This book is the first comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanis
This second volume of the Business of Mining book set discusses alternative means of assessing the economic viability of mining projects based on the best estimate of the recoverable mineral and/or fo
The 3rd edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction provides a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. It includes a host of new illustrative examples which foc
The book covers control and filtering problems for several classes of stochastic networked systems including stability, robustness, reliability, consensus performance, and/or disturbance attenuation l
Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet of our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less t
This book provides an overview of research achievements by industry experts and academic scientists in the subject area of Optoelectronics Technology and Industry. It covers a broad field ranging from
This book makes a major contribution to understanding European politics and identity. The chapters analyse actors and their narratives told in European politics and cultural institutions like museums.
This book explores constructions of race and crisis in the EU amidst the rise of Euroscepticism, disaffection with neoliberal austerity, and anti-immigration sentiment. It approaches these issues with
Security Blurs focuses on the notion of ‘blurring’ as a process whereby actors engaged in the provision of security interact and thereby reconfigure security ideas, logics, and practices. The cha
This edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of military masculinities concerning the silences within, and disruptions to, our well-established and perhaps-too-comfortable underst
Marine Design XIII aims to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline. The focus is on key design challenges and opportunities in today’s rapidly changing maritime markets, with
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Marine Design XIII aims to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline. The focus is on key design challenges and opportunities in today’s rapidly changing maritime markets, with
Marine Design XIII aims to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline. The focus is on key design challenges and opportunities in today’s rapidly changing maritime markets, with
Contract Law in Hong Kong is the most comprehensive contemporary textbook on Hong Kong contract law written primarily for law students. This third edition covers all basic contract concepts in a reade
The three-volume catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by E. W. Nay (1902–1968) will provide art historians, art dealers, and every art lover a long-awaited chance to survey Nay’s oeuvre and gain a
This book provides a critical examination of the field of transitional justice and reconciliation and of the normative claims that underpin it. It is a comparative empirical examination of how ethnic,
Santiago Calatrava is an intimate insight into one of the world’s most celebrated―and controversial―architects. Calatrava first made a name for himself in the late 1980s, with delicately designed stru
This volume offers an empirical and conceptual analysis of German-American relations in the 21st century, and highlights the serious and perhaps unprecedented challenges the two countries face at pres
A wider public discovery of the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) is long overdue. Today, the autodidact is known not only as one of the most significant representatives of naïve art, but th
A wider public discovery of the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) is long overdue. Today, the autodidact is known not only as one of the most significant representatives of naïve art, but th
A duo of high-profile tastemakers invite readers inside fifteen homes that are infused with the blend of vintage and contemporary style that is the essence of Parisian chic.Style icon Ines de la Fress
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of the great Netherlandish masters of the Renaissance, is famous for his winter landscapes. To this day, his large paintings―with their gloomy atmospheres, their pale lig
The Kupferkabinett at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is home to a spectacular ensemble of French drawings. The collection ranges from the art of the sixteenth century court to Rococo drawings and
This book aims to provide a unified treatment on the analysis and synthesis for discrete-time stochastic systems with guarantee of certain performances against network-enhanced complexities with appli
Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in the most established and widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical e
This book is an up-to-date and wide-ranging book examining how sport impacts society, media, politics and economics around the world. It revisits globalization and sport discussions, explores the
This text deals with the advantages of rare earth activated phosphors for the development of solid state lighting technology and in enhancing the light conversion efficiency of Si solar cells. The boo
Arguing that that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, this book examines the importance of dialogue for the a
Bringing the realist movement in political theory into a new phase, this volume explores constructive models of realist theory by addressing the importance of political feasibility, by reinterpreting
This book brings together a number of intersecting themes concerning consociationalism as a means of sharing power and building effective political institutions within deeply divided societies.
This book stresses that autocratic rulers seek to defend themselves against democracy promotion by the West, rather than trying to spread their non-democratic regime type. The chapters originally publ
This book explores how recently coherent and institutionalized spaces of communication and dialogue between Moscow and Brussels have fragmented into relations that, while certainly not cooperative, ar
This book covers the development of radio-wave tomography methods as a means of remote non-destructive testing, diagnostics of the internal structure of semi-transparent media, and reconstruction of t
Michael Paul Rogin’s scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. This book focuses on three categories of substantive innovation within his work: demonology
The book explores developments in the condition monitoring and diagnostic of induction motors using electrical signature analysis. It presents noninvasive on-line condition monitoring system in detect
