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A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life...

Generate a personal assistant with generative AI Generative AI tools capable of creating text, images, and even ideas seemingly out of thin air have exploded in popularity and sophistication. This valuable technology can assist in authoring short and...

A compelling call to action to focus on what connects us in nature to solve today's problems.In nature, everything is connected: from microscopic bacteria and soaring trees to animals struggling for survival amid thriving humanity. Yet many of today's...

This collection provides a snapshot of big ideas in family law reform. The book asks: if you could change one part of family law, what would it be? This deceptively simple question is answered by 10 family law experts and debated within the volume by...

A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book’s title, Self-Portrait in the Studio—a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting—is intended to be taken literally: the...

This book examines private sponsorships as a new legal pathway for refugees to resettle in Europe. Amid disagreements about how Europe could respond to the refugee crisis, there is a broad consensus that there should be safe and legal ways for genuine...

Fundamentals of Recombinant Protein Production, Purification and Characterization is organized into nine chapters in a logical fashion that cover an introduction to recombinant proteins and expression in different host expression systems, extraction,...

Over 30 percent of the world's adults lack access to basic financial tools—more often women, members of minority groups, and poor families. The abilities to buy what you need, when you need it, to put money aside for the future, and to withstand bad luck...

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru’s exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure...

This new volume examines important research on advancements in materials and manufacturing processes, focusing on characterization and applications and defining solutions to current issues as well as for inspiration for future innovation. It looks at...

This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk...

In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the relationship between philosophy, politics, and religion, thereby laying the foundation for modern democracy. This shift, and his plea for philosophical critique, did not...

In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic concept of technology, entangled with the apocalyptic fears fuelled by two all-consuming world wars and the...

Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally, with needed updates in light of rapid advances in vaccine technologies and distribution...

Hydrogen has wide applications across many industries, including petroleum refineries, hydrotreating processes, and metallurgy applications. In addition, a number of valuable chemicals, such as ammonia, alcohols, and acids, are manufactured directly or...

This book aims to provide the university-level student and educator with a convenient means for testing depth of knowledge and developing problem-solving ability by enabling wide-ranging problems to be tackled without the support of a textbook framework...

Edited volume by well-known experts for each chapter. This book fills in an important hole in the existing literature by offering a look at how the international system and international relations is impacted by the Ukrainian War.Most of the books...

Edited volume by well-known experts for each chapter. This book fills in an important hole in the existing literature by offering a look at how the international system and international relations is impacted by the Ukrainian War.Most of the books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745645421Author Stathis N. KalyvasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity Press

When trust breaks down, how do we begin to fix it?Set against the controversial history of genetic research into autism, from the Spectrum 10k study led by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen to the legacy of the Andrew Wakefield MMR scandal, this book explores...

Art Therapy Through the Lifespan: A Collection of Case Studies introduces theories and models of human development highlighted by case studies written by art therapists and broken down by developmental age ranges.Each chapter introduces vignettes written...

Jury nullification, in its simplest definition, occurs when a jury returns a not guilty verdict for a defendant it believes to be legally guilty of the crime charged. To put this explicitly, a jury nullifies when, despite believing both a) that the...

Corruption in Africa examines the historical roots of corruption in Africa beyond the mainstream approach that has tended to characterise corruption as a vice rooted in Africa s contacts with the Western world. It extends this discussion to the...

Welche Bildungsprozesse in Kindheit und Jugend bereiten eine spätere Berufslaufbahn in den Wissenschaften vor? Warum ergreifen Menschen den Forscherberuf? Und wie weit lassen sich ihre persönlichen Forschungsthemen lebensgeschichtlich zurückverfolgen?...

The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing to do with what biology studies under the heading of...

Twentieth century public health initiatives have been crucially informed by perceptions and constructions of risk. Notions of risk identification, assessment and mitigation have guided political and institutional actions even before these concepts became...

Str by Tofteg rd: Halls, Hierarchies and Social Dynamics in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Denmark presents and considers the archaeological material from the site of Str by Tofteg rd in the eastern part of Zealand, Denmark, where comprehensive excavations...

This book uses the 'Lorry Driver Paradox’, a novel puzzle, to explore and clarify our understanding of moral responsibility, to break new ground in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), and to connect moral philosophy, legal theory, and AI ethics...

Renewable Energy Integration in Utility Grids: Advances in Power Quality, Protection, Stability, and Flexibility reviews current challenges and technologically driven solutions to mitigate the significant issues associated with increasing renewable...

Transplant Oncology: A Frontier in Multidisciplinary Cancer Care summarizes new and evolving scientific findings and discoveries in the field of cancer and transplants and gives guidance on future directions and related research. With a strong focus on...

Encountering the world with i-Docs argues for the values of interactive documentary as a social research method. Interactive documentaries, or i-docs, are web-based, nonlinear forms of multi-media documentary. There is a burgeoning commercial i-docs...

This innovative book blends constitutional theory with real-life political practice to explore the impact of codifying constitutional amendments on the operation of the constitution in relation to democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers...

Dieses Lehrbuch in drei Bänden führt in die Standardinhalte der Vorlesungen über Theoretische Physik (klassische Mechanik, Elektrodynamik und Quanten- und Relativitätstheorie) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der speziellen Bedürfnisse von...

This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) might serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in directions that respond to ever-deepening...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809758Author Constantine TsoucalasFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

"Zero to Hero: Your Guide to a Career in Cybersecurity" is an essential roadmap for anyone aiming to penetrate the vibrant and ever-expanding domain of cybersecurity. In an era where digital threats loom larger and more complex than ever, this book...

Professor David Olive was a renowned British theoretical physicist who made seminal contributions to superstrings, quantum gauge theories and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Dirac Medal by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in...

F.W.J. Schelling (1775–1854) gehört zu den wichtigsten Repräsentanten des sogenannten Deutschen Idealismus. Sein Werk ist grundlegend für die Entstehung der modernen Religionsphilosophie, die sich in den 1790er Jahren in Folge der Vernunftkritik Immanuel...

The Sustainable Power Grid: Challenges, Applications and Case Studies provides a detailed breakdown of the different challenges faced with power grid modernization and presents a range of practical approaches to tackle these. With a strong focus on case...

A feminist perspective on the early history of personal computing, revealing how computers were integrated into the most intimate aspects of family life The Intimate Life of Computers shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s...