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A useful reference for scientists and engineers in the petroleum industry as well as in the catalyst manufacturing industry.

This book explores the potential for conflict between international trade and international environmental treaties by assessing the relationship between WTO Agreements and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. It will be useful to scholars of international economic law, international environmental law and public international law.

This book deals with a careful presentation of the principles on which the physical problems are based and the mathematical treatment of the problems. The fundamental solution is used as in classical potential theory to construct solutions to initial and certain boundary value problems for the linear Stokes equations.

This handbook presents a thorugh introduction to current topics of mathematical research in combinatorial algebraic geometry. Aimed at graduate students researching algebraic combinatorics and Lie theory, and experts in the field and Mathematicians looking for a centralized reference on the geometry and combinatorics of flag varieties.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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

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

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare’s plays, situating them historically in order to fully explor

Examining the role of vision, imagination, love, goodness and transcendence in Murdoch's work The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch presents a compelling and original argument that she is one of the ma

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration is an outstanding reference source to this vitally important topic and will be of great interest to those studying philosophy, politics and related

This book provides a comprehensive and critical summary of the vast literature on the interactions of clay minerals with organic molecules, including reaction mechanisms, and bonding modes together wi

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

The Art of Dance Composition: Writing the Body is an introduction to modern dance composition, providing clear and structured approaches to designing and defining movement that demystify the creative

The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided b

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure

Recent accounts of human agency tend to overlook the role of conscious mental action in our daily lives, while contemporary accounts of the conscious mind often ignore the role of mental action and ag

With contributions from several Asia-pacific countries, this book compares performance and productivity in higher education from the perspective of institutional change. The authors focus on shedding

The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia presents a unique and timely global history intervention into the historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the centenary of one of

This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertains to large-scale and ongoing assessment practices moving into the digital space. This volume offers an innovative, practical, and international view of the future of current opportunities and challenges in education and the place of assessment in this context.

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural-systems agriculture. In order to provide an imaginative foundation on which to build such a cultural transformation, the author draws on the oldest and most pervasive pair of literary works in the Western canon: the Iliad and the Odyssey. He uses themes from those foundational literary works to critique the concept of state sovereignty and to explain how innovative federalism structures around the world already show momentum building toward changes in global environmental governance.The book proposes a dramatic expansion on those innovations, to create eco-states responsible for agroecological management. Drawing from many years of experience in international institutions, the author proposes a system of coordination by which an international agroecology-focused organiza

In the second edition of this classic book, Dyer analyses culture from royalty to serial killers, political correctnesss and films

This ground-breaking book is the first to examine the brewing industry from the perspectives of economic and business history. It combines chapters on the major European nations with chapters on the U