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This book is the first in-depth study of the lived experiences of queer Christian clergy in an African context. Using a queer lived religion framing, it draws on ethnographic research to analyse how six LGBTQ clergy understand and practice their vocation...

This book contains an Open Access chapter. The integration of new technologies has opened unparalleled opportunities for shaping the discourse of marginalized groups and facilitating decentralized communication during crises. Yet, a divide exists between...

Dieses Buch widmet sich der Entwicklung und Effizienzanalyse innovativer mehrstufiger Zahnradgetriebe unter Berücksichtigung grundlegender Entwicklungsanforderungen. Ein mehrstufiges Stirnradgetriebe, das unabhängig von der Stufenzahl nur zwei Wellen...

Pandemic Voices sheds light on previously unheard or overlooked international perspectives of patients and health care and community services workers through unprecedented access to some of the most challenging moments of the COVID-19 pandemic: the...

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families. By broadly drawing on salutary possibilities, it brings evidence of...

First published in 1988, The Mexican Economy presents a comprehensive survey of the Mexican economy and its problems and argues that the crisis has more complex roots within the Mexican economy. It gives an equal weight to the long-term development of...

This book explores the role of faith and politics in shaping the international relations of South Asia. Adopting a neo-classical realist framework and a discourse-historical approach to analyze how religious actors construct their political identities...

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Over seven editions, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like these...

A timely and updated second edition, this version of Crises and Popular Dissent moves on from a focus on the causes of populism to a wider analysis of the global struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, including the continuing impact of...

This book examines the complex process of German foreign policy adaptation to a shifting global landscape, especially to the rise of new powers. Addressing a scholarly audience, the book sheds light on the evolution of Germany's post-reunification...

This engaging book presents useful frameworks, key ideas and practical techniques – all grounded in scientific research – to help you lead better on a day-to-day basis.

Family Therapy, second edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that provides students and practitioners with foundational concepts, theory, vocabulary, and skills to excel as a family therapist.This book is a primer of how family therapists...

This book investigates how digital transformation and technological innovations are challenging traditional design paradigms and redefining the conception of interfaces, suggesting a future where interfaces seamlessly integrate into or disappear within...

This book is on the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which have not attracted much intellectual attention outside Europe, especially in South Asia. These countries regained independence in 1991 following the disintegration of the...

This book offers a comparative study of the progress made by two regional economies with many similarities--India and South Africa-- in pursuit of human development by applying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this effort, book traverses the...

Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als interdisziplinäre Intervention in die aktuellen Debatten um die “Kultur der Digitalität” (Stalder) bzw. den Digitalisierungsprozess in Lehre und Unterricht. Die mit der Pandemie forcierte Digitalisierung von...

This book provides a definitive guide to the value of reflective thinking in the modern world, showing how today’s most fundamental problems are, to an important degree, based on citizens’ thinking styles.The authors highlight the importance of...

Abolitionist thought visualises a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, showing how their ideas can assist...

This book provides an historical overview of Palestine’s Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods.More than being a history of Palestine’s Christian Arabs, the book...

An Integrated Approach to Modeling and Optimization in Engineering and Science examines the effects of experimental design, mathematical modeling, and optimization processes for solving many different problems. The experimental design method, Central...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book engages in comparative socio-legal analysis to examine the contours of social justice in both countries. It...

A Reading of Anxiety follows the sessions of Lacan’s Seminar X, examining its presentation of the structure of anxiety, step by step.Christian Fierens considers why and how the structure of anxiety always depends on speech even if it remains on the...

The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology.Beginning with a discussion of the ‘existentialism and psychology problem’, the book presents the philosophical and historical roots of...

This book demonstrates that twentieth century social stratification and the distribution of political and economic power in Italy cannot be properly understood without carefully analyzing the historical dynamics of the development of Italian society...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book engages in comparative socio-legal analysis to examine the contours of social justice in both countries. It...

The fifth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive description of the anatomy and physiology of dogs, cats, horses, farmed animals, birds and exotics. For the new edition there are 255 online questions and answers and beautiful...

The creation of complex integrated systems is, in itself, complex. It requires immense planning, a large team of people with diverse backgrounds, based in dispersed geographical locations (and countries) supposedly working to a coordinated schedule and...

First published in 1970, Regional Problems and Policies in Italy and France examines the problem of regional imbalance in two important countries of Western Europe—Italy and France and emphasizes that policies aimed at promoting regional development must...

 This volume collates and examines recent literary and screened representations of what the editors term ‘border masculinities’. It seeks to understand masculine subjectivities, through fiction and screen, within a complex global arena of relationships...

The effects of social media can be observed particularly in relation to the religious commitment and religious practices of young people - who today are summarized under terms such as "internet generation", "media generation" or "digital natives". Online...

This book deals with pertinent issues and frameworks that will help readers map the course of India's foreign policy and its strategies. While the focus remains on the 'rise' of India within the international system, an attempt is made to place the...

This is an open access book. This textbook contains about 200 fully solved problems in analytical and numerical methods for nonlinear osccillations. These comprise all the end-of-chapter problems in Ali H. Nayfeh and Dean T. Mook’s famous textbook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889830757Author Angela DenkerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Das Buch klärt auf, weshalb Innovation und neue digitale Technologien in der Baubranche und darüber hinaus wesentlich von einer neuen Denkkultur abhängen. Persönliche Erfahrungsberichte aus der Anwenderpraxis und Einblicke in die Forschung zeigen die...

Long regarded by US legal scholars as uninteresting, private law theory has received renewed attention in the United States and around the world. Yet, even amid this scholarly revival, private law is still too often reduced to the more traditional...

This book is dedicated to exploring optimization problems of geometric-analytic nature, which are fundamental to tackling various unresolved questions in mathematics and physics. These problems revolve around minimizing geometric or analytic quantities,...

A definitive and invaluable re-assessment of the last decade of speculative realism.

This book provides a comprehensive perspective over the landscape of super-resolution techniques developed for and applied to remotely-sensed images. The book presents the results of several recent surveys on super-resolution specifically for the remote...

This book presents four topics related to undergraduate courses, typically not covered in standard lectures. Written in a clear and careful style, these four “pearls” aim at complementing and deepening the knowledge of students and instructors by...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the latest novel and fundamental advances in clean energy resources and systems, energy economics, and energy policy. Designed to help steer the course toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy landscape,...