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View book details for Biological Materials Science
Biological Materials, Bioinspired Materials, and Biomaterials
Cambridge University Press
Taking a unique materials science approach, this text introduces students to the basic concepts and applications of materials and biomedical engineering and prepares them for the challenges of the new interdisciplinary field of biomaterials science. Split into three sections - …
View book details for To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33
Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships
Cambridge University Press
To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes through …
Cambridge University Press
Law in the United States, Second Edition, is a concise presentation of the salient elements of the American legal system designed mainly for jurists of civil law backgrounds. It focuses on features of American law likely to be least familiar …
Cambridge University Press
This collection of articles, originating from a short course held at the University of Manchester, explores the ideas behind Pila's proof of the AndreOort conjecture for products of modular curves. The basic strategy has three main ingredients: the PilaWilkie theorem, …
View book details for Introduction to Quantum Optics
From Light Quanta to Quantum Teleportation
Cambridge University Press
This textbook provides a physical understanding of what photons are and of their properties and applications. Special emphasis is made in the text to entangled photon pairs which exhibit quantum mechanical correlations over manifestly macroscopic distances. Such photon pairs make …
View book details for Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Quantized Fields and Gravity
Cambridge University Press
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime has been remarkably fruitful. It can be used to explain how the large-scale structure of the universe and the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation that we observe today first arose. Similarly, it provides …
View book details for Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism
The Politics of Property Rights under Reform
Cambridge University Press
Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land …
View book details for The Sources of Moral Agency
Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory
Cambridge University Press
The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these phenomena as rooted in the natural desires and emotions …
View book details for Decision-Making in Orthopedic and Regional Anesthesiology
A Case-Based Approach
Cambridge University Press
In light of evolving techniques and strategies for increasingly complex orthopedic procedures, this accessible guide to patient management outlines the considerations involved in selecting the most suitable anesthetic for both common and complex clinical scenarios. Chapters cover a multitude of …
View book details for Physical Illness and Schizophrenia
A Review of the Evidence
Cambridge University Press
It is well established that people suffering from schizophrenia have a higher prevalence of serious physical illness and a higher mortality than the general population. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review of current research evidence on the …
View book details for Learning by Expanding
An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Developmental Research
Cambridge University Press
Learning by Expanding challenges traditional theories that consider learning to be a process of acquisition and reorganization of cognitive structures within the closed boundaries of specific tasks or problems. Yrjo Engestrom argues that this type of learning increasingly fails to …
Cambridge University Press
What do our assumptions about authorship matter for our experience of meaning? This book examines the debates in the humanities and social sciences over whether authorial intentions can, or should, constrain our interpretation of language and art. Scholars assume that …
Cambridge University Press
This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas: remedies (and how they were made credible), notions of disease, advice …
View book details for Engineering Design
Representation and Reasoning
Cambridge University Press
Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts …
Cambridge University Press
Professor Ziman's classic textbook on the theory of solids was first pulished in 1964. This paperback edition is a reprint of the second edition, which was substantially revised and enlarged in 1972. The value and popularity of this textbook is …
Cambridge University Press
Addiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that brings together different areas of research from …
Cambridge University Press
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, disaster preparedness and response has developed into a discrete subspecialty in medicine, and the paramount health care initiative of the US Government. The mental health component of disaster response is a serious subject …
Cambridge University Press
The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Toni Morrison's Beloved. During the century, films based on American literature came to play a central role in the …
Cambridge University Press
Franz Kafka (18831924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a …
View book details for The Outsourcing Process
Strategies for Evaluation and Management
Cambridge University Press
Outsourcing has become an increasingly important issue for many organisations. This book provides a framework for an up-to-date understanding of the outsourcing process and the key issues associated with it. It integrates a number of contemporary topics including benchmarking, buyer-supplier …
View book details for Dark Energy
Theory and Observations
Cambridge University Press
Dark energy, the mysterious cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe, is one of the most important fields of research in astrophysics and cosmology today. Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is ideally suited to …
View book details for Barter, Exchange and Value
An Anthropological Approach
Cambridge University Press
This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies …
View book details for Liberatory Psychiatry
Philosophy, Politics and Mental Health
Cambridge University Press
Psychiatry can help free persons from social, physical and psychological oppression, and it can assist persons to lead free self-directed lives. And, because social realities impact on mental well-being, psychiatry has a critical role to play in social struggles that …
View book details for White Kids
Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
Cambridge University Press
In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a …
View book details for School Mental Health
Global Challenges and Opportunities
Cambridge University Press
The realisation that most mental disorders have their onset before the age of twenty-five has focused psychiatric research towards adolescent mental health. This book provides vivid examples of school mental health innovations from eighteen countries, addressing mental health promotion and …
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