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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...

Finance Transformation: Leadership on Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation is a general and wide-ranging survey of Finance Transformation and Emerging Technologies. Finance and IT have long been important areas of any business, but recent...

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...

Combining research with extensive visual aids, Physiology of Sport and Exercise, Ninth Edition With HKPropel Access, offers a simple way for students to explore the body’s response to various types and intensities of exercise and sports. The ninth...

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

Entdecken Sie die psychologischen Tricks und Techniken, mit denen Human Hacker Ihre persönlichen Gefühle, Eigenschaften und digitale Verhaltensmuster ausnutzen, um die Informationssicherheit gezielt zu kompromittieren. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet Ihnen einen...

In diesem Buch werden alle Teilgebiete der KI kompakt, leicht verständlich und anwendungsbezogen vorgestellt. Der Autor kennt das Gebiet nicht nur bestens aus Forschung und praktischer Anwendung, sondern engagiert sich auch erfolgreich in der Lehre. Die...

In diesem Lehrbuch werden zentrale und klassische Kommunikationsmodelle vorgestellt, die für das Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement relevant sind. Ausgewählte Modelle und Theorien werden an die Social-Media-Kommunikation jeweils weiterentwickelt und...

Die Herausgebenden legen mit „Globale Soziologie“ einen Band vor, der in Debatten um die Dekolonisierung der Disziplin interveniert. Sie vereinen Beiträge, die anhand dreier Fragenkomplexe die international bereits geebneten, im deutschsprachigen Raum...

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside serves as a specialized and dedicated reference on tethered miniature robots and their related collective behaviors. The book presents the latest achievements in the research of miniature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544856Author Matthew A. TattarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The 1st edition of this seminal text was written as a response to the constitutional crisis of 2009, sparked by the 'expenses scandal', which led a general distrust of our entire political order. A decade on, it is no exaggeration to say that the...

For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. 'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. Grayling Scientific advances and new technologies are letting others manipulate our minds more easily than ever...

A powerful biography shining a light on the incredible forgotten legacy of the BBC’s first Black female broadcaster The forgotten legacy of an icon, brought to light for the first time. Una Marson was a true trailblazer: she made history by becoming...

Aufbauend auf dem ersten Teil „Stahlbetonkonstruktion“ werden in diesem Teil erweiterte Grundlagen der Stahlbetonberechnung erläutert. Neben den Torsionsnachweisen, dem genaueren Verfahren zur Durchbiegeberechnung und den Schnittgrößenumlagerungen werden...

Forensic science is often important in criminal cases, so criminal justice professionals, including lawyers and forensic scene investigators, must have a basic understanding of what is often complex science. This book explains the science underpinning...

Basierend auf Konzeptfahrzeugen werden die Anforderungen an Getriebe abhängig vom Antriebskonzept erarbeitet und die technischen Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt. In erster Linie werden Grundlagen wie Leistungsfluss abgeleitet und in praktischen Beispielen...

Theorie der angewandten Robotik: Kinematik, Dynamik und Steuerung stellt detaillierte Konzepte der Robotik auf theoretisch-praktischer Ebene vor und konzentriert sich dabei auf deren praktischen Einsatz. Zugehörige Theoreme und formale Beweise sind...

Fiscal welfare (or social tax expenditures) is a policy instrument associated with Liberal welfare states that has been on the rise across many European welfare states. This book sheds light on the use and effects of fiscal welfare in France and Sweden...

Despite the pivotal role played by parents in the child protection process, little attention has been paid to how social workers perceive them. Exploring representations of parents within Children’s Services, at the levels of policy, organisation and...

This is the second part of the second revised and extended edition of the well established monograph about Function Spaces. It is an introduction to function spaces defined in terms of differentiability and integrability classes. It provides a catalogue...

This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences (iGISc) 2023, a hybrid conference held in November 2023. These papers were selected by the Scientific Program Committee of the...

'Consistently gripping - dazzling in its sweep and thrillingly brain-twisting in its arguments' Tom HollandA provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything. In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian...

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780443184840Author David P. ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 900Imprint Academic CellPublisher Academic CellWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405552998Author Janet AlderImprint Dialogue BooksPublisher Dialogue

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633889927Author James CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

Endophytic Fungi: The Full Story of the Untapped Treasure covers the developments in endophytic fungal research from beginning to the end by the eminent researchers involved in the field. It sheds light on the endophytic fungal current research,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780323552424Author Brian ScansenFormat HardbackPage Count 1456Imprint SaundersPublisher Elsevier - Health Sciences Division