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This book provides an identification system permitting recognition of plant families in all seasons by means of morphological and macroanatomical features which are easily observable, such as bark,...

'Monumental and elegantly constructed ... an extraordinary tale of opportunities won and lost.' - Sue Turnbull, University of Wollongong, Australia 'An impeccably researched, wide-ranging study of...

This book provides a Latino reading of John's prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel's racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights...

This book covers in detail the entire workflow for quantitative seismic interpretation of subsurface modeling and characterization. It focusses on each step of the geo-modeling workflow starting from...

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital...

Jane Woddis focuses upon arts practitioners' involvement in cultural policy, situating her research problem within a general framework of theories of democratisation. Very few - if any - similar...

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children's media, and other literary and visual...

This textbook teaches students techniques for the design of advanced digital systems using System-on-Chip (SoC) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The author demonstrates design of custom...

Advancements in Optical Methods, Digital Image Correlation & Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2022 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics,...

Africa's Right to Development in a Climate-constrained WorldAuthor: Kennedy Liti Mbeva, Reuben Makomere, Joanes Atela, Victoria Chengo, Charles TonuiPublisher: Springer International...

This textbook is an introduction to the methods needed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). Readers are introduced to PDEs that come from a variety of fields in engineering and the natural...

This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which...

Being familiar with the vast majority of the other collections already in print, I can safely say that this collection will become the leading one on its subject. It works both as a Kubrick...

T his book critically explores how and to what extent artificial intelligence (AI) can infringe human rights and/or lead to socially harmful consequences and how to avoid these. The European Union...

This book explores how arts-based programs designed to reconnect young people with learning and work provide brief, sometimes profound, re-engagements and productive identity shifts. It aims to...

This book sheds light on how the public engage with, make sense of, and discursively evaluate news media constructions of people from asylum seeking backgrounds. As a case study, the author discusses...

This book is an excellent resource for students in law, criminology, policing and social work as well as practitioners and policymakers; indeed, anyone seeking to understand the complexities of...

This book clarifies Khomeini's views on nationalism, sectarianism, and peace and war by putting the Iran-Iraq war at center of understanding of Khomeini's ideology. Moreover, by making comparisons...

This book advances North Atlantic Treaty Organization (henceforth, NATO) burden analysis through a decomposition of the political, financial, social, and defense burdens members take on for the...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how the course, content and outcome of policy making is affected by big data. It scrutinises the notion that big and open data makes policymaking a more...

This book is a collection of essays highlighting different disciplinary, topical, and practical approaches to the study of kink and popular culture. The volume is written by both academics and...

This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national...

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work...

This book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the role that the rise of the Carry Trade played in British financial crises between 1825 and 1866, how in reaction the Bank of England...

This book entitled "Cancer Stem Cell Markers and Related Network Path-ways" is about cancer stem cell (CSC) markers and the molecular network pathways. CSCs play an important role in the cancer drug...

This book comprehensively reviews a selection of cases resulting from complications that can occur in cardiac surgical procedures. It details the science behind each potential complication along with...

The extraordinary expansion of China's ties to Latin America marks a turning point in the region's engagement in the international arena, and this timely volume illuminates the implications across...

This work discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood. From sociology, to medicine, to the comparison with non-western countries, to maternal mental health during Covid-19, to the ascent to cult...

Political philosophies that put a lot of weight on freedom and property rights have a hard time grappling with the problem of pollution. How can we reconcile the inviolability of the individual with...

This text and guide discusses the surgical and medical management of congenital heart diseases in both adult and children. It describes the disease, pathology, treatment, complications and follow-up...