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This book focuses on the characterization of fault damage zones and subsurface structure systems quantitatively for the first time. It provides a comprehensive case study of various types of fault damage zones, including normal, reverse, strike-slip, and...

Effective Threat Management: A Primer presents the ABCs for identifying, assessing, and managing potentially violent individuals. By offering practical advice and tactics for dealing with problem individuals, the Primer serves as an ideal reference...

Why does hope appear in certain epochs and places, only at other times to disappear from people’s lives and from society as a whole? This book addresses hope from a sociological perspective, offering a theoretical framework and a set of concepts to...

A complex and at times controversial film-maker whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, Federico Fellini (1920–3) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny at home and...

This book is a comprehensive and accessible overview of sex trafficking in the United States, examining its underlying dynamics and sharing key research findings. Andrea J. Nichols examines the backgrounds and experiences of survivors, traffickers, and...

Role Exit Within Prison Officers: Returning to ‘Civvy Street’ explores the reasons why prison officers leave His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) England and Wales and examines the processes and trajectories involved in returning back to...

This book introduces engineering principles into the sport of rowing by the integration of rower biomechanics, stroke style, and blade hydrodynamics to improve the rowing performance in the sport.

This book introduces readers to key concepts in group theory through engaging puzzles. The early sections of the book show how the rules of group theory emerge naturally from solving puzzles. Different classes of groups, such as cyclic, dihedral and...

Das Buch fasst übersichtlich und praxisorientiert das Wissen über Gefäßerkrankungen und -verletzungen zusammen, die typischerweise bei Athletinnen und Athleten vorkommen. Dargestellt und erläutert werden ihre Pathogenese, Symptomatik, Diagnostik,...

'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA HOYER'Utterly compelling . . . jaw-dropping' BRIAN KLAAS'Fascinating, wide-ranging . . . highly-entertaining' PETER...

This open access book delves into discussions central to hydraulic structures and research in the realm of hydrodynamics. Hydraulic structures stand as pivotal components within civil engineering and construction, playing a safeguarding role for...

Interest Groups and Lobbying shows how political organizations and their lobbyists play a crucial role in how policy is made in the United States. It cuts through the myths and misconceptions about interest groups and lobbyists with an accessible and...

This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth and sustainable development. Using the intersectionality and agency of urban dwellers and citizens, it...

Designed for students in Christian colleges and seminaries, An Introduction to Philosophy surveys the four main areas of philosophy - logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics - in an accessible and engaging manner. Yet, it also covers important...

Eine Industrie 4.0 bindet unter Überwindung der Unternehmensgrenzen zahlreiche Akteure in ihre hochautomatisierte Produktion über das Internet ein. Diese Einbindung auf einer weltweit zugänglichen Infrastruktur eröffnet aber auch gleichfalls Zugang für...

This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the early 21st century. Ongoing global changes, the growing complexity of international interactions and...

This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by examining where the idea of free expression came from in the first place, applying the lessons of the past to address the challenges of the present. Free speech cannot be...

This is a multidisciplinary account of the use of alcohol by women in the perinatal period - before, during and after the birth of their child. The issues are considered from psychological, social, biochemical, neurological angles, to provide a holistic...

This collection focuses on Ukraine’s ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour. The...

This book provides an invaluable guide on how to achieve a successful and fulfilling academic career. Academics must balance multiple roles and responsibilities, between teaching, research, and offering services to both the department, university, and...

Wittgenstein used the concept of language games to refer to all forms of linguistic expression in practical contexts and to the myriad ways in which signs are used in language. He used the term to specify speaking as an activity and to relate it to a...

Achtsamkeit leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag dazu, dass Gesundheitsförderung gelingt. Dies gilt für einzelne Menschen, wie auch für Organisationen. In diesem Essential wird dargestellt, welches Potenzial Achtsamkeit und damit verbunden die Kultivierung...

This book analyses how tools of statecraft are being deployed by a range of key partners and Pacific Island states with contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region. A vital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802363852Author Peter WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

This book explores recent developments in the dynamics of invertible circle maps, a rich and captivating topic in one-dimensional dynamics. It focuses on two main classes of invertible dynamical systems on the circle: global diffeomorphisms and smooth...

In this absorbing book Anthony Lott develops a national security analysis that can be used to critique the policies of states. The book is designed for upper-division international relations courses in national security studies, international politics...

In today’s world, Cybersecurity attacks and security breaches are literally becoming the norm. Unfortunately, we are not immune to it, any individual and entity is at dire risk. The best and only thing that we can do is to mitigate the risks as much as...

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, it presents both theoretical and empirical studies of love and sexuality as social...

This book provides a broad perspective on understanding bovine fertility, focusing on the classification and interpretation of bovine sperm defects. Building upon the success of its first edition published in 1989, this new edition has been significantly...

Powers of attorney have a crucial role to play in looking after vulnerable people, including the elderly and those with medical conditions. Yet power of attorney legislation is inconsistent across the globe, with some jurisdictions having very limited...

Against this background, and in order to facilitate a broad discussion on the contribution of IT toward implementing the UN SDGs, this book is being produced. The book gathers inputs from universities, enterprises, and research organizations working on...

This book breaks down barriers between disciplines engaging with flow, by speaking from geography into psychology to establish geographical foundations for this psychological phenomenon. It frames and works with the multiple contradictions within the...

Everyone is passionate about something, but not all of us become fanatics. Why and how some people do is a fascinating question with both practical utility and broad implications for our social, emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing. Joe Ungemah...

Immigration remains a cornerstone of national policy, although it has undergone significant transformations across economic, family, and refugee admission streams in the past two decades. Reshaping the Mosaic offers an insightful exploration of Canada's...

This book offers a critical primer on how Artificial Intelligence and digitalization are shaping our planet and the risks posed to society and environmental sustainability.As the pressure of human activities accelerates on Earth, so too does the hope...

During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence towards Jewish neighbours. This book shows how these memories continue to be distorted and silenced in Polish culture.Considering the...

This volume presents the culmination of a two-decades long multidisciplinary study at Senèze in France, a site located inside an extinct volcanic crater within which a maar lake formed, at whose margins mammals presumably came to drink and died. The...

Taking a fresh and modern approach, Contemporary Family Law gives students all the information they need to develop a clear understanding of the very latest developments in family law. Each chapter uses contemporary cases as a window to introducing core...

This open access volume offers a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the current structure of global governance on tax, trade, and investment. It explores the interplay between actors, critiques current norm-making procedures, and proposes concrete...

The articles collected in this anthology address highly relevant issues of energy transition from both French and German perspectives. The question of energy production beyond fossil fuels entails lines of investigation ranging from attitudes to nuclear...