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This book offers an important insight into the health and wellbeing of prison operational managers and governor grades working within prisons in the UK. The authors bring together expertise from psychology, health, law, and criminology, to present a...

Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899...

The ‘War on Terror’ ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a...

This book focuses on "doing." Many texts cast visions for future utopian or dystopian environments, but this book talks about the methods and skills needed for ethical and valid practice as transportation evolves.Book InformationISBN 9781529227451Author...

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Organisation der Sozialwirtschaft. Es werden die Grundstrukturen und die Träger der sozialen Dienstleistungsproduktion in deren Zusammenhänge. Veränderungen von Steuerungsansätzen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die...

Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed ‘experts’ all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why? Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new...

This volume explores trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) on the African continent, the benefits and challenges that FDI presents for African States, and Africa’s participation in the international investment law regime. Featuring contributions from...

Addressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK. It examines how current economic and political systems...

The book explores the intricate relationship between nutrition, brain function, and psychiatric disorders. The first section of the book delves into the neurobiological aspects of psychiatric disorders, including the neuroanatomy, neuropathology,...

Group and Team Coaching is a best-seller offering a new perspective on the ‘secret life of groups’, the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Originally published in 2010 and designed for...

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and Eastern countries. This book seeks to understand the motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity...

Der Band thematisiert aktuelle Herausforderungen für Gleichstellungspolitik und die notwendige Weiterentwicklung gleichstellungspolitischer Konzepte, um Exklusionsmechanismen effektiv adressieren zu können. Die Beiträge diskutieren dies an der...

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 book explored the positive benefits that Energy Accounting can have for autistic individuals and others seeking stress management, and provides practical guidance for introducing this into daily life. The strategies discussed have been created by...

Filling a gap in the literature for a focus on industrial photochemical processes and applications, this textbook also discusses the changes to equipment if process chemists and engineers use light and radiation in their production processes. The author...

Einstein's theory of general relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics and it is our standard framework for describing gravitational fields and the spacetime structure. So far, general relativity has passed all experimental tests and agrees with...

In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years...

​This book is a groundbreaking book that explores the critical issue of managing and handling industrial sludge in wastewater treatment facilities. The proposed book addresses the urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of sludge management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112442852Author O KriegFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 435g

The heart has been portrayed in art and texts from Ancient Egypt, China and India. In Western religious and secular art, images of the heart denoting all manner of passions were abundant from the Middle Ages on. Even in the modern era, in which its...

This OpenAccess - textbook sheds new light on pathology in and around the orbit, which is typically an area where many medical disciplines overlap. Each physician brings his or her specific expertise, but the goal should be that the end result of all...

Impeccably researched yet written with pace and wit, Alex Nunns delivers the definitive account of how, and by whom, Jeremy Corbyn and his team were sabotaged."I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of Jeremy Corbyn's tenure,"...

Harness the Power of the Multi-Dimensional Coupling Model as a Tool for Architecting Modular, Evolvable Software Systems In this definitive guide, Vlad Khononov introduces a novel approach to designing modular software systems that turns coupling into a...

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a...

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart...

The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no global challenge can be resolved without its participation. It is...

An innovative approach for understanding how law matters in contemporary social movements that rise to meet the twin challenges of American democracy: promoting liberal values of equality and inclusion, while fortifying the rule of law itself. Fifty...

On the faulty intellectual origins of shareholder primacy—and how policy can win back what’s been lost. In an era of shareholder primacy, share price is king. Businesses operate with short-term goals to deliver profits to shareholders, enjoying stability...

An original argument that environmental sustainability has been co-opted by the urban elite, along with examples from around the world of ways we can save our planet With more urban residents interested in living sustainably, we have seen the emergence...

Metallic Mineral Resources: The Critical Components for a Sustainable Earth serves the increasing interest in metal resources, especially the critical and strategic metals which are essential commodities for the green energy transition. The opening...

How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these...

How can we harness society’s potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate environmental destruction, however, in Practicing Social Ecology Eleanor Finley shows that there is an amazing...

In Homelessness, Liberty and Property, Terry Skolnik establishes a novel theory about the government's duties to end homelessness, maintain public property's value, and legitimize laws that regulate public space. In doing so, Skolnik provides new insight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135328248Author Donald KnuthFormat PaperbackImprint Addison WesleyPublisher Pearson Education (US)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750316576Author Reinhard SchulteFormat HardbackImprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

This monograph takes the reader through recent advances in data-driven methods and machine learning for problems in science—specifically in continuum physics. It develops the foundations and details a number of scientific machine learning approaches to...

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian...

This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. For understanding contemporary Turkey and the neighboring region, it is important to revisit...

Using an accessible, non-technical approach, the third edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of statistical regression. Accessible to anyone with an introductory statistics background, the book draws on engaging examples...

Behavioural Network Science provides a comprehensive introduction to network science for social and behavioral researchers and students. It is a self-contained guide to the fundamentals of network science, beginning with principles of representing and...