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In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim excavates the transnational linkages between women of North Korea and a worldwide women's movement. Women of Asia, especially those espousing communism, are often portrayed as victims or pawns of a patriarchal...

Connect what you see in prosections and dissections in the anatomy lab with the detailed medical illustrations of Frank H. Netter, MD. Netter's Photographic Anatomy Companion features more than 200 carefully selected plates from the well-known Netter...

Design patterns and architectures for building production quality applications using functional programming, with examples in Haskell and other FP languages. In Functional Design and Architecture you will learn: Designing production applications in...

There are many kinds of helpers in our world, the caregivers among us. They are the social workers who serve the vulnerable, the nurses and doctors who treat the ill, the teachers who instruct the young, the first responders who rescue the imperiled, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098151867Author Andrew Harmel-LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint O'Reilly MediaPublisher O'Reilly Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962551298Author Tony PayanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

Quantum information is a young and evolving field. This compendium introduces quantum information in a comprehensive self-contained guide without assuming a wealth of knowledge prior to reading.The volume highlights intuition on counterintuitive topics...

Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Not only are patients and families suffering, but more and more the clinicians who care for them are also experiencing distress. The omnipresent, daily presence of moral adversity is, in part, a...

This book analyses, comments and further develops on the most important instrument of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH): the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. The HCCH Convention, the product of decades of work, will have a...

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is at the heart of low-defect agile software development, enabling incremental development and emergent design without degrading quality. By allowing software teams to create comprehensive regression tests that immediately...

This commentary on EN 1994-1-1 is intended for all professionals involved in the design, construction, inspection or monitoring of composite steel and concrete structures. It provides support for the interpretation and application of the standard in...

Class, Crisis and the State is a foundational work of 20th century socialist thinking. Wright redraws our conception of the core problems of Marxism. This book intervenes in four theoretical areas of deep importance to contemporary Marxism. Class is...

In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead,...

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Peter Winch (1926–1997) was one of the most important philosophers of his generation. Although best known for his work in social science and the interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein, he had a long-standing interest in ethics and political philosophy and...

What happens when you ignore the writing on the wall?For over a decade, Russian chess grandmaster, writer and political activist Garry Kasparov shouted early warnings about the rise of demagogues like Trump, about tech stagnation that could lead to...

Das Wissen um Grundlagen, Diagnostik und die effiziente Behandlung von Schlafstörungen und schlafmedizinischen Erkrankungen wird von mehr als 100 Autoren aus allen beteiligten Fachgebieten umfassend dargestellt. Die 287 ausführlichen Beiträge zu den...

Understand the future of water treatment with this groundbreaking introduction There are few more requirements for human life more vital than clean water. Increasingly, however, both developed and developing countries are facing significant challenges...

The book presents the scientific history of the early days of fuel cells (1838 to 1845). The fuel cell effect was discovered by the Swiss scientist Christian Friedrich Schoenbein. while the English lawyer and scientist William Robert Grove perfected the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440880Author Ian BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

The unipolar world has exploded. In the wake of a pandemic that has tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict is no longer a prospect but a reality. The Rest and the West locates the makings of this situation in turbulent dynamics of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597420Author Nick RedfernFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035023479Author Carl ZimmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

With President Biden recently describing the Chinese premier Xi Jinping as “a dictator,” the shooting down of Chinese balloons in US airspace, the increasing of US military aid to Taiwan, and the banning of US exports of microchips to China, the American...

Hier finden Sie alle Grundlagen zu Wirkmechanismen, Dehneffekten und Dehnmethoden übersichtlich und leicht verständlich beschrieben. Zahlreiche Praxisanleitungen und Hintergrundinformationen sowie Anleitungen für Patienten ergänzen dieses Lehr- und...

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism traces intimate encounters between activists and local people of the civil rights movement through an archive of Black and Brown avant-gardism. In the 1960s, Student Nonviolent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241994580Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences...

A historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Cecil Jobson...

A history of “priming” research that analyzes the field’s underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology. In 2012, a team of Belgian scientists reported that they had been unable to...

An essential investigation that reveals the labor of human workers hidden behind a curtain of apparent technological automation. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend...

Activists utilize digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big, corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the...

This book presents an original theory of the just price, and it is a welcome addition to scholarship on a radically underdeveloped field. This work reassesses the age-old idea that there is a just price of things, one that goes beyond the Scholastic...

A nuanced take on how carceral expansions are changing labor and social life. In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline M. Parker offers an ethnographic portrait of therapeutic communities in Puerto Rico, the oldest colony in the Americas...

Social structure is arguably the central concept of sociology, and in recent years a much wider public has taken up with fresh vigor the sociological idea that persistent inequalities are rooted in social structures. Yet there seem to be as many...

Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Fourth Edition is a guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the...

A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries. In recent years, discoveries brought to light through analysis of ancient DNA have made headlines around the world. While ancient DNA studies may appear to be a...

Natural and Synthetic Hydrogels: Rational Design, Synthesis and Biomedical Applications provides a comprehensive and easy to read text on hydrogels and their biomedical uses, covering both fundamental as well as applied aspects of hydrogels. Lots of...

Reframing Aristotle’s natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and...

Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects of migration – a continuing process spanning several generations – The Hidden Minority takes a multi-temporal...