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Nanotechnologies: Concepts, Processing and Applications describes and explains how nanotechnologies have entered our everyday lives through scienti...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military...

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade ...

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, ...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

This book provides the technical essentials, state-of-the-art knowledge, business ecosystem and standards of Near Field Communication (NFC)by NFC L...

Media Lens' mission is to correct the distorted vision of the liberal media. A thorn in the side of the Guardian, Independent, Channel 4 and the BB...

In The Credit Crunch, Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis. H...

Assesses the engineering of renewable sources for commercial power generation and discusses the safety, operation, and control aspects of nuclear e...

Odours have become a priority concern for facility operators, engineers and urban planners who deal with waste and industrial treatment plants. The...

This book seeks to illuminate the organizational and social dimensions of Global Information Systems. It provides a broad and historical perspectiv...

This exciting sequel to John Child′s classic text, Organization, provides a current, comprehensive guide to organizational management in today s wo...

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create...

Preface , Introduction , Part I: Pakistan-US Relations, 1: Changing dynamics: Islamic Orientation of the Pakistani State & the Islamic Reaction...

Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life...

As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and...

For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing cri...

Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, s...

As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would sha...

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a...

Cell separation is an important process that occurs throughout the life cycle of a plant. It enables the radicle to emerge from the germinating see...

New research tools have revealed many surprising aspects of the dynamic nature of lipids and their participation in processes such as recognition, ...

The proteome comprises all protein species resulting from gene expression in a cell, organelle, tissue or organism. By definition, proteomics aims ...

Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians a...