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China and the Global South in a Contested World Order is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of China's growing influence across the Global South. From the Belt and Road Initiative to China's rising power in Africa and Southeast Asia, this book...

Data scientists appeared suddenly in the early 2010s and quickly became ubiquitous. Institutions, from established corporations to start-ups, universities to government agencies, scrambled to recruit specialists. Somehow, a loose band of computer experts...

This is the story of Noah Kaplan, the last surviving earthling, who miraculously escaped the explosion of our planet. We find him flying in an alien ship into the unknown. To keep himself sane and handle loneliness, he decides to write the entire world...

This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the development and use of novel biocontrol agents.The first chapter provides an overview of the development of botanical pesticides and focusses on the potential of essential oils in replacing traditional...

Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity,...

A collection of essays examining the topicality of Kant's thought and its impact on the development of contemporary philosophy.How can Kant's philosophy inspire us to search for new solutions to problems in contemporary debates? Which Kantian ideas, if...

With the release of Parasite (2019), winner of the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Picture, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho secured his place as one of his generation's leading filmmakers. While scholars and critics have long appreciated...

By bringing together fundamental rights, economic law, and recent legislation in the areas of digital platforms, data, and AI, this open access book gives a comprehensive picture of the state of play in technology regulation in the EU.Risks of regulatory...

Research suggests that more than 40 million people worldwide are living with bipolar disorder. Discover the truth about this misunderstood and often stigmatized condition.This book offers a broad introduction to bipolar disorder. The book's questions...

Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin's thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with...

Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with...

Krzysztof Poslajko offers a novel version of an anti-realist view about beliefs, rejecting the extreme proposal of eliminativism that beliefs do not exist. He shows us we should rather say that beliefs exist, but they are not real. Poslajko demonstrates...

An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.As the Gods Kill delivers new insights into warfare, weaponry, violence, and human sacrifice among the ancient Maya. While attending to...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we make the digital world safer, more responsible and accountable? This innovative book offers an original framework for understanding digital responsibility, blending insights from...

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first Western Christian autobiography ever written, and...

Tracing the impact of transcendental philosophy on Union soldiers and their loved ones during the American Civil War Scholars of the American Civil War have long wondered about the seemingly earnest and sincere sentimental commitment that most Northern...

This groundbreaking book explores the science and innovation behind zoocomposting - composting facilitated by animals such as earthworms, black soldier flies (BSF), and termites. It presents the high-rate vermicomposting (HRVC) paradigm, a revolutionary...

Based on unique empirical research into Colombia's Santos-FARC-EP peace process (2012-2016), this book interrogates how, if at all, survivors and victims may assert agency and contribute to formal peacemaking and transitional justice initiatives. The...

A seminal study on police violence in Germany, giving voice to victims and exposing systemic failures.Police Use Excessive Force in Germany presents the first comprehensive study of police violence in Germany, an issue that has remained largely...

A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics...

Key areas and aspects of ancient philosophy in Greek and Indian Buddhist traditions are illuminated in this collection.Covering an extended period of time, from early (5th century BC), through Hellenism, to post-Hellenistic times (up to the 7th century...

Drawing on rich archival sources and summarizing extensive interviews with women who participated in the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War as spies, guerrilla fighters, and weapons transporters, this open access book helps correct an egregious gender bias...

Plastic and concrete are two of the most ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access book traces inventions, inventories and interventions of these materials as they pervade our day-to-day lives across various forms. By proposing we think of...

Charts Qatar's key role in shaping and determining diplomatic initiatives in Afghanistan, Gaza and elsewhere. This timely monograph chronicles how Qatar transformed itself into a broker of peace in some of the world's most intractable conflicts. In the...

Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Innovative Solutions presents cutting-edge approaches to tackle complex pollutants and enhance sustainability. This volume explores advanced nanotechnologies, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), heterogeneous...

This fully revised edition provides up to date, evidence based insights to enhance the readers' knowledge and skills when performing physical examinations of adult patients.Rather than presenting step by step procedural instructions, the focus is on what...

Discover the field of health geography, which seeks to better understand the causes, spread, and mitigation of disease through the study of geographic factors. The Geography of Disease opens with an introduction that explains what medical geography is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776645605Author Emily B. LaidlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa Press

Emergency nursing requires rapid assessment and decision-making. Often nurses are required to make sense of considerable amounts of information and act on it. The new fully revised Oxford Handbook of Emergency Nursing third edition provides an essential...

How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region? What possibilities exist for decolonial futures? This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary explorations of the enduring colonial condition in the...

Mamadou Diouf unearths the intellectual and cultural traditions that have long defined Africa, proving that history was never just written about Africa, but also by it. For too long, Africa has been framed as an afterthought in world history-a continent...

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women's Labor offers a provocative exploration of the international dating industry, challenging simplistic narratives of human trafficking and scams while shedding light on the economic dynamics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776645612Author Emily B. LaidlawFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa Press

Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Process Developments, the fourth volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, presents a comprehensive exploration of innovative processes for the treatment and recycling of industrial water and waste...

Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Pollution Control, the fifth volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, provides an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge pollution control technologies and their real-world applications. The book...

Deception challenges readers to think about their own lies - from their first lies in childhood to the clever, provocative ones they told just recently. Scouring a number of texts in philosophy, poetics, literature and theory, both western and eastern,...

These powerful first-hand accounts of two generations of US war resisters track their search for safe haven in Canada and the assistance of the activists who supported them. During the war in Vietnam, Canada offered refuge to over 100,000 people fleeing...

Over the past decade, Tiny Housing has become something of a viral sensation in the US. From Instagrammable enclaves for young professionals to vast municipality-supported schemes seeking to address homelessness, tiny house sites are proliferating across...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Images can play a key role in communication - but climate change imagery can be formulaic and narrow in perspective. Going beyond polar bears and wildfires, this book is a manifesto for opening...

Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens...