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View book details for Disability Incarcerated
Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called …
View book details for Sacred Violence
Political Religion in a Secular Age
Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.
View book details for Britain, Europe and National Identity
Self and Other in International Relations
This study patterns national identity over a number of important historical milestones and brings the debates over Europe up-to-date with an analysis of recent happenings including the referendum on Scottish independence, the global economic crisis and the current crisis in …
View book details for Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations
Bridging the Gap in Youth Research
Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations …
View book details for From Shakespeare to Obama
A Study in Language, Slavery and Place
From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight …
View book details for After Liberalism?
The Future of Liberalism in International Relations
In this collection, leading international scholars provide their perspectives on the continuing role of the liberal paradigm, both as a theoretical approach to international relations, and as an ordering principle of international politics.
Investitionen als eine wesentliche Grundlage unternehmerischer Tatigkeit sind durch komplexe Entscheidungsprozesse gekennzeichnet. Die Unterstutzung der Unternehmensfuhrung bei der Planung, Umsetzung und Kontrolle dieser Entscheidungen ist zentrale Aufgabe des Investitionscontrollings.Die ersten beiden Kapitel dieses Lehrbuchs sind der Darstellung der Fuhrungsprozesse von …
Education and the arts offer multiple, mutually clarifying lenses through which to examine and understand issues of poverty and empowerment. Here, both are combined in a fascinating look at how these two often overlooked elements promote social equality and cultivate …
View book details for Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era
The Branded Arena
David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan …
View book details for Gender and Violence in British India
The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919
In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical …
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from …
View book details for State-Dependent Impulses
Boundary Value Problems on Compact Interval
This book offers the reader a new approach to the solvability of boundary value problems with state-dependent impulses and provides recently obtained existence results for state dependent impulsive problems with general linear boundary conditions. It covers fixed-time impulsive boundary value …
A variety of introductory articles is provided on a wide range of topics, including variational problems on curves and surfaces with anisotropic curvature. Experts in the fields of Riemannian, Lorentzian and contact geometry present state-of-the-art reviews of their topics. The …
View book details for L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 35
Bestselling Anthology of Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories
Galaxy Press
Internationally acclaimed bestselling anthology of award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories. 24 Award-Winning Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors and Illustrators Accompanied by Dean Wesley Smith, Rebecca Moesta, Mike Resnick, Rob Prior and Echo Chernik and Edited by David Farland The …
View book details for The Shaping of Ambient Intelligence and the Internet of Things
Historico-epistemic, Socio-cultural, Politico-institutional and Eco-environmental Dimensions
Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to …
Scholarpedias Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans. The encyclopedia allows ideas and insights to be shared …
View book details for Proceedings of the 6th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation
Innovation and Practice of Industrial Engineering and Management (volume 2)
The 6th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution and organized by Tianjin University. The conference aims to share and disseminate information on the most recent and relevant researches, theories …
This book offers the reader an overview of recent developments of integral equations on time scales. It also contains elegant analytical and numerical methods. This book is primarily intended for senior undergraduate students and beginning graduate students of engineering and …
This is the Proceedings of III Advanced Ceramics and Applications conference, held in Belgrade, Serbia in 2014. It contains 25 papers on various subjects regarding preparation, characterization and application of advanced ceramic materials.
In this book we develop powerful techniques based on formal methods for the verification of correctness, consistency and safety properties related to dynamic reconfiguration and communication in complex distributed systems. In particular, static analysis techniques based on types and type …
This book is a mathematically rigorous introduction to the beautiful subject of ordinary differential equations for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students. Students should have a solid background in analysis and linear algebra. The presentation emphasizes commonly used techniques without …
View book details for Inflation
History and Measurement
This book is an introduction to the history of and current measurement practice of inflation for the United Kingdom. The authors describe the historical development of inflation measures in a global context, and do so without using formal mathematical language …
View book details for An Army in Crisis
Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 19681975
Following the decision to maintain 250,000 U.S. troops in Germany after the Allied victory in 1945, the U.S. Army had, for the most part, been a model of what a peacetime occupying army stationed in an allys country should be. …
View book details for Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22) and Haftarah (Isaiah 1:1-27)
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary
The Jewish Publication Society
The JPS Bnai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a general introduction, two …
The Jewish Publication Society
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and …
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