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Through a concise and accessible overview, Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts – place, space, territory, networks, and scale – enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.

This timely book explores the concept of truth in the discipline of history and argues that history education must evolve to combat the post-truth crisis. This book is essential reading for history educators, historians and those interested in history and concerned about the slide into a post-truth world.

Drawing on environmental psychology, ecopsychology, conservation psychology, and related disciplines, the authors provide an extensive review of relevant theory and research in a lively and easy-to-read style.

Concepts in Reproduction integrates the principal mechanisms of reproduction among eukaryotes. It emphasizes processes and approaches that evolved to address specific problems inherent in reproduction. It is recommended for advanced undergrad students, new grad students, and researchers or clinicians seeking to expand their knowledge.

This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. This multi-volume collection of primary source materials, accom

This volume is concerned with Lock Hospitals and Magdalen Asylums in England in the nineteenth century. The volume is organised around five sections: Lock Hospitals, Magdalen Asylums, medical and reform texts, Acts and legal texts, and newspapers and journal articles.

This book bridges the gap between electrochemistry and the fascinating world of phytochemicals, phytopharmaceuticals, and other naturally occurring substances. It offers a comprehensive guide to under

This book is an introduction to epistemology written with the student foremost in mind. It provides an overview of basic concepts and problems in the theory of knowledge and directly addresses a quest

Operational Modal Analysis: Developments and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of OMA and related technologies and practical usage.

This book is about the present and future dangers of climate change and the possibilities for corporate sustainability. The work is intended as a companion for students, researchers and professionals

This book collects the many stories, experiences and innovative policies and strategies by which cities and local governments have helped to facilitate and strengthen essential pandemic-era nature-con

An introductory review of electric energy using examples, numerical calculations and theory to describe the basic elements of the field. Coverage includes electric infrastructure, the grid, system operations, renewable energy, alternating current circuits, three-phase power, power electronics, blackouts and future power systems.

Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Sport and Film examines the social, cultural, historical and ideological significance of representations of sport in film around the world. It is an ess

Countering with Compassion provides educators with the tools needed to weave compassionate practice into their classrooms, schools, and wider communities.

Neurodegenerative disorders are rising, yet most drugs temper symptoms. Nucleic Acids and Precision Therapies for Neuroprotection addresses this therapeutic shortfall directly, tracing how antisense o

In its third edition, this book is the founding title of the Grammenos Library. The diversity of the subjects covered in this book remains unique and is the result of research developed over many years. The chapters are not only comprehensive in their coverage, but also have important implications on real life issues in maritime business.

Lifetime Carbon Debt shows how individuals can help global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by addressing their own annual and lifetime emissions.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe is an outstanding reference source to this engaging subject area. The relationships between religion and politics are recognised as central to

This book provides information about deadly viruses causing the pandemics in the world and provides clarity about the epidemiology of the diseases. The authors also present information on drug discove

This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews and those who facilitated their rescue remembered the experience of

This book offers a new analysis of why Trump’s Far Right populism helped him win the Presidency twice, and how it enshrined a corporate establishment that he claimed to run against. Charles Derber presents a counter history of positive left populism and argues that populist parties gain power in eras of hard times for working people while mainstream parties lose voter support as they defend the existing system. Fighting Oligarchy: How Positive Populism Can Reclaim America makes the unorthodox case that only a left-leaning positive populist movement is likely to defeat Trump and his corporate regime.Derber highlights the core principles of resistance to build a new and sustainable US democracy.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary reassessment of women’s intellectual, spiritual, and artistic contributions during the Enlightenment, challenging their place in dominant historical, theological

This book provides a fresh interpretation of Karl Barth’s doctrine of providence in Church Dogmatics III/3, emphasizing concursus—the cooperation between divine and human action.

Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering, Second Edition offers a concise yet thorough foundation in a critical and rapidly evolving field—inviting further exploration, innovation, and impact.

This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary p

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie’s fiction. This book focuses on spatial concerns

It covers the latest professional guidelines and developments in obstetrics and gynaecology; information on evidence-based medicine is also included to provide a rapid summary of the evidence relating

Digital Literacies questions whether the frameworks and practices around digital literacies are sufficient to confront current technological and sociopolitical crises. It invites educators, students a

This new fourth edition remains the only textbook in the field which provides a detailed overview of key theories, concepts and findings within the discipline of sport psychology, as well as a critica

The world is periodically consumed in violence, in recent years by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ October 7th terrorism in Israel, and by the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israelis in response. To this world-historical situation, this book attempts a curriculum studies response.

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917–1991).

This book introduces Brazilian aviation law to professionals by laying out and discussing the applicable laws and competent authorities on essential elements of civil aviation to help professionals na

This book is designed to provide arts and cultural administrators with an overview of the most pressing elements of human resource management for arts and cultural institutions.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, safeguarding critical data and systems has never been more vital—or more challenging. Systematic Security: A CISO’s Playbook by Timur Qader offers a groundbreaking guide to building a resilient and scalable security practice from the ground up. Blending real-world experience with practical insights, this book lays out a phased approach to security implementation.Timur begins with describing the current state of security and the landscape security professionals find themselves in that offer both opportunity and risk. He goes on to systematically address strategic design, operational efficiency, risk-based modeling, and a rapidly growing regulatory landscape. This essential resource provides step-by-step strategies for implementing a comprehensive security framework. Whether you''re launching a new security program or transforming an existing one, this book delivers actionable insights on governance, compliance, and advanced security operati

This book provides an overview of the complex and turbulent relations between Greece and Turkey, focusing on recent developments and the challenges in their bilateral relationship. It is aimed at scho

Acclaimed as the standard reference work on the law relating to time charters, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, with full coverage of both English and U.S. law, upda

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency that can take place in one’s first or additional lan

Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the maj

This book brings together a group of international scholars to discuss theoretical and comparative considerations of judicial accountability. Accountability of the judiciary is an essential element in a democratic state ruled by law. Its design must take into account the need to ensure both the legitimacy of the judiciary and its independence. The work discusses accountability in the light of recent research, including studies on the crisis of the rule of law in the contemporary world. The book adopts a broad approach to accountability, which has various facets, referring both to the courts, that is the organisational element of the judicial branch of government, and to judges, its individual dimension. Divided into four parts, the first deals with the essence of the concept of accountability of the judiciary; the second discusses the emerging standards relating primarily to the individual accountability of judges, while the third discusses the position of constitutional judges through