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Being Dope is a book that will challenge what you think you know about rap and rappers. It is not a typical memoir and is as much about genre as it is about anything else: history, hip hop scholarship, storytelling, and theorizing through rap. Each...

This Second Edition provides an essential resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots smarter. This book includes design guidelines and helpful examples from state-of-the-art research. The author utilizes a systems...

We are, today, exposed to evidence of thousands of war crimes. Residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukraine, dead children being dug out of the rubble in Gaza, civilians beaten and starved by armies in Sudan, hospitals and refugee camps...

A provocative critique of how the concept of innocence functions in contemporary politics and society. In this timely and bold book, Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that consistently appears as a moral good actually ends up creating harm for so...

Aerospace Technology is a very challenging topic. The book covers the transition from aluminum to composite materials for aerospace structures and includes advanced analyses used in industries. It is for engineers and students of aerospace, materials and...

This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics, and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Starting with Einstein's...

In The Pacemaker Channels of the Heart, Denis Noble chronicles the fascinating journey of his research into one of biology's most essential functions - the rhythmic beating of the heart. Written by the founder of mathematical heart modelling, this book...

Race is a fundamental reality of life. It shapes our experiences and interactions whether we are conscious of it or not. But does this mean that humans are wired for racism from birth? Is racial bias inevitable? This sharp-sighted book offers nuanced...

The Oxford Specialist Handbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine is the go-to guide for the science and practice of this wide-ranging speciality. All aspects of drug development are covered, from ideation to animal and invitro studies, early and late clinical...

The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive is a meditation on a technology that manifests all the hallmarks of human relating, human needs, and human complexities in its interactions with another subject. Amy Levy's approach applies the...

In this book, the concept of the circular economy is examined from the point of view of textile-to-textile recycling, with strong consideration of the latest political objectives. Readers will gain an understanding of the basic principles and...

Ubiquitous environmental pollution and how we regulate it is now a more critical issue than ever. A Regulatory Framework to Remediate the Planet: Strategies, Outcomes and Implications develops an optimal regulatory strategy to minimize human-generated...

Arab American Women, Identity, and Intersectionality extends postcolonial feminist theory to include intersectionally marginalized bodies in the classroom and in social science discourse. In a climate where the Arab, Muslim, woman's identity is both...

Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant...

This book analyzes laws relating to biotechnology from the perspectives of USA, Europe, UK and India. Consisting of nine chapters, the book covers scientific aspects, commercial applications, policy aspects, intellectual property, trade, environmental,...

Shropshire: Art, Architecture and Archaeology from Roman Wroxeter to the Sixteenth Century considers the shift in the regional administrative centre from Wroxeter to Shrewsbury, the powerful evidence for investment in the material fabric of the middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554817153Author Stephen A. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm)...

In this second edition of Norms in International Relations, Audie Klotz revisits the global struggle against apartheid and considers its impact on how we grapple with race and racism in international relations today.Originally published in the wake of...

Developmental research is abandoning formal syntax, probably because Chomskyan generative syntax lacks psychological reality. Some studies opt for pure statistics-based definitions of syntactic knowledge, as if humans were similar to Large Language...

Since its founding 150 years ago, Purdue University's College of Engineering has profoundly shaped and improved the world, amassing breakthroughs spanning nearly all facets of society. Highlighting the indomitable spirit, ingenuity, and achievements of...

This 7-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2025, held in Okinawa, Japan, in November 2025. The 197 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed...

The open access book sheds light on the diverse forms of anti-gender mobilization in the post-Yugoslav space by exploring its historical trajectories, cultural variances, and different religious frames. It offers a meticulous comparative analysis of...

This 7-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2025, held in Okinawa, Japan, in November 2025. The 197 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed...

This two-volume set LNCS 16169-16170 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2025 Workshops, held in Rome, Italy, during September 15-19, 2025. The 105 papers included in these...

This open access book presents the outcomes of the research developed within the PNRR T4Y PP 4.7.1 technology transfer project entitled "Open Phigital Platform (physical and digital) for user profiling and advanced, dynamic co-design of interventions on...

In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them. NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED...

An acclaimed physicist signposts a new revolution in fundamental physics, and with it a new description of realityFor the last century, physics has been following the paths set out by the same two theories-quantum mechanics and general relativity-and,...

The Politics of Failed Policies examines the darker side of state autonomy and policy experimentation in our federal system: policy failure. While advances in statistics and computing promised the ability to evaluate the outcomes of state policies more...

How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions-and thus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427765Author Jonathan ReymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

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...