A collection of essays exploring the history of an antisemitic accusation that haunted Jewish people in Europe and Russia, and how it spread.This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social and cultural worlds that ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a widely used non-invasive brain stimulation technique. It represents an exciting new frontier in neuroscience research and can be used to examine neural processes, providing insights into pathophysiology and treating a variety of neuropsychiatric illnesses. A Practical Guide to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Neurophysiology and Treatment Studies presents an overview of the use of TMS as both an investigational tool and as treatment fo...

Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to Big Ideas and their Development, Second Editionguides readers through the history and development of artificial intelligence (AI), from its early mathematical beginnings through to the exciting possibilities of its potential future applications. To make this journey as accessible as possible, the authors build their narrative around accounts of some of the more popular and well-known demonstrations of artificial intelligence, inc...

An unprecedented look into the basic physics, chemistry, and technology behind the LCDMost notably used for computer screens, televisions, and mobile phones, LCDs (liquid crystal displays) are a pervasive and increasingly indispensable part of our lives. Providing both an historical and a business-minded context, this extensive resource describes the unique scientific and engineering techniques used to create these beautiful, clever, and eminently useful devices.

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When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived.In Forbidden...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

Obesity is an epidemic - more than 40% of the United States population suffers from obesity and, as such, it has a high burden of weight-related conditions and diseases. Metabolic and bariatric surgery has proven to be the most effective and durable treatment of severe obesity. Technological advances including applications of laparoscopy, robotics and endoluminal techniques have rapidly advanced this field. Data and outcomes examining treatments have also improved and, as providers, we hav...

Cultural neuroscience and global mental health is an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience to address the major challenges in global mental health. The field is concerned with identifying the root causes, risks, and preventative factors in global mental health, with a view to improving and achieving health equity for all people across the world. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and Glo...

Two key features of the remarkable economic growth in the newly industrializing countries of East Asia over the last quarter of a century are the role of exports of manufactured goods as the engine of this growth and the importance of the United States as a market for these exports. Political Economy of U.S.-Taiwan Trade analyzes the nature of the political and economic interactions, both domestic and international, which evolved between Taiwan and the United States in a manner that has en...