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In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which she observes that we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a...

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2024, held in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, during April 15–18, 2024. The 58 full papers are presented in this book were carefully reviewed...

'A fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that Robert Zubrin believes could and should be created on the Red Planet’ Martin ReesThe world's leading expert on the human settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like -...

This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the Quantity Surveying profession. It begins by explaining the construction industry structure followed by the quantity surveying practice modalities, professional ethics, roles of regulatory...

Heat and Cold Storage 2 focuses on thermochemical sorption storage processes – that is, absorption, adsorption and chemical sorption. This book first analyzes the principles of sorption and defines the criteria for selecting the materials to be used,...

Everyday mobility is neither favorable nor unfavorable to health. While it can facilitate social interactions, increase access to remote services, or encourage physical activity, it can also generate pollution, promote the spread of epidemics or cause...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Heat and Cold Storage 1 is dedicated to sensible and latent heat storage processes. Beginning with some theoretical reminders, this book presents the main situations of low-temperature and high-temperature sensible storage for electricity generation. It...

Milk is considered a complete food, consumed at all stages of life. It is transformed into numerous products, fermented or not, as well as into a variety of ingredients, in order to preserve it or some of its constituents from a few days to a few years...

In this ground-breaking book, British-American environmental journalist, Peter Schwartzstein, takes the reader on the first on-the-ground exploration of climate change's contribution to global conflict. From the ravaged villages of Iraq, where ISIS has...

Technology innovations have changed how social work educators teach and students learn. This book is designed to assist social work academics and educators in enhancing their students' critical thinking, reflective capacity and skills in clinical and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Network Simulation and Evaluation, NSE 2023, held in Shenzhen, China in November 2023. The 52 full papers presented in this two volume set were carefully reviewed...

Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country’s governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will...

Master the MS-700 exam with the ultimate guide and excel in daily Teams administration Unlock access to web-based exam prep resources, including practice questions, mock exams, flashcards, and exam tips Key Features Explore the latest exam objectives...

The Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition! Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a “lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark” as the late Carl Sagan put it? Or is there more to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783342693Author Ed WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765132913Author Christine L. DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In this timely work, Ross Michael Pink and Luthfi Dhofier detail specific case studies across eight countries to provide a crucial overview of the impacts of climate change. They highlight the importance of the human security paradigm, prioritising the...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid...

Numerical Solutions for Nanocomposite Structures provides an in-depth exploration of structural analysis using numerical methods grounded in rigorous mathematical modeling. Theoretical foundations are established by comprehensively elucidating theories...

This book outlines a cutting-edge form of program delivery which the authors term SIP-Form or Strategic Integrated Program delivery. Using the Melbourne Level Crossing Removal Program (LXRP), consisting of the removal of 85 dangerous level crossings...

In this issue of Cardiology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Asad Ghafoor brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction. Top experts in the field cover issues such as choosing temporary mechanical support in...

​This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove “ordinary corruption” from the discussion. It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture interact. The discussion addresses the question:...

Fundamentals of Offshore Engineering addresses the basics of design for offshore oil and gas production systems, and examines the health, safety, environmental (HSE) aspects in the oil and gas industry with an emphasis towards safety measures in design...

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal...

This 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 2-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Formal Methods Teaching, FMTea 2024, which was held in Milan, Italy, on September 10, 2024. The 7 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected...

Accompanying The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction in CRC Press’ new The Metaverse Series, this book explores the ways in which the Metaverse can be used for education and learning, as well as how it is different from VR application development. For...

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 12th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV, jAUTI 2023, held in Havana, Cuba, during October 16–17, 2023. The 9 full papers included in this...

The open access book set LNCS 14933 + 14934 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, in September 2024.  The 51 full and 4 short papers included in these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805021292Author Rob FoxallFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint The University of Law Publishing LimitedPublisher The University of Law Publishing Limited

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 15027, 15028, 15029 and 15030 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2024, held in Lecce, Italy during September 4–7, 2024. The 63 full papers and 50 short...

Since their discovery by Barbara McClintock in the mid-20th century, the importance of transposable elements in shaping the architecture, function and evolution of genomes has gradually been unveiled. These DNA sequences populate nearly all genomes and...

The crystallization of one or multiple salts in porous media (rocks, soils, building materials, etc.) is a subject of major interest in connection with numerous issues such as soil salinization, evaporation, CO2 injection into saline aquifers, the...

On Critical Postmedia and Korea: Philosophy, Technology, Literature was curated for the simple reason that a shift has taken place in orientation towards the future. Not long ago, the West looked to Japan as charting a path to a new form of society, with...

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor...

Recalcitrant Pollutants Removal from Wastewater examines the role of indigenous microbes in the degradation and detoxification of wastewater utilizing the latest biological treatment technologies. It emphasizes environmental sustainability as a core...

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were...

A pioneering exploration of the unexamined roots and effect of racial sympathy within American politics. There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. This is a book about white people who feel that...