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Test your football knowledge with over 300 funny and fascinating questions about international games. How much do you know about the World Cup – and the world? Test yourself and your friends with over
Developments in and applications of laser spectroscopy and laser imaging are growing rapidly. This book is a concise collection of laser analysis and imaging techniques, providing a solid overview of
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Coastal engineering and management for final year undergraduate and MSc students. With coverage of conceptual and detailed design; wave overtopping; calculation of extreme wave conditions; structural
The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensu
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This book is geared to scholars and practitioners of public policy administration and management who desire to understand the analytical reasons why policies are designed the way they are, and the pur
This book collects eight case studies on how regional and local government and non-political stakeholders can contribute to reconciliation, peace-building and cooperation across borders. The chapters
Drawing on on research conducted on Georgia and Armenia the book explores how regimes respond to voter preferences and how they adjust their policies accordingly. The volume was originally published a
This book examines cross-border environmental security within the context of human security and regional integration. The originality of the book is its comparative research design which includes case
If you are looking for the definitive resource to help you measure your students’ achievement, your search is over. PE Metrics: Assessing Student Performance Using the National Stand
This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literature on the quality of democracy. It provides a critical assessment of the current state of the studies on the subject, identifying the key qu
This book presents the current state of the art of understanding the physics of optical gain in organic systems and provides a complete description of the most recent advances in organic lasers, inclu
This volume advances the current state of knowledge on global governance architecture, BRICS role in this system, and the benefits it has provided and can provide for world order.
Exploring how the world’s oldest informal summit institution continues to respond to rising anti-globalisation, populism and protectionism, this book investigates the contribution the G7 makes to glob
This book presents efficient uncertainty quantification schemes following meta-model-based approaches for stochasticity in material and geometric parameters of laminated composite structures. Several
This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ‘quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-confli
A transformative decade that witnessed the U.S. film industry's restructuring under the pressures of neoliberal globalization, the 1980s swept away the last remnants of Old and New Hollywood alike whi
This book presents results showing the efficiency of stone siftings with high dust content as fillers for high quality concrete and mortars. Technological conditions and methodologies for design of co
The striking inequalities in living conditions in today''s cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, ph
Projects are inherently risky, since they involve some level of uncertainty, doing something new in the target environment, but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly lo
Projects are inherently risky, since they involve some level of uncertainty, doing something new in the target environment, but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly lo
In recent years, there have been significant developments in detector technologies in the field of astrophysics, requiring lower temperatures with simple self-contained refrigerators. Temperatures in
Work and Enterprise Culture examines the world of work in the light of the major changes that have occurred over the last decade. In particular, the book focuses on what is understood by the term
Within mainstream scholarship, it’s assumed without question that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education is a desirable and positive economic activity. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical
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Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to
Must a philosophy of life be materialist, and if so, must it also be a philosophy of immanence? In the last twenty years or so there has been a growing trend in continental thought and philosophy and
Engaging with Asian Australian writing, this book focuses on an influential area of cultural production defined by its ethnic diversity and stylistic innovativeness. In addressing the demanding new tr
Over the past twenty years there has been something of a ‘mobilities turn’ across many disciplines in the social sciences. This book charts the increasing influence this turn is having on scholars in
An exciting new exploration of the dimensions of republican freedom with a contribution from Philip Pettit on the complexity of freedom. The chapters originally pusblihed as a special issue in the Cri
The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread. This book explores the physical and economic aspects of the conflict between humans, w
In 1987, Clara Martínez Thedy embarked on a journey to Africa which was destined to change the course of her life. She had set out to fulfil a dream cherished since childhood: to travel deep into the
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