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View book details for Leibniz: Logico-Philosophical Puzzles in the Law
Philosophical Questions and Perplexing Cases in the Law
This volume presents two Leibnizian writings, the Specimen of Philosophical Questions Collected from the Law and the Dissertation on Perplexing Cases. These works, originally published in 1664 and 1666, constitute, respectively, Leibnizs thesis for the title of Master of Philosophy …
This contributed volume regenerates the significance of and respect for natural phenomenon in the background of the risks and complications seen in ART such as ovarian hyperstimulation and multiple pregnancies. Balancing the clinical practice between the beneficial natural physiology and …
View book details for Things a Bright Girl Can Do
The critically acclaimed novel about the fight for women's votes
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book PrizeIncludes an exclusive preview of The Silent Stars Go By by Sally NichollsThrough rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and …
View book details for Innovating in a Secret World
The Future of National Security and Global Leadership
Potomac Books
Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One …
In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendia looks at ways in which cultural producers …
View book details for Faszinierende Physik
Ein bebilderter Streifzug vom Universum bis in die Welt der Elementarteilchen
Von den Ratseln der Quantenwelt bis zum Polarlicht - von Schwarzen Lochern bis zum GPS-System -von Teilchenbeschleunigern, dem Higgs und der Supersymmetrie bis zum Foucaultschen Pendel dieses Buch bietet einen packenden Streifzug durch die spannendsten und aktuellsten Themen der modernen …
View book details for Front Line Surgery
A Practical Approach
The second edition of Front Line Surgery expands upon the success of the first edition, providing updated discussion of practical management of commonly encountered combat injuries. This edition reflects the cutting edge of combat casualty care, refined principles of surgical …
View book details for Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. …
View book details for International Environmental soft law
The Functions and Limits of Nonbinding Instruments in International Environmental Governance and Law
In international negotiations, the question of the design and the legal form of the negotiated instrument is as complex as it is often controversial. Intended as a read for both practitioners and academics, this book provides a comprehensive treatise of …
View book details for Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology
Basic Principles and Diagnostic Techniques
Written by internationally renowned experts, Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology provides practical guidance and advice on the diagnosis and management of the complete range of ocular cancers. The book supplies all of the state-of-the-art knowledge required in order to identify these cancers …
Environmental sustainability and development is of critical importance. Technological advances in the production of new energy sources are making their way into our lives in more and more depth every day. However, there is an urgent need to address the …
View book details for Defect Sizing Using Non-destructive Ultrasonic Testing
Applying Bandwidth-Dependent DAC and DGS Curves
This book presents a precise approach for defect sizing using ultrasonics. It describes an alternative to the current European and American standards by neglecting their limitations. The approach presented here is not only valid for conventional angle beam probes, but …
View book details for Computer Simulation of Polymeric Materials
Applications of the OCTA System
This book is the first to introduce a mesoscale polymer simulation system called OCTA. With its name derived from "Open Computational Tool for Advanced material technology," OCTA is a unique software product, available without charge, that was developed in a …
View book details for Pigments in Fruits and Vegetables
Genomics and Dietetics
This comprehensive treatise provides a systemic and insightful overview of current advances in the biosynthetic genomics/genetics and preventive dietetics of carotenoids, flavonoids and betalains, from a general perspective, and in specific fruits and vegetables as well. Genomics/genetics focuses on what …
The book is focused on the area of remote processing of ECG in the context of telecardiology, an emerging area in the field of Biomedical Engineering Application. Considering the poor infrastructure and inadequate numbers of physicians in rural healthcare clinics …
View book details for Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia
Institutions, Legal Frameworks and Risk Assessment within SAARC
This book advocates pursuing a regional approach to nuclear risk framework, which it argues is more promising in the current scenario than the non-achievable global regime. In the development of international legislation on liability, the nuclear energy sector represents an …
View book details for Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin
This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China. These played a role in the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a modern science in that country. This …
This work describes the importance of tumor microenvironment in favouring tumor progression and angiogenesis.Under physiological conditions, angiogenesis is dependent on the balance of positive and negative angiogenic modulators within the vascular microenvironment and requires the functional activities of a number …
View book details for Prescription for Social Dilemmas
Psychology for Urban, Transportation, and Environmental Problems
This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members …
The highly successful Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology continue to offer high-quality, in-depth reviews covering the full range of modern physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of the key topics in …
Abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant growth and productivity. The phytohormones regulate key physiological events under normal and stressful conditions for plant development. Accumulative research efforts have discovered important roles of phytohormones and their interactions in regulation of plant …
View book details for Complex Plasmas
Scientific Challenges and Technological Opportunities
This book provides the reader with an introduction to the physics of complex plasmas, a discussion of the specific scientific and technical challenges they present and an overview of their potential technological applications.Complex plasmas differ from conventional high-temperature plasmas in …
This book explores the collaborative practices both literary and material that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving womens texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and …
This text is intended as a practical guide for physicians and surgeons who treat diseases of the breast, both benign and malignant. Thus, general surgeons, internists, family practitioners, gynecologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists will find this book …
View book details for Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary
Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European emigre writers of the twentieth century Conrad, Weiss …
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