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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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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...

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on an extensive array of...

This book delves into the critical theme of compliance, which has become paramount for corporations and legal professionals, particularly in the realm of Economic Criminal Law. Following high-profile corruption scandals, such as "Operation Car Wash"-a...

The Total State pulls back the veil on the new American authoritarianism and why the same system of liberal democracy we say we cherish may have led us to our present state The modern United States is a nation full of censorship, lockdowns, riots, and...

This exceptional collection of essays explores the persistence of misogyny: how it is woven into the fabric of our culture, our institutions, and our psyches. Building on her first book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, Michaela Chamberlain moves on from a...

The high-order sensitivities of model responses with respect to model parameters are notoriously difficult to compute for large-scale models involving many parameters. The neglect of higher-order response sensitivities leads to substantial errors in...

Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine is a bold intervention against global antifeminism. In their contributions, scholars, artists and activists from around the world - with their specific embodied perspectives - expose systems of...

This pathbreaking book casts new light on how to handle life's most difficult decisions. Edna Ullmann-Margalit and Cass R. Sunstein examine the role of social norms in creating both stability and instability, while offering an in-depth exploration of why...

Risk Management for Operational Technology (OT) Systems highlights the importance of applying risk assessments specifically tailored to OT environments, rather than relying solely on traditional IT-focused approaches.Conventional IT and enterprise risk...

Green Thinking seeks to "compost" the views of dead white men (Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Norman Borlaugh) and of some not white or dead (Francis Fukuyama, Richard Dawkins, Richard Thaler). It explores the flowering of probiotic Green...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

As the first of a two-volume set on the anthropology of cultural transformation, this book discusses the manifestations of cultural transformation in the modern world and explores the re-establishment of cultural consciousness.Anthropology in the 21st...

This book brings together David Cockburn's best work on Wittgensteinian themes relating to 'mind' and 'language'. While none of these papers is well described as 'exegetical', most are discussions of Wittgenstein, and all are discussions of themes...

Current debates about gender identity are fraught with contradictions. Even as we increasingly recognize gender as an assigned category or social convention, we still see it as inherent to who we are, fundamental to our sense of self. But the quest to...

This book is the first study to consider findings from sociology, legal anthropology, ethnology, legal pluralism, comparative law and theology in order to gain a better understanding of the diverse cultures of global Catholicism and the cross-cultural...

Make smarter decisions by mastering the art of causal thinking, no complex math required. Key Features Discover how to separate causation from correlation Apply causal reasoning to real-life business and policy problems Learn through...

Framed by brilliant readings of Gilles Deleuze and FElix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurizio Lazzarato's Revolutions of Capitalism charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism and the politics against it. Originally published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427802Author Zachary HrubyFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2025, held in Tallinn, Estonia, during August 28-29, 2025. The 24 full papers presented in this volume were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorOliver P. Charbonneau is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646428328Author Katarzyna MikulksaFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

.About the AuthorRichard Cimino (Author) Richard Cimino is a lecturer in Sociology at State University of New York-Old Westbury. He is the founding editor of Religion Watch, a monthly publication on trends and new research in contemporary religion...

As a witness, and at many times participant, in the sphere of legislative government, the author presents his testimony on the accomplishments of regular order of a previous time and the shift to the current lack of collaboration, highlighting the need...

This textbook discusses the realm of nanomaterials science, offering a detailed and comprehensive exploration of materials at the nanoscale level. The book breaks traditional boundaries to provide a dynamic investigation of the rapidly evolving field of...