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The private law regulates life; this is self-evident, but how does it regulate death? This edited collection explores this question. Life and death are the beginning and end of the legal person: the instigator and terminator of rights, interests, and...

Evil, Madness, and Truth uses a fictional narrative to present a number of ethical issues that will challenge readers. It centres on the autobiography of Gerda, the fictional illegitimate daughter of an actual, and infamous, female Nazi concentration...

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For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to...

An examination of struggles over race and gender in contemporary Brazil, as reflected in conflicts over a national social welfare program. Bolsa Familia was a social welfare program launched in Brazil in 2003 that made cash payments to poor families,...

This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decisionmakers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to...

The criminal justice system has morphed from a harshly punitive system to a distinctively more rehabilitative and restorative one focusing on supporting victims and changing offender behavior. A variety of collaborative actors from police, courts, and...

The new edition of this market leading textbook offers the most current overview of international environmental law. Written for students it provides a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate...

This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistical methods for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, researchers, and other professionals interested in the areas of criminology or criminal justice. The book...

In this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Mausumi Syamal and Eileen Raynor bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Dysphagia in Adults and Children. Top experts with both pediatric and adult expertise cover topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161502781Author Indra Spiecker gen. DöhmannFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time.The lectures were presented during the 1985–86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall...

How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the...

Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one. Property Law in the Society of Equals challenges this view, demonstrating instead that property is essential for a...

This volume explores violence in bioarchaeological case studies from various cultures, geographic regions, and time periods throughout the Eastern Hemisphere through the lens of Neil Whitehead's concept of poetics. It emphasizes the role and power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538191774Author Paul H. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture, "On the Deities of Samothrace," before the king of Bavaria. This lecture, which is one of the most original readings of the ancient mystery religion on the island of Samothrace, would become Schelling's...

Robust Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems demonstrates how to implement and apply robust dynamic state estimators to problems in modern power systems, thereby bridging the literatures of dynamic state estimation and robust estimation theory. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765104576Author Joshua DittrichFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Ein Erdbeben erschüttert Haiti und ein Hurrikan wütet in Texas. Wir hören, dass die Natur wütet und versucht, uns durch diese "Naturkatastrophen" zu zerstören. Die Wissenschaft erzählt eine andere Geschichte: die unbequeme Wahrheit, dass Katastrophen...

A philosopher excavates the origins of our state of permanent crisis and charts a more promising path forward. Crises abound—so many that it can be easy to lose perspective. In A Philosophy of Crisis, Miguel de Beistegui traces the intellectual...

Twenty years of lectures on the quantum world by an esteemed physicist.  This book covers the material of the two-semester quantum field theory course that Jirí Horejší has taught at Charles University and Czech Technical University in Prague for over...

Egypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands—including the call to address Egypt's education crisis and adult literacy rates. Read in the Name of Your Lord traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught...

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Provides a complete and unified approach to discrimination testing in sensory evaluation Sensory evaluation has evolved from simple “taste testing” to a distinct scientific discipline. Today, the application of sensory evaluation has grown beyond the...

Even as growing polarization and hyper-partisanship define society and politics at home, American leaders seem to agree on one thing: U.S. military dominance abroad is essential for national security and international stability. This is despite an...

​The textbook covers all aspects of anesthesiology, especially the practical management tools for different case scenarios in anesthesiology, critical care and resuscitation. It incorporates the basic principles of various aspects of anesthesiology, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085442Author Sophie ParkFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Renata Arrington Sanders and Errol Lamont Fields bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Adolescent Medicine: Important Updates after the COVID-19 Pandemic. This timely...

Concerted efforts to deepen understanding of RNA modifications and their role in living systems hold the potential to advance human health, improve crop yields, and address other pressing societal challenges. RNA, which carries the information encoded by...

A book that takes you inside the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patientsDoctors and pharmacists make critical decisions every day about whether to dispense opioids that alleviate pain but fuel addiction. Faced with a...

Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Ophthalmologic, Hearing, Craniofacial, Dermatologic, Connective Tissue, and Skeletal Disorders, Seventh Edition bridges the gap between high-level molecular genetics and...

Pathogenic Viruses and Armamentarium Design covers the latest developments in viral target elucidation and viral control using wet and dry lab strategies. The control and combat strategies and their implementation compiled in this book are invaluable in...

A compelling account of South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era’s most closely...

A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world—and a guide to changing things for the better When Reah Bravo began working at the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990048753Author Lyndy McIntyreFormat PaperbackImprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241961Author Bob McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Understand the cutting edge of fiber technology with this comprehensive guide Because of their sensitivity and flexible capabilities, functional fibers have an enormous range of applications across many industries. In particular, advanced optical and...

This comprehensive two-volume graduate textbook presents the theoretical basis of optics and spectroscopy together with their advancement to the nanoscale, relevant experimental and numerical techniques, and selected emerging applications of...

The study of organic compounds containing fluorine is full of surprises and has substantial theoretical significance as well as practical commercial value. The field has significantly matured in recent decades, prompting a need for a current textbook...