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History is an erudite teacher, from which we can learn invaluable lessons, both positive and negative. This is especially true for drug discovery and development. While creativity demands we think outside of the box, past successes and failures in...

This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cultural...

How should EU law respond to emergencies? More specifically, to what degree can fundamental rights be suspended in order to respond to an unprecedented crises?These questions are at the core of this open access book, asked initially in response to...

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In response to the limitations of traditional US sex education models, this book presents a groundbreaking approach rooted in ancient practices of self-cultivation. Shaun Miller critiques existing frameworks-paternalistic, liberal-consequentialist, and...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. As Africa stands at the threshold of rapid global and technological change, Transforming Africa offers a timely, agenda-setting response to the urgent call for bold,...

How Cuba's contemporary mediascape is challenging official histories, recovering memories, and redefining identitiesThis volume shows how Cuban filmmakers, journalists, and activists use film and other digital media to create competing notions of memory...

How Cuba's contemporary mediascape is challenging official histories, recovering memories, and redefining identitiesThis volume shows how Cuban filmmakers, journalists, and activists use film and other digital media to create competing notions of memory...

Amid complex socio-environmental crises, this timely volume explores the geographies and socio-spatial ecologies essential for disaster risk reduction and sustainability. It offers a comprehensive look at disaster management fundamentals and real-world...

A realist, particle-based view of quantum theory-where the wavefunction no longer plays a central role-offers a clear, commonsense alternative to dominant metaphysical views. This book explores the metaphysics of quantum theory through a lens of...

Effective climate transition requires accelerated financing from public and private sources, and improved coordination between states and markets. Through Institutions for Climate Finance, the authors offer a forensic interrogation of structures capable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262051361Author Andrew LisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book offers the first sustained scholarly exploration of intersex embodiment and identity in premodern Islam. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, it examines how classical Muslim thinkers conceptualised, categorised, and regulated...

Interweaving Rosewood is a collaborative exploration of the global rosewood trade and its entanglements with Indigenous lifeways, colonial histories, and environmental crises. Co-authored by Julie Velásquez Runk and members of the Wounaan National...

At the start of the nineteenth century, Karoline von Gunderrode burst onto the German intellectual scene with multi-genre collections of philosophical literature that were read by Goethe, Clemens Brentano, and other famous writers and academics. But...

Where justice, with its emphasis on individual claim-rights, falls short of justifying our ethical responsibility to care for those suffering from illnesses that do not neatly qualify as unjust, love (agape) provides the missing moral foundation. This...

This is the first book to comprehensively address the phenomenon of extrajudicial communication.With contributions from leading legal scholars, it offers a detailed examination of what judges say outside of the courtroom, when, why, and to what end. The...

Originally published in 1975, for the previous twenty years or so researchers had been working steadily, accumulating data relating to the physiological status of patients suffering from various psychiatric disorders. Their studies came under the broad...

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of 'authentic' experiences, global brands fight to be seen as 'authentic' and social media...

Foundations, Trauma, and the Child's Voice in Sibling Relationships is the essential foundation for trauma-informed assessments of sibling relationships in care and permanence planning. This book provides professionals with the theoretical, legal, and...

The military coup d'etat that convulsed Chile on September 11, 1973, and led to the suicide of then-President Salvador Allende was a dramatic interruption of institutional life in one of the world's oldest and most stable democracies. In Pinochet: The...

The only textbook that provides comprehensive coverage of all five core areas of community and public health while aligning with the most current CEPH guidelines and competencies The newly revised third edition of Introduction to Community and Public...

A timely and updated second edition, this version of Crises and Popular Dissent moves on from a focus on the causes of populism to a wider analysis of the global struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, including the continuing impact of...

Rethinking the Psychology of Place presents a new approach to Professor David Canter's 1977 Psychology of Place. Providing a unified Theory of Place relevant to human transactions with buildings, cities and nature, the book weaves together psychological,...

Humanist Chaplaincy in Practice: A Student Textbook for Non-Religious Pastoral Care is the first dedicated textbook on secular chaplaincy. Written by Dr Lindsay de Wal, who made history as the first humanist to lead an NHS chaplaincy team in the United...

What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question - what is left of the socialist city? - this book aims not only to trace the material and mnemonic...

Sensing and Perceiving offers a comprehensive and highly accessible overview addressing two centuries-old questions: how are animals aware of the surrounding world, and how does this awareness enable everyday behaviors? Authors Julia J. C. Blau and...

Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings: The Littoral Word presents cutting-edge Lacanian psychoanalytic thought by leaders in the field.Each chapter is written by authors who, in one way or another, take up Jacques Lacan's observation that each psychoanalysis...

This practical and comprehensive guide for implementing immersive virtual reality (VR) into rehabilitation practice provides an accessible overview of VR technology, alongside a how-to guide for its application across different patient populations and...

Integrating recent research and developments in the field, this revised thirdedition introduces an easy-to-master strategy for developing and writingculturally sensitive case conceptualizations and treatment plans.Concrete guidelines and updated case...

What is the reality of what it is to participate in associations, such as sports clubs, charities, trade unions, or political parties? This book explores the complexities surrounding the right of association from a legal and philosophical perspective...

Intelligent Buildings and Infrastructure with Sustainable and Social Values, Third edition is a comprehensive guide and an international reference source to the latest knowledge on the design, management, operation and technology of intelligent buildings...

Act Up-Paris became one of the most notable protest groups in France in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1989, and following the New York model, it became a confrontational voice representing the interests of those affected by HIV through openly political...

The history, science, and influence of an innovative land acquisition program that has protected Florida's natural ecosystems and inspired global effortsThis book traces the growth of landscape conservation planning in Florida, which has developed one of...

This book explores the argumentative style of the supreme courts in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden).Its findings are based on empirical research involving 280 leading constitutional cases which demonstrate that the...

Originally published in 1961 and based on primary sources, this book examines inter-union disputes and trade union history. It reveals the human reactions involved in one of the most intractable spheres of industrial relations. The author made a number...

This innovative text analyses 45 Guidelines produced by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and tests readers on their knowledge in detail of the contents via Single Best Answers. Any candidate for professional examination or...

Illusion is a longstanding problem in the philosophy of perception: how can it perceptibly appear that something is the case, though nothing corresponds in reality? A strong intuition - the Common Kind Assumption that the same account must apply to...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image-one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule. These imported notions of...