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With 1350 active volcanoes on Earth and 50-70 erupting annually, this volume delves beneath the surface, explaining what makes these natural forces tick. Volcanoes: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) guides the reader through one of nature's most...

Exposes the definitive story of Dominion v. Fox, revealing how election lies tested media power and reshaped the future of democracyDominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network is the watershed media case of the century. Following an onslaught of attacks...

Exploration on how neurodynamic methods can be effectively applied to control complex, flexible robotic systems in research, and real-world settings Neurodynamic Methods for Continuum Robot Control presents a comprehensive exploration of neurodynamic...

Design of Building Facades: A Guide for Architects and Engineers bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application in building facade design. The book explores both structural engineering principles and building science concepts...

Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability...

Cornish folklore is a vibrant tapestry, ever-changing yet deeply rooted in the past. The History of Cornish Tradition: A Folkloric Journey examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region's...

How listening shapes powerPower in Listening explores how listening shapes-and is shaped by-power. From the politics of "sad girl" Spotify playlists to the sonic architectures of surveillance and the gendered voices of Siri and Alexa, this collection...

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about nature and the role of silence.The art, aesthetics, and philosophies of medieval Japan and its contemporary Kyoto School lie at the centre...

This book tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: the kiss. Richly illustrated, it explores a millennium of kisses, asking how and why the kiss has retained its power over the centuries, and what it might mean today. From the furtive...

Boas of the World is a guide to all sixty-six species currently recognized in the seven families composing the superfamily Booidea. Bringing together the expertise of more than sixty contributors representing thirty-one countries, editors R. Graham...

Afro-Indigenous Women's Survivance explores the rhetorics of survivance of Afro-Indigenous women and their activism. Delving into the way they have historically survived and resisted, it reveals how they navigate interlocking systems of oppression.It...

This book offers a novel anthropological account of how European Union research, development, and innovation projects are imagined, enacted, and experienced through actual project practice. In contrast to the majority of existing literature, which...

Categorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world-indeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal instrument for scientific systemization, featured as a basis...

Architecting Intelligent Agents in Azure takes you from your first interaction with an AI agent to deploying a fully orchestrated, production-ready system that can reason, remember, collaborate, and act. Using the Microsoft Agent Framework and Python,...

A revelatory new lens on patriarchy-as a force that governs how we see the world, live in our bodies, and imagine our futures In Real Men on Top, Robin Dembroff shows us that we don't just live in a patriarchal world. We live in a world that...

Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, and the need to recognize its multiple meanings equally with its wealth of natural resources. Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by...

Learn how to design, build, and deliver robust, scalable enterprise systems with Go. While many resources stop at syntax and beginner examples, this book is written for professional developers who need to create production-grade services. The mission of...

A remarkable transformation is taking place in the Middle East. As old ideologies from nationalism to fundamentalism falter, many people are embracing a new vision grounded in secularism, gender equality, and individual freedom. Cracks in Tradition is a...

Who can and should conduct ethnographic research? How can we transform an idea into a research question, and how can that question, in turn, be developed into a research design that produces comprehensible data?Designing and Conducting Ethnographic...

Revolutionizing Reproduction explores the rapidly advancing field of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)-the generation of sperm and eggs from somatic or stem cells in the laboratory-and its profound implications for science, ethics, and society. While IVG...

Many people in modern democracies support capitalism and multi-party representative government, with civil and political liberties protected by their country's constitution. They also support political measures to improve citizens' lives and to...

A remarkable transformation is taking place in the Middle East. As old ideologies from nationalism to fundamentalism falter, many people are embracing a new vision grounded in secularism, gender equality, and individual freedom. Cracks in Tradition is a...

Who can and should conduct ethnographic research? How can we transform an idea into a research question, and how can that question, in turn, be developed into a research design that produces comprehensible data?Designing and Conducting Ethnographic...

Advanced Blazor Architecture with .NET 10 and Azure OpenAI: Enterprise-Grade Design Patterns, AI Integration, and Cloud-Ready Solutions will guide developers, architects, and technology leaders through building scalable, intelligent, and cloud-ready...

This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the counselling professions. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these. An accompanying online resource website provides you...

On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security-the first formal and legal document from the Security Council explicitly requiring parties in a conflict to prevent violations of women's...

Africa’s surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by ‘sports’ hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to...

Schools across the US will continue to contend with the effects of students experiencing homelessness as families and communities continue to face precarious housing and economic conditions. School social workers, counsellors, nurses, psychologists, and...

The People's Democratic Republic of Korea has become one of the most secretive and isolated societies in the world, with NGOs, UN agencies and even embassies being expelled from the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Witness to North Korea,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685901653Author Chris Kaspar de PloegFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

Seongho Yi Ik: The New Compilation of the Four Beginnings and Seven Emotions is the first complete English translation of Sachil sinpyeon, a seminal work by the eighteenth-century Korean philosopher Seongho Yi Ik (1681-1763). This influential text offers...

Western democracies are suffering from populism, verging on fascism, because of the erosion of truth. This book argues that truth can grow out of citizenship education in how science really works, allied with an explicit culture of truth among...

As we clear millions of hectares of forests globally, the challenge of restoring these precious ecosystems becomes ever more pressing. The stakes are high: a staggering 95% of Earth’s land could succumb to degradation by 2050. While the task might appear...

This book is accessible guide to understanding emotion through the lens of neuroscience. It provides a practical, developmentally informed framework with tools to translate affective neuroscience into everyday practice.The author introduces a...

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania. For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of...

The Segmentation Blueprint: Designing, Deploying, and Scaling Network Segmentation for Modern Cyber Defense Modern cyber attacks don't stop at the perimeter-they move laterally. Network segmentation is one of the most effective ways to contain threats,...

Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-200 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to work with stakeholders to secure IT systems, and to rapidly remediate active attacks. Designed for Microsoft security operations analysts,...

A remarkable interrogation of the corporeality of the divine undertaken by a renowned philosopher/theologianDoes God appear "in flesh and bones," that is to say, "made of flesh and bones"? Or is the resur rected Christ's appearance simply "in person"?...

Human friendship has been millions of years in the making, and evolutionary science richly reveals that deep history. Yet close friendship is a puzzle to evolutionary scientists because they misconstrue close relationships in strictly means-ends terms...

This is the first English language book to analyse the contrasting populisms of Lula and Bolsonaro, developing a unique analysis of Brazilian politics and the more than two-decade long rule of populisms of the left and the right. Lulism, as a centre-left...