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The Psychology of Esports
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032250897 | 161 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
The esports industry has grown into a multi-billion-dollar market, attracting millions of players and spectators worldwide. However, the psychological aspects of esports and its players remain largely unexplored in academic literature. The Psychology of Esports aims to bridge this gap by providing an in-depth analysis of the cognitive, emotional, and social dynamics that influence esports players. The book not only sheds light on how esports psychology is formed, but also discusses the field within the framework of psychological theories. By examining the many mental factors affecting players' performance (cognitive, emotional, physiological, and medical), this argument contends that esports psychology should be recognised as a distinct field.

The Psychedelic Science of the Jurema Tree
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032227046 | 225 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
Following a path that starts with contemporary biomedical research conducted by Brazilian scientists who are testing if psychedelic DMT extracted from jurema-preta can be used in the treatment of depression, the author shows how current psychedelic science opens the door to a world in which clinical and psychopharmacological research live side by side with Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian religions and mysticism. And how the global psychedelic renaissance has created the networks for the circulation of these resurgent traditional practices connecting neoshamanic groups in places as distant as Brazil, the United States, the Netherlands and Australia.

The Principles of Pharmacology: How Drugs Alter Signaling Pathways in the Body
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1394347855 | 125 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
Most medicines work not by creating new physiological processes, but by modulating the body's existing signaling systems, the internal language of hormones, neurotransmitters, and cellular messengers. Essential Pharmacology illuminates this central concept while providing accessible yet rigorous mathematical foundations for understanding quantitative pharmacology.

The Pragmatics of Queenship in Shakespeare's Drama
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032170982 | 220 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare's political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III) - Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville - and so by detecting the nature and evolution of their agency. The study is collocated in the field of literary and historical linguistics and draws on an interdisciplinary analytical model informed by pragmatics, (Austin 1962, Leech 1983, Brown and Levinson 1987, Culpeper 1996), stylistics (Simpson 1993, 2004, Burke 2014) and rhetoric (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca 1973, Kienpointner 1987). The resulting analysis gathers and lists the sequence of linguistic recurrences of definite characters through a rigorous methodology, aiming to prove whether and how these queens retain the power to influence the course of the story as well as the other characters through the illocutionary and perlocutionary force of their chosen speech acts, the number and length of their turns, the (im)polite verbal behaviour they perform in face-to-face situations. The conclusion of the study points out its replicability for other sources with the purpose of finding new insights in historical/literary texts and of understanding characterisation through linguistics.

The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3838214277 | 103 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This is an exciting, but difficult, season for the practice of medicine. The effects of corporate transformation on the practice are part of a larger cultural crisis. The arena of medicine is a proving ground for our responses to this crisis, because it is so intimately and immediately related to our bodies. Our answers to contemporary challenges in the practice of medicine will depend on, and probably shape, our answers to philosophical questions at the core of our existence: How do we inhabit our unpredictable and limited lives in a way that allows us to flourish, and how can the deep practice of medicine help? Time is the condition for all human experience, but for mortals like us, time is limited. This limit gives our lives the arc of a story, with a beginning, middle, and end. Unfortunately, many of us in the modern world avoid thinking about limits in our lives - especially the limit on our time called death. The practice of medicine serves people who are facing limits in their lives brought on by the threats of disease and death. Because good doctoring is so intimately related to the complex impact these threats have on our limited lives, this book argues that the significance and meaning of the practice of medicine is inextricably bound to existence in time.

The Power of Authenticity: Find Your Own Superpowers, Purpose, and Path to Success
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1963667433 | 227 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2.2 MB
If you're feeling stressed, stuck, or lost, you're not alone. Most of us suffer from "Suppressed Superpower Syndrome." You came into the world with a unique purpose and special gifts to fulfill it. But to fit in with others, you buried your extraordinary talents, forgetting who you truly are. Losing access to your whole self means losing your power. Here, you'll get a proven step-by-step guide to take your power back.

The Power Presenter: Techniques, Style, and Strategy to Be Suasive 2nd Edition
by Jerry Weissman
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0136933742 | 324 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB

The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies: Contradictions and Alternatives to Data Commodification
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1529212375 | 243 Pages | EPUB (True) | 1 MB
At a time when the practices of technology companies continue to attract fierce criticism, this book asks what it actually means to hold a 'monopoly' in the tech world and how it might affect the way in which an organization operates.

The Physics of Semiconductors
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819825687 | 823 Pages | PDF (True) | 30 MB
This book comprehensively discusses the basic knowledge of semiconductor physics. It consists of 13 chapters. The main contents include: lattice structure and electronic states of semiconductors; impurity and defect energy levels; statistical distribution of carriers; scattering of carriers and conduction issues; generation, recombination, and motion laws of non-equilibrium carriers; pn junctions; contact between metals and semiconductors; semiconductor surfaces and MIS structures; semiconductor heterostructures; physical phenomena in semiconductors such as photo, thermal, magnetic, and piezoresistance effects, as well as amorphous semiconductors. The book provides accompanying teaching resources such as a syllabus and electronic courseware (PPT). It can be used as a textbook for courses related to semiconductor physics in universities' integrated circuit science and engineering and other relevant majors, and it can also serve as a reference for professionals in related fields.

The Physics of Interstellar Travel
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1009689320 | 374 Pages | PDF (True) | 26 MB
What is the physics behind getting a spacecraft to the nearest stars? What science can it do when it gets there? How can it send back data over enormous distances? Drawing on established physics, Coryn Bailer-Jones explores the various challenges of getting an uncrewed spacecraft to a nearby star within a human lifetime. In addition to propulsion methods such as nuclear rockets and laser sails, this book examines critical issues such as navigation, communication, and the interstellar medium. Starting from fundamental concepts, readers will learn how a broad spectrum of physics - ranging from relativity to optics, and thermodynamics to astronomy - can be applied to address this demanding problem. Assuming some familiarity with basic physics, this volume is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to interstellar travel, and an indispensable guide for studying the literature on deep space exploration. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.