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Stacey Vanderhurst's new book “Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking” reveals how antitrafficking personnel have stopped thousands of women from traveling out of Nigeria and instead sent them to the federal counter-trafficking agency for investigation, protection and rehabilitation. Government officials defend this form of intervention as preemptive. Yet many of the women protest their detention, insist they were not being trafficked and demand to be released. It’s published by Cornell University Press.

The recent experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing vaccine development have drawn our attention to the system that keeps us alive: immunity. However, our immune system does more than fight against microbes. The new textbook Molecular Immunology: How Science Works by Professor Carsten Carlberg and Dr Eunike Velleuer provides an essential background in molecular immunology.

Bioluminescence, the “cold living light” or the “cold fire of the sea,” is extremely common in all oceans at all depths. However, this phenomenon is nearly absent in freshwater, with the exception of a freshwater limpet. More than 75% of deep-sea creatures have been reported to produce their own light. The luminescent marine plankton such as dinoflagellate, radiolarians, jellyfish, comb jellies, annelids, copepods, ostracods, mysids, amphipods, euphaeids, and tunicates form an important component in the marine food chain. Research on luminescent marine plankton is gaining momentum now-a-days owing to its importance in human health.

The proposed textbook bridges the gap between the advanced and the introductory books in numerical methods for engineering, particularly electrical engineering. Although various outstanding texts cover in detail the introductory topics suitable for undergraduates but many topics have been ignored to higher level undergraduate and the graduate. These topics include error analysis, algorithm of the methods, the application of numerical methods for engineering problem, the introduction of higher lever numerical methods such as finite difference time domain method and method of moments.

Educational technology refers to the preparation and use of electronic resources, computer applications, and audio-visual aids which are used in the teaching and learning process. For administrators, the term also includes the planning, organization validation, evaluation, and implementation of all kinds of educational programs. Educational technology is now important for the selection of appropriate teaching media as well as the development, and application of curricula. Fundamentals of Educational Technology work explains the basic facts about educational technology to inform teachers and students. The book includes 6 chapters which cover the subject in a simple manner suitable for learners in education programs

Two University of Wisconsin Oshkosh emeritus geography professors joined forces on a new comprehensive yet accessible book about the state’s landforms, cultures and people. Wisconsin’s “dean of geography” John Cross wrote the text and provided many of the photos while Kazimierz Zaniewski created the unique and informative thematic maps found throughout 'The Geography of Wisconsin,' which was published in May by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutic Updates provides comprehensive information about the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. Chapters first cover the fundamentals of colorectal cancer diagnosis, progressing further towards explaining therapeutic modalities and recent advances in the understanding of the disease. Covers the management and surveillance of colorectal cancer. Explains the key biochemical mechanisms involved in colorectal cancer treatment.

Nanomedicine field is evolving with drug formulation and their multifunctional approaches to act smartly in its therapeutic and diagnostic function. Nanomedicine-based drug therapy, are normally explored at a fixed dose. Which creates insistent challenges at any given point of time as, the drug synergy is time-dependent, dose-dependent and moreover patient-specific. Artificial intelligence and its application in cancer nanomedicine, Artificial intelligent based diagnostic design for precision cancer nanomedicine, Artificial intelligent based nanosensors to compose the patient’s cancer biomarker profile, Artificial Intelligence as a putative tool for newer drug development approach in cancer nanomedicine, Artificial intelligence-enabled model for predicting metastatic potential of cancer cells, Artificial intelligence for cancer nanotheranostics, Ethical dimensions of using artificial intelligence in healthcare.