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"Elastic Properties of Materials" combines two core subjects taught at senior and graduate level on materials science and engineering courses - materials properties and elasticity - and delivers them in a comprehensive single volume text on the elastic properties of materials for the first time. Wri...

An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century provides an engaging depiction of Islam as a living religion. Exploring Islam's historical context and core elements of the tradition, the authors provide a global perspective that captures the diversity of Islam in different regions and countries. Other ...

Political Realism remains one of the most fascinating and controversial global topics today. Unfortunately, however, economists, business scholars, and professionals have neglected both its distinctive analytical understanding of social reality as well as its powerful normative approach to the trage...

This book explores the theory behind the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) based on the natural history of infections. A wide variety of STIs are covered, including gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, chancroid, trichomoniasis, herpes simplex virus, human papilloma virus, and human ...

How effective is the EU's contribution to the enforcement of global labour standards alongside its external policies in the areas of trade, international development, and human rights? As an increasingly influential 'global actor', the enlarged EU has been at the forefront of attempts to strengthen ...

Computational neuroanatomy is an emerging field that utilizes various non-invasive brain imaging modalities, such as MRI and DTI, in quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the human brain structures in both normal and clinical populations. This discipline emerged about twenty years ago and has m...

Arising from a research project conducted over four years, Creative Life Writing as a Tool for Transformative Learning, examines the effect of creative writing on learners, in terms of their personal development and individual sense of self. The developmental and therapeutic benefits of writing fict...

During the 1930s and 1940s, European psychoanalysts held fast to their professional identities despite a profoundly destabilizing reality. From Budapest to Paris the Nazis disrupted the work of this group and threatened their very lives. That psychoanalysis endured, and even flourished in postwar Eu...

Local Government Fiscal Health reinvigorates the debates around the monitoring, reporting, assessment and management of local government fiscal stress, bankruptcy, and state takeovers. The book provides both a solid conceptual basis for understanding the sources and causes behind local government fi...

Author BiographyAlix Gowlland-Gualtieri was educated at the Universities of Geneva, California (at Berkeley) and Oxford, and now works for the Environment and Human Settlements Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, in Geneva.

Talks about Jewish studies; Religion; and Jewish History.

For Python programming courses or Web programming courses focusing on Python programming found in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering and Continuing Education. An exciting addition to the How to Program series, Python How to Program provides a comprehensive introduc...

Developed as a practical rule-by-rule guide to ICC arbitration, this text is essential reading for established practitioners and those approaching international arbitration for the first time. The new 3rd edition will include the revised ICC Rules as adopted in 2010.

This new edition of a work regarded as "the bible" on procurement issues provides a detailed explanation of the legal and policy framework for procurement in English law and in the EC, including an analysis of all the recent changes. It has been updated to take into account domestic legislation whic...

This title introduces the poetry of the Victorian era (including writers like Browning, Rossetti and Tennyson) and its social, cultural and political contexts. "Victorian Poetry in Context" offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Co...

Mobile learning is an emerging, and rapidly expanding field of educational research and practice across schools, colleges and universities as well as in the work place. It is starting to attract the interest and imagination of practitioners in all phases of education as well as of researchers and a ...

Mobile learning is an emerging, and rapidly expanding field of educational research and practice across schools, colleges and universities as well as in the work place. It is starting to attract the interest and imagination of practitioners in all phases of education as well as of researchers and a ...

Robert Beckford is at the forefront of challenging documentary film making. For the first time he reflects on his art, and how he navigates between theology and visual culture as an academic, activist and practitioner. Starting from a clarification of his cultural viewpoint, as someone living in-bet...

Through close readings of major texts, this guide introduces students to English Renaissance Tragedy, its contexts and enduring influence. Dramatists of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries in England developed an extraordinarily popular and intellectually ambitious form of tragedy tha...

Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave. War...

The demographic pressure caused by migration offers a considerable challenge for urban centers today. It results in an uneven development of the community and focus of urban planners becomes how to provide decent, low-cost housing and transportation in order to facilitate the integration of poorer r...

"Rise of Rome".

The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood ...

The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned Sa...

Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical edu...

"Food Materials Science and Engineering" covers a comprehensive range of topics in relation to food materials, their properties and characterization techniques, thus offering a new approach to understanding food production and quality control. The opening chapter will define the scope and applicatio...

Main blurb (for internal use only - CHECK BEFORE USING IN PRINTED PUBLICITY):The first English novelists turned to writing long prose fictions for a variety of reasons, some of which are not usually associated with the "mainline" Anglo-American novel today. Among them were political agitation, socia...

After an initial critique of standard Humean regularity accounts of singular causation, the author proposes a new probabilistic account in terms of a special kind of conditional called the causal conditional. The Causal conditional itself is explicated not in terms of possible worlds, but in terms o...

Table of ContentsIntroduction (new).The Ontology of Mass Art.The Ties that Bind: Relations of Audiences to Characters in Popular Fictions.The Question of Fictional Narrators in Motion Pictures.Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation.Popular Philosophy and Popular Movies: The Case of Sunset...