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This book examines the progress of the development of public policy evaluation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region from multiple perspectives. It describes both past developments and the current state of evaluation across the region,...

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view...

After giving birth to three children in Japan, journalist Abigail Leonard was shocked to return home to the US and understand American motherhood from a new perspective.Fascinated to learn more about the ways that culture around the world impacts the...

What is empathy? Can it be depleted? Can you empathize with those who've hurt you? Do you grapple with an excess of empathy that leaves you drained? Why is it often hardest to muster empathy for those we love? These questions might be what led you to...

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term cares homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the...

Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that counters the existing urban order (neoliberal, authoritarian, militarised). Insurgent play is disruptive, yet through disruption it brings social worlds...

Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469684949Author Karen BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina...

This significantly updated second edition serves students and general readers alike who seek to learn what is often not taught, a basic history of race and racism in the US. If we are to dismantle systemic racism and create a more just society, people...

Examining why society should pool and spread the financial risk that individual families now bear. Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly offloaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions...

This authoritative book proposes a fresh perspective on international migration, offering decisive answers to the big questions, and dismantling the main myths surrounding one of the most salient issues of today's global politics. Who are these migrants?...

In an era where 'social innovation' is often used as a buzzword, this book challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most pressing social crises. Balancing rigorous theoretical insights with actionable...

An authoritative, self-contained reference text on theoretical and computational seismologyOver the past several decades, computational advances have revolutionized seismology, making it possible to simulate seismic wave propagation in complex Earth...

A biologist's firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth's surface-and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on EarthLife thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust-from methane...

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy-the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particularly among rural migrant workers, and oppressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529939774Author Bella JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint DoubledayPublisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

What makes time interesting and what is time? Graeme A. Forbes presents a robust defence of the metaphysical asymmetry between past and future, providing a compelling argument for the acceptance of the Growing-Block view.Taking us from the armchair to...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book presents the first ethnographic study into a new consent-based rape law in Sweden and shows how the implementation of this legislation challenges outdated legal frameworks and requires...

What can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures? The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and its deep entanglement with power...

This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the concept of statehood, illustrating that statehood (rather...

Image-focused introductory text exploring various contemporary radiology modalities including X-ray, CT, Nuclear medicine, MRI, Ultrasound, and Interventional Diagnostic Imaging and Anatomy in Acute Care provides an overview of imaging modalities,...

Quarrying of limestone and converting it to quicklime was a major vernacular industry around the Irish Sea coasts for many centuries, and it is an aspect of these islands' industrial legacy that has received little attention. David Johnson has spent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538194003Author Leora TanenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The Asia-Pacific region has seen extraordinary economic achievements. Japan's post-World War II transformation into an economic powerhouse challenging US dominance by the late 1980s was miraculous. China's rise as the world's second-largest economy is...

This ambitious book grapples with the complex debates ongoing on the structure of unjust enrichment, proving to be a major contribution to the field. Responding to the subject's critics, it presents a clearly articulated structure for this branch of...

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Depending on which news story you read, new tools like artificial intelligence will either save or destroy the world. The threat from emerging technology might seem unprecedented, but our response to it follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From...

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the established Church of England from the Reformation to the present day.It explores the foundations of ecclesiastical law and considers...

An accessible guide to understanding statistics using simulations, with examples from a range of scientific disciplinesReal-world challenges such as small sample sizes, skewed distributions of data, biased sampling designs, and more predictors than data...

We are working towards endorsement of this title for the Cambridge Pathway to support the syllabuses for examination from 2027.Reinforce learning and deepen understanding of the key concepts covered in the latest Cambridge IGCSE (TM), IGCSE (9-1) and O...

An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their livesCould understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who...

In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the...

As arthropod ectoparasites, ticks threaten the wellbeing of the animals whose habitat they share. They cause skin damage from their bite wounds, secrete toxins, transmit pathogens, and can also induce allergic reactions and infected wounds. For more than...

This book challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work. Leading scholars in law, social sciences, and the humanities consider the production and reproduction of global hierarchies by revisiting and deploying three...

In this issue of Dental Clinics, guest editor Dr. Leila Jahangiri brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Prosthodontics. Top experts focus on current updates and advances in the field, including implants, ceramics, radiology, and prosthodontic...

Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encourages a sense of shared identity and unified community among citizens. Anthems compares...

Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective, political analysis, philosophy of history, epistemology, and ethics appear as necessarily cast together in a philosophical project that...

Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these...

An introduction to the art and aesthetics of southwest Nigeria using the writings of Yoruba scholars and artists who have made these subjects their special interest over the last forty years. Barry Hallen brings together the writings of four pioneering...