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First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who has no special knowledge of Asia. People, places, and dates have been kept to a minimum in the book. The focus has been on the...

Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, such as Living Labs, Field Labs, and Urban Innovation Labs, are increasingly used to connect multi-stakeholders in envisioning, creating, experimenting, learning, and trying out novel responses to...

Dieses Lehrbuch ist Teil des fünfbändigen Werkes der Fertigungsverfahren. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Darstellung von Verfahrensgrundlagen und Anwendungen der Funkenerosion und von elektrochemischen Fertigungsverfahren sowie von Laser-,...

Baruch Spinoza is one of the most important and original thinkers of the modern period. His work inspired religious free-thinkers and political radicals, French Enlightenment philosophes, German Idealists, Russian Marxists, writers, and scientists. The...

Those who keep a finger on the pulse of British democracy often announce that the patient is in a critical state. In the 1970s, the diagnosis most often came from the right, with dire warnings of the debilitating effects of social democracy. Since the...

Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post–civil war Lebanon Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as far as Switzerland and the United States, Master Peace...

Understanding how to deliver effective, person-centred care is vital for a future career as a Nursing Associate. In this second edition, trainee nursing associates will be introduced to the principles of person-centred care, provided with guidance on...

This book explores the challenges faced by developing countries to understand and manage the risks of arsenic pollution of groundwater and resultant contamination of food and water by highly toxic arsenic. The book through its 22 Chapters brings together...

This textbook provides a full treatment of Linear Algebra devoted to undergraduate and graduate physics students. Although the mathematical level is similar to the corresponding mathematical textbooks in regard to definitions, propositions and proofs,...

Modern Intermediate Mechanics (MIM) covers all the basic concepts of classical mechanics. It can serve as a foundational text for a one-semester course or a complete two-semester sequence for intermediate-level undergraduate students in physics or...

The 7th edition of this best-selling text continues to provide occupational therapy students and researchers with expert guidance on conducting research, from the formulation of a research hypothesis to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.Now...

Analysing the trajectory of Indian foreign policy through Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision, this book examines issues related to India’s growing profile at global multilateral forums, economy and trade, soft power, diaspora, and the intersection...

Enquiries of Local Authorities and Water Companies: A Practical Guide provides an invaluable reference for the conveyancing practitioner, local land charges officer or estate agent.Book InformationISBN 9780854903078Author Keith PugsleyFormat...

Sludge from water and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste, and contamination of natural water resources have emerged as major problems in emerging nations. Urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and other human-caused phenomena are...

This book studies the evolution of sustainable green smart cities and demonstrates solutions for green environmental issues using modern industrial IoT solutions. It is a ready reference with guidelines and a conceptual framework for context-aware...

Principles of French Constitutional Law offers a concise and accessible account of the key principles and rules of constitutional law in the French legal system. With its particular historical background since the chaotic post-revolutionary period and...

This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995550377Author Tony ScotlandFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Shelf LivesPublisher Shelf Lives

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399404181Author Oliver KeenanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 454g

This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence developing self-awareness, the conditions under which it may occur, and the potential behaviours it may exhibit once self-aware. It adopts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098156015Author Robert CroweFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint O'Reilly MediaPublisher O'Reilly Media

The textbook is primarily aimed at students and younger researchers and offers a concise but systematic practical guide to planning and conducting qualitative expert interviews in political science. It provides a methodologically sound and application-...

This book describes the challenges occurring during a pituitary examination and provides key pieces for diagnosis. It takes into account unusual issues encountered when reading a pituitary MRI. Each chapter covers the common traps faced during the...

This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010–20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including the euro crisis, the refugee...

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader introduces readers to key feminist theories and texts through a unique approach that combines both well-known classic feminist texts and original contemporary research by Feminist Studies scholars.This textbook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447375722Author Andries BaartFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Policy PressPublisher Bristol University Press

This book provides a different narrative and approach to rethinking stormwater management through sustainable urban design. It delves into design interventions and innovative strategies that lead to solving context-specific issues of flooding, water...

First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist perspective, contesting their presumptions, and questioning and crossing their boundaries.The book provides a broad-ranging overview of the...

Neural Bases of Timing and Time Perception provides a cutting-edge overview of the main contemporary neuroscientific methods and findings in this burgeoning field.Featuring an international collection of leading researchers, this text reports the main...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Max Breger Fragen zu Folter aus Perspektive der interaktionistischen Soziologie nach. Folter ist eine extreme Form zwischenmenschlichen Handelns, die als Menschenrechtsverletzung zwar delegitimiert, aber übliche Praxis...

​The second edition of this book explores different aspects of the relationship between hypertension and brain damage, providing readers with up-to-date information that will be of interest to clinicians and researchers alike. In recent years, numerous...

This book is a systematic collection and critical analysis of current information on rejuvenation, starting from the evolutionary aspects of the origin of life, immortality, and aging. Models, mechanisms, and types of rejuvenation are the key subjects of...

This book presents the proceedings of the international conference Particle Systems and Partial Differential Equations X, which was held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from 2022. It includes papers on mathematical problems motivated by...

The book explains why innovation and new digital technologies in the construction industry and beyond are largely dependent on a new culture of thinking. Personal experience reports from user practice and insights into research show the many human and...

Politische Bildung bezieht ihren Sinngehalt u. a. aus der Idee einer gelingenden Begegnung mit dem Zukünftigen. Im 3. Jahrtausend muss sie sich allerdings – jenseits der Alternative zwischen einer unausweichlichen, düsteren Katastrophe und einem naiven...

This book presents the fundamental and applied properties of different phosphor materials that exhibit the phenomenon of persistent luminescence (PerLum). PerLum offers a solution for the limitations of existing fluorescent probes, with new...

This book presents information on common-to-rare organisms from around the world that inhabit freshwater habitats. The first six chapters focus on organisms from the very small (e.g., protozoa, zooplankton, and fairy shrimp) to the huge (e.g., hippos,...

A unified introduction to information theory for scientistsApplications of information theory span a broad range of disciplines today. This book presents a unified treatment of the subject for students and practitioners in the sciences. It teaches the...

From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populism is one of the central questions of the 1980s. First published in 1988, Looka Yonder! analyses the important and ambivalent terrain...