Pre Order

Taiwan is one of the flashpoints with the potential to spark a war in East Asia. With the rhetoric of striving for peaceful unification, Xi Jinping has made clear that the Taiwan question is China’s core national interest, making it essentially...

'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever. A must-read' Thomas Piketty'Fascinating' - New York TimesEquality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how...

This book provides a unique insider’s look at the world’s largest film industry, now globally known as ‘Bollywood’ and challenges existing notions about Indian films.Indian films have been a worldwide phenomenon for decades. Chapters in this edited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035311835Author Csongor I. NagyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing LtdPublisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161594298Author Klaas Hendrik EllerFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Three continues the series with another collection of chapters from 18 of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world. Each chapter includes wisdom, ideas, tips and tricks that were used in the...

This book offers a gentle yet rigorous introduction to probability theory, with a special focus on finite probability spaces. Drawing inspiration from card games, casino games, mahjong, and two-up, it also delves into real-world applications such as...

This timely book explores how generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is developing and diffusing, highlighting the diverse impacts this technology is likely to have on economies and societies. It also examines the effects on and the responses of...

Since America’s founding, natural law principles play a critical role in the development of rights and human dignity. Commencing with the notion that rights are derived from a higher, metaphysical power over mere promulgation and human legislation, the...

This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situation of the actors, citrus production and distribution infrastructure, consumer preferences, and...

This volume analyzes e-learning in European higher education, focusing on the technological, ecological, and social challenges of digital transformation. Started pre-pandemic and a result of an ECOLHE project funded by the European Union's Erasmus+...

In this book leading scholar Andrew J. Williams examines contemporary liberal thinking on the ending of wars and puts it into its historical context. Using a vast range of archival material, he examines the main strategies used by liberal states to...

Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System provides the latest developments and methods in applications of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to different aspects of Solar System bodies, including dynamics, physical...

This book delves into the fundamentals of aeroelasticity, providing a modern foundation for education and research in aeronautical engineering. It begins with a brief introduction to aeroelasticity and then explores the static stability of airfoils and...

This groundbreaking textbook is the essential introduction to qualitative research for politics and international relations. Presented in a refreshingly accessible manner, this text applies a practical approach to help you learn by doing and will equip...

The War on Rescue documents how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis. Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015 to 2022 to address the reasons why governments do this, William Plowright discusses the strategies employed which...

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity. The second in a two-volume set, this volume is presented in two parts, covering its development and modern applications.It first explores the development and applications of technically...

This insightful book examines the differences in the perception of social status and how they impact youth mental health and well-being. Looking at social status from a developmental perspective, the author explores the expansion of opportunities for...

In diesem besonderen Lehrbuch werden wir verstärkt auf die Anwendung der Technischen Mechanik eingehen und somit den Stoff verständlicher darstellen. Sie befinden sich im Ingenieurstudium und fühlen sich von der Technischen Mechanik regelrecht...

This book explores the histories and presents of gender dysphoria and euphoria as clinical and theoretical concepts as well as lived experience. It outlines how euphoria emerged as a concept, what its relationship to dysphoria is, and how it shows up in...

Including the latest Microsoft 365 features and enhanced support for Mac users in introductory level modules, Wermers' ILLUSTRATED MICROSOFT� 365� EXCEL� COMPREHENSIVE, FIRST EDITION, helps you quickly master the nuances of Microsoft� Office. Its...

This book explores the relationship between video games and satire through an in-depth examination of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, which alludes to, recontextualises, and builds upon George A. Romero’s filmic satire on American consumer culture, Dawn of...

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations. Offering a...

Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology, Third Edition, synthesizes the knowledge on methods and applications of digital terrain analysis and geomorphometry in the context of multi-scale problems in soil science and geology. Divided into...

Ungewissheit ist ein zentrales Thema sowohl für Supervisor*innen und Coaches als auch für Polizist*innen. Beide arbeiten wegen und mit Ungewissheit. Ihre Arbeitsmodi unterscheiden sich allerdings: Während Supervisor*innen und Coaches bewusst Ungewissheit...

This insightful book explores how non-profit advocacy, thought-leadership, and technological innovation are helping to highlight the full prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence and develop local, evidence-based solutions on the global stage.Using...

Group Therapy & Group Dynamic Theory offers an innovative approach to group therapy with an integrated and highly practical method. It is written for all group therapists. The book offers a solid base for professionals practicing group psychotherapy and...

In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings.Through fresh intersectional feminist analyses of...

This book provides a critical assessment of how judges reason in the adjudication of historical injustices.The practice of adjudication in historical cases of injustice require that, in determining collective responsibility, judges impart meaning to past...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Aristotle on the Essence of Human...

This book highlights some of the latest advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe and beyond. It features contributions presented at the 11th International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials,...

Spinal disorders are very common, and various imaging techniques such as X-ray, CT, and MRI play a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders. Due to the rapid increase in the elderly population and the corresponding increase in...

This book offers a global overview of the history of blood donation using evidence-based research to provide accurate information on the beginnings of blood donation and transfusion medicine, developed as the result of numerous trials and successes...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison – Wandsworth, in fact – with more freedom than had hitherto been offered to anyone not strictly of the prison staff...

Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Iranian Shi‘ite thought, and Islamicate sexualities, Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis: The Interpreter of Desires provides a groundbreaking analysis of the logic of desire and sexuality in key films of...

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Lehrende im Pflegestudium und in der generalistischen Ausbildung und stellt einen Zusammenhang der Pflegegeschichte zum heutigen Berufsbild dar. Das Curriculum zum neuen Pflegeberufegesetz sieht vor, die geschichtlichen...

Handbook of Inclusive Knowledge Management: Ensuring Inclusivity, Diversity, and Equity in Knowledge Processing Activities examines the role that diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) are part of the field and the discipline of knowledge management...

In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. The Great Plague of London haunted the memories of those who survived it. But it would take another two hundred years for the cause of...

This volume analyzes the legacy of the first Trump administration on a variety of different fronts. Whether it was the extensive use of Twitter, the tendency to express controversial, and often dubious views, or to even slander foreign leaders, Trump was...

Rabbi Sacks' thesis on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. With a new foreword by Daniel Finkelstein. Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce...