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View book details for Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
The Modern Era
This book focuses on Africas challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in …
View book details for A Post State-Centric Analysis of China-Africa Relations
Internationalisation of Chinese Capital and State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
This book offers a new alternative to understanding the relationship between China and Africa. Here, the author not only explores the changing nature of Ethiopias internal politics as a result of Chinese investment and commercial links, but also compellingly questions …
View book details for Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care
A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim
This book explores how around the world, womens increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of …
View book details for Collaborative Information Seeking
Best Practices, New Domains and New Thoughts
Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be …
View book details for Regional China
A Business and Economic Handbook
It is a resource book that profiles the geography, demography, economy, political environment and business climates for each of China's 31 provinces. It will become a useful source book to researchers, businesses, government agencies, and news media interested in either …
View book details for The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism
Representing al-Qaeda
In the years since the September 11th 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda phenomenon has become one of the most written about, yet crucially misunderstood, threats of the 21st century. But despite the sheer volume of literature produced during the war on …
This atlas offers a truly comprehensive update on the use of imaging technologies for the diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma. In addition to standard automated perimetry, gonioscopy, fundus photography, and stereophotography, other advanced, high-resolution methods for imaging the eye in …
View book details for Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
The Challenges of Inclusive Cultural and Religious Pluralism
Iwuchukwu examines the perennial conflicts in different parts of northern Nigeria and why they are popularly called Muslim-Christian clashes. Specifically, he examines the immediate and remote factors that are responsible for the conflicts.
An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil ...a book that will be transformative in its call for individual and collective moral responsibility." Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor and Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for …
View book details for Literature, Electricity and Politics 17401840
Electrick Communication Every Where
This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As …
This book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2015 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines …
This text provides expert instruction on the techniques currently employed for the surgical treatment of glaucomatous disease, covering both the host of novel microinvasive devices for treatment of milder stages and the refined strategies that enhance success rates in patients …
View book details for Spline and Spline Wavelet Methods with Applications to Signal and Image Processing
Volume II: Non-Periodic Splines
This book presents various contributions of splines to signal and image processing from a unified perspective that is based on the Zak transform (ZT). It expands the methodology from periodic splines, which were presented in the first volume, to non-periodic …
Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; …
View book details for Computational Biomechanics for Medicine
Imaging, Modeling and Computing
The Computational Biomechanics for Medicine titles provide an opportunity for specialists in computational biomechanics to present their latest methodologies and advancements. This volume comprises eighteen of the newest approaches and applications of computational biomechanics, from researchers in Australia, New Zealand, …
View book details for Distant Kinship - Entfernte Verwandtschaft
Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness" in der deutschen Literatur von Kafka bis Kracht
Diese Studie uber Joseph Conrads einflussreiches Werk Heart of Darkness stellt erstmals die deutschsprachige Rezeption dieses Referenztextes der Postkolonialismusdebatte dar. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von Zeitgenossen Conrads uber viele kanonische Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zu den rezentesten Namen des …
View book details for Heidegger-Handbuch
Leben Werk Wirkung
Er ist umstritten wie kein Zweiter. Dabei gilt Martin Heidegger neben Ludwig Wittgenstein als der bedeutendste Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Handbuch zeigt die Grunde fur die anhaltende Faszination von Heideggers Schaffen: Es stellt die zentralen Werke vor und erklart …
Macmillan Education UK
A practical approach to Charlotte Bronte's best- known novels, which shows how coherent criticism can be evolved from close reading. The intention is to help students develop skills in practical criticism and encourage them to follow through their ideas. The …
View book details for Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
Biomechanics, Clinical Techniques, and Current Technologies
Focusing exclusively on reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) techniques and devices, this plentifully illustrated text covers all aspects of this important and innovative treatment for shoulder pain and dysfunction. The book begins with a history of RSA followed by a thorough …
The proposed book is intended to provide a conceptual framework of Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness supported by research studies in various types of flexibilities exhibited by an organisation. The need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, …
View book details for Nonlinear Analysis
Approximation Theory, Optimization and Applications
Many of our daily-life problems can be written in the form of an optimization problem. Therefore, solution methods are needed to solve such problems. Due to the complexity of the problems, it is not always easy to find the exact …
Der Band untersucht die Perspektiven sozialer Demokratie in der Postdemokratie anhand zweier Leitfragen: Stellt Postdemokratie wirklich eine stabile Ordnung dar oder doch nur einen Zwischenzustand zu einer autoritaren Uberwindung der politischen Demokratie? Welche demokratischen Formen der Uberwindung von Postdemokratie konnen …
Expanding upon Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Leadership and Collaboration, the third installment to this original and innovative collection of books considers a variety of research models and theories. Emphasizing research and evaluation in leadership aspects, …
View book details for Erklaren in der Soziologie
Geschichte und Anspruch eines Forschungsprogramms
Andrea Maurer stellt erstmals die erkenntnistheoretischen Grundlagen und die Geschichte des Programms der erklarenden Soziologie umfassend dar im Mittelpunkt stehen die Logik handlungsbasierter Erklarungen und deren aktuelle Vertreter und Werkzeuge. Die Autorin erortert kritisch die Umsetzung und Reichweite des Forschungsprogramms …
View book details for Quranic Guidance for Good Governance
A Contemporary Perspective
This book is a study of religious principles of good governance in our contemporary societies. Historically, religion has provided guidance for organizing societies. In modern times, however, religious ideas have been marginalized in social science literature. Contributors to this work …
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