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Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey into women's bodies. Held explores the effects of...

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women's leadership in the Naqab through the intergenerational activist biographies of three women from the Al-Sana lineage. Building on the first edition's focus on...

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An essential guide to understanding classic and contemporary crime filmsUnder the Gun provides a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films. The book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and...

This book explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when high-tech innovation crosses cultural boundaries-and how it can be thoughtfully adapted before reaching the end user. Drawing on a real-world case of a European Virtual Reality (VR)...

Providing a 'short take' on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics. It traces the history of political economy from its beginnings in the Scottish Enlightenment; through its...

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 43rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2025, the first volume of twelve from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and...

The book is designed as a reference text and explores the concepts and techniques of IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain. It also discusses the possibility of applying blockchain for providing security in various domains. The specific...

This book has been developed to provide significant information about the usage and application of the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept in a construction project environment. The content spans from the inception through to the closing of the...

This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against understanding the world through any abstraction,...

Amid the rising global concern of oral cancer, this book provides a compelling exploration of the intricate oral cavity, focused on shedding light on early diagnosis and addressing outdated paradigms, it delves into the persistent challenges of oral...

GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses one of the challenges that has not been addressed by Geographic Information Science thus far: how can we use GIS to deal with the complex issues underlying the housing crisis? This book provides GIS...

Beginning with People on War, the ICRC's ground-breaking global survey in 1999 of the international public's perceptions and attitudes towards IHL, the book takes a historical approach in examining case studies of the use of empirical assessment in IHL...

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to sociocultural psychobiography.Life positioning psychobiography studies lives as they unfold within a world of interactivity. It recognizes and...

This book engages legal and literary texts in order to examine acquaintance crimes, such as rape, sexual harassment, stalking, and domestic abuse, and to challenge how the victim’s physical or psychological "freeze response" is commonly and inaccurately...

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine...

This reference book discusses the role of nutrition in obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). It covers the investigational therapies in OCD, use of animal models, and biomarkers for better diagnosis, monitoring, and possible therapeutic options with...

How Black music shapes the political identity, consciousness, and engagement of Black youthFrom Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar, to J. Cole and Janelle Monae, Najja K. Baptist shows us how Black music has, more than ever before, become a form of political...

Mechanics of Magnetostrictive Materials and Structuresdemonstrates the practical applications and uses for cutting-edge smart magnetostrictive materials. Exploring the analytical and numerical solution procedures and characteristics of these materials...

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty. Acts of international law were drafted at a time when guarantees for the protection of the personal...

This book discusses in detail the facts and findings related to the X-Press Pearl container vessel accident that occurred in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The ship was carrying a large consignment of chemicals and diverse hazardous...

Starting from the purchase of heavy equipment and following through to the end of its economic life, this manual explains how to efficiently maintain and operate different types of heavy equipment. Assigning heavy equipment to different projects and...

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.While existing theories of mediation have offered suggestions about what a mediator should get parties to do to reach an...

This book details nanofinishing techniques employed for finishing of industrial applications in a comprehensive manner. It provides an introduction into nanofinishing requirements and basic nanofinishing techniques and their variants and details the...

Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to adequately address concerns about the current state and future of modern Western democracies,...

This book investigates the implementation of disability rights and duties in the European Union, aiming to understand its functioning and explore ways forward through a critical analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)...

This book explores civil societies with distinct characteristics in Asian countries and regions to redefine the dynamic and interconnected formation that is Asia.This book documents how civil society organizations, such as charities and foundations,...

Centers families of color in family law, revealing their pivotal role in shaping justice, equality, and social change and how their perspectives reframes the scope of family lawCentering Families of Color argues for the reframing of how we define "family...

Multifunctional Inorganic Nanomaterials for Energy Applications provides deep insight into the role of multifunctional nanomaterials in the field of energy and power generation applications. It mainly focuses on the synthesis, fabrication, design,...

First published in 1927, the original blurb of Psychology: Its Methods and Principles reads: "In this book psychology is presented as the science of adaptive behavior. The writers are convinced that the study of such behaviour provides a more effective...

This book examines to what extent geopolitics explains the current wave of force modernisation in the Indo-Pacific region. Examining the leading Indo-Pacific nations in terms of defence spending: the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea,...

This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations.Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific...

The fields of intelligent systems and sustainability have been gaining momentum in the research community. They have drawn interest in such research fields as computer science, information technology, electrical engineering, and other associated...

This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan-an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt...

This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci's (1552-610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China.Taking the Sino-estern cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the late-ing...

Shape Memory Polymer Composites discusses the fabrication of smart polymer composites with their material characterization. It covers shape memory polymer composites with two different types of reinforcement: shape memory polymer nanocomposites and shape...

The fashion industry continues to contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. It is one of the biggest polluters, one of the most wasteful of all global industries and is under increasing pressure to address unsustainable practice. Emerging out...

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date...

The Future of Road Transportation presents rapidly growing research towards electrified and automated vehicles. It explains the workings and drawbacks of a conventional vehicle's powertrain, braking, and steering systems before exploring ADAS equipment...