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Examining the African Diaspora in Africology, this book explores the fundamental issues involving the dispersion of Africans from antiquity to the current era.One of the most quoted living Africology scholars in the world, Molefi Kete Asante has...

Written by leading experts, this open access book provides the first comprehensive and critical exploration of Earth system law. Environmental law, as it stands, does not meet the challenge of governing the many complex planetary transformations of the...

The Adventure Illusion dismantles one of contemporary culture's most seductive myths: that life itself should be an epic journey of trials, transformation, and triumph.The call to adventure saturates domains ranging from media to marketing, politics to...

This book examines how contemporary global crises-climate change, migration, gender inequality, and economic precarity-are interconnected and shaped by communication, power, and representation.Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to...

Population is a dangerous political category. It is not separable from the racist and class-based valorisation and devaluation of different lives. From global contraceptive implant programmes to right wing anti-immigration discourses, demographic...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the gold standard for identification of reaction products and unknown substances in the synthetic laboratory. This book is designed for Organic Chemistry lecture and/or laboratory courses at the high...

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth centuryBlack Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists...

Britain is complacent about corruption. We are used to thinking of ourselves as firm defenders of fairness and the rule of law. But our institutions have never been more corrupt, from scandals in parliament and local government to crises in housing and...

Streaming Privilege examines how contemporary serial television helps legitimise today's "new Gilded Age" of extreme inequality. Through sharp cultural analysis, the book reveals popular culture's fixation on wealth and dynastic families, and how these...

Comprehensive insights into process analytical technology for pharmaceutical freeze-drying Process Analytical Technology for Pharmaceutical Freeze-Drying provides a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of monitoring and control strategies for one...

Exploring where animality meets digital media in the shadow of climate crisisDigital Animalities is a groundbreaking investigation into the entanglements of animal life, media infrastructures, and digital technologies in a time of environmental precarity...

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth centuryBlack Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists...

The theory of computation is often viewed as one of the most abstract areas of computer science, mostly reserved for university courses. Yet its ideas power much of modern software: from regular expressions and compilers to animation systems and game AI...

Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or tracking a food delivery - all involve some form of digital maps. Rather than...

Armed conflict today involves a plethora of non-State actors including armed groups, private military companies, and hackers operating in the cyber domain. Frequently, these non-State actors act in a way that violates international law, for example by...

In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds.Genuinely good people and their actions,...

In this innovative and novel text, Rosa Spagnolo draws on her decades of experience to explore the ever-increasing relationship between psychoanalysis and modern neuroscience.Drawing on complex neuroscientific work and presenting it in an accessible and...

A major work of scholarship by world-renowned, prize-winning philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, The Republic of Love reveals opera as a profound form of political thought--and an often-overlooked force behind the political reforms of the Enlightenment. ...

Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or tracking a food delivery - all involve some form of digital maps. Rather than...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online Whistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life examines how the right to blow the whistle is regulated across various national contexts. With contributors from...

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Understand data analysis pipelines using machine learning algorithms and techniques with this practical guide Key Features Prepare and clean your data to use it for exploratory analysis, data manipulation, and data wrangling Discover supervised,...

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Rationale for Psychosexual Therapies: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a practical, accessible, and structured resource that condenses complex psychosexual theories into digestible, actionable points.Noor provides a structured, multidisciplinary, and...

Highlights crime eyewitnesses who use digital technologies to record, share, and watch crime onlineIn the digital age, crime and efforts to control crime have been transformed by the ability of ordinary citizens to "witness" crime remotely and intervene...

This book bridges a critical gap between reading research and school-based practice, providing practitioners and students with up-to-date tools to understand, identify, and intervene with students with dyslexia. Grounded in the science of reading, the...

This full-color text offers a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to...

This book offers a unique approach to learning astrophysics by combining rigorous scientific content with an engaging narrative. It introduces readers to the fundamental principles of stellar evolution, star formation, binary interactions, and...

Cinematic nightscapes explores how the darkness of night in contemporary Cuba becomes a powerful site for political expression, cultural imagination and artistic experimentation. As the rhythms of the day give way to night, a different Cuba emerges, one...

In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed - reshaping culture on a planetary scale. Yet the story of global media is not one of seamless connection or cultural...

Highlights crime eyewitnesses who use digital technologies to record, share, and watch crime onlineIn the digital age, crime and efforts to control crime have been transformed by the ability of ordinary citizens to "witness" crime remotely and intervene...

Historically, autism has been viewed as an immutable condition, and those who live with the diagnosis considered doomed to perpetually struggle to connect with others or develop flexibility. But with the advent of strengths-based approaches to autism,...

Modern taxonomic studies have created a revolution in the genetic sequencing of bird families and have resulted in confusing changes to the names of many species, particularly in the scientific nomenclature. This book presents all the birds of the...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Public Law in a Hybrid State presents a broad sociological analysis of legal...

Crossbills and Conifers explores an intimate natural historical connection, revealing why crossbills have become an exemplar of diversification and coevolution. Craig Benkman takes readers on his 40-year journey of research and discovery, exploring a...

The Archaeology of Ancient Colombia reveals the hidden archaeological history of Colombia's first inhabitants from the Ice Age through the middle Holocene, documenting their remarkable achievements in in colonizing and adapting to diverse environments,...

Ancient Lives is an engaging and accessible textbook that introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory through sites of key significance and the world's first civilizations. Opening with an introduction to the...

This book provides the reader with an introduction to the jury system in the United States. It provides a brief historical account of the origins of juries and compares juries in the federal versus state court systems, and a grand jury versus a trial...

Sober, balanced, rigorously researched, and eminently readable, Defending Taiwan is a definitive guide to preventing World War III. Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested--and possibly broken. Beijing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774871839Author Mehrunnisa Ahmad AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...