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This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists’ fascination with Romanticized and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and...

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs, however, how is the “illegal immigrant” made legible or policed? How might migrants negotiate their statuses as objects...

Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile’s northernmost city)...

WINNER of the Triennial Distinguished Book Award, 2022-25, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USAThis book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial...

This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies...

Master data visualization with D3.js v7 using modern web standards and real-world projects to build interactive charts, maps, and visual narratives. Key Features Build dynamic, data-driven visualizations using D3.js v7 and ES2015+ Create bar, scatter,...

Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can-and should-make use of state power to create truly democratic societies.Group-based social oppression, along lines such as caste in India and...

A sharp analysis of the propaganda partnerships between US presidents and private organizations that fueled the Cold War and paved the way for the War on Terror.How do US presidents motivate public support for their foreign policy agendas, which so often...

Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases were...

Present to the Mind offers a rigorous philosophical defense of acquaintance-a form of direct experiential awareness we have of things like sounds, tastes, pains, and perhaps also qualities such as beauty or goodness. Matt Duncan posits three central...

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction). It answers the important and controversial question: to what extent should the state mitigate sentencing for defendants who have been...

Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of...

Inspired by the work of distinguished criminal justice scholars, this volume explores the methodological commitments and distinctive research agenda of criminal jurisprudenceIt comprises nine essays on jurisprudential themes written over a period of...

A pioneering book that sheds crucial light on the distinctions between Kant’s philosophical project and German Idealism as a whole, resolving problems that are as relevant to scholars today as they were to Kant’s immediate successors. This...

The ‘baby boom’ generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort now entering mid and later life in Britain, they are also said to...

In the fourth volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, scholars in contemporary jurisprudence and constitutional theory discuss who gets to decide and who gets to act when constitutional law is silent or fundamentally controversial.It is the...

This book rigorously investigates the contemporary state of children's rights and the multifaceted challenges facing children, uncovering the complexities at their core. In 1989, the United Nations introduced the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poetics. Exploring fragments, both thematically and formally, Luke Fischer situates the form as uniquely positioned...

What is the history of ‘everyday health’ in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This volume moves away from top-down histories of health and medicine that focus on states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres the...

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, or B-theory, ordered by earlier than or later than, are equally fundamental. Emiliano Boccardi, L. Nathan Oaklander...

This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalist tendencies and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint that allows...

This study offers an analysis of Qatar's foreign policy since its independence from Britain in 1971.Locked between two vying powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and lacking the traditional elements of influence in the regional and international state system...

Power Plants offers an unflinching assessment of society’s underappreciated but growing addiction to the industrial burning of crops and trees for energy. As vehicles increasingly run on fuels made from sugarcane and oil-palm, wood pellets replace coal,...

This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history.What were the origins of company law? How did it begin? Why did it change? There is no single answer to these questions...

By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming...

Learn the language of government and politics! With clear, straightforward definitions and explanations, this government reference book and civics primer will help you understand the form and function of the federal government-from the impeachment...

From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies-from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771013027Author Phoebe Maltz BovyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

An up-to-date guide to CT that offers a comprehensive discussion of the technology and science of computed tomography and instructions for applying that knowledge to real-world practice Rad Tech's Guide to Computed Tomography: Physics and Instrumentation...

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing scholarship that traces the emergence of the developmental state to the mid-twentieth century process of decolonization, the...

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everything from healthcare diagnostics to financial systems and autonomous vehicles, the stakes for AI security have never been higher. Adversarial AI Threat Response and Secure Model Design is your...

Your users ask for AI magic, but deadlines and budgets feel brutal. Machine learning tutorials overwhelm, filled with Python, servers, and expensive GPU advice. You already master React and Next.js, now leverage them to deliver intelligence. This book...

Practical guidance and expert insights into ultrasound scanning for the abdomen and male pelvis Ultrasound Scanning Guide for the Abdomen and Male Pelvis delivers a structured foundation in scanning techniques for abdominal and male pelvic ultrasound. It...

Celebrating the artists at the forefront of a Black aesthetic renaissance and how they harness the arts to shape a freer future In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department and the death of Regis...

Fundamentals of Developmental Psychobiology: A Brief Account of an Interdisciplinary Science demonstrates how the science of Developmental Psychobiology (DBP) improves our understanding of non-human and human behavioral and psychological development,...

In 1991, war broke out in the Chechnya region of North Caucasus. By the early 2010s, people from the area had begun joining international terrorist groups en masse, with some militants rising to leadership positions in Jihadi groups. Despite the...

'A superb book' - Observer 'Gripping, vivid and compelling' - The Critic 'Humane, absorbing and meticulous' - New Statesman 'An extraordinary book' James...

A rigorous blueprint for designing, monitoring, and governing cleaner urban atmospheres with engineering-first precision Engineering Air Quality Solutions: Measurement, Control, and Infrastructure Innovations by Sneha Gautam and Ajay Taneja offers...

Insider reflections on the political and ethical ‘red lines’ that shape talks with armed interlocutors, be they states or insurgents.

A unique look at emophilia--the tendency to fall in love fast, easily, and often--and the profound impact it has on our lives and the lives of those around us. Why do some people fall in love in an instant--again and again--while others take months...