Hardcover Books

Author: Kevin McDermottISBN-10: 3319770683ISBN-13: 9783319770680Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2018Pages: 311Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field, such as confidentiality,...

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille's success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the...

Offers the first book length synthesis of social science approaches to tree healthDemonstrates the qualitative and quantitative approaches used in describing the human dimensions of forest and tree health Argues for greater collaboration and funding for inter-country research projects in order to conduct comparative...

This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme supports international exchange visits among students, trainees, volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing employability and encouraging intercultural understanding. Against the...

This book discusses Tatler, a monthly glossy magazine aimed at the wealthiest groups in British society, to consider how it addresses social change. The volume addresses specifically the period from 1997, the year New Labour was elected under Tony Blair, up to 2010, when...

This book explores how traditional institutions of education are affected by the current discourse and practices of 'learning'; and more specifically, how the evolution towards so-called 'learning environments' affects the kind of gathering or association that is staged and configured within families, schools and...

Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about...

This book provides relevant findings on nanoparticles' toxicity, their uptake, translocation and mechanisms of interaction with plants at cellular and sub-cellular level. The small size and large specific surface area of nanoparticles endow them with high chemical reactivity and intrinsic toxicity. Such unique physicochemical...

This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family lives. Each bears witness to the experiences...

Analyzes the institutions of SADC against the community's treaty objectives.Examines SADC from a legal perspective and international institutional law.Contributes to the collective work of regional economic and political integration organizations.Author: Mkhululi NyathiISBN-10: 3319765108ISBN-13: 9783319765105Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2018Pages: 233Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w...

This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume. The contributions showcased in this book examine the spatial histories of the grid from multiple perspectives in a variety of urban contexts....

- Includes case studies to demonstrate the proposed architecture - Re-evaluates current approaches to service delivery- Introduces the CloudLightning self-organising self-management frameworkAuthor: Theo LynnISBN-10: 3319760378ISBN-13: 9783319760377Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2018Pages: 165Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d

This volume originates from the INDAM Symposium on Trends on Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM), which was held at the INDAM headquarters in Rome on 5-9 September 2016. It brings together original contributions at the interface of Mathematics and Mechanics. The focus is...

Author: Jamshaid Ashraf,Omar K. Hussain,Farookh Khadeer HussainISBN-10: 3319756796ISBN-13: 9783319756790Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Presents cases and examples of collective and computational intelligence applications in the energy industryIncludes collective and computational intelligence techniques such as ant colony optimization, swarm optimization, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy sets Gives insights for investigation and projection of energy plans and...

Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce. Owing to the underlying complexity, conventional breeding programs have met with limited success. Even genetic engineering approaches, via transferring/overexpressing a single 'direct action gene' per event did...

Author: Sandra PinelasISBN-10: 331975646XISBN-13: 9783319756462Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2018Pages: 662Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.44d

This book re-examines the Nixon administration's attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years (1969-1974) was conditioned by the perceived relative decline of the United States, Western European emergence and competition,...

Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisisJuxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisisDraws...

Author: Dan GevaISBN-10: 3319755676ISBN-13: 9783319755670Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2018Pages: 351Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d

Author: Marc WiggamISBN-10: 331975470XISBN-13: 9783319754703Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2018Pages: 131Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d

Author: Leslie P. WillcocksISBN-10: 3319753517ISBN-13: 9783319753515Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2018Pages: 325Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d

Offers a sophisticated synthesis of fundamental and applied topics and a didactic presentation Excellent interconnectedness of chapters through authors' belonging to collaborating working groups Written by international top experts involved in industrial research and developmentAuthor: Olaf StenzelISBN-10: 331975324XISBN-13: 9783319753249Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2018Pages: 462Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these emerging democracies, the...

This book provides insights into important new developments in the area of statistical quality control and critically discusses methods used in on-line and off-line statistical quality control.The book is divided into three parts: Part I covers statistical process control, Part II deals with design...

Offers an overview of opportunities for rural women in southern Europe regarding their schooling and social life Raises fundamental questions about gender inequalities Brings together and compares case studies from Greece, Italy and the BalkansAuthor: Polly ThanailakiISBN-10: 3319752340ISBN-13: 9783319752341Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2018Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach. The volume is divided into 3 sections: the first part analyses an array of security issues in Europe, the second one explores how those security issues play out in the...

Author: Alessandro IsoniISBN-10: 3319751956ISBN-13: 9783319751955Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2018Pages: 503Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d

Author: Mourad FakhfakhISBN-10: 3319751565ISBN-13: 9783319751566Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2018Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Provides comprehensive coverage of Indian spices from their history to present day technologies to future directions for these important and valued crops Outlines the production and processing for Indian spices, including new technologies and production strategies Offers insights into value addition for Indian spices,...

Author: Marco Evangelos BiancoliniISBN-10: 3319750097ISBN-13: 9783319750095Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2018Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

This book focuses on the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of transnational higher education (TNE). Despite the increasing importance of TNE and the interest it has attracted from various stakeholders, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical evidence on several aspects pertaining to...

This open access book deals with contestations "from below" of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee activism campaigning for residence rights and inclusion, and...

This book highlights the remarkable importance of special functions, operational calculus, and variational methods. A considerable portion of the book is dedicated to second-order partial differential equations, as they offer mathematical models of various phenomena in physics and engineering. The book provides students and...

The book is based on nine selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th biennial Networked Learning Conference (NLC) 2016 held in Lancaster. Informed by suggestions from delegates, the nine papers have been chosen by the editors (who were the Chairs of the Conference) as...

Author: Rebecca Dimond,Neil StephensISBN-10: 3319746448ISBN-13: 9783319746449Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 147Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d

This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future. Moving away from traditional research which focuses on the past, the editors problematize the future as an inherent but under-examined part of organizing. Arguing that the future acts as both a...

Presents the important questions and ideas related to social entrepreneurship in India in order to develop this field of inquiry Provides the theoretical underpinnings as a concept and practice. Explores the risks and opportunities of micro-entrepreneurship in IndiaAuthor: Anirudh AgrawalISBN-10: 3319744879ISBN-13: 9783319744872Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage:...

This book presents the latest results in the field of dynamic decoupling of robot manipulators obtained in France, Russia, China and Austria.Manipulator dynamics can be highly coupled and nonlinear. The complicated dynamics result from varying inertia, interactions between the different joints, and nonlinear forces...

Refines highly diverse approximate dynamic models for engineering structures arising in modern technologyOffers new exact homogeneous and inhomogeneous solutions for cylinders, spheres, cones, including spherical and conical layersDelivers a classification for vibration spectra over a broad frequency domainAuthor: Magomed F. MekhtievISBN-10: 3319743538ISBN-13: 9783319743530Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Enables readers to gain an overview of recent advances in the use of organic molecules as structure-directing agents for the synthesis of zeolitesMulti-authored volume with contributions from experts in the fieldProvides introduction to the main concepts of host-guest chemistry in structure-directed synthesis Author: Luis...

Presents a novel decision-making support system based on paraconsistent annotated evidential logic, which can handle imprecise, incomplete, and contradictory data directlyIs useful in several areas, including information systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, and automationPresents contributions on decision-making, systematically addressing uncertain data, and inconsistent and paracomplete...

Author: Jakub LipskiISBN-10: 3319740202ISBN-13: 9783319740201Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2018Pages: 111Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d

Author: Mauricio A. SanchezISBN-10: 3319740598ISBN-13: 9783319740591Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2018Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Covers a wide variety of topics ranging from microscopic biological systems to macroscopic biological systems Offers insight from top researchers in the field of biological and mathematical physics Ideal for both advanced undergraduate students and graduate studentsAuthor: Luis Olivares-QuirozISBN-10: 3319739743ISBN-13: 9783319739748Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2018Pages:...

Author: Shalene WerthISBN-10: 3319739352ISBN-13: 9783319739359Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2018Pages: 195Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

This book introduces new compilation techniques, using the polyhedron model for the resource-adaptive parallel execution of loop programs on massively parallel processor arrays. The authors show how to compute optimal symbolic assignments and parallel schedules of loop iterations at compile time, for cases where...

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women's writing contest as well as...

Quality and validity of individual articles.Presentation of practical knowledge on management of chronic diseases.Enhancing research and awareness in disease management.Author: Mieczyslaw PokorskiISBN-10: 3319737023ISBN-13: 9783319737027Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2018Pages: 102Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d