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This book explores the significant changes in Chinese journalism education in response to the rapid development of digital and new media technologies.It emphasises the need for journalism education reform to keep pace with changing times and cultivate...

This book is a study of economic policymaking in Mexico focusing upon the sexenio (the six-year term) of Lopez Portillo—the era of the petroleum boom, the 1982 economic crisis, and the eventual bank nationalization.Book InformationISBN...

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...

The oil and gas industry is in the midst of a paradigm shift, moving from developing solely petroleum-based energy to producing alternative energy forms, including renewables. Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry offers a comprehensive overview...

Substantial claims are made about the extent and impacts of volunteering, often characterised by limited engagement with research evidence. Volunteering is highly stratified, so whether it can bridge social divisions in an unequal society is questionable...

This book proposes a new analytical angle to the politics of austerity in southern Europe after the euro crisis. The post-pandemic economic recession has plunged European leaders into fresh debates about how the European economy should be governed. Over...

First published in 1956, Epitaph to Indirect Rule compares the old order of colonial government, represented by the Indirect Rule system, with the innovations of the more democratic administrative pattern introduced in the Eastern Region of Nigeria for...

This book is the second in a series on arctic and alpine environments produced by Dr. Michael Vigdorchik at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder. The first carried the title Arctic Pleistocene History and...

The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller was part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration. He took a...

This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration and career development...

Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of nonfiction that combines science, history, and nature writing to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world. Oceans created, shaped, and sustain not just human life, but all life on...

This thesis advances our understanding of how thermal anisotropy can be exploited to extract work through a mechanism that is quite distinct from the classical Carnot heat engine. Anisotropy, the presence of thermal or chemical gradients, is ubiquitous...

This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled...

This book explores the relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until...

This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of...

Substantial claims are made about the extent and impacts of volunteering, often characterised by limited engagement with research evidence. Volunteering is highly stratified, so whether it can bridge social divisions in an unequal society is questionable...

This book provides a new analytical framework that investigates the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Adapting existing theorising of foreign policy change to a single framework applicable to the EU context, Ikani provides a...

Mining waste management is an important issue for the mining industry since it entails the safe and responsible disposal of waste created during mining operations. This waste comprises tailing, waste rock, and other mining wastes that, if not adequately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138831384Author Dagfinn SkreFormat PaperbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe through a careful analysis of burial practice in Ireland and Scotland.

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job. Newspapers, the oil industry, and other publications published stories about the glamorous working geologist, comparing...

Despite the advances in precision medicine and the progressive tailoring of multimodal therapies, surgery still remains the mainstay treatment in the majority of pediatric solid tumors and plays a key role in the multidisciplinary evaluation and...

This book provides a critical analysis of the interactions of humans and wildlife in Zimbabwe. It does not only document conflicts, but it also considers opportunities for co-existence that can result in the successful conservation practices within...

In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued...

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394276080Author Pieter SchavemakerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Most .NET developers do not incorporate security best practices when creating websites. The problem? Even if you use all of the best practices that the ASP.NET team recommends, you are still falling short in several key areas due to issues within the...

A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists.The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the...

Brings Caribbean archaeology in line with current thinking about social stratification and repositions the role of archaeology to uncover smaller-scale daily lives of ancient peoples rather than focusing on the large-scale chiefdoms.

In the years leading up to the outbreak of war in 1914, Britain was closely collaborating with Germany on the development of an improved telegraph service, despite preparations for war also being made by both countries. This cooperation rested upon both...

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Land Law: Knowledge, Skills and Practice is a concisely written, easy-to-follow, structured introductory guide to Land law for students of the LLB and SQE, which also serves as a refresher for practitioners. It combines the knowledge components necessary...

The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era. They are, in fact, the second most represented group of judges in the state and federal courts. Furthermore, historic appointments of Black men and women to...

The second edition of this successful and widely recognized textbook again focuses on discrete topics. The author recognizes two distinct paths of study and careers of actuarial science and financial engineering. This text can be very useful as a common...

This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores the recently introduced Digital...

In a study of cyclical history, this book presents a grand sweep of modern history and how decades of savage wars, and turbulence, led to a brief era of exhilaration and hope, followed by despair in the new century.

An accessible, fun and practical introduction to behavioural science, featuring insightful examples from the laboratory, advertising and marketing, as well as from daily life.How do house flies help save millions of euros? Presented with the image of a...

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Cybersecurity is set to be one of the dominant themes in EU governance in the coming years, and EU law has begun to adapt to the challenges presented by security with the adoption of the Network and Information Security Directive. This book explores the...

Metabolic Fatty Liver Disease: Current Knowledge, Therapeutic Treatments, and Future Directions provides the most updated research findings and defines the current data gaps on metabolic fatty liver disease. The book extensively covers key areas in...