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This book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a particular focus on agriculture and food practices. Through examples from the region, it underscores the...

This book articulates the traditional Japanese concept of conservation, called Satoyama, for effective management of nature’s goods and services at a community–ecosystem interface in the climate milieu. The term Satoyama refers to socio-ecological...

By bringing together eminent scholars, this book highlights the current scholarship in the field of migration, which tries to present a counter-narrative to the popular anti-immigrant rhetoric and the populist domestic politics of the US. There has been...

When the conservative government introduced the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act in 2015, its existing Prevent programme was upgraded placing a duty on public sector workers, including university staff, nurses, teachers, doctors, and council employess,...

Geographical information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for reporting on the environment, natural resources and social and economic development; modelling the environmental, biophysical, social and economic processes; assessing environmental and social...

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in Black films over the last five decades.In this pioneering book, Katherine Marshall Woods looks at...

The Timucua Language is a comprehensive reference grammar of Timucua, the Native language of much of northern Florida during the Spanish colonial period. Though the Timucua language is no longer spoken, written Timucua was extensively used as a medium of...

Dieses Nachschlagewerk bietet eine Zusammenfassung der zentralen Nachweisverfahren, Formeln und Bauteilkennwerte des derweil doch sehr komplexen Fachgebietes „Bauphysik“ sowie kurzgefasste Ausführungen zu den jeweiligen physikalischen Grundlagen und...

This sixth edition of this seminal textbook offers an updated model for aspiring helping professionals to enhance their clinical skills. Significant updates to this edition include: new interactive features to improve student learning, including...

This book advances a new interdisciplinary approach that engages with the concepts of science and literature through the mediation of philosophy (with a focus on the ideas of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze). It investigates in innovative ways the...

Dieses Fachbuch beschreibt die Grundlagen zur Gestaltung von Apparaten für die sterile Prozesstechnik unter Beachtung der aktuellen Regeln und Vorschriften. Unter dem Begriff sterile Prozesstechnik werden die spezifischen Randbedingungen der Apparate-...

This book is a comprehensive collection of the most influential papers on thermoelectricity published in the last two centuries. Starting with the pioneering work of Volta, Seebeck, and Peltier on thermoelectric phenomena, it takes the reader through a...

Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.Presented in two main parts, the book explores Nahir Bonifacino’s work with...

In diesem Buch wird die breit angelegte und wissenschaftlich evaluierte ressourcenorientierte Gruppen-Intervention ‚Zufrieden in den Ruhestand‘ zur Vorbereitung auf den Ruhestand vorgestellt. Das Manual enthält eine detaillierte Anleitung zur...

This book reviews the physiological and therapeutic applications of extracellular vesicles (EV) of different cell types. The initial chapter of the book focuses on their evolution, physiological functions, inter- and intra-cellular communication, and...

A how-to-guide on the clinical assessment and investigation of patients presenting with muscle-related symptoms. Featuring a case-based approach, this accessible text is suitable for a wide range of clinical specialists who see patients presenting with...

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the processes and technologies utilized for producing hydrogen from renewable sources. It discusses common methods like gasification, pyrolysis, and liquefaction, along with novel methods like...

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement. The groundbreaking first edition of Gold Medal Policing confirmed the importance of mental readiness in frontline...

Academics and researchers in a broad range of fields including Latin Americanists and scholars of peacebuilding and transitional justice, peace and conflict studies, human rights and legal studies, comparative politics, international relations and civil...

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity. Incorporating information from interviews with 96 active youth gang members and associates in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750333573Author Ayman El-BazFormat HardbackImprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

Covering a range of important social theorists – from W.E.B. Du Bois to Judith Butler – this accessibly-written textbook encourages critical thinking and critical approaches to social work, providing an entry point for anyone interested in thinking...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. During the cost-of-living crisis, schools and nurseries have had to step beyond their educational purpose to offer free food to families through food banks. This book explores how these food...

The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply “stick to the facts” and leave politics to the politicians when the world...

Provides a new theoretical model, which extends and improves the range of responses to the problem by analysing trafficking and exploitation as a pattern that emerges from the interactions between the victim, the perpetrators of the exploitation and the...

Top 20 Essential Skills for Python in ArcGIS® guides you through the basics of Python and developing solutions to enhance your geospatial workflows.Supercharge your ArcGIS workflows and enable others to work with your tools with the versatility of Python...

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science’s relation to democracy? This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary...

This book provides substantial information on the structure and properties of Bombyx mori silk, different fabrication techniques, testing methods, as well as potential applications in tissue engineering and drug release. Unlike previous studies that...

An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists...

In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine. They examine the fact that the...

Why Read Ogden? explores the importance of Thomas Ogden's work to contemporary psychoanalysis, both as an interpreter of classic psychoanalytic thinkers and as a new and original theorist and clinician in his own right.Ogden writes about the literary...

To the ambitious Shah Rajah like Prithvi Narayan, foreign was Muglan—the abode of non-believers. Foreign was Bhot- the Nepali term for Tibet. Foreign was Firangi- the British colonizers. To the Rana ruler like Jung Bahadur, foreign was a little broader:...

What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate?This book addresses these questions by examining the lives and works of individual geographers, both past and present. Like all...

What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate?This book addresses these questions by examining the lives and works of individual geographers, both past and present. Like all...

This book in Open Access is the first to provide clinicians with practical guidelines to explain the most frequently occurring neonatal brain injuries to parents and caretakers.The brains of high-risk neonates are vulnerable to often severe injury, and...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceived by the people, and how it is exploited by the state. It provides a genuine multicultural and...

Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism focuses on the sub-upgrade of the regime in Egypt and the struggle of political authorities for internal political legitimacy after 2013. It is an interdisciplinary work that develops a complex theoretical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394253463Author Marcello Zillo NetoFormat PaperbackImprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil provides the linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, to deal with the sustainable management of resources. It shows the nexus approach as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750350600Author Professor Jason BarnesFormat HardbackImprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing