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Winner of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardEnriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and antismoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks...

Multipolar Revisionism and Cutting the Cost of American Hegemony offers timely analysis of how shifting global power dynamics are reshaping the international order. Grounded in Structural Realism, Hanna Samir Kassab examines how states pursue survival...

Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current...

In this issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Jeffrey D. Wayne brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Updates in Surgical Oncology. Top experts discuss neoadjuvant treatment strategies in gastrointestinal stromal tumors;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916672093Author Lucy H. PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Womancraft PublishingPublisher Womancraft Publishing

An expert and contemporary presentation of computational analysis and design tools for professionals studying or applying the principles of aerodynamics In Aerodynamics: A Computational Introduction, distinguished aerospace engineer and researcher...

An Introduction to Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology offers a systematic exploration of synoptic meteorology, beginning with the basics of atmospheric pressure and atmospheric motion. It progresses into weather instrumentation and observation, analysis of...

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful introduction of false information for the purposes of causing harm, recalls infamous foreign interference operations in national media...

This book illustrates the results of ethnographical research designed to shed light on the notion of civil society in a context characterized by the transformation of power relations. Such transformation is given by shifting resources, renewed local and...

Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars...

In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens in cultural and societal issues. From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of...

This volume LNCS 16229 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 26th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering, ICFEM 2025, in Hangzhou, China, during November 10-13, 2025. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed...

How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? Phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was...

The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of those at the far end of the value chain, who participate on and off platforms, often in the shadows,...

Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film and media studies and social and cultural history of the...

Migration and borders are at the center of political debates in South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with...

Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it stable and legitimate. But policies...

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated...

How can the world move away from a century-old global system based on fossil fuels? And how can societies in the Global South and Global North overcome the deeply vested economic, financial and political interests of the fossil fuel system? Despite the...

From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social...

In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the...

Nationalism in a nation-state reflects its emergent structural, cultural, and personal properties at a given time. In the politico-historical context of South Korea and the globe, the fruits of the 1968 Revolution in France could not reach Korean society...

Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for...

Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass mediaas well as...

This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation of consumer culture unfolding on digital media. The book introduces the...

The production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subject to relatively little rigorous qualitative or quantitative study-a problem that Judith M. Fathallah...

It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them -...

The Future of Hiding analyzes the territorial dimensions of secrecy and how concealment occurs in relation to energy infrastructure and identity politics in Eastern Estonia. It shows that secrets and hiding places are intrinsic to human affairs, while...

Dark Concrete is about how the Black Power movement reshaped urban politics in the United States - from expectations to practices. Although the national and international dimensions of the Black Power movement are often focused on, Kimberley Johnson...

We live in a world in which the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation are increasingly being contested. Gender categories like man and woman cannot do justice to non-binary, genderqueer, and trans people. Common categories of sexual orientation,...

This handbook introduces the new microscope user to their instrument. The light microscope is described, with practical advice given on how to set up, adjust and operate the instrument. Microscopes used in both the life sciences and materials sciences...

Bio-Inspired Structures bridges the transformative intersection of biological principles and engineering innovation, offering a comprehensive framework for translating nature's evolutionary wisdom into next-generation infrastructure solutions. Drawing...

This volume constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops that took place in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2025, Miyakojima, Japan, during April 14–18, 2025.  Book...

This edited volume studies nuclear negotiations and diplomacy from a negotiation perspective. This book reviews the current state of knowledge regarding multilateral negotiations and seeks to provide key research insights on the conditions under which...

Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research,...

The purpose of this book is to help health professionals learn how to enhance resilience in patients with serious health problems such as somatizing disorders and specific physical diseases who are usually resistant to psychosocial approach. Furthermore,...

A supportive, practical guide for counselling students. Covering key skills such as listening, handling emotions and managing silences, it blends theory with real-world tips, exercises and video demos. It will equip trainees to develop and adapt their...

This book focuses on the referendums against water privatization in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and...

What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle collections, chronicles, saints' lives and sermons...

Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But...