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A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Contract Law Directions offers the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with...

How AI is rewiring our social fabric-and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the...

In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre-Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become a recognizably modern republic? The traditional...

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High Lands, Pure Earth foregrounds Tibetan experiences of urban transitions in China's late-reform period. In the twenty-first century, China's accelerated urbanization has transformed the Tibetan Plateau. Yet Tibetan urban experiences continue to be...

Riots and rioting are exceptional though not unusual social phenomena. Despite occurring irregularly, they are sufficiently common to be matters about which most of us have some knowledge. They have been the subject of considerable and extended scrutiny...

Through an examination of the underlying technology driving digital currencies, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms governing their operation, clarifying complex legal concepts and confronting the pressing issue of anonymity...

Consciousness has been a central theme of Indian philosophy for more than 2500 years. Returning to the theories that originated in the Classical age, Matthew MacKenzie presents the first comprehensive overview of Indian views about the nature and...

Title 40 presents regulations governing care of the environment from the 14 subchapters of Chapter I and from the provisions regarding the Council on Environmental Quality found in Chapter V. Programs addressing air, water, pesticides, radiation...

Title 40 presents regulations governing care of the environment from the 14 subchapters of Chapter I and from the provisions regarding the Council on Environmental Quality found in Chapter V. Programs addressing air, water, pesticides, radiation...

Examining the African Diaspora in Africology, this book explores the fundamental issues involving the dispersion of Africans from antiquity to the current era.One of the most quoted living Africology scholars in the world, Molefi Kete Asante has...

Written by leading experts, this open access book provides the first comprehensive and critical exploration of Earth system law. Environmental law, as it stands, does not meet the challenge of governing the many complex planetary transformations of the...

The Adventure Illusion dismantles one of contemporary culture's most seductive myths: that life itself should be an epic journey of trials, transformation, and triumph.The call to adventure saturates domains ranging from media to marketing, politics to...

This book examines how contemporary global crises-climate change, migration, gender inequality, and economic precarity-are interconnected and shaped by communication, power, and representation.Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to...

Population is a dangerous political category. It is not separable from the racist and class-based valorisation and devaluation of different lives. From global contraceptive implant programmes to right wing anti-immigration discourses, demographic...

Post-Soviet Eurasia continues to puzzle observers, defying expectations of experts. Most Russia watchers failed to predict the full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022, and this failure triggered intensive debates and multiple rounds of...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the gold standard for identification of reaction products and unknown substances in the synthetic laboratory. This book is designed for Organic Chemistry lecture and/or laboratory courses at the high...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of intricate mechanisms of virulence, antimicrobial resistance, immune evasion, and biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus. It provides insights into mechanisms by which S. aureus acquires and sustains drug...

Working developers everywhere now use AI tools, but most still struggle to turn prompts and prototypes into reliable software features. The Developer's Guide to AI teaches engineers how to build real, maintainable AI capabilities using the tools they...

Imagine leaving your comfortable life in middle England for a land of glorious hot summers, romantic scenery and exquisite cuisine, to live off the fruits of your own labour on a vineyard in south-west France. If it sounds too idyllic to be true, it...

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth centuryBlack Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists...

Join Dr. Richard Redding-renowned archaeologist, professor, and field researcher-as he shares stories from a life spent uncovering the past. Leading large excavations demands not just scientific skill but resilience, quick thinking, and the ability to...

For decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct - a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics - leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and real sex has been pushed to the...

Historically, the psychology of ignorance has been under-explored, despite being a topic of great importance to anyone wishing to understand human behaviour. In this volume, Smithson develops foundations for a psychology of ignorance by providing an...

Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach continues to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to improving the lives of production animals. It particularly considers advances in...

Britain is complacent about corruption. We are used to thinking of ourselves as firm defenders of fairness and the rule of law. But our institutions have never been more corrupt, from scandals in parliament and local government to crises in housing and...

Streaming Privilege examines how contemporary serial television helps legitimise today's "new Gilded Age" of extreme inequality. Through sharp cultural analysis, the book reveals popular culture's fixation on wealth and dynastic families, and how these...

Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge facing contemporary societies. There was widespread agreement that a comprehensive green transformation is necessary to address the planetary emergency, secure...

Comprehensive insights into process analytical technology for pharmaceutical freeze-drying Process Analytical Technology for Pharmaceutical Freeze-Drying provides a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of monitoring and control strategies for one...

Exploring where animality meets digital media in the shadow of climate crisisDigital Animalities is a groundbreaking investigation into the entanglements of animal life, media infrastructures, and digital technologies in a time of environmental precarity...

Historians of political thought interested in partisanship have long privileged the perspective of male canonical thinkers. Scholars have turned to Thucydides and Plato for insights on stasis, Aristotle on civic friendship, Niccolo Machiavelli on...

This book explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, focusing on advanced computational methods for identifying and responding to cyber threats in information systems. It examines how machine learning, deep learning, and...

In controlled human infection (CHI) research, researchers intentionally expose people to pathogens to gain scientific insights. During the COVID-19 pandemic, proposals to use CHI research to speed up vaccine development captured public imagination and...

Asserts how Black artists and activists developed a disability consciousness in response to racialized disabling experiences in the early to mid-twentieth centuryBlack Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists...

During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To this...

Strigolactones are a class of plant hormones that play a crucial role in regulating plant growth, development, and responses to environmental stresses. These compounds were initially identified for their role in stimulating the germination of parasitic...

Ming Dong Gu bridges the divide between Chinese and Western thought. He does this by addressing key topics that have been of enduring interest to thinkers, scholars and intellectuals in an effort to bring about the fusion of horizons between Chinese and...

Coping offers a straightforward, evidence-based road map for managing stress with clarity and confidence. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and a thorough review of the latest research, psychiatrists and mental health researchers Robert Maunder,...

The theory of computation is often viewed as one of the most abstract areas of computer science, mostly reserved for university courses. Yet its ideas power much of modern software: from regular expressions and compilers to animation systems and game AI...