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  • TRANSBOUNDARY WATER DISPUTES: STATE CONFLICT AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ADJUDICATION
    TRANSBOUNDARY WATER DISPUTES: STATE CONFLICT AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ADJUDICATION
    KORNFELD, ITZCHAK E.
    One of the most challenging aspects of climate change has been the increased pressure on water resources limited by droughts and new rain patterns, which has been exacerbated by rapid modernization. Due to these realities, disputes across national borders over use and access to water have now become more commonplace. ...

    30,00 €

  • THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST, VOLUME I: CATALOGUE AND COMMENTARY
    THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST, VOLUME I: CATALOGUE AND COMMENTARY
    NETZ, REVIEL / NOEL, WILLIAM / TCHERNETSKA, NATALIE / WILSON, NIGEL
    The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded project to conserve, image, and transcribe its texts. In thi...

    86,00 €

  • MSS. CODICES HEBRAICI BIBLIOTHECAE I. B. DE-ROSSI ACCURATE AB EODEM DESCRIPTI ET ILLUSTRATI. 3 VOLUME SET (CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION - HISTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING .
    MSS. CODICES HEBRAICI BIBLIOTHECAE I. B. DE-ROSSI ACCURATE AB EODEM DESCRIPTI ET ILLUSTRATI. 3 VOLUME SET (CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION - HISTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING .
    DE ROSSI. GIOVANNI B.
    Published in 1803, this is the first part of a three-volume descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew codices in the personal library of Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (1742–1831), professor of oriental languages at the University of Parma. Each codex is numbered and its contents briefly described in Latin. Volume 1 includes an introduction (in Latin) and descriptions of codices 1–346 fr...

    50,00 €

  • HEARING VOICES: THE HISTORIES, CAUSES AND MEANINGS OF AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS
    HEARING VOICES: THE HISTORIES, CAUSES AND MEANINGS OF AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS
    MCCARTHY-JONES
    The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as mystics, potential psychiatric patie...

    36,00 €

  • INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIES: HISTORY-FRIENDLY MODELS
    INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIES: HISTORY-FRIENDLY MODELS
    MALERBA, NELSON, ORSENIGO
    The disruptive impacts of technological innovation on established industrial structures has been one of the distinguishing features of modern capitalism. In this book, four leading figures in the field of Schumpeterian and evolutionary economic theory draw on decades of research to offer a new, 'history-friendly' perspective on the process of creative destruction. This 'history...

    22,00 €

  • NEW LEARNING. ELEMENTS OF A SCIENCE OF EDUCATION 2ED
    NEW LEARNING. ELEMENTS OF A SCIENCE OF EDUCATION 2ED
    KALANTZIS, MARY
    In the second edition of New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, renowned authors Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope explore the contemporary debates and challenges in education. In this time of dramatic social change, education represents significant possibilities and opportunities. Written in accessible and lively style, this book examines learners and their learning envi...

    36,00 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA: VOLUME 9, THE CHING DYNASTY TO 1800, PART 2
    THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA: VOLUME 9, THE CHING DYNASTY TO 1800, PART 2
    PETERSON, WILLARD
    Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous e...

    58,00 €

  • HIGH ACCURACY COMPUTING METHODS. FLUIDS FLOWS AND WAVE PHENOMENA
    HIGH ACCURACY COMPUTING METHODS. FLUIDS FLOWS AND WAVE PHENOMENA
    SENGUPTA, TAPA K.
    High Accuracy Computing Methods presents topics in a single source format using unified spectral theory of computing. With developments of DNS and LES, practitioners are rediscovering waves as important in fluid flows, and capturing these numerically is central to high accuracy computing. Analysis of waves and its use in numerical methods in propagating energy at the right velo...

    30,00 €

  • QUANTITATIVE SEISMIC INTERPRETATION: APPLYING ROCK PHYSICS TOOLS TO REDUCE INTERPRETATION RISK
    QUANTITATIVE SEISMIC INTERPRETATION: APPLYING ROCK PHYSICS TOOLS TO REDUCE INTERPRETATION RISK
    AVSETH, PER
    Quantitative Seismic Interpretation demonstrates how rock physics can be applied to predict reservoir parameters, such as lithologies and pore fluids, from seismically derived attributes. The authors provide an integrated methodology and practical tools for quantitative interpretation, uncertainty assessment, and characterization of subsurface reservoirs using well-log and seis...

    34,00 €

  • THE OBSERVING GUIDE TO THE MESSIER MARATHON : A HANDBOOK AND ATLAS
    THE OBSERVING GUIDE TO THE MESSIER MARATHON : A HANDBOOK AND ATLAS
    MACHHOLZ, DON
    The Messier Catalogue is a list of one hundred and ten galaxies, star clusters and nebulae, and includes many of the brightest and best-known objects in the sky. Amateur astronomers who find all the objects on the list in one night have successfully completed the Messier Marathon. The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon contains over 90 easy-to-use star maps to guide the ob...

    36,00 €

  • THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HERSCHEL OBJECTS: SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL'S STAR CLUSTERS, NEBULAE AND GALAXIES
    THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HERSCHEL OBJECTS: SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL'S STAR CLUSTERS, NEBULAE AND GALAXIES
    BRATTON, MARK
    Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivalled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky survey of star clusters and nebulae, and these objects continue to be among the most studied in the night sky. This unique book provides a complete re-examination of Herschel's entire catalogue of non-stellar discoveries, making it the...

    38,00 €

  • ADAPTING INSTITUTIONS: GOVERNANCE, COMPLEXITY AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
    ADAPTING INSTITUTIONS: GOVERNANCE, COMPLEXITY AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
    BOYD, EMILY
    Global environmental change is occurring at a rate faster than humans have ever experienced. Climate change and the loss of ecosystem services are the two main global environmental crises facing us today. As a result, there is a need for better understanding of the specific and general resilience of networked ecosystems, cities, organisations and institutions to cope with chang...

    38,00 €

  • CLINICAL EMERGENCY RADIOLOGY HB
    CLINICAL EMERGENCY RADIOLOGY HB
    FOX, CHRISTIAN
    Imaging represents the most dynamic sub-discipline of emergency medicine, as recent technological advances have revealed. The use of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scans has revolutionized the way that acute injuries and conditions are managed in the emergency room. More sophisticated imaging modalities are commonplace now, enabling acute conditions such as cardiac arrest, aortic aneu...

    38,00 €

  • ABORTION CARE
    ABORTION CARE
    ROWLANDS, SAM
    This comprehensive review of the emotive and often controversial topic of abortion provides clinicians with a multidisciplinary focus on abortion services, discussing clinical topics in their sociological, legal and ethical context. It is particularly timely as novel methods of service delivery make this vital resource more accessible, allowing abortion to be performed in commu...

    18,00 €

  • MANAGING OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES AND TRAUMA 3ED PB
    MANAGING OBSTETRIC EMERGENCIES AND TRAUMA 3ED PB
    PATERSON-BROWN, HOWELL
    Obstetric emergencies are unplanned and often unanticipated. Management requires a clear understanding of the life-saving and damage-limiting treatments that can be implemented. ...

    24,00 €

  • PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR SURGEONS PB
    PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR SURGEONS PB
    GOGALNICEANU, PEGRUM, LYNN
    Physical examination is a key element of clinical diagnosis in surgical practice, as well as an essential skill in postgraduate professional entry and exit examinations. With its 'at-a-glance' algorithms, mind maps, and exam-style questions and answers, Physical Examination for Surgeons provides a concise yet authoritative guide to examination technique and differential diagnos...

    18,00 €

  • ELITE PARTIES, POOR VOTERS: HOW SOCIAL SERVICES WIN VOTES IN INDIA (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS)
    ELITE PARTIES, POOR VOTERS: HOW SOCIAL SERVICES WIN VOTES IN INDIA (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS)
    THACHIL, TARIQ
    Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. ...

    30,00 €

  • SOCIAL SECTOR IN A DECENTRALIZED ECONOMY: INDIA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
    SOCIAL SECTOR IN A DECENTRALIZED ECONOMY: INDIA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
    CHAKRABORTY, PINAKI / CHAKRABORTY, LEKHA
    This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. It also provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through benefit incidence analysis of education and healthcare services in India. The benefits of decentralization always come with conflicts and trade-offs. By unpacking the pro...

    26,00 €

  • G20 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
    G20 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
    SHOME, PARTHASARATHI
    Since its initiation of the financial sector reforms through a newly established global cooperation process in the post-2008 financial and economic crises, the G20 expanded its agenda to include development pillars as the global economy began to recover in 2010. It actively extended its attention to the recycling of surplus country savings for investment in infrastructure in de...

    20,00 €

  • SUCCESS IN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    SUCCESS IN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    DYSON, MICHAEL
    Success in Professional Experience has been specifically designed to assist pre-service teachers on their journey to become successful learners and teachers during the practicum component of their degree. The authors present ideas on how to develop fundamental knowledge, skills and competencies, which help to build meaningful and sustainable relationships within educational com...

    20,00 €

  • RUSSIA AGAINST THE REST: THE POST-COLD WAR CRISIS OF WORLD ORDER
    RUSSIA AGAINST THE REST: THE POST-COLD WAR CRISIS OF WORLD ORDER
    SAKWA, RICHARD
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental p...

    16,00 €

  • RIVALRY AND REVENGE
    RIVALRY AND REVENGE
    BALCELLS, LAIA
    What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups ...

    28,00 €

  • RIVALRY AND REVENGE. THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE DURING CIVIL WAR
    RIVALRY AND REVENGE. THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE DURING CIVIL WAR
    BALCELLS, LAIA
    What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups ...

    28,00 €

  • INTERNATIONAL LAW
    INTERNATIONAL LAW
    KLABBERS, JAN
    The second edition of this landmark textbook in the teaching of international law, from one of the world's leading international lawyers. ...

    16,00 €

  • CULTURE IN THE DOMAINS OF LAW
    CULTURE IN THE DOMAINS OF LAW
    PROVOST, RENÉ
    What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of ...

    40,00 €

  • THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS
    THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS
    HAYASHI, NOBUO / BAILLIET, CECILIA M.
    With the ad hoc tribunals completing their mandates and the International Criminal Court under significant pressure, today's international criminal jurisdictions are at a critical juncture. Their legitimacy cannot be taken for granted. This multidisciplinary volume investigates key issues pertaining to legitimacy: criminal accountability, normative development, truth-discovery,...

    42,00 €

  • LAW AND THE NEW LOGICS
    LAW AND THE NEW LOGICS
    GLENN, PATRICK / SMITH, LIONEL D.
    This book is unique in presenting an interdisciplinary conversation between jurists and logicians. It brings together scholars from both law and philosophy, and looks at the application of 'the new logics' to law and legal ordering, in a number of legal systems. The first Part explores the ways in which the new logics shed light on the functioning of legal orders, including the...

    32,00 €

  • BEYOND US HEGEMONY IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE CONTEST FOR INFLUENCE AT THE WORLD BANK
    BEYOND US HEGEMONY IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE CONTEST FOR INFLUENCE AT THE WORLD BANK
    XU, JIAJUN
    China's initiative to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), attracting membership from G7 countries against the vocal opposition of the United States, has been recognised as a significant moment in an ongoing hegemonic transition. This book examines how power transitions have played out in the World Bank over the last five decades, offering the first authen...

    22,00 €

  • A BIOGEOSCIENCE APPROACH TO ECOSYSTEMS
    A BIOGEOSCIENCE APPROACH TO ECOSYSTEMS
    JOHNSON, EDWARD A.
    Biogeoscience is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that aims to bring together biological and geophysical processes. This book builds an enhanced understanding of ecosystems by focusing on the integrative connections between ecological processes and the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Each chapter provides studies by researchers who have contributed to the biogeo...

    28,00 €

  • LANGUAGE LEARNING AND THE BRAIN: LEXICAL PROCESSING IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
    LANGUAGE LEARNING AND THE BRAIN: LEXICAL PROCESSING IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
    SCHÜTZE, ULF
    Every person who encounters or learns another language is faced with the challenge of processing many new words in a short period of time. What are the conditions under which a learner can acquire those words successfully and process them to long-term memory? How do language and memory faculties interact? What role do the senses play in this process? Are factors such as age or ...

    30,00 €


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