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First published in 1978, Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence is a study of British policy towards Rhodesia and an account of the failure of both Labour and Conservative governments to find a satisfactory solution to its 'decolonization'...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This...

First published in 1990, Philosophers' Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers' readings of poets and other distinctive writers. There are those, for example, who find in literary examples ways of exploring the concrete significance of...

This book traces, assesses and compares the history of conscientious objection - in the cultural context of eight developed democratic nations - from refusal of military service and a range of similar moral dilemmas, to objecting to abortion, to...

First published in 1979, Political Identity in South Asia deals with the relationship between language, religion and political identity. Political identity is a broader concept than that of nationalism which it embraces, and the contributors are...

This book advances the Capability Approach as an ethical, people-centred framework for social impact assessment in development practice. Focusing on two Australian Government-funded WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) projects in rural Vietnam and...

This innovative text analyses 45 Guidelines produced by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and tests readers on their knowledge in detail of the contents via Single Best Answers. Any candidate for professional examination or...

Semiconductors and Nanostructures: An Introduction provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to semiconductor physics. Bridging the gap between introductory quantum mechanics and advanced semiconductor courses, it offers a compact yet comprehensive...

This book is an in-depth exploration of the mysterious and complex realm of the Dark Web, Dark AI Tools and offensive security use cases offering readers a comprehensive understanding of its history, structure, and the illicit activities that transpire...

Illusion is a longstanding problem in the philosophy of perception: how can it perceptibly appear that something is the case, though nothing corresponds in reality? A strong intuition - the Common Kind Assumption that the same account must apply to...

Benford's Law offers a powerful, data-driven approach to anomaly detection. Discovered 150 years ago, it wasn't until the 1990s that auditors began harnessing its potential for identifying irregularities in financial data. Today, the Benford's Law...

Federated Learning for Smart Mobility: Towards Secure, Efficient, and Sustainable Transportation explores how federated learning (FL) reshapes the future of intelligent transportation and the Internet of Things (IoT). As data privacy and communication...

State responsibility in international law is considered one of the cornerstones of the field. For a long time it remained the exclusive responsibility system due to the primacy of States as subjects of international law. Its unique position has...

This book addresses a growing problem in international law: overlapping claims before national and international jurisdictions. Its contribution is, first, to revisit two pillars of investment arbitration, i.e., shareholders' standing to claim for harm...

The contemporary landscape of transnational political economy is dominated by networks. Public and private networks, and networks that combine public and private actors, cross borders, exert regulatory power and their activities often harm third parties...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral...

Much like our everyday moments of novelty, innovations often catalyse subsequent breakthroughs, creating a chain of progress that can be traced across history. The Science of the New explores the dynamics of novelty and innovation. It originates from...

In the undergraduate study of computer science, a lecturer only teaches somethings that are in the literature (most likely in a open access textbook). Those knowledges may have been discovered before in several decades ago. A student is deemed to be good...

Do we have responsibilities to inform ourselves of suffering and injustice? If so, what kinds of suffering and injustice are we responsible for perceiving? What are the foundations of these responsibilities, and what does it mean to fulfill them? This...

This book CCIS 2774 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th CCF National Conference of Computer Applications, CCF NCCA 2025, held in Beijing, China, during August 7-9, 2025. The 43 full papers and presented in this book were carefully selected...

Grounded in ethnographic research over five years in Palestinian villages near Bethlehem, Olive Growing in Palestine follows the lives of four families and fifty other individuals involved with olive growing as a form of resistance. Providing a...

Volunteering is typically thought of as an act of altruism, yet there are power dynamics embedded in volunteer-service recipient relationships, especially when volunteers operate from privileged positions. Following six grassroots homeless service...

This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of...

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A sweeping examination of how the religious landscape has changed in post-Mao China. In Religious Change in Post-Mao China, sociologist Yanfei Sun examines the transformation of major religions and the broader religious ecology in China in the wake of...

Computable structure theory quantifies and studies the relative complexity of mathematical structures. This text, in conjunction with the author's previous volume, represents the first full monograph on computable structure theory in two decades. It...

Key insights and practical guidance on transitioning to clean energy while meeting increasing energy demands, covering AI developments and more Prognostics and Health Management in Energy and Power Systems explores two highly topical subjects, energy...

Crises abound.The 'end of history' in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and ecosystems, democracies, social and labour relations,...

An easy-to-use and authoritative veterinary drug reference for practitioners treating dogs and cats Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Drug Consult: Canine and Feline is an intuitively organized and authoritative quick reference guide to accurate...

Proven, practical techniques for integrating language models into your data science workflows Data Science First: Using Language Models in AI-Enabled Applications, by Intersect AI's Chief AI Officer John Hawkins, explains how practicing data scientists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493227655Author Martin KochFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint SAP PressPublisher SAP Press

This book challenges the simplicity, predestination, and self-evident nature of the contemporary narratives of transitional justice. Transitional justice is the field of study that examines how states should reckon with massive human rights abuses. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493227778Author Fabian LupaFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint SAP PressPublisher SAP Press

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the ICC's jurisdiction over nationals of non-States Parties. It is within the context of developments at the Court in recent years that this work addresses the overarching question: On what...

This book is written for academics, students, policymakers, practitioners, and non-governmental organisations interested in the legal recognition of LGBT+ parenting. The book presents arguments in favour of the legal recognition of gay and lesbian...

Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Scandinavia is indeed characterized by the idea of...

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