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For too long, the adverse impacts of parental incarceration have remained in the shadows. This book, along with its companion volume, Children of Imprisoned Parents: A Guide to Holistic Caregiver and Child Well-Being (ISBN 978-1-4766-8716-2),...

In this book, the most important cryptographic algorithms, protocols and constructions of the last decades are explained and justified from a mathematical point of view. The topics discussed range from public-key cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols...

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global...

The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies explores how socialist individuals and governments from Eastern Europe,...

An updated edition of David Boaz’s timeless primer on libertarianism, with a new preface by the author. Libertarianism—the philosophy of personal and economic freedom—has deep roots in Western civilization and in American history, with increasing appeal...

Become proficient in designing and developing embedded systems and reduce reliance on third-party libraries Key Features Get to grips with bare-metal firmware development for Arm microcontrollers from scratch Understand hardware intricacies to minimize...

Wearable technology, including smartwatches, VR headsets, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In this...

Participation in youth sports is increasingly popular and has important and wide-ranging health benefits. However, year-round participation in youth sport involves high levels of repetitive movement which may foster an environment where overuse injuries...

Biochar for Environmental Remediation: Principles, Applications, and Prospects synthesizes state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar-based systems for environmental remediation. The book examines a wide variety of biochar applications for the remediation of...

This book presents, for the first time, data analytics for smart infrastructures. The authors draw on over a decade’s experience working with industry and demonstrating the capabilities of data analytics for infrastructure and asset management. The...

In Survival of a Perverse Nation, Tamar Shirinian traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion—sexual and moral—in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties about the nation’s survival. In her fieldwork with Armenians, Shirinian...

Building on economic and feminist critiques of legal individualism, this book develops a relational analysis of constitutional law in the context of real-world social inequality. It provides a methodological framework for legal scholarship as well as a...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition of health and healthcare that moves beyond the biomedical model.Stressing that health is not merely the...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024, held in Ghent, Belgium, during September 3–5, 2024. The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035030835Author Henry GeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

Targeted to upper-undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics, this book discusses special integrals and their applications in finding certain series sums. It starts with the differentiation and the integration methods for summing a series that is...

This book will introduce new physical approaches (include fractional derivative models, continuous time random walk methods and Hausdorff derivative models) to accurately characterize anomalous sediment transport in turbulent flow. This book will...

Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394286959Author Alex LidowFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the 19th century, influencing practically all leading philosophical schools of the late 19th and the early 20th century: (i) the neo-Kantians; (ii) Brentano and his school of...

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political, economic, social and cultural transformations which have...

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book,...

The goal of Geometric Algebra Applications Vol. III: Integral Transforms, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing is to present a unified mathematical treatment of diverse problems in the general domain like Clifford Fourier Transforms, Deep Learning and...

The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in...

Malevolent Legalities draws upon archival research conducted at the Scalia Papers at the Harvard Law School Historical and Special Collections to examine the influence of Justice Antonin Scalia’s judicial philosophy of “textualist-originalism” on the US...

Alternative investments technology services market is still considered young and is far from homogeneous. This diversity drives much of the technology needs and thus there are very few players that can meet the needs of the entire market. New service...

We are living in times of deep and disruptive change. Perhaps the most powerful vector of this change can be described by three related catchphrases: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and dataism. Drawing on considerable expertise from a wide...

This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in...

This book aims to explore the perceptions of the EU integration by the young population in its “periphery”. It thereby bridges the gap between perceptions studies, youth studies, and the center-periphery conceptual framework. The chapters in the volume...

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), Künstliche Neuronale Netzwerke (KNN) sind heute in aller Munde und hängen auch unmittelbar miteinander zusammen. Besonders KI und KNN werden oftmals in einem Atemzug genannt. Alles wird in den Medien heute als künstliche...

Prime Ministers (PMs) are the most influential, powerful, and visible politicians in parliamentary democracies. Their prominent role has been increasing in Western democracies due to the 'presidentialization of politics'. But is this also true for new...

Mit der Energiewende verändert sich die physische Struktur und Systemcharakteristik des Stromversorgungssystems, wozu eine vermehrte Dezentralisierung, Elektrifizierung und ein steigender Flexibilitätsbedarf gehören. Diese Veränderungen bedürfen einer...

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...

Die Befassung mit ‚Landschaft‘ hat in den letzten Jahren in der Öffentlichkeit und den Wissenschaften an Bedeutung gewonnen. In Philosophie, Humangeographie und Sozialwissenschaften haben sich unterschiedliche Traditionen im Umgang mit ‚Landschaft‘...

International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom, with Southern Africa, and Nigeria in particular, positioned joint sixth in the top ten of sending countries. Many of these student-migrants, in...

This novel text brings together research and practice on the intersection between arts and nature, and their impact on children and young people’s wellbeing, health equality, and sustainability.Existing literature focuses on either the impact of the arts...

Particle dynamics with aggregation and fragmentation occurs in almost every branch of science and engineering. Examples include the formation of stars and planets in astrophysics, the formation of colloids and polymers in chemistry, the formation of...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complicated science that combines philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, mathematics and logic (logicism), economics, computer science, computability, and software. Meanwhile, robotics is an engineering field...

This book presents state-of-the-art research works for a better understanding of the advantages and limitations of AI techniques in the field of healthcare. It will further discuss artificial intelligence applications in depression, hypertension and...

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...