predominantly used in air-to-surface and surface-to-surface roles, IR-guided weapons are largely surface-to-air man-portable air defence systems (MANPADSs) and air-to-air missiles. The IR-guided air-to-air missile has been a feature of the fighter armament since 1950’s and is likely to remain a key weapon for decades to come.

Radar guidance like infrared (IR) homing guidance is predominantly used in surface-to-air and air-to-air guided weapons. While IR homing guidance is largely employed in short and medium operational ranges, radar guidance is particularly attractive for long-range air-to-air guided missiles. State-of-the-art radar-guided air-to-air missiles using active radar homing guidance technology have operational ranges in excess of 150km. This concluding part of the article focuses on operational aspe...

Laser-guided munitions are the most widely exploited electro-opticallyguided precision-strike munitions on various land based, sea based and airborne military platforms, such as main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, ships, fighter aircrafts and attack helicopters. In continuation of part 1 of the article, focus in this part is on laser-guided munitions. Different aspects of this class of electro-optically-guided munitions, such as delivery concept, deployment configurat...