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View book details for Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia
Communities and NGOs in post-Soviet Uzbekistan
This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context. It discusses the …
The development of linear-scaling density functional theory (LS-DFT) has made ab initio calculations on systems containing thousands of atoms possible. These systems range from nanostructures to biomolecules. These methods rely on the use of localized basis sets, which are optimised …
This book examines violence against women in the name of honor in Iraqi Kurdistan, taking an intersectional perspective. It reveals the links between destructive, state-sanctioned honor discourse and notions of manhood as they are shaped by a resistance culture dedicated …
View book details for Transgressive Fiction
The New Satiric Tradition
Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key …
The economics of the NCAA Division I men's basketball league are peculiar because it fails to hire the best college-aged players and does little to enhance competitive balance within the league. The league's policy decisions and its ability to remain …
View book details for The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
The Vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century Subject
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals …
View book details for Development and Diffusionism
Looking Beyond Neopatrimonialism in Nigeria, 19621985
This book deconstructs the neopatrimonial paradigm that has dominated analysis of Nigerian and African development. It shows that by denying agency to Nigerian societies and devaluing indigenous culture and local realities, Eurocentric diffusionism played a significant role in the failure …
View book details for DNA Alterations in Lynch Syndrome
Advances in molecular diagnosis and genetic counselling
Lynch syndrome (LS) is the most common cause of inherited colorectal cancer, a disease with a high mortality rate. An estimated 37,000 of diagnosed colorectal cancer cases worldwide are attributed to Lynch syndrome each year. Intensive cancer screening, with early …
View book details for Youth Culture and Social Change
Making a Difference by Making a Noise
This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The books themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change …
View book details for State Crimes Against Democracy
Political Forensics in Public Affairs
Assembles leading theorists of a new paradigm of political theory, State Crimes Against Democracy , undertaking judicious and devoted hacking exposing the elusive nodes and circuitry that propagate elite dominance in world affairs, and what can be done to restore …
View book details for Conducting Business in China and India
A Comparative and Contextual Analysis
This book takes a holistic approach to explore how business is being conducted in China and India, and to analyze the factors that influence business decisions in present times. In doing so the book seeks to develop a fuller understanding …
Die erfahrenen Autoren beschreiben praxisnah und leicht nachvollziebar die haufigsten und typischen Notfallsituationen des Kindesalters: alle wichtigen Krankheitsbilder, Tipps im richtigen Umgang mit den verschiedenen Altersgruppen, spezielle Arbeitstechniken zur Versorgung und Uberwachung, Medikamente und deren Dosierung bei Kindern, Reanimation sowie …
The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire …
This collection of recent activities provides researchers and scientists with the latest trends in characterization and developments of biosystems and biomaterials. Well known experts present their research in materials for drug delivery, dental implants and filling materials, biocompatible membranes, bioactive …
View book details for Film Restoration
The Culture and Science of Audiovisual Heritage
This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general public to understand what the processes and techniques of film restoration do and do not involve, attempting to integrate systematically a discussion about …
View book details for After Mindfulness
New Perspectives on Psychology and Meditation
This collection of essays by leading exponents of contemporary Buddhism and psychotherapy brings together appreciation and critical evaluation of Mindfulness, a phenomenon that has swept the mental health field over the last two decades. The sheer diversity and depth of …
View book details for Creating Postcolonial Literature
African Writers and British Publishers
Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the …
View book details for Technopolis
Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities
Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the worlds countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city …
View book details for Bending Behavior of Thermoplastic Composite Sheets
Viscoelasticity and Temperature Dependency in the Draping Process
Within the scope of this work, Steffen Ropers evaluates the viscoelastic and temperature-dependent nature of the bending behavior of thermoplastic composite sheets in order to further enhance the predictability of the draping simulation. This simulation is a useful tool for …
View book details for Hercules and the King of Portugal
Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderon's Spain
UNP - Nebraska
Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male iconsHercules and King Sebastianare structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical …
View book details for Mathematik und Gott und die Welt
Was haben Kunst, Musik oder Religion mit Mathematik am Hut?
Kunst, Musik, Religion, das sind Themen, die wohl kaum jemand sogleich mit Mathematik assoziiert. In diesem Buch erklart Norbert Herrmann in einem unterhaltsam zu lesenden Ton, wie selbst in diesen so anders gearteten Gebieten die Mathematik Einfluss gewinnen kann. Dabei …
A growing number of higher education institutions in Asia are now integrating ethics courses in their curricula. But the challenge remains to develop courses that can effectively reach their objectives, and to create and use teaching materials appropriate to the …
The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools that ease the decision process in technology companies, providing both conceptual frameworks …
This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called social dreaming. It explores how the sharing of real, night time dreams, in a group, can offer information on and insight into ourselves and the worlds we live …
View book details for The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany
In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relativesDietrich Bonhoeffer among thembecame involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, …
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