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This second edition of Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy offers a conceptual framework for describing governance networks and provides a theoretical and empirical foundati

The book covers principles for operating lithium-ion supercapacitors (LISCs), challenges, technological trends and perspectives. It analyzes LISCs at the material, component, and system levels to eval

This book provides theoretical and practical reflections on the current crisis and its portrayal in public debates, as well as potential ways forward in meeting our duties to refugees. This book was o

From Femtosecond Spin Dynamics to Attosecond Harmonic Generation. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to ultrafast phenomena, covering the fundamentals of ultrafast spin and charge dynamic

Empirical Political Analysis introduces students to the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods used in political science research. Organized around all of the stages of the research proces

Empirical Political Analysis introduces students to the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods used in political science research. Organized around all of the stages of the research proces

This handbook offers a comprehensive assessment of the main legal issues and challenges concerning the application of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) in disaster situations.

Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a tyr

This book will introduce the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modelling for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards that can require large-scale evacuations, through understand

This book examines the proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance and how these sources have the potential to make it easier for ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneuri

Musculoskeletal Imaging Volume 1 summarizes the key information related to trauma, arthritis, and tumor and tumor-like conditions. Succinct, structured overviews of each pathology are ideal for use by

This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture, across the domains of sport, education, and public space.

The book explains and analyses the complexity of the legislative activities performed by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, and how these are framed within the legislature’s internal organization’s st

This book addresses the potential role of the EU, in cooperation with Japan, to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region.

This book addresses material growth, device fabrication, device application, and commercialization of energy-efficient white light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes, and power electronics devices. It begins with an overview on basics of semiconductor materials, physics, growth and characterization techniques, followed by detailed discussion of advantages, drawbacks, design issues, processing, applications, and key challenges for state of the art GaN-based devices. It includes state of the art material synthesis techniques with an overview on growth technologies for emerging bulk or free standing GaN and AlN substrates and their applications in electronics, detection, sensing, optoelectronics and photonics.Wengang (Wayne) Bi is Distinguished Chair Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Information and Electrical Engineering at Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin, China. Hao-chung (Henry) Kuo is Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of the Photonics Center at Na