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  • 1
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    Global political ecology (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415548144
    Language: English
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [s.l.] eblib Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Global political ecology
    DDC: 304.2
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    AR 14300
    Keywords: Political ecology ; Environmental policy ; Environmental disasters ; Political aspects ; Politische Ökologie
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    The Cultural Significance of the Child Star (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415961578
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (191 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Cultural Significance of the Child Star
    DDC: 306.484083
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    Abstract: The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O'Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in contemporary society. Drawing on current debates about the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood and fears about children 'growing up too soon', she identifies hostile media attention around child stars as indicative of broader social concerns about the 'correct' role and place of child
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Normal Child and the Exceptional Child; 3 A Social History of Child Stars; 4 The Powerlessness of Child Stars; 5 The Power of Child Stars; 6 The Demonisation of Charlotte Church; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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    Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music : Milieux Cultures (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415956581
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music : Milieux Cultures
    DDC: 306.4/8424
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    Abstract: This book assesses previous sociological and cultural studies attempts to analyse and theorise worlds of cultural production and in particular worlds of popular music production. It offers and develops a new theoretical matrix that can illuminate these trends in a more complex and instructive way. The concept of milieu cultures combines theoretical strands drawn from phenomenology, Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and globalisation theory with new and original case study work on a variety of cities and musical worlds (Bristol, London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin; Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Industria
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1: Theories of Culture and Music; 1 A Journey Through Theories of the Intersection of Music and Culture; 2 Milieu Cultures-The Theoretical Development of the Milieu: From Subcultures, Scenes, and Neo-tribes to Milieu; Section 2: Journeys Through Networked Worlds of Popular Music; 3 Interrogating the Production of Sound and Place: Bristol as a Site of Music Production, From Lunatic Fringe to Worldwide Massive; 4 Neo-Folk or Postindustrial Music: The Development of an Esoteric Music Milieu
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Hip-hop as a Global Cultural Phenomenon: The Export and Appropriation of Contradiction, Complexity, and Dialogue6 The Great in the Small: The Changing Terrain of Independence; 7 Musicians: (In) Security in the Trial and Error of the Recording Industry; Conclusion: Milieu Cultures; Bibliography; Index
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    Radical Records : Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987 (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415591133
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (173 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Radical Records : Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987
    DDC: 306.7660941
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    Abstract: The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising "Wolfenden Report" and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic section 28 was characterized by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. This title explores non-traditional expressions of intimacy
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Battling for Wolfenden; 3 Scotland: against the odds; 4 Memoirs of an anti-heroine; 5 A community of interests; 6 Coming to terms; 7 Separatism: a look back at anger; 8 Faltering from the closet; 9 The importance of being lesbian; 10 Living on the fringes-in more ways than one; 11 Oi! What about us?; 12 'Irrespective of race, sex, sexuality…'; 13 Voices in my ear; 14 The liberation of affection; 15 Amnesia and antagonism: anti-lesbianism in the youth service; 16 Lesbian mothers-the fight for child custody
    Description / Table of Contents: 17 Parrot cries18 Normal channels; 19 The should we, shouldn't we? debate; 20 One step to heaven?; 21 Somewhere over the rainbow…; 22 No going back;
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Battling for Wolfenden; 3 Scotland: against the odds; 4 Memoirs of an anti-heroine; 5 A community of interests; 6 Coming to terms; 7 Separatism: a look back at anger; 8 Faltering from the closet; 9 The importance of being lesbian; 10 Living on the fringes-in more ways than one; 11 Oi! What about us?; 12 'Irrespective of race, sex, sexuality…'; 13 Voices in my ear; 14 The liberation of affection; 15 Amnesia and antagonism: anti-lesbianism in the youth service; 16 Lesbian mothers-the fight for child custody
    Description / Table of Contents: 17 Parrot cries18 Normal channels; 19 The should we, shouldn't we? debate; 20 One step to heaven?; 21 Somewhere over the rainbow…; 22 No going back
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    Population and Development : High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415592833
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (217 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Parallel Title: Print version Population and Development : High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries
    DDC: 304.632091724
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    Abstract: First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and income distributions in poor societies; the question of whether or not neo-classical macro-economics are sufficient to understand and to try to engineer relations between economies and populations; and the specifics of the relations between fertility and a variety of socio-economic factors in both South
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; TitlePage; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Interaction of Fertility and the Size Distribution of Income; Fertility, Mortality and Income - Changes over the Long Run: Some Simulation Experiments; Population and Development: Outlines for a Structuralist Approach; Modes of Reproduction; Parenthood, Marriage and Fertility in West Africa; Family Size Preferences of Spouses in Rural Eastern Nigeria; Production Relations and Population: Ramdaua; Production Relations and Population: Rampur; Economic Change, Social Differentiation and Fertility: Aluthgama
    Description / Table of Contents: On Social Norms and Fertility Decline
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    The Pragmatics Encyclopedia (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415430968
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (675 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Pragmatics Encyclopedia
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Board of consultants; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Bibliography; Index
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    Islamist Rhetoric : Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415574402
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (211 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Islamist Rhetoric : Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
    DDC: 306.440962
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    Abstract: Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric, this book sheds light upon attitudes towards other Muslims, religious authority and secular society.Examining the rhetoric of three central Islamist figures in Egypt today - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Amr Khalid and Muhammad Imara - the author investigates the connection between Islamist rhetoric and the social and political structures of the Islamic field in Egypt. Highlighting the diversity of Islamist rhetoric, the author argues that differences of
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Islamist Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration and translation; 1 Introduction; 2 Rhetorical analysis and the study of social reality; Rhetoric; Functional Grammar; Linking rhetoric, ideology and social positions; The Islamic field; The analytical method; Analytical tools; Some problematic analytical issues; 3 Islamic ideology and the public sphere in Egypt; Three major groups within Egyptian Islamism; The 'other': the new Islamic intellectuals; 4 The rhetoric of religious authority
    Description / Table of Contents: The main thematic characteristics of Muhammad 'Imāra's booksPersonal reference and the civilizational divide; Arguing for the reader; The grammar of an authentic Islamic civilization; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; 7 Rhetoric and religious ideology; Rhetorical functions and rhetorical tools; Rhetoric and ideology in the Islamic field; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: The main thematic characteristics of Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī's booksPersonal reference: hierarchy and conflict; Grammatical mood as a tool for prescribing Islamic practiceand conveying authority; Style and authority; Definitions and exclusions as functions of syntax; Conclusion; 5 The rhetoric of religious passion; The nature and content of 'Amr Khālid's books; Reference: being in it together; Making piety easy; Mood and style: the primacy of feeling; The grammar of encouraging personal responsibility; Conclusion; 6 The rhetoric of religious polemics; Situating Muhammad 'Imāra in the Islamic field
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    Almost All Aliens : Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415935920
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (742 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Almost All Aliens : Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity
    DDC: 304.873
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    Abstract: 〈P〉Drawing on the insights of ethnic studies and the issues raised by new immigration in the last third of the twentieth century, 〈EM〉Almost All Aliens〈/EM〉 presents a major new interpretation of a fundamental issue in US history and public policy.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, Colonialism; Chapter 2 Colliding Peoples in Eastern North America, 1600-1780; Chapter 3 An Anglo-American Republic? Racial Citizenship, 1760-1860; Chapter 4 The Border Crossed Us: Euro-Americans Take the Continent, 1830-1900; Chapter 5 The Great Wave, 1870-1930; Chapter 6 Cementing Hierarchy: Issues and Interpretations, 1870-1930; Chapter 7 White People's America, 1924-1965; Chapter 8 New Migrants from New Places Since 1965; Chapter 9 Redefining Membership Amid Multiplicity Since 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10 Epilogue: Future Uncertain Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First CenturyAppendices; Notes; Illustration Permission Acknowledgments; Also by Paul Spickard; Index
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    Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415355933
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p)
    Series Statement: Extremism and Democracy
    Parallel Title: Print version Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe
    DDC: 305.80094
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    Abstract: This handbook on racist extremism in Central and Eastern Europe is the result of a unique collaborative research project of experts from the ten new and future post-communist EU member states. All chapters are written to a common framework, making it easier to compare individual countries and include sections on:racist extremist organizations (political parties, organizations, and subculturesthe domestic and international legal frameworkmembers and types of racist extremist incidentsstate and civic responses to the threat.Mudde's conclusion examines the region as a whole and compares it with W
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Bulgaria; 2 Czech Republic; 3 Estonia; 4 Hungary; 5 Latvia; 6 Lithuania; 7 Poland; 8 Romania; 9 Slovakia; 10 Slovenia; 11 Central and Eastern Europe; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Index
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    Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780805856873
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (393 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education
    DDC: 302.2/244
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    Abstract: In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to present both theoretical and practical articulation of his ideas in the field of literacy education. It brings together three major clusters of work: Rethinking of the doxa of the social fields of language
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Part I: Objectifying the field; Chapter 1 Introduction: Renewing the cultural politics of literacy education; Chapter 2 Problematics and generative possibilities; Chapter 3 Pierre Bourdieu: A biographical memoir; Chapter 4 Bourdieu and "literacy education"; Chapter 5 Pedagogy as gift; Part II: Producing the field; Chapter 6 The field of Arabic instruction in the Zionist state; Chapter 7 Wireless technology and the prospect of alternative education reform
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8 Toward a pedagogy of the popular: Bourdieu, hip-hop, and out-of-school literaciesChapter 9 Critical race perspectives, Bourdieu, and language education; Part III: Habitus and other; Chapter 10 Tracing habitus in texts: Narratives of loss, displacement and migration in homes; Chapter 11 The capital of "attentive silence" and its impact on English language and literacy education; Chapter 12 Improvising on artistic habitus: Sedimenting identity into art; Chapter 13 Social hierarchies and identity politics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14 A "head start and a credit": Analyzing cultural capital in the basic writing/ESOL classroomChapter 15 Implications of practice, activity, and semiotic theory for cognitive constructs of writing; Part IV: Remaking the field; Chapter 16 Learning from our failures; Chapter 17 Using Bourdieu to make policy: Mobilizing community capital and literacy; Postscript; Index
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    The New Generations of Europeans : Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781844073528
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (404 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The New Generations of Europeans : Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union
    DDC: 304.6094
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    Abstract: Europe today is characterized by aging populations, changing family patterns, dropping fertility rates and mass migration. With the potentially massive ramifications this has for pensions, health, housing, transport, family relations, employment and other sectors of society, The New Generations of Europeans sets out to assess what it is to be a citizen of a growing EU and what important demographic, social, and economic issues will have to be faced by European decision makers. Edited by leading demographers and sociologists, and made up of contributions from respected researchers in the fields
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in the Enlarged European Union; Copyright; Contents; List of Acronyms; PART I: Introduction and Overview; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. The New Generations of Europeans; 1.2. Age Structure and Fertility Change; 1.3. Aging, Fertility and Migration; 1.4. Aging and the Economy; 1.5. Meeting the Challenges of the Future; References; Chapter 2. The Social Situation in the European Union, 2004; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The Demographic Portrait; 2.3. Living Conditions; 2.4. Social Protection Reforms; 2.5. Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II: Fertility Trends in an Enlarged European UnionChapter 3. Low Fertility and the Scope for Social Policy: Understanding the Context; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Facts and Prospects; 3.3. Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Childbearing Behavior in the New EU Member States: Basic Trends and Selected Attitudes; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. An Overview: The State of Fertility and Partnership Formation in the New EU Member States; 4.3 Fertility Preferences of Young Adults: Total Number of Anticipated Children
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4. Attitudes of Young Adults Toward Family Formation and Childbearing in Selected Countries in the IPPAS Survey4.5. Summary: Some Remarks; Chapter 5. Alternative Paths for Future European Fertility: Will the Birth Rate Recover or Continue to Decline?; 5.1. The Lack of a Theory with Predictive Power in Post-Demographic Transition Populations; 5.2 Arguments in Support of Assuming Higher Fertility; 5.3 Arguments in Support of Assuming Lower Fertility; 5.4 Conclusions; References; PART III: Family Forms and the Young Generation in an Enlarged Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 Europe's Coming Generations: The Influence of the Past6.1 From Past to Present; 6.2 The Second 'Great Transformation'; 6.3 From 'Golden Age' to 'Landslide'; 6.4 Effects: Welfare Aging, Child Poverty and the Postponement Syndrome; 6.5 The Coming Generations: Toward a Political Economy of the Transition to Adulthood in the EU; 6.6 'Gates' of Transition; 6.7 Closing Remarks; References; Chapter 7 Youth Transitions and Family Support in a Transforming Social Context-Reflections from the New Member States
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 The Changing Context of European Youth Transitions-From a Bipolar to a Mosaic Pattern7.2 Transforming Patterns of Youth Transitions-From Past to Present; 7.3 'Flexibilization' of Youth Transition from Education to Employment; 7.4 Pluralization of the Patterns of Family/Housing Transitions; 7.5 Transforming Patterns of Family Support; 7.6 Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Family Forms and the Young Generation in the New Europe: Future Trends; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Trends; 8.3 Scenarios; References; PART IV: Migration Developments in an Enlarged European Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9 Migration, Migrants and Their Families in the EU15 Member States
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    Understanding and Preventing Violence : The Psychology of Human Destructiveness (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780849322655
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (242 p)
    Series Statement: Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Understanding and Preventing Violence : The Psychology of Human Destructiveness
    DDC: 303.6
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    Abstract: More violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined. Understanding and Preventing Violence: Unmasking the Mentality of Human Destructiveness elucidates the mentality of destructive behavior with the hopes that in the future, the trend may be reversed through enlightenment. But in order to choose to be constructive, rather than destructive, there must first be an understanding.This book takes a hard look at an alarming trend. It provides a focused view of the new wave of violence - from the individual to the global levels. It. traces the influe
    Description / Table of Contents: Front cover; Preface; The Author; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1. Dilemmas for the 21st Century; Chapter 2. Social Inducements to Paralethal and Lethal Violence; Chapter 3. Inhibiting Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression; Chapter 4. The Central Intelligence Agency and Lethal Violence; Chapter 5. Lethal Violence by Entire Governments; Chapter 6. Transcendence: Constructive vs. Destructive Mentality; Index; Back cover
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    War, Citizenship, Territory (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415956932
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (418 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version War, Citizenship, Territory
    DDC: 303.66
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    Abstract: For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy. Given the changing nature of war, one of the more promising areas of scholarly investigation has been the development of new theories of war and war's impact on society. War, Citizenship, Territory features 19 chapters that look at the impact of war and militarism on citizenship, whether traditional territorially-bound national citizenship or ""transnational"" citizenship. Cowen and Gilbert argue that while there has been an explosion of work on citizenship and territory, Western ac
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; WAR, CITIZENSHIP, TERRITORY; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory; Part I At War: Struggle, "Strategy," and Spatiality; 2 Imagining Urban Warfare: Urbanization and U.S. Military Technoscience; 3 Spaces of Exception and Unexceptionability; 4 Bombs, Bodies, Acts: The Banalization of Suicide; 5 Panic, Civility, and the Homeland; 6 Distributed Preparedness: Space, Security, and Citizenship in the United States; Part II Re/constituting Territory; 7 Reconstituting Iraq
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 War Veterans, Disability, and Postcolonial Citizenship in Angola and Mozambique9 Who Are the Victims? Where Is the Violence?: The Spatial Dialectics of Andean Violence as Revealed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru; 10 Unreliable Chinese: Internal Security and the Devaluation and Expansion of Citizenship in Postwar Hong Kong; 11 Conflict, Citizenship, and Human Security: Geographies of Protection; Part III Citizens and the Body Politic; 12 Citizenship in the "Homeland": Families at War
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 Resistance, Detainment, Asylum: The Onto-Political Limits of Border Crossing in North America14 IDs and Territory: Population Control for Resource Expropriation; 15 Nation and Gender in Jewish Israel; 16 Mobilizing Civil Society for the Hegemonic State: The Korean War and the Construction of Soldiercitizens in the United States; 17 "Not for Queen and Country or Any of That Shit . . .": Reflections on Citizenship and Military Participation in Contemporary British Soldier Narratives; Afterword; About the Contributors; Index
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    Muscle Boys : Gay Gym Culture (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781560234043
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (333 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Muscle Boys : Gay Gym Culture
    DDC: 306.76/62097309045
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture〈/EM〉 is an inside look at the secret world of exercise and fitness that's become one of the country's fastest growing and most influential gay subcultures. The author, a personal trainer on the San Francisco gym scene for more than a decade, offers an in-depth look at gay body culture and its role in modern gay life
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; About the Author; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Gay Gym Culture; Chapter 2 Greek Gym Culture and the Greek Ideal; Chapter 3 The Fall and Rise of the Gym-Built Body; Chapter 4 Muscle Media; Chapter 5 The Gay Gym; Chapter 6 Muscle Boys; Chapter 7 The Poz Jock; Chapter 8 The Gay Athlete; Chapter 9 The Circuit Boy; Chapter 10 The Muscle Bear; Chapter 11 The Older Male; Chapter 12 The Locker Room; Notes; Index
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    Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781844072514
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (185 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Abstract: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Synchronizing Science and Technology with Human Behaviour; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Setting the Stage; 2 The Natureof the Problem; The technical-fix approach; The behavioural-fix approach; Ringing bells; The seamless web; 3 Co-evolution in Action; Hasselt; Fürstenfeldbruck; 4 Towards a Theory of Co-evolution; Limits to describe are limits to imagine; Co-evolution as deliberate symbiosis; The memetics of co-evolution; 5 Memes of Co-evolution; New technologies provide a new range of choices
    Description / Table of Contents: New technologies make socially desired behaviours attractiveParticipation facilitates synchronic pre-adaptation; New technologies require social embedding; Strategic alliances are more productive than ideological purity; Inventiveness enables a departure from the prevailing discourse; Critical mass is crucial to overcome path dependencies; Definition of co-evolution; 6 Anticipation of Criticism; Co-evolution is old wine in new bottles; Established professions will undermine co-evolution; Common sense is not susceptible to co-evolution; Co-evolution is not radical enough
    Description / Table of Contents: Co-evolution is too radicalCo-evolution sets the fox to guard the geese; Co-evolution only works under strong leadership; 7 Conclusions; Summary; Assessing structural frames; Creating awareness of contingency; Assisted problem definition; The search for solutions; References; Index
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    Conflict Management and African Politics : Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415443012
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (169 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
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    DDC: 303.6/9096
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This book builds on the overarching theme of conflict management to reflect on negotiations, mediation, and conflict resolution in Africa.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; 1 Conflict management and African politics: Framing the links; Part I: New research on negotiation theory; 2 Ripeness revisited: The perils of muscular mediation; 3 Perverse negotiations: Bribery, bargaining, and ripeness; 4 Putting The Practical Negotiator to the test: Two examinations of the formula-details proposition; Part II: The international relations of Africa; 5 The evolution of Euro-African relations; 6 Post-cold war conflict in West Africa: A subordinate state system in collapse?
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Conflict and conflict resolution in Africa7 Conditions for mediation success: Evaluating US initiatives in Sudan and Liberia; 8 The Zimbabwe independence settlement revisited: Race, land, class, and ripe moments; 9 African conflict "Medicine": An emerging paradigm shift in African conflict resolution?; Index
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    Human Ecology : Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781853837135
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Human Ecology : Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development
    DDC: 304.2
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    Abstract: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Human Ecology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and boxes; Foreword by Maurice Strong; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; What is human ecology?; Sustainable development; Organization of this book; 2. Populations and feedback systems; Exponential population growth; Positive feedback; Negative feedback; Population regulation; The practical significance of positive and negative feedback; 3. Human population; Human population history; Social mechanisms of population regulation; The population explosion and quality of life
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Ecosystems and social systems as complex adaptive systemsHierarchical organization and emergent properties; Self-organization; Stability domains; Complex system cycles; 5. Ecosystem organization; Coadaptation; Ecosystem design; Ecosystem homeostasis; Comparison of natural, agricultural and urban ecosystems; Landscape mosaics; 6. Ecological succession; Ecological succession; Human-induced succession; Managing succession; 7. Coevolution and coadaptation of human social systems and ecosystems; Coadaptation in traditional social systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Coevolution of the social system and ecosystem from traditional to modern agriculture8. Ecosystem services; Material cycling and energy flow; Ecosystem services; The relation between ecosystem services and intensity of use; The fallacy that economic supply and demand protect natural resources from overexploitation; 9. Perceptions of nature; Common perceptions of nature; Attitudes of religions toward nature; Notes of caution about romanticizing nature and traditional social systems; 10. Unsustainable human-ecosystem interaction; Human migrations; New technologies
    Description / Table of Contents: Portable capital in a free market economyTragedy of the commons; Large inputs to agricultural and urban ecosystems; Urbanization and alienation from nature; The rise and fall of complex societies; Wishful thinking and the precautionary principle; 11. Sustainable human-ecosystem interaction; Human social institutions and sustainable use of common property resources; Coexistence of urban ecosystems with nature; Resilience and sustainable development; Adaptive development; 12. Examples of ecologically sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: Dengue hemorrhagic fever, mosquitoes and copepods: an example of eco-technology for sustainable developmentThe Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program: an example of regional environmental management; Glossary; Further reading; Index
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    Self Continuity (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780805857016
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (292 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Self Continuity: Individual and Collective Perspectives
    DDC: 155.2
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    Abstract: This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology.The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms. Topics include environmental and cultural influences on self-continuity; the interplay of autobiographical memory and personal self-continuity; the psychological function of self-continuity; personal and collective self-continuity; and resistance to change. The volume is rounded off with commentaries on t
    Description / Table of Contents: Front cover; Contents; The Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview; Section I: Cultural and Societal Dimensions of Self Continuity; Chapter 2. Self in Time Emergence within a Community of Minds; Chapter 3. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Personal Identity; Section II: Self Continuity, Autobiographical Memory, and Identity; Chapter 4. Autobiographical Memory in Childhood and the Development of a Continuous Self; Chapter 5. Remebering Being Me: The Self Continuity Function of Autobiographical Memory in Youngr and Older Adults
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6. The Contributions of Autobiographical Memory to the Content and Continuity of Identity: A Social-Cognitive Neuroscience ApproachSection III: Self Continuity Motives and Maintenance Strategies; Chapter 7. The Never-Ending Story: A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychological Function of Self Continuity; Chapter 8. Spanning Time: An Amoebic Self-Perspective; Section IV: The Continuity of Groups and Collective Selves; Chapter 9. Perceiving Continuity and Change in Groups; Chapter 10. The Intergenerational Self: Subjective Perspective and Family History
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 11. Making a Past Fit for the Future: The Political and Ontological Dimensions of Historical ContinutityChapter 12. Perceived Collective Continuity; Seeing Groups as Temporally Enduring Entities; Section V: Collective Self Continuity in a Time of Change; Chapter 13. Leaders as Agents of Continuity: Self Continuity and Resistance to Collective Change; Chapter 14. Torn between Identities; Predictors of Adjustment to Identity Change; Section VI: The Interplay between Individual and Collective Self Continuity
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 15. Conceptions of the Human Self and Human Rights: Implications for the Psycholgical Continuity of Less Inclusive SelvesChapter 16. Personal Persistance and Persistent Peoples: Continuities in the Lives of Individual and Whole Cultural Communities; Chapter 17. Nostalgia as Enabler of Self Continuity; Section VII: Commentaries; Chapter 18. ""Know Thyself!"" ... But What, How, and Why?; Chapter 19. Commenting on Continuity: A View from Social Psychology; Index; Back cover
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    Self Versus Others : Media, Messages, and the Third-Person Effect (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780805857160
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (165 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Self Versus Others : Media, Messages, and the Third-Person Effect
    DDC: 303.342
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Self Versus Others 〈/EM〉explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages-such as persuaded to engage in risky behaviors or encouraged to be violent-but they believe others will be
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Third-Person Effect; 2 Receiver Variables; 3 Message Variables; 4 Source and Channel Variables; 5 The First-Person Effect as Persuasion; 6 Defining the Others; 7 Systematic Versus Heuristic Processing; 8 Understanding the Third-Person Effect as a Special Context for Persuasion; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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    The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour : Amoral Panics (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415957052
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (470 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour : Amoral Panics
    DDC: 302.170941
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    Abstract: 〈P〉By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, 〈EM〉The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour〈/EM〉 re-poses the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Routledge Advances in Criminology; Contents; Foreword; REFERENCES; Preface; 1 Introduction; INTRODUCTION; APOCALYPSE NOW?; THE FEAR FACTOR; ANTISOCIAL; HARM; THE BOOK; 2 Safety-The New 'Absolute'; INTRODUCTION; THE 'NEW' PARTY OF LAW AND ORDER; COMMUNITY SAFETY; SAFETY CLAIMS; CHILD SAFETY; FREEDOM FROM FEAR; RECONNECTING THROUGH SAFETY; RIGHTS AND RESPONSBILITIES; RESPONSIBILISATION; WIDER AND WEAKER; PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY; THERAPEUTIC LEGITIMATION; HILLHOUSE; FEAR FOR CHILDREN; ADULT FEARS; CONCLUSION; 3 The Politics of Vulnerability; INTRODUCTION; THE NEO-LIBERAL FALLACY
    Description / Table of Contents: THATCHER'S LEGACYLIBERTY AND LAGER LOUTS; MAJOR REGULATION; THE UNDERCLASS; THE END OF 'CULTURE'; NEW PARTY OF LAW AND ORDER; 'AGGRESSIVE' BEGGING; NEW LABOUR AND COMMUNITY SAFETY; CONSTRUCTING VICTIMS; THE RADICAL CONSTRUCTION OF VICTIMHOOD; FEMINISTS AND LEFT REALISTS AS CLAIMSMAKERS; CONCLUSION; 4 Diminished Subjectivity; INTRODUCTION; DIMINISHED LEFT; THE DANGERS OF FREEDOM; VICTIM POLITICS; ANTI 'SOCIAL' THERAPEUTICS; DIMINISHED SOCIAL DIMINISHED INDIVIDUAL; THE VENEER OF POLITICS; THE WEASEL WORD-COMMUNITY; THE POLITICS OF FEAR; CONCLUSION; 5 From Moral to Amoral Panics; INTRODUCTION
    Description / Table of Contents: NOTHING HAS CHANGED?COHEN AND HALL; AMERICAN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTI ISTS; SOCIAL PROBLEM OR MORAL PANIC?; WHO MAKES MORAL PANICS?; THE CHANGING FACE OF 'MORAL PANICS'; LOSS OF MORAL AUTHORITY; THE CONVERGENCE OF LEFT AND RIGHT; INSTITUTIONALI ED PANIC; THE MORAL SUBJECT; THE NEW 'MORAL' ICON-THE VICTIM; FROM MORAL PANICS TO A FEAR OF RISK; THE NEW THERAPEUTIC 'MORALITY' OF SAFETY; GRASSROOTS PANICS?; A PANIC ABOUT A PANIC; CONCLUSION; 6 Asocial Society; INTRODUCTION; THE MEANING OF 'ANTISOCIAL' BEHAVIOR; THE PROBLEM OF BEHAVIOR; THERAPEUTIC BEHAVIOR; ASOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; ASOCIAL INDIVIDUAL
    Description / Table of Contents: ASOCIAL ANXIETYFUTURE SHOCK; ASOCIAL RESPECT; ENCOURAGING IMPOTENCE; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Global Empowerment of Women : Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415955454
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (400 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Global Empowerment of Women : Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions
    DDC: 305.42
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    Abstract: 〈P〉Through an examination of case studies in twenty countries, this volume probes the meanings of women's empowerment in the context of local conflicts around power, culture and violence, and initiatives from national and global levels.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Global Empowerment of Women; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Dedication and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Markets, Communities, and Empowerment: Carolyn M. Elliott; Part I: Globalization and Neoliberal Governance; 1. Competing Empowerments: Gender and Neoliberal Punishment in the East and West: Lynne Haney; 2. Biology and Destiny: Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Wendy Chavkin; 3. Socio-Economic Transformation Under Globalization: The Case of Nepalese Women: Meena Acharya
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Empowerment of Women Migrant Factory Workers in South China: Opportunities and Contradictions: Esther Ngan-ling Chow5. Transnational Domestication: State Power and Indonesian Migrant Women in Saudi Arabia: Rachel Silvey; 6. Domains of Empowerment: Women in Micro-credit Groups Negotiating with Multiple Patriarchies: Lakshmi Lingam; Part II: Politicized Religions and Citizenship; 7. Gender, Nation, and the Dilemmas of Citizenship: The Case of the Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago: Rhoda Reddock
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Constructing the Female Muslim Citizen: Law as a Site of Struggle for Inclusion and Exclusion: Titia Loenen9. Shari'ah Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud: Margot Badran; 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish Weeklies: Agnieszka Graff; Part III: Gender Violence and Masculinities; 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the Experience of Truth Commissions: Julissa Mantilla Falcon; 12. Rape, Trauma, and Meaning: Nicola Gavey
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Understanding Masculinities, Empowering Women: What Have Boys in Ghana Got to Do with It?: Akosua Adomako Ampofo and John Boateng14. The Truth Will Set Us Free: Religion, Violence, and Women's Empowerment in Latin America: Monica Maher; Part IV: Sexual Autonomy and Global Politics; 15. Women, Culture, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Does the "Empowerment" Discourse Leave Out?: Kawango E. Agot; 16. Age of Consent Law and Moral Order: The Criminalization of Youth Sexual Relationships in Uganda: Shanti A. Parikh
    Description / Table of Contents: 17. Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church and the Family Planning Debacle in Peru: Christina EwigWorks Cited; Contributors; Other Scholars in the NCS Program; Index
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    On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780789033536
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (179 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men
    DDC: 306.76/62
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men〈/EM〉 takes readers beyond a traditional exploration of gay sexuality and romantic relationships, into the realm of recognizing the importance of friendship to gay men
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTRIBUTORS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: TOWARD A DEFINITION OF GAY MALE FRIENDSHIP; - 1 - Why "Friendship" Works-And Doesn't; PART II: ON FRIENDSHIP AND MENTORSHIP; - 2 - 715 Willey Street; - 3 - Time and Tide; - 4 - The Grounds on Which We Met: Friendship and the Possible; PART III: ON FRIENDSHIP AND THE GROUP; - 5 - Larry, Me, and "The Family"; - 6 - Circuitries of Friendship: Camaraderie on the Dance Floor; PART IV: ON FRIENDSHIP AND SEXUALITY; - 7 - A Towel and a TV; - 8 - More Was Better: Sex with Friends
    Description / Table of Contents: - 9 - The Crossing- 10 - The Country Club; PART V: ON FRIENDSHIP AND SPIRITUALITY; - 11 - Soul Friend; PART VI: ON FRIENDSHIP AND BEING ALONE; - 12 - A String Theory of Friendship; - 13 - Not Quite There; - 14 - Absence: Living Everyday Life Without Gay Male Friends; PART VII: ON FRIENDSHIP AND SURVIVAL; - 15 - Friends: When Are They Necessary?; - 16 - Notes from the Apocalypse: A Week with Katrina; PART VIII: ON FRIENDSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP; - 17 - Subject: friendship
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    Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780203892480
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (251 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia
    DDC: 302.23095
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    Abstract: This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new des
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Media Consumption in Globalization; 1 Experiencing Globalization: Global TV, Reflexivity and the Lives of Young Korean Women; 2 Muslim Media and Youth in Globalizing Southeast Asia; 3 Reimagining Tradition: Globalization in India from MTV to Hanuman; 4 Reinventing Nationalism: The Politics of Malaysian Idol on Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Malaysia; 5 Media Consumption and Incomplete Globalization: How Chinese Interpret Border-Crossing Hong Kong TV Dramas
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: The Rise of Asian Media: Regional Consumption6 East Asian Pop Culture: Layers of Communities; 7 Discovering Japanese TV Drama through Online Chinese Fans: Narrative Reflexivity, Implicit Therapy and the Question of the Social Imaginary; 8 Dialogue with the Korean Wave: Japan and its Postcolonial Discontents; 9 Nonresident Consumption of Indian Cinema in Asia; 10 Bollywood in Bangladesh: Transcultural Consumption in Globalizing South Asia; Part III: Everyday Life in Transition: Contesting Identity; 11 Consuming and Producing (Post)modernity: Youth and Popular Culture in Thailand
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Consuming Sex and the City: Young Taiwanese Women Contesting Sexuality13 Cybercute Politics: The Internet Cyworld and Gender Performativity in Korea; 14 Cultural Migrants and the Construction of the Imagined West: The Japanese Youth; Contributors; Index
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    Trans People in Love (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780789035714
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (306 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Trans People in Love
    DDC: 306.7680922
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    Abstract: 〈STRONG〉〈STRONG〉〈STRONG〉〈P〉〈EM〉Trans People in Love〈/EM〉 provides insight into the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to relationships, the skills needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling. 〈/STRONG〉〈/P〉〈/STRONG〉〈/STRONG〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Tital; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Switcheroo; Chapter 2: My Desire to Be All Woman; Chapter 3: Our Trip to Vancouver; Chapter 4: To Fight, Live, and Love at the Gender Border; Chapter 5: Perfect Day; Chapter 6: A Transgressor's Love; Chapter 7: I'm Not a Lesbian, My Wife Is: Norms and Perceptions in a Trans Marriage; Chapter 8: Nick and Mark; Chapter 9: Beyond Gender and Sexuality; Chapter 10: From Russia With Love; Chapter 11: Queerly Beloved: How a Lesbian Love Survived Transition
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: Sex and the Single TrannieChapter 13: Between Shows: A True Story; Chapter 14: To the Three Women I Loved in My Transgender Life; Chapter 15: Bodies May Lie but Hearts Never Do; Chapter 16: Satan and Lady Babalon: Polyamory Again at 64; Chapter 17: The Adventures of a Trans Man in Love, Sex, and Spirituality; Chapter 18: Eternity Fields of Yokatatumba; Chapter 19: My Husband Had a Sex Change-Shit Happens; Chapter 20: Things of His; Chapter 21: Love Lost and Found; Chapter 22: From Queer to Eternity; Chapter 23: Kayla and Laura; Chapter 24: Madam Carmen
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 25: Still Queer After All These Years: Reflections on Being in a Trans CoupleChapter 26: Notes for Trans People; Chapter 27: Notes for Therapists
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    Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist : A Critical Introduction (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415956420
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist : A Critical Introduction
    DDC: 305.42092
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    Abstract: In this book, Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword, Beverly Guy-Sheftall; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "A Woman of Rare Courage and Conviction"; 1 "A little more than ordinary interest in the underprivileged" Cooper's Lifelong Commitment to Liberation; 2 "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation"Cooper's Multidimensional Praxis; 3 "If you object to imaginary lines - don't draw them!"Cooper's Border-Crossing Methods
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 "Failing at the most essential provision of the revolutionary ideal" Lessons from France and Haiti's Transatlantic Struggle over Abolition and Égalité5 Mapping Sites of PowerCooper's Redefinition of "the philosophic mind"; 6 Tracing Resistant Legacies, Rethinking Intellectual GenealogiesReflections on Cooper's Black Feminist Theorizing; Notes; References; Subject Index
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    Trans-Atlantic Migration : The Paradoxes of Exile (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415960915
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (315 p)
    Series Statement: African Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Trans-Atlantic Migration : The Paradoxes of Exile
    DDC: 304.8096
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This book contrasts voluntary labor and political migration with the involuntary diaspora by focusing on the paradoxes of migration, exile, and survival of African immigrants in the New World.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Prospero's Ripples, Caliban's Burden; Part I Paradoxes of (Im)migration and Exile; Chapter Two Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (USA); Chapter Three Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of Liberation; Chapter Four Immigrants' Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic Portrayals of African Immigrants in Movies
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II Migration, Labor Conflicts, and DevelopmentChapter Five "The Uprooted Emigrant": The Impact of Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Brain Circulation on Africa's Development; Chapter Six Walking for Land, Drinking Palm Wine: Migrant Farmers and the Historicity of Land Conflict in Brong Ahafo, Ghana; Chapter Seven Migrants in French Sudan: Gender Biases in the Historiography; Chapter Eight The Impact of the Relationship between Migrants and Traditional Authorities on South African Mining Communities; Part III Migration and Survival Politics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Nine Cultural and Ethnic Accommodation of New-Comers in South AfricaChapter Ten Pan-Africanism: The Impact of the Nkrumah Years, 1945-1966; Chapter Eleven African Political Instability and the Search for an Inclusive Society; Chapter Twelve A Critical Analysis of the Social and Economic Impact of Asian Diaspora in Kenya; Conclusion The Moral Ambiguity of Trans-Atlantic Migration; Appendix Abbreviations & Linguistic Cluster; Contributors; Index
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    Global Perspectives on Gender Equality : Reversing the Gaze (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415963497
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge / UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    Parallel Title: Print version Global Perspectives on Gender Equality : Reversing the Gaze
    DDC: 305.4209485
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    Abstract: 〈P〉The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. This book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to explore, from a comparative perspective, the vision, values, policies, mechanisms and political processes that help to explain Nordic achievements on gender equality. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Reversing the Gaze; 2 The Transition to Mass Literacy: Comparative Insights from Sweden and Pakistan; 3 Gender and the Family in Public Policy: A Comparative View of Argentina and Sweden; 4 Maternalist Politics in Norway and the Islamic Republic of Iran; 5 Challenging the Male Norm of Employment: Evidence from Sweden, Norway, and Hungary; 6 Sexual Politics and Social Policy: Swedish Policy Reviewed
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 "Women Are Like Boats": Discourse, Policy, and Collective Action in Sweden and India8 Quotas and Interest Representation: South Africa and Sweden in Comparative Perspective; 9 What's in That Little Book?: Gender Statistics and the Nordic Road Map Toward Evidence-Based Policies in Africa; 10 Institutionalising Equality: Putting Gender Issues at the Centre in Mexico and Sweden; 11 Don't Disturb the Men: A Viable Gender-Equality Strategy?; 12 Passion, Pragmatism, and the Politics of Advocacy: The Nordic Experience Through a "Gender and Development" Lens; Contributors; Index
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    Empires and Boundaries : Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415962391
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Parallel Title: Print version Empires and Boundaries : Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings
    DDC: 305.09171/9
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    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings〈/EM〉 is an exciting collection of original essays explaining the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Empires, Boundaries, and the Production of Difference; 2 "Education for Work" in Colony and Metropole: The Case of Imperial Germany, c. 1880-1914; 3 Hierarchies of Punishment in Colonial India: European Convicts and the Racial Dividend, c. 1860-1890; 4 Boundaries of Race: Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited; 5 Contested Boundaries of Whiteness: Public Service Recruitment and the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association, 1876-1901
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Citizenship and the Politics of Difference in French Africa, 1946-19607 Gendering the Colonial Enterprise: La Mère-Patrie and Maternalism in France and French Indochina; 8 A Hybrid Gaze from Delacroix to Djebar: Visual Encounters and the Construction of the Female "Other" in the Colonial Discourse of Maghreb; 9 In the Empire's Eyes: Africa in Italian Colonial Cinema Between Imperial Fantasies and Blind Spots; 10 Rationalizing the World: British Detective Stories and the Orient
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 African Americans in West and Central Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Agents of European Colonial Rule?12 The Boundaries of Blackness: African-American Culture and the Making of a Black Public Sphere in Colonial South Africa; Index
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    Media Management : a casebook approach (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780203877265
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (427 p)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Media Management
    DDC: 302.23068
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    Abstract: Media Management: A Casebook Approach provides a detailed look at the major areas of responsibility that fall to the managers of media organizations, including leadership, motivation, planning, marketing, and strategic management. It provides media-based cases that promote the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Addressing such topics as diversity, group cultures, progressive discipline, training, and market-driven journalism, this casebook provides real-world scenarios that help students anticipate and prepare for experiences in their future careers. Among the additio
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Media Management: A Casebook Approach; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; 1 MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING; 2 LEADERSHIP AND THE WORKFORCE; 3 MOTIVATION; 4 MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS; 5 INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE; 6 LAW, REGULATION, AND ETHICS; 7 PLANNING; 8 MARKET ANALYSIS; 9 MARKETING AND RESEARCH; 10 MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL: MANAGING KNOWLEDGE; EXTENDED CASE STUDIES; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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    Gesture : Second Language Acquistion and Classroom Research (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780805860528
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (340 p)
    Series Statement: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Gesture : Second Language Acquistion and Classroom Research
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This book demonstrates the vital connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND ITS L2 APPLICATIONS; 1 Gesture Studies and Second Language Acquisition: A Review; 2 Nonverbal Communication, Gesture, and Second Language Classrooms: A Review; PART II: GESTURE AND MAKING MEANING IN THE L2; 3 Material Foundations for Second Language Acquisition: Gesture, Metaphor, and Internalization; 4 Embodiment as Self-Regulation in L2 Task Performance; 5 The Dialectics of Gesture in the Construction of Meaning in Second Language Oral Narratives; PART III: GESTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE L2
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Gesturally-Enhanced Repeats in the Repair Turn: Communication Strategy or Cognitive Language- Learning Tool?7 Does Gesture Aid Discourse Comprehension in the L2?; 8 Language Learner and Native Speaker Perceptions of Japanese Refusal Gestures Portrayed in Video; PART IV: GESTURE AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN THE L2; 9 A Helping Hand? Gestures, L2 Learners, and Grammar; 10 Linguistic and Gestural Introduction of Ground Reference in L1 and L2 Narrative; 11 What Gestures Reveal About Second Language Acquisition; PART V: GESTURE AND THE L2 CLASSROOM
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 "Because of Her Gesture, It's Very Easy to Understand"-Learners' Perceptions of Teachers' Gestures in the Foreign Language Class13 Gesture and the Negotiation of Meaning in a Second Language Classroom; 14 Expository Discourse in a Second Language Classroom: How Learners Use Gesture; Index
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    White Weddings : Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415951944
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (299 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version White Weddings : Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: This classic book in the social sciences shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Lifting the Veil; Chapter Two The Wedding-Industrial Complex; Chapter Three Romancing the Clone: The White Wedding; Chapter Four McBride Meets McDreamy: Television Weddings, the Internet, and Popular Film; Chapter Five And They Lived Happily Ever After . . .; Epilogue; Appendix; Endnotes; References; Photo Permissions; Index
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    Western Media Systems (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415396912
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (304 p)
    Series Statement: Communication and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Western Media Systems
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Explaining Western media systems; 2 Media system evolution; 3 Transformations and continuities in media systems (late 1970s to 2000s); 4 Media theory: Paradigms and power; 5 Media and politics; 6 Media policy and regulation; 7 Media markets; 8 Western media and globalisation; 9 Assessing Western media systems; Appendix: Comparative country data; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals) : Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415615594
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals) : Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
    DDC: 302
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    Abstract: Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He gives an exposition of the voluntaristic theory of action as found in Talcott Parson's work, reconstructing and extending Parson's theory from the perspective of the present-day level of development. In this way he both integrates opposing orientations to action the
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translation editor's note; Preface; Introduction: The rational reconstruction of the theory of action; 1 The structure of the Kantian core; 2 The continuity of the development; 3 From positivism and idealism to the voluntaristic theory of action; Concluding considerations: 'Dialetically' replacing positivism and idealism with the voluntaristic theory of action; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Subject Index
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    The Politics of Gender : A Survey (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781857434934
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (401 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Gender : A Survey
    DDC: 305.3
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    Abstract: First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; The Editor and Contributors; Abbreviations; Essays; Introduction: the politics of gender; Not a woman hater: Hobbes's critique of patriarchy; Politics of difference and activism at intersections: Romani women in Eastern and Central Europe; Class, violence and masculinity in Hollywood movies: a neo-Marxian meta-narrative; The gender politics of international relations; Plus ça (climate) change, plus c'est la même (masculinist) chose: gender politics and the discourses of climate change
    Description / Table of Contents: The politics of gender: the case of the female trafficked migrantFeminist imperialism: travel writing and journalism past and present; Gender and/as genocide; Mainstreaming gender into the African Union peace and security agenda; Sovereignty, subjectivity and human rights: a gender sketch; A-Z Glossary Gender and politics; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Bibliography
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    Voices from the Forest : Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming (2010)
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    ISBN: 9781891853913
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (853 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Voices from the Forest : Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming
    DDC: 306.3/49
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    Abstract: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming; Copyright; Contents ; Foreword; Preface; Maps of case studies ; Part I: Introduction ; 1. Challenges for Research and Development on Improving Shifting Cultivation Systems; 2. Working with and for Plants: Indigenous Fallow Management in Perspective ; 3. Conceptualizing Indigenous Approaches to Fallow Management: A Road Map to this Volume; Part II: Retention or Promotion of Volunteer Species with Economic or Ecological Value
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Relict Emergents in Swidden Fallows of the Lawa in Northern Thailand: Ecology and Economic Potential5. Successional Forest Development in Swidden Fallows of Different Ethnic Groups in Northern Thailand; 6. Kammu Fallow Management in Lao P.D.R., with Emphasis on Bamboo Use; 7. The Potential of Wild Vegetables as Permanent Crops or to Improve Fallows in Sarawak, Malaysia; 8. Commercialization of Fallow Species by Bidayuh Shifting Cultivators in Sarawak, Malaysia; 9. Wild Food Plants as Alternative Fallow Species in the Cordillera Region, the Philippines
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Farmer-Developed Forage Management Strategies for Stabilization of Shifting Cultivation Systems11. Managing Imperata Grasslands in Indonesia and Laos; 12. Natural Forest Regeneration from an Imperata Fallow: The Case of Pakhasukjai; 13. When Shifting Cultivators Migrate to the Cities, How Can the Forest be Rehabilitated?; Part III: Shrub-based Accelerated Fallows ; 14. Fallow Improvement with Chromolaena odorata in Upland Rice Systems of Northern Laos; 15. Management of Fallows Based on Austroeupatorium inulaefolium by Minangkabau Farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia
    Description / Table of Contents: 16. Piper aduncum Fallows in the Lowlands of Papua New Guinea17. Management of Tecoma stans Fallows in Semi-arid Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia; 18. Improved Fallows Using a Spiny Legume, Mimosa invisa Martius ex Colla, in Western Leyte, the Philippines; 19. Management of Mimosa diplotricha var. inermis as a Simultaneous Fallow in Northern Thailand; Part IV: Herbaceous Legume Fallows ; 20. Growing Ya Zhou Hyacinth Beans in the Dry Season on Hainan Island, China; 21. Indigenous Fallow Management Based on Flemingia vestita in Northeast India
    Description / Table of Contents: 22. Benefits of Phaseolus calcaratus in Upland Farming in Northern Vietnam23. Viny Legumes as Accelerated Seasonal Fallows: Intensifying Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand; Part V: Dispersed Tree-based Fallows ; 24. The Role of Leucaena in Swidden Cropping and Livestock Production in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia; 25. Use of Leucaena leucocephala to Intensify Indigenous Fallow Rotations in Sulawesi, Indonesia; 26. Upland Rice Response to Leucaena leucocephala Fallows on Mindoro, the Philippines
    Description / Table of Contents: 27. The Naalad Improved Fallow System in the Philippines and its Implications for Global Warming
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    Visual Communication : Integrating Media, Art, and Science (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780805850659
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (489 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Visual Communication : Integrating Media, Art, and Science
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: This visual literacy text introduces the application of intuitive intelligence to a visual context. For students in visual literacy & visual communication courses.〈br〉
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Knowing Before Words; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Integrative Mind; PART I. VISION AND INTELLIGENCE: Understanding Intelligence as Intuitive and Rational; CHAPTER ONE: Seeking Dynamic Balance: The Shaman, The Scientist, and the Theologian; CREATIVE ONE: The Intimate Eye: Accessing Your Inner Vision Through Creative Visualization; CHAPTER TWO: Abu Rocks: Integrating Perceptual and Conceptual Realities; CREATIVE TWO: Visualizing a Personal Symbolic Portrait; CHAPTER THREE: Art and Personal Development: The Quest for Balance
    Description / Table of Contents: CREATIVE THREE: The Perceptual to Conceptual Leap: First DrawingsCHAPTER FOUR: Overcoming Intuitive Illiteracy: Accessing Your Whole Mind; CREATIVE FOUR: The Yin/Yang of Drawing: Drawing Contours, Not Features; CHAPTER FIVE: Ulysses in his Right Mind: The Historical Intuitive Mind; CREATIVE FIVE: Drawing the Figure: One Contour, One Space at a Time; CHAPTER SIX: Multiple Intelligences and Nonconscious Biases: The Contemporary Intuitive Mind; CREATIVE SIX: Bringing It All Together: Drawing for Real; PART II. VISUAL ILLITERACY AND EDUCATION: What We Don't Learn
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER SEVEN: The Square Peg and the Round Hole: Education and Intuitive IntelligenceCREATIVE SEVEN: Designing Shapes: Concepts in Visual Form; CHAPTER EIGHT: Visions in Voice: Language and the Intuitive Mind; CREATIVE EIGHT: The Visual Word: Giving Vision to Voice; CHAPTER NINE: Insight Out: Dreams and the Nonconscious Mind; CREATIVE NINE: Dream Visions: Insight Out; CHAPTER TEN: Sharing the Vision: Photography as a Medium of Balance; CREATIVE TEN: Image Insights: Photography from the Inside Out; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Designing for Meaning; CREATIVE ELEVEN: Graphic Visions: Looking for Meaning
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER TWELVE: Embedded Meanings: Learning to Look Behind the Mirrors and Beyond the WindowsCREATIVE TWELVE: Thinking Systematically about Images; PART III. THE PUBLIC AS ART AND IMAGE: The Academy, The Media, and Visual Persuasion; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Stopping Time and Framing Space; CREATIVE THIRTEEN: Personal Impact Assessment: Understanding Images from Intuitive and Rational Perspectives; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Images That Move and Sound; CREATIVE FOURTEEN: Film Clip Analysis; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Living at the Speed of Mind: Old Media-New Media
    Description / Table of Contents: CREATIVE FIFTEEN: Communicating the Story of a PersonCHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Thousand-Year Project; AFTERWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; REFERENCES; SUGGESTED READING; INDEX OF TERMS BY CHAPTER/CREATIVE; ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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    The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) : From Plato to Canetti (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415602228
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (276 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) : From Plato to Canetti
    DDC: 302.33
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    Abstract: First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Idea of the Crowd in History; 1 The Crowd in the Ancient World; 2 Some Medieval Crowds and Machiavelli on the Roman People; 3 The Crowd and Liberty: Machiavelli, Montesquieu and America; 4 Some Historians on the Crowd before and after the French Revolution: Gibbon, Carlyle, Michelet and Taine; 5 The Crowd as the Clue to the Mystery of the Modern World: Taine against the Enlightenment; 6 From the Criminal Crowd to a Social Theory: Scipio Sighele and Gabriel Tarde
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Crowd Theory Makes its Way in the World: The Le Bon Phenomenon8 The Leader and his Crowd: Freud's Group Psychology (1921); 9 The Triumph of the Crowd: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (1924-5); 10 The Sanity of Crowds and the Madness of Power: Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960); Afterword: Safety from Numbers; Bibliography; Index
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    On-Scene Guide for Crisis Negotiators, Second Edition (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780849314414
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (281 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version On-Scene Guide for Crisis Negotiators, Second Edition
    DDC: 302.3
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    Abstract: According to author Frederick J. Lanceley-one of the world's foremost crisis negotiation authorities-negotiators must train and train regularly. For just as the legal field constantly evolves, so does the field of crisis negotiation. The new edition of On-Scene Guide for Crisis Negotiators reflects this fact. A bestseller in its first edition, this book offers practical advice with regard to the theory, procedures, and techniques of crisis and suicide intervention and hostage negotiation. Two new chapters in the second edition cover negotiation with people under the i
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; The Problem in Perspective; Profiling Sieges; Crisis States and Crisis Intervention; Active listening; Suicide Intervention; Hostage Negotiation; Abnormal Psychology for Crisis Negotiators; Dialogue and Actions; Drugs, Alcohol, and the Negotiation Process; Appendices; Appendix A Suicide Intervention Flow Chart; Appendix B Interview Guide for Investigators; Appendix C Overview of Active listening Techniques; Appendix D The Continuing Need for Training; Appendix E The Dangers of Manipulating Anxiety Levels; Appendix F The Negotiation Effort
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix G The Troubled State of Crisis ManagementAppendix H A Negotiator's View of the Incident at Ruby Ridge; Index
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    The Diaspora Strikes Back : Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415952606
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 p)
    Series Statement: Cultural Spaces
    Parallel Title: Print version The Diaspora Strikes Back : Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
    DDC: 304.8/7295073
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    Abstract: In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; SERIES FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: CARIBEÑOS, COUNTERSTREAMS AND CULTURAL REMITTANCES; PART 1: CONCEPTUAL BEARINGS; 1 THINKING DIASPORA FROM BELOW; 2 OF REMIGRANTS AND REMITTANCES; 3 CARIBEÑO COUNTERSTREAM; PART 2: NARRATIVE GROUNDINGS; 4 TALES OF LEARNING AND TURNING; PART 3: STYLE TRANSFERS; 5 BRING THE SALSA: Diaspora Music as Source and Challenge; 6 OPEN MIC: Poetry, Performance, Emerging Identities; CODA: VISUAL CROSSINGS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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    Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals) : An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415571647
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (113 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals) : An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination
    DDC: 301.01
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    Abstract: For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the 'nature-like' character of society - and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. In this powerful and engaging work, first published in 1976, Professor Bauman outlines the historical roots of such a science and describes how the new trends in sociology emerging from phenomenology and existentialism do not challenge this preoccupation. Rather, he claims, they deepen and extend it by stressing the key role of commonsense, particularly the ways in which it is sustained and embedded in the routin
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 THE SCIENCE OF UNFREEDOM; CHAPTER 2 CRITIQUE OF SOCIOLOGY; CHAPTER 3 CRITIQUE OF UNFREEDOM; NOTES
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    The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) : A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415579209
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (146 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) : A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
    DDC: 303.4
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    Abstract: Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming t
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Preface; chapter 1 Functionalism and social change; chapter 2 The 'neo-evolutionary' revival; chapter 3 The stages of evolution; chapter 4 Modernism and modernisation; chapter 5 Revolution; chapter 6 Equilibrium and change; chapter 7 Evolution and history; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals) : Portrait of a Japanese Valley (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415589314
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (182 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals) : Portrait of a Japanese Valley
    DDC: 301.0952
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    Abstract: First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very personal and sensitive book depicts not only the intricate relationships among the valley people, but also those between them and the anthropologist who has come from the outside world to study them.The book has a dual purpose: to portray the intimate, day-to-day lives of people living in a remote part of
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I: The River's Flow; II: Scattered Blossoms; III: Voice of the Cicada; Sources of Quotations and Allusions
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    Economic Tracts for the Times (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415598385
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (207 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Economic Tracts for the Times
    DDC: 304
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    Abstract: 〈P〉Originally written as a series of pamphlets and at a time of high unemployment, this volume discusses free trade, monetary policy, wages and employment, economic theory and social legislation. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; CONTENTS; NOTE; PART I: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS; I: A SHORT TRACT FOR THE TIMES; II: THE CRISIS; III: FREE TRADE, TARIFFS, AND THE ALTERNATIVE; IV: PUBLIC OPINION AND MONETARY POLICY; V: WHY AND HOW WE MUST SOCIALISE THE BANKS; VI: THE WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FROM THE STANDPOINT OF LABOUR; VII: WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT; PART II: ECONOMICS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; VIII: TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMIC THEORY; IX: THE USE AND ABUSE OF ECONOMIC TERMS; X: THE NATURE OF PROFIT; XI: THE ABOLITION OF THE WAGE SYSTEM; PART III: SOCIALISATION
    Description / Table of Contents: XII: PUBLIC AND SEMI-PUBLIC CONCERNSXIII: THE ESSENTIALS OF SOCIALISATION; XIV: THE METHOD OF SOCIAL LEGISLATION; XV: WHY I AM A SOCIALIST
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    Confronting Global Gender Justice : Women's Lives, Human Rights (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415780780
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (341 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Confronting Global Gender Justice : Women’s Lives, Human Rights
    DDC: 305.42
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    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights〈/EM〉 examines the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, artists, and educators engaged in establishing women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. Issues addressed include: trafficking, AIDS, immigration, war-time violence, and legal battles. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Women's lives, human rights; Part I: Complicating the discourses of victimhood; 1 Women and the genocidal rape of women: The gender dynamics of gendered war crimes; 2 Human trafficking: Why is it such an important women's issue?; 3 Transforming the representable: Asian women in anti-trafficking discourse; 4 Sin, salvation, or starvation?: The problematic role of religious morality in U.S. anti-sex trafficking policy; Part II: Interrogating practices of representation
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 How not to give rape political significance6 Human trafficking: A photographic essay; 7 Marjorie Agosín's poetics of memory: Human rights, feminism, and literary forms; 8 Digital storytelling for gender justice: Exploring the challenges of participation and the limits of polyvocality; Part III: Mobilizing strategies of engagement; 9 "Sweet electrical greetings": Women, HIV, and the evolution of an intervention project in Papua New Guinea; 10 Economic empowerment of women as a global project: Economic rights in the neo-liberal era
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Algerian women in movement: Three waves of feminist activism12 Using law and education to make human rights real in women's real lives; Part IV: Crossing legal landscapes; 13 Seduced by information, contaminated by power: Women's rights as a global panopticon; 14 Human rights of women and girls with disabilities in developing countries; 15 Gender and customary mechanisms of justice in Uganda; 16 Policing bodies and borders: Women, prostitution, and the differential regulation of U.S. immigration policy; 17 The institutionalization of domestic violence against women in the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V: Confronting global gender justice18 Configuring feminisms, transforming paradigms: Reflections from Kum-Kum Bhavnani-scholar, activist, filmmaker; Index
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    Events Feasibility and Development (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780750666404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (357 p)
    Series Statement: Events Management
    Parallel Title: Print version Events Feasibility and Development
    DDC: 005.1/1
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Events Feasibility and Development: From Strategy to Operations answers two fundamental questions faced by all events planners and organizers: how do I justify this event to the client? and why are we spending money on this event?.With a user-friendly learning structure containing bullet points, questions and exercises and international case studies (Australian Taxation Office, Saudi Arabian events returns, Fuji-Xerox events), Events Feasibility and Development: From Strategy to Operations looks at issues such as:the process of creating a feasibility studyevents forecasting models and cost/ben
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Events Feasibility and Development; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; About the Author; Series Preface; Introduction; Section 1: Strategic feasibility and development; Chapter 1: Event Strategy; Introduction; 1.1. Strategy checklist; 1.2. The event portfolio as an asset; 1.3. Cascade of objectives; 1.3.1. Strategic objective: Nation building through networks of common interests; 1.3.2. Keeping the tourist at home; Discussion topics; Chapter 2: Preparing the Strategy; Introduction; 2.1. Decision criteria; 2.2. Situation analysis; 2.2.1. The limitations of the SWOT analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3. Stakeholder consultation2.4. The strategy template; 2.5. Legal and regulatory environment; 2.6. Venues; 2.6.1. Event suppliers of goods and services; 2.6.2. Event companies and event staff; 2.6.3. Event competency; 2.6.4. Past events; Discussion topics; Chapter 3: Event Support: Directing the Development; Introduction; 3.1. Event support; 3.1.1. Develop the event; 3.1.2. Devolve the event; 3.1.3. Close the event; 3.2. Event typology; 3.2.1. Community events; 3.2.2. Official events (also called civic events); 3.2.3. Major events; 3.2.4. Business events; 3.2.5. Special or touring events
    Description / Table of Contents: Discussion topicsChapter 4: Implementation of the Strategy; Introduction; 4.1. Events unit; 4.1.1. Events unit: scope of work; 4.1.2. Events development position; 4.2. Events agencies; 4.2.1. EventBritain; 4.2.2. EventScotland; 4.2.3. Dubai Event Management Corporation; 4.2.4. EventsNSW; 4.2.5. Other countries; Discussion topics; Chapter 5: Techniques and Tools for Events Development; 5.1. Bidding and requests for tender; 5.1.1. Assessment of the tender; 5.2. Flagship events; 5.3. Integrated country promotion; 5.4. The events precinct; 5.5. Licensing; 5.6. Events forum; Discussion topics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Building Competency: Associations, Awards and TrainingIntroduction; 6.1. Event associations; 6.2. Event awards; 6.3. Event manual; 6.4. Building competency: event education and training; Section 1: conclusion; Discussion topics; Section 2: Management Feasibility and Development; Chapter 7: Management Models and the Business Case; Introduction; 7.1. A model, processes, system or a body of knowledge; 7.2. The event management environment: complexity and uncertainty; 7.3. Phases of event management and the event life cycle; 7.4. Intangibility of outcomes; 7.5. The business case
    Description / Table of Contents: Discussion topicsChapter 8: Setting up the Management System; Introduction; 8.1. Event project methodology; 8.2. Management framework as a spreadsheet; 8.2.1. Contents page; 8.2.2. The scope; 8.2.3. The organisation structure; 8.2.4. The stakeholder list; 8.2.5. Work breakdown structure; 8.2.6. The schedule: milestones; 8.2.7. The resources; 8.2.8. The budget; 8.2.9. The programme; 8.2.10. The risk register; 8.2.11. The site map; 8.2.12. The event checklist; 8.3. The developing event: a maturity model; Conclusion; Discussion topics; Chapter 9: Event Management Processes; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.1. From domains to a process model
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    Handbook of Research on Writing : History, Society, School, Individual, Text (2010)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (857 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook of Research on Writing : History, Society, School, Individual, Text
    DDC: 302.2/244
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    Abstract: The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social history? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning?   This cornerstone volum
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Advisory Board; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; I History of Writing; II Writing in Society; III Writing in Schooling; IV Writing and the Individual; Author Index; Subject Index
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    Memories of class : the pre-history and after-life of class (2010)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (166 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Routledge revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Memories of Class
    DDC: 305.509
    Keywords: Social status History ; Social classes History
    Abstract: First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'. The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and contr
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    The Coming Fin De Siècle : An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernism (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415567145
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim
    Parallel Title: Print version The Coming Fin De Siècle : An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernism
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. It does so by examining how Durkheim's ideas can be applied to current social issues. The author argues that there are striking parallels between the social context of the 1890s, when Durkheim began to publish in book form, and today. The book will appeal to the readers of sociology, as well as the related disciplines of philosophy, psychology, cultural studies and history. It is also intended for anyone interested in the issues and questions that were being r
    Description / Table of Contents: THE COMING FIN DE SIÈCLE An application of Durkheim's sociology to modernity andpostmodernism ; Copyright; THE COMING FIN DE SIÈCLE An application of Durkheim's sociology to modernity andpostmodernism ; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Back to the Future; Chapter 2 Defining Modernity and Postmodernism; Chapter 3 Durkheim's Era: The Cult of Feeling Versus the Cult of Reason; Chapter 4 Simmel and Durkheim as the First Sociologists of Modernity; Chapter 5 Durkheim's Stand on the Fin De Siècle; Chapter 6 The German Roots of Durkheim's Sociology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Ethics Based on the Mind Versus the Heart, Ratioality Versus CompassionChapter 8 Medjugorje, the Virgin Mary, and Medernity; Chapter 9 Postmodern Deregulation and Economic Anomie; Chapter 10 Civilization and its Discontents, Again; Chapter 11 Conclusions: The Coming Fin De Siècle and Postmodernism; References; Name index; Subject index
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    International Media Communication in a Global Age (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415998994
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (489 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version International Media Communication in a Global Age
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of resear
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Part I The Determinants of International News Flow and Coverage; Introduction: International News Coverage and Americans' Image of the World; Chapter 1 Changing Global Media Landscape, Unchanging Theories?: International Communication Research and Paradigm Testing; Chapter 2 Determining the Scope of "International" Communication: A (Living) Systems Approach; Chapter 3 International News Determinants in U.S. News Media in the Post-Cold War Era; Chapter 4 The Impact of Global News Coverage on International Aid
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5 Coverage of Foreign Elections in the United States: A Model of International News FlowChapter 6 Determinants of International News Coverage; Part II The Language of International News; Chapter 7 How Could So Much Produce So Little?: Foreign Affairs Reporting in the Wake of 9/11; Chapter 8 Patterns of News Quality: International Stories Reported in American Media; Chapter 9 The Infl uence of Contextual Factors on the Selection of News Frames: A Cross-National Approach to the News Coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10 News as Culture: A Comparative Study of Newspaper Coverage of the War in IraqChapter 11 Frame Building and Media Framing of the Joint Counterterrorism: Comparing United States-Uganda Efforts; Chapter 12 See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Judge as Evil?: Examining Whether Al-Jazeera English-Language Web Site Users Transfer Their Belief in Its Credibility to Its Satellite Network; Chapter 13 An Exploration of the Determinants of International News Coverage in Australia's Online Media
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14 Blogs as Stealth Dissent?: "Eighteen Touch Dog Newspaper" and the Tactics, Ambiguity, and Limits of Internet Resistance in ChinaPart III Strategic Global Communication; Chapter 15 Global Integration or Local Responsiveness?: Multinational Corporations' Public Relations Strategies and Cases; Chapter 16 Coordination and Control of Global Public Relations to Manage Cross-National Confl ict Shifts: A Multidisciplinary Theoretical Perspective for Research and Practice; Chapter 17 Netizens Unite!: Strategic Escalation of Confl ict to Manage a Cultural Crisis
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 18 Communicating with Global Publics: Building a Theoretical Framework for International Public RelationsChapter 19 Colombia's Juan Valdez Campaign: Brand Revitalization through "Authenticity" and "Glocal" Strategic Communications; Chapter 20 The Infl uence of Mobile Phone Advertising on Dependency: A Cross-Cultural Study of Mobile Phone Use between American and Chinese Youth; Chapter 21 Fractured Images: Disability Advertising Effects on Filipino Audiences; Chapter 22 Concentration of Ownership in European Broadcasting; Index
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , The determinants of international news flow and coverage. Introduction: international news coverage and Americans' image of the world , Changing global media landscape, unchanging theories?: international communication research and paradigm testing , Determining the scope of "international" communication: a (living) systems approach , International news determinants in U.S. news media in the post-Cold War era , The impact of global news coverage on international aid , Coverage of foreign elections in the United States: a model of international news flow , Determinants of international news coverage , The language of international news. How could so much produce so little?: foreign affairs reporting in the wake of 9/11 , Patterns and news quality: international stories reported in American media , The influence of contextual factors on the selection of news frames: a cross-national approach to the news coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) , News as culture: a comparative study of newspaper coverage of the war in Iraq , Frame building and media framing of the joint counterterrorism: comparing United States-Uganda efforts , See no evil, hear no evil, judge as evil?: examining whether Al-Jazeera English-language web site users transfer their belief in its credibility to its satellite network , An exploration of the determinants of international news coverage in Australia's online media , Blogs as stealth dissent?: "Eighteen touch dog newspaper" and the tactics, ambiguity, and limits of Internet resistance in China , Strategic global communication. Global integration or local responsiveness?: multinational corporations' public relations strategies and cases , Coordination and control of global public relations to manage cross-national conflict shifts: a multidisciplinary theoretical perspective for research and practice , Netizens unite!: strategic escalation of conflict to manage a cultural crisis , Communicating with global publics: building a theoretical framework for international public relations , Columbia's Juan Valdez campaign: brand revitalization through "authenticity" and "glocal" strategic communications , The influence of mobile phone advertising on dependency: a cross-cultural study of mobile phone use between American and Chinese youth , Fractured images.
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    Sociology (Routledge Revivals) : A guide to problems and literature (2010)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (245 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociology (Routledge Revivals) : A guide to problems and literature
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it s lack of insularity (its wide coverage of diverse types of society and of sociological thought from various cultural traditions), and in its systematic connection of sociology with the broad themes of modern social and political thought
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; PREFACE; CONTENTS; PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND METHODS OF SOCIOLOGY; CHAPTER 1 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY; CHAPTER 2 SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; CHAPTER 3 SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS; CHAPTER 4 THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY; PART TWO: POPULATION AND SOCIAL GROUPINGS; CHAPTER 5 POPULATION AND SOCIETY; CHAPTER 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL GROUP; PART THREE: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS; CHAPTER 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIETIES AND CIVILIZATIONS; CHAPTER 8 ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS; CHAPTER 9 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; CHAPTER 10 THE FAMILY AND KINSHIP
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 11 SOCIAL STRATIFICATIONPART FOUR: SOCIAL CONTROL; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER 12 CUSTOM AND PUBLIC OPINION; CHAPTER 13 RELIGION AND MORALITY; CHAPTER 14 LAW; CHAPTER 15 EDUCATION; PART FIVE: SOCIAL CHANGE; CHAPTER 16 CHANGE, EVOLUTION, PROGRESS; CHAPTER 17 FACTORS IN SOCIAL CHANGE; PART SIX: APPLIED SOCIOLOGY; CHAPTER 18 SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL PLANNING; CHAPTER 19 SOCIAL PROBLEMS; INDEX
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    Capital and Power (Routledge Revivals) : Political Economy and Social Transformation (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780415589376
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (182 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Capital and Power (Routledge Revivals) : Political Economy and Social Transformation
    DDC: 306.34
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change. This is followed by an assessment of the stages of economic development in relation to state power and politics; and the role of the 'external': the impact of the world market economy and the security imperative.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE POWER OF PRODUCTION: CORE AND PERIPHERY; CHAPTER ONE: MARX: THE CORE CONCEPTS; CHAPTER TWO: THE GOAL-WORKERS' CONTROL; CHAPTER THREE: MODERN MARXISTS; PART II: PRODUCTION AND POWER: RELATIONS OF TIME AND SPACE; CHAPTER FOUR: CAPITALISM, STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY: HISTORICAL INTERACTION; CHAPTER FIVE: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: 1. THE WORLD SITUATION; CHAPTER SIX: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: 2. THEORY AND ACTION; PART III: PRODUCTION OF POWER: EXTERNAL; CHAPTER SEVEN: NATION AND CLASS: CASE OF CONFLICT
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER EIGHT: WHY IS THERE NO INTERNATIONAL THEORY?CHAPTER NINE: CONCLUSION: THEME AND VARIATIONS; INDEX
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    Nanowires (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619794 , 9789535145677
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (428 p.)
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: This volume is intended to orient the reader in the fast developing field of semiconductor nanowires, by providing a series of self-contained monographs focusing on various nanowire-related topics. Each monograph serves as a short review of previous results in the literature and description of methods used in the field, as well as a summary of the authors recent achievements on the subject. Each report provides a brief sketch of the historical background behind, the physical and/or chemical principles underlying a specific nanowire fabrication/characterization technique, or the experimental/theoretical methods used to study a given nanowire property or device. Despite the diverse topics covered, the volume does appear as a unit. The writing is generally clear and precise, and the numerous illustrations provide an easier understanding of the phenomena described. The volume contains 20 Chapters covering altogether many (although not all) semiconductors of technological interest, starting with the IV-IV group compounds (SiC and SiGe), carrying on with the binary and ternary compounds of the III-V (GaAs, AlGaAs, GaSb, InAs, GaP, InP, and GaN) and II-VI (HgTe, HgCdTe) families, the metal oxides (CuO, ZnO, ZnCoO, tungsten oxide, and PbTiO3), and finishing with Bi (a semimetal)
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    ISBN: 9789533071091 , 9789535145448
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (632 p.)
    Keywords: Polymer chemistry
    Abstract: Biopolymers are polymers produced by living organisms. Cellulose, starch, chitin, proteins, peptides, DNA and RNA are all examples of biopolymers. This book comprehensively reviews and compiles information on biopolymers in 30 chapters. The book covers occurrence, synthesis, isolation and production, properties and applications, modification, and the relevant analysis methods to reveal the structures and properties of some biopolymers. This book will hopefully be of help to many scientists, physicians, pharmacists, engineers and other experts in a variety of disciplines, both academic and industrial. It may not only support research and development, but be suitable for teaching as well
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    Electrodeposited Nanowires and their Applications (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619886 , 9789535145639
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p.)
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: The book offers a new and complex perspective on the fabrication and use of electrodeposited nanowires for the design of efficient and competitive applications. While not pretending to be comprehensive, the book is addressing not only to researchers specialized in this field, but also to Ph.D. students, postdocs and experienced technical professionals
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    ISBN: 9789533071138 , 9789535145479
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 p.)
    Keywords: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology
    Abstract: Due to demands placed on natural resources globally and subsequent deterioration of the environment, there is a need to source and develop appropriate technology to satisfy this requirement. For decades mankind has largely depended on natural resources such as fossil fuels to meet the ever increasing energy demands. Realizing the finite nature of these resources, emphasis is now shifting to investigating alternate energy source governed by environmentally friendly principles. The abundance of biomass and associated favorable techno-economics has recently changed global perceptions of harnessing biomass as a valuable resource rather than a waste. To this end this book aims to make a contribution to exploring further this area of biomass research and development in the form of a compilation of chapters and covering areas of ecological status of different types of biomass and the roles they play in ecosystems, current status of biomass utilization and deriving energy and other value added products from biomass. In this context biomass can be defined as large plants and trees and different groups of microorganisms. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for scientists and environmental managers in planning solutions for sustainable development
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    Radio Occultation Method for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619602 , 9789535145653
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Keywords: Radio technology
    Abstract: The book is devoted to radio occultation (RO) remote sensing of the earth’s atmosphere and ionosphere as a global method of monitoring. This technique used the radio links satellite-to-satellite when a satellite-receiver setting or rising behind the earth’s atmosphere is relative to a satellite - emitter of radio waves. During setting the radio ray perigee moves through the ionosphere and ionosphere. Atmospheric and ionospheric effects arise in most cases owing to influence of a zone near the radio ray perigee and cause significant variations of the amplitude, phase, and frequency of the radio waves. These variations enable determination of the altitude profiles of temperature, pressure, refractivity, density, humidity and turbulence in the atmosphere, distribution of the electron density in the ionosphere, and the wave phenomena at different altitudes with a global coverage. The aim of this book consists of the systematic description of the different approaches, results of investigation and perspectives of the RO remote sensing as a tool for investigations of the atmosphere and ionosphere
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    Frontiers in Guided Wave Optics and Optoelectronics (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619824 , 9789535145585
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (692 p.)
    Keywords: Applied optics
    Abstract: As the editor, I feel extremely happy to present to the readers such a rich collection of chapters authored/co-authored by a large number of experts from around the world covering the broad field of guided wave optics and optoelectronics. Most of the chapters are state-of-the-art on respective topics or areas that are emerging. Several authors narrated technological challenges in a lucid manner, which was possible because of individual expertise of the authors in their own subject specialties. I have no doubt that this book will be useful to graduate students, teachers, researchers, and practicing engineers and technologists and that they would love to have it on their book shelves for ready reference at any time
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    ISBN: 9789533070285 , 9789535145523
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: Nanotechnology will be soon required in most engineering and science curricula. It cannot be questioned that cutting-edge applications based on nanoscience are having a considerable impact in nearly all fields of research, from basic to more problem-solving scientific enterprises. In this sense, books like “Silver Nanoparticles” aim at filling the gaps for comprehensive information to help both newcomers and experts, in a particular fast-growing area of research. Besides, one of the key features of this book is that it could serve both academia and industry. “Silver nanoparticles” is a collection of eighteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields. These reviews are representative of the current research areas within silver nanoparticle nanoscience and nanotechnology
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    Geoscience and Remote Sensing : New Achievements (2010)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (516 p.)
    Keywords: Soil & rock mechanics
    Abstract: Our planet is nowadays continuously monitored by powerful remote sensors operating in wide portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Our capability of acquiring detailed information on the environment has been revolutionized by revealing its inner structure, morphology and dynamical changes. The way we now observe and study the evolution of the Earth’s status has even radically influenced our perception and conception of the world we live in. The aim of this book is to bring together contributions from experts to present new research results and prospects of the future developments in the area of geosciences and remote sensing; emerging research directions are discussed. The volume consists of twenty-six chapters, encompassing both theoretical aspects and application-oriented studies. An unfolding perspective on various current trends in this extremely rich area is offered. The book chapters can be categorized along different perspectives, among others, use of active or passive sensors, employed technologies and configurations, considered scenario on the Earth, scientific research area involved in the studies
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    Keywords: Biotechnology
    Abstract: Haptic interfaces are divided into two main categories: force feedback and tactile. Force feedback interfaces are used to explore and modify remote/virtual objects in three physical dimensions in applications including computer-aided design, computer-assisted surgery, and computer-aided assembly. Tactile interfaces deal with surface properties such as roughness, smoothness, and temperature. Haptic research is intrinsically multi-disciplinary, incorporating computer science/engineering, control, robotics, psychophysics, and human motor control. By extending the scope of research in haptics, advances can be achieved in existing applications such as computer-aided design (CAD), tele-surgery, rehabilitation, scientific visualization, robot-assisted surgery, authentication, and graphical user interfaces (GUI), to name a few. Advances in Haptics presents a number of recent contributions to the field of haptics. Authors from around the world present the results of their research on various issues in the field of haptics
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    Natural Gas (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071121 , 9789535145455
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    Keywords: Petroleum technology
    Abstract: The contributions in this book present an overview of cutting edge research on natural gas which is a vital component of world's supply of energy. Natural gas is a combustible mixture of hydrocarbon gases, primarily methane but also heavier gaseous hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane and butane. Unlike other fossil fuels, natural gas is clean burning and emits lower levels of potentially harmful by-products into the air. Therefore, it is considered as one of the cleanest, safest, and most useful of all energy sources applied in variety of residential, commercial and industrial fields. The book is organized in 25 chapters that cover various aspects of natural gas research: technology, applications, forecasting, numerical simulations, transport and risk assessment
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    Passive Microwave Components and Antennas (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070834 , 9789535145516
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    Keywords: Electronic devices & materials
    Abstract: Modelling and computations in electromagnetics is a quite fast-growing research area. The recent interest in this field is caused by the increased demand for designing complex microwave components, modeling electromagnetic materials, and rapid increase in computational power for calculation of complex electromagnetic problems. The first part of this book is devoted to the advances in the analysis techniques such as method of moments, finite-difference time- domain method, boundary perturbation theory, Fourier analysis, mode-matching method, and analysis based on circuit theory. These techniques are considered with regard to several challenging technological applications such as those related to electrically large devices, scattering in layered structures, photonic crystals, and artificial materials. The second part of the book deals with waveguides, transmission lines and transitions. This includes microstrip lines (MSL), slot waveguides, substrate integrated waveguides (SIW), vertical transmission lines in multilayer media as well as MSL to SIW and MSL to slot line transitions
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    Biosensors (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619992 , 9789535145561
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    Keywords: Biotechnology
    Abstract: A biosensor is defined as a detecting device that combines a transducer with a biologically sensitive and selective component. When a specific target molecule interacts with the biological component, a signal is produced, at transducer level, proportional to the concentration of the substance. Therefore biosensors can measure compounds present in the environment, chemical processes, food and human body at low cost if compared with traditional analytical techniques. Bringing together researchers from 11 different countries, this book covers a wide range of aspects and issues related to biosensor technology, such as biosensor applications in the fields of drug discovery, diagnostics and bacteria detection, optical biosensors, biotelemetry and algorithms applied to biosensing
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    Aerospace Technologies Advancements (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619961 , 9789535145707
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    Keywords: Astronautics
    Abstract: Space technology has become increasingly important after the great development and rapid progress in information and communication technology as well as the technology of space exploration. This book deals with the latest and most prominent research in space technology. The first part of the book (first six chapters) deals with the algorithms and software used in information processing, communications and control of spacecrafts. The second part (chapters 7 to 10) deals with the latest research on the space structures. The third part (chapters 11 to 14) deals with some of the latest applications in space. The fourth part (chapters 15 and 16) deals with small satellite technologies. The fifth part (chapters 17 to 20) deals with some of the latest applications in the field of aircrafts. The sixth part (chapters 21 to 25) outlines some recent research efforts in different subjects
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    Acoustic Waves (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071114 , 9789535145431
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    Keywords: Acoustic & sound engineering
    Abstract: SAW devices are widely used in multitude of device concepts mainly in MEMS and communication electronics. As such, SAW based micro sensors, actuators and communication electronic devices are well known applications of SAW technology. For example, SAW based passive micro sensors are capable of measuring physical properties such as temperature, pressure, variation in chemical properties, and SAW based communication devices perform a range of signal processing functions, such as delay lines, filters, resonators, pulse compressors, and convolvers. In recent decades, SAW based low-powered actuators and microfluidic devices have significantly added a new dimension to SAW technology. This book consists of 20 exciting chapters composed by researchers and engineers active in the field of SAW technology, biomedical and other related engineering disciplines. The topics range from basic SAW theory, materials and phenomena to advanced applications such as sensors actuators, and communication systems. As such, in addition to theoretical analysis and numerical modelling such as Finite Element Modelling (FEM) and Finite Difference Methods (FDM) of SAW devices, SAW based actuators and micro motors, and SAW based micro sensors are some of the exciting applications presented in this book. This collection of up-to-date information and research outcomes on SAW technology will be of great interest, not only to all those working in SAW based technology, but also to many more who stand to benefit from an insight into the rich opportunities that this technology has to offer, especially to develop advanced, low-powered biomedical implants and passive communication devices
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    Polymer Thin Films (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070599 , 9789535145486
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    Keywords: Nanotechnology
    Abstract: This book provides a timely overview of a current state of knowledge of the use of polymer thin film for important technological applications. Polymer thin film book covers the scientific principles and technologies that are necessary to implement the use of polymer electronic device. A wide-ranging and definitive coverage of this emerging field is provided for both academic and practicing scientists. The book is intended to enable readers with a specific background, e.g. polymer nanotechnology, to become acquainted with other specialist aspects of this multidisciplinary field. Part A of the book covers the fundamental of the key aspect related to the development and improvement of polymer thin film technology and part B covers more advanced aspects of the technology are dealt with nano-polymer layer which provide an up-to-date survey of current research directions in the area of polymer thin film and its application skills
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    Tissue Engineering (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070797 , 9789535145530
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    Keywords: Biomedical engineering
    Abstract: The Tissue Engineering approach has major advantages over traditional organ transplantation and circumvents the problem of organ shortage. Tissues that closely match the patient’s needs can be reconstructed from readily available biopsies and subsequently be implanted with minimal or no immunogenicity. This eventually conquers several limitations encountered in tissue transplantation approaches. This book serves as a good starting point for anyone interested in the application of Tissue Engineering. It offers a colorful mix of topics, which explain the obstacles and possible solutions for TE applications
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    Recent Optical and Photonic Technologies (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619718 , 9789535145684
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (468 p.)
    Keywords: Laser physics
    Abstract: Research and development in modern optical and photonic technologies have witnessed quite fast growing advancements in various fundamental and application areas due to availability of novel fabrication and measurement techniques, advanced numerical simulation tools and methods, as well as due to the increasing practical demands. The recent advancements have also been accompanied by the appearance of various interdisciplinary topics. The book attempts to put together state-of-the-art research and development in optical and photonic technologies. It consists of 21 chapters that focus on interesting four topics of photonic crystals (first 5 chapters), THz techniques and applications (next 7 chapters), nanoscale optical techniques and applications (next 5 chapters), and optical trapping and manipulation (last 4 chapters), in which a fundamental theory, numerical simulation techniques, measurement techniques and methods, and various application examples are considered. This book deals with recent and advanced research results and comprehensive reviews on optical and photonic technologies covering the aforementioned topics. I believe that the advanced techniques and research described here may also be applicable to other contemporary research areas in optical and photonic technologies. Thus, I hope the readers will be inspired to start or to improve further their own research and technologies and to expand potential applications. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the authors for their outstanding contributions to this book
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    Biomimetics : Learning from Nature (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070254 , 9789535145554
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    Keywords: Biotechnology
    Abstract: Nature’s evolution has led to the introduction of highly efficient biological mechanisms. Imitating these mechanisms offers an enormous potential for the improvement of our day to day life. Ideally, by bio-inspiration we can get a better view of nature’s capability while studying its models and adapting it for our benefit. This book takes us into the interesting world of biomimetics and describes various arenas where the technology is applied. The 25 chapters covered in this book disclose recent advances and new ideas in promoting the mechanism and applications of biomimetics
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    Solar Energy (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070520 , 9789535145592
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    Keywords: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology
    Abstract: The present “Solar Energy” science book hopefully opens a series of other first-hand texts in new technologies with practical impact and subsequent interest. They might include the ecological combustion of fossil fuels, space technology in the benefit of local and remote communities, new trends in the development of secure Internet Communications on an interplanetary scale, new breakthroughs in the propulsion technology and others. The editors will be pleased to see that the present book is open to debate and they will wait for the readers’ reaction with great interest. Critics and proposals will be equally welcomed
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    Coherence and Ultrashort Pulse Laser Emission (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533072425 , 9789535145387
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (700 p.)
    Keywords: Laser physics
    Abstract: In this volume, recent contributions on coherence provide a useful perspective on the diversity of various coherent sources of emission and coherent related phenomena of current interest. These papers provide a preamble for a larger collection of contributions on ultrashort pulse laser generation and ultrashort pulse laser phenomena. Papers on ultrashort pulse phenomena include works on few cycle pulses, high-power generation, propagation in various media, to various applications of current interest. Undoubtedly, Coherence and Ultrashort Pulse Emission offers a rich and practical perspective on this rapidly evolving field
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    Advances in Solid State Lasers : Development and Applications (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619800 , 9789535145578
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (640 p.)
    Keywords: Laser physics
    Abstract: Invention of the solid-state laser has initiated the beginning of the laser era. Performance of solid-state lasers improved amazingly during five decades. Nowadays, solid-state lasers remain one of the most rapidly developing branches of laser science and become an increasingly important tool for modern technology. This book represents a selection of chapters exhibiting various investigation directions in the field of solid-state lasers and the cutting edge of related applications. The materials are contributed by leading researchers and each chapter represents a comprehensive study reflecting advances in modern laser physics. Considered topics are intended to meet the needs of both specialists in laser system design and those who use laser techniques in fundamental science and applied research. This book is the result of efforts of experts from different countries. I would like to acknowledge the authors for their contribution to the book. I also wish to acknowledge Vedran Kordic for indispensable technical assistance in the book preparation and publishing
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    Nanofibers (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619862 , 9789535145608
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    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” ⎯ this was the title of the lecture Prof. Richard Feynman delivered at California Institute of Technology on December 29, 1959 at the American Physical Society meeting. He considered the possibility to manipulate matter on an atomic scale. Indeed, the design and controllable synthesis of nanomaterials have attracted much attention because of their distinctive geometries and novel physical and chemical properties. For the last two decades nano-scaled materials in the form of nanofibers, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanoclays, nanorods, nanodisks, nanoribbons, nanowhiskers etc. have been investigated with increased interest due to their enormous advantages, such as large surface area and active surface sites. Among all nanostructures, nanofibers have attracted tremendous interest in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering owing to the ease of controllable production processes, low pore size and superior mechanical properties for a range of applications in diverse areas such as catalysis, sensors, medicine, pharmacy, drug delivery, tissue engineering, filtration, textile, adhesive, aerospace, capacitors, transistors, battery separators, energy storage, fuel cells, information technology, photonic structures and flat panel displays, just to mention a few. Nanofibers are continuous filaments of generally less than about 1000 nm diameters. Nanofibers of a variety of cellulose and non-cellulose based materials can be produced by a variety of techniques such as phase separation, self assembly, drawing, melt fibrillation, template synthesis, electro-spinning, and solution spinning. They reduce the handling problems mostly associated with the nanoparticles. Nanoparticles can agglomerate and form clusters, whereas nanofibers form a mesh that stays intact even after regeneration. The present book is a result of contributions of experts from international scientific community working in different areas and types of nanofibers. The book thoroughly covers latest topics on different varieties of nanofibers. It provides an up-to-date insightful coverage to the synthesis, characterization, functional properties and potential device applications of nanofibers in specialized areas. We hope that this book will prove to be timely and thought provoking and will serve as a valuable reference for researchers working in different areas of nanofibers. Special thanks goes to the authors for their valuable contributions
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    Intelligent and Biosensors (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619589 , 9789535145691
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (396 p.)
    Keywords: Biotechnology
    Abstract: The use of intelligent sensors have revolutionized the way in which we gather data from the world around us, how we extract useful information from that data, and the manner in which we use the newly obtained information for various operations and decision making. This book is an attempt to highlight the current research in the field of Intelligent and Biosensors, thereby describing state-of-the-art techniques in the field and emerging new technologies, also showcasing some examples and applications
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    Modelling, Simulation and Optimization (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070483 , 9789535145646
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (720 p.)
    Keywords: Mathematical modelling
    Abstract: Computer-Aided Design and system analysis aim to find mathematical models that allow emulating the behaviour of components and facilities. The high competitiveness in industry, the little time available for product development and the high cost in terms of time and money of producing the initial prototypes means that the computer-aided design and analysis of products are taking on major importance. On the other hand, in most areas of engineering the components of a system are interconnected and belong to different domains of physics (mechanics, electrics, hydraulics, thermal...). When developing a complete multidisciplinary system, it needs to integrate a design procedure to ensure that it will be successfully achieved. Engineering systems require an analysis of their dynamic behaviour (evolution over time or path of their different variables). The purpose of modelling and simulating dynamic systems is to generate a set of algebraic and differential equations or a mathematical model. In order to perform rapid product optimisation iterations, the models must be formulated and evaluated in the most efficient way. Automated environments contribute to this. One of the pioneers of simulation technology in medicine defines simulation as a technique, not a technology, that replaces real experiences with guided experiences reproducing important aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion [iii]. In the following chapters the reader will be introduced to the world of simulation in topics of current interest such as medicine, military purposes and their use in industry for diverse applications that range from the use of networks to combining thermal, chemical or electrical aspects, among others. We hope that after reading the different sections of this book we will have succeeded in bringing across what the scientific community is doing in the field of simulation and that it will be to your interest and liking. Lastly, we would like to thank all the authors for their excellent contributions in the different areas of simulation
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    Face Recognition (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070605 , 9789535145509
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    Keywords: Computer security
    Abstract: This book aims to bring together selected recent advances, applications and original results in the area of biometric face recognition. They can be useful for researchers, engineers, graduate and postgraduate students, experts in this area and hopefully also for people interested generally in computer science, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Various methods, approaches and algorithms for recognition of human faces are used by authors of the chapters of this book, e.g. PCA, LDA, artificial neural networks, wavelets, curvelets, kernel methods, Gabor filters, active appearance models, 2D and 3D representations, optical correlation, hidden Markov models and others. Also a broad range of problems is covered: feature extraction and dimensionality reduction (chapters 1-4), 2D face recognition from the point of view of full system proposal (chapters 5-10), illumination and pose problems (chapters 11-13), eye movement (chapter 14), 3D face recognition (chapters 15-19) and hardware issues (chapters 19-20)
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    Fungicides (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533072661 , 9789535145400
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    Keywords: Mycology, fungi (non-medical)
    Abstract: Plant and plant products are affected by a large number of plant pathogens among which fungal pathogens. These diseases play a major role in the current deficit of food supply worldwide. Various control strategies were developed to reduce the negative effects of diseases on food, fiber, and forest crops products. For the past fifty years fungicides have played a major role in the increased productivity of several crops in most parts of the world. Although fungicide treatments are a key component of disease management, the emergence of resistance, their introduction into the environment and their toxic effect on human, animal, non-target microorganisms and beneficial organisms has become an important factor in limiting the durability of fungicide effectiveness and usefulness. This book contains 25 chapters on various aspects of fungicide science from efficacy to resistance, toxicology and development of new fungicides that provides a comprehensive and authoritative account for the role of fungicides in modern agriculture
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    Carbon Nanotubes (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070544 , 9789535145547
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    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: This book has been outlined as follows: A review on the literature and increasing research interests in the field of carbon nanotubes. Fabrication techniques followed by an analysis on the physical properties of carbon nanotubes. The device physics of implemented carbon nanotubes applications along with proposed models in an effort to describe their behavior in circuits and interconnects. And ultimately, the book pursues a significant amount of work in applications of carbon nanotubes in sensors, nanoparticles and nanostructures, and biotechnology. Readers of this book should have a strong background on physical electronics and semiconductor device physics. Philanthropists and readers with strong background in quantum transport physics and semiconductors materials could definitely benefit from the results presented in the chapters of this book. Especially, those with research interests in the areas of nanoparticles and nanotechnology
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    Wireless Sensor Networks : Application - Centric Design (2010)
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    Keywords: WAP (wireless) technology
    Abstract: Over the past decade, there has been a prolific increase in the research, development and commercialisation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their associated technologies. WSNs have found application in a vast range of different domains, scenarios and disciplines. These have included healthcare, defence and security, environmental monitoring and building/structural health monitoring. However, as a result of the broad array of pertinent applications, WSN researchers have also realised the application specificity of the domain; it is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to find an application-independent solution to most WSN problems. Hence, research into WSNs dictates the adoption of an application-centric design process. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all WSN applications and deployments to date. Instead, it is a collection of state-of-the-art research papers discussing current applications and deployment experiences, but also the communication and data processing technologies that are fundamental in further developing solutions to applications. Whilst a common foundation is retained through all chapters, this book contains a broad array of often differing interpretations, configurations and limitations of WSNs, and this highlights the diversity of this ever-changing research area. The chapters have been categorised into three distinct sections: applications and case studies, communication and networking, and information and data processing. The readership of this book is intended to be postgraduate/postdoctoral researchers and professional engineers, though some of the chapters may be of relevance to interested master’s level students
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    Globalization : Today, Tomorrow (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071923 , 9789535145424
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    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This is a collective volume on present-day globalisation with nine chapters from authors of several academic disciplines. It covers wide aspects, ranging from the nature, impact, challenges and implications of globalisation to responses from a country or community when facing globalisation today or tomorrow. Policy suggestions are also made. This book will hence help the reader to understand the currently debated issues
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    Woven Fabric Engineering (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071947 , 9789535145417
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    Keywords: Textile industries
    Abstract: The main goal in preparing this book was to publish contemporary concepts, new discoveries and innovative ideas in the field of woven fabric engineering, predominantly for the technical applications, as well as in the field of production engineering and to stress some problems connected with the use of woven fabrics in composites. The advantage of the book Woven Fabric Engineering is its open access fully searchable by anyone anywhere, and in this way it provides the forum for dissemination and exchange of the latest scientific information on theoretical as well as applied areas of knowledge in the field of woven fabric engineering. It is strongly recommended for all those who are connected with woven fabrics, for industrial engineers, researchers and graduate students
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    Nanowires : Science and Technology (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619893 , 9789535145622
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    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: This book describes nanowires fabrication and their potential applications, both as standing alone or complementing carbon nanotubes and polymers. Understanding the design and working principles of nanowires described here, requires a multidisciplinary background of physics, chemistry, materials science, electrical and optoelectronics engineering, bioengineering, etc. This book is organized in eighteen chapters. In the first chapters, some considerations concerning the preparation of metallic and semiconductor nanowires are presented. Then, combinations of nanowires and carbon nanotubes are described and their properties connected with possible applications. After that, some polymer nanowires single or complementing metallic nanowires are reported. A new family of nanowires, the photoferroelectric ones, is presented in connection with their possible applications in non-volatile memory devices. Finally, some applications of nanowires in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, photoluminescence, light sensing and field-effect transistors are described. The book offers new insights, solutions and ideas for the design of efficient nanowires and applications. While not pretending to be comprehensive, its wide coverage might be appropriate not only for researchers but also for experienced technical professionals
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    Lithography (2010)
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    Keywords: Industrial chemistry
    Abstract: Lithography, the fundamental fabrication process of semiconductor devices, plays a critical role in micro- and nano-fabrications and the revolution in high density integrated circuits. This book is the result of inspirations and contributions from many researchers worldwide. Although the inclusion of the book chapters may not be a complete representation of all lithographic arts, it does represent a good collection of contributions in this field. We hope readers will enjoy reading the book as much as we have enjoyed bringing it together. We would like to thank all contributors and authors of this book
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    Climate Change and Variability (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071442 , 9789535145462
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (502 p.)
    Keywords: Environmental monitoring
    Abstract: Climate change is emerging as one of the most important issues of our time, with the potential to cause profound cascading effects on ecosystems and society. However, these effects are poorly understood and our projections for climate change trends and effects have thus far proven to be inaccurate. In this collection of 24 chapters, we present a cross-section of some of the most challenging issues related to oceans, lakes, forests, and agricultural systems under a changing climate. The authors present evidence for changes and variability in climatic and atmospheric conditions, investigate some the impacts that climate change is having on the Earth's ecological and social systems, and provide novel ideas, advances and applications for mitigation and adaptation of our socio-ecological systems to climate change. Difficult questions are asked. What have been some of the impacts of climate change on our natural and managed ecosystems? How do we manage for resilient socio-ecological systems? How do we predict the future? What are relevant climatic change and management scenarios? How can we shape management regimes to increase our adaptive capacity to climate change? These themes are visited across broad spatial and temporal scales, touch on important and relevant ecological patterns and processes, and represent broad geographic regions, from the tropics, to temperate and boreal regions, to the Arctic
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    Satellite Communications (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071350 , 9789535159322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (542 p.)
    Keywords: Communications engineering / telecommunications
    Abstract: This study is motivated by the need to give the reader a broad view of the developments, key concepts, and technologies related to information society evolution, with a focus on the wireless communications and geoinformation technologies and their role in the environment. Giving perspective, it aims at assisting people active in the industry, the public sector, and Earth science fields as well, by providing a base for their continued work and thinking
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    Robot Learning (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071046 , 9789535159605
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)
    Keywords: Artificial intelligence
    Abstract: Robot Learning is intended for one term advanced Machine Learning courses taken by students from different computer science research disciplines. This text has all the features of a renowned best selling text. It gives a focused introduction to the primary themes in a Robot learning course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of various Machine Learning algorithms to a wide variety of real-world applications from evolutionary techniques to reinforcement learning, classification, control, uncertainty and many other important fields. Salient features: - Comprehensive coverage of Evolutionary Techniques, Reinforcement Learning and Uncertainty. - Precise mathematical language used without excessive formalism and abstraction. - Included applications demonstrate the utility of the subject in terms of real-world problems. - A separate chapter on Anticipatory-mechanisms-of-human-sensory-motor-coordination and biped locomotion. - Collection of most recent research on Robot Learning
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    Cutting Edge Nanotechnology (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619930 , 9789535154969
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (456 p.)
    Keywords: Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)
    Abstract: The main purpose of this book is to describe important issues in various types of devices ranging from conventional transistors (opening chapters of the book) to molecular electronic devices whose fabrication and operation is discussed in the last few chapters of the book. As such, this book can serve as a guide for identifications of important areas of research in micro, nano and molecular electronics. We deeply acknowledge valuable contributions that each of the authors made in writing these excellent chapters
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    Laser Welding (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071299 , 9789535159414
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
    Keywords: Other technologies & applied sciences
    Abstract: This book is entitled to laser welding processes. The objective is to introduce relatively established methodologies and techniques which have been studied, developed and applied either in industries or researches. State-of-the art developments aimed at improving or next generation technologies will be presented covering topics such as monitoring, modelling, control, and industrial application. This book is to provide effective solutions to various applications for field engineers and researchers who are interested in laser material processing
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    Air Quality (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071312 , 9789535159377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
    Keywords: Pollution control
    Abstract: Air pollution is about five decades or so old field and continues to be a global concern. Therefore, the governments around the world are involved in managing air quality in their countries for the welfare of their citizens. The management of air pollution involves understanding air pollution sources, monitoring of contaminants, modeling air quality, performing laboratory experiments, the use of satellite images for quantifying air quality levels, indoor air pollution, and elimination of contaminants through control. Research activities are being performed on every aspect of air pollution throughout the world, in order to respond to public concerns. The book is grouped in five different sections. Some topics are more detailed than others. The readers should be aware that multi-authored books have difficulty maintaining consistency. A reader will find, however, that each chapter is intellectually stimulating. Our goal was to provide current information and present a reasonable analysis of air quality data compiled by knowledgeable professionals in the field of air pollution
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    Vibration Control (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071176 , 9789535159292
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 p.)
    Keywords: Automatic control engineering
    Abstract: Vibrations are a part of our environment and daily life. Many of them are useful and are needed for many purposes, one of the best example being the hearing system. Nevertheless, vibrations are often undesirable and have to be suppressed or reduced, as they may be harmful to structures by generating damages or compromise the comfort of users through noise generation of mechanical wave transmission to the body. the purpose of this book is to present basic and advanced methods for efficiently controlling the vibrations and limiting their effects. Open-access publishing is an extraordinary opportunity for a wide dissemination of high quality research. This book is not an exception to this, and I am proud to introduce the works performed by experts from all over the world
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    Kalman Filter (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070940 , 9789535159124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 p.)
    Keywords: Computer vision
    Abstract: The Kalman filter has been successfully employed in diverse areas of study over the last 50 years and the chapters in this book review its recent applications. The editors hope the selected works will be useful to readers, contributing to future developments and improvements of this filtering technique. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of recent developments in Kalman filter theory and their applications in engineering and science. The book is divided into 20 chapters corresponding to recent advances in the filed
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    Convergence and Hybrid Information Technologies (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070681 , 9789535159155
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (438 p.)
    Keywords: Information retrieval
    Abstract: Starting a journey on the new path of converging information technologies is the aim of the present book. Extended on 27 chapters, the book provides the reader with some leading-edge research results regarding algorithms and information models, software frameworks, multimedia, information security, communication networks, and applications. Information technologies are only at the dawn of a massive transformation and adaptation to the complex demands of the new upcoming information society. It is not possible to achieve a thorough view of the field in one book. Nonetheless, the editor hopes that the book can at least offer the first step into the convergence domain of information technologies, and the reader will find it instructive and stimulating
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    Gas Turbines (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071466 , 9789535159582
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 p.)
    Keywords: Sustainability
    Abstract: This book is intended to provide valuable information for the analysis and design of various gas turbine engines for different applications. The target audience for this book is design, maintenance, materials, aerospace and mechanical engineers. The design and maintenance engineers in the gas turbine and aircraft industry will benefit immensely from the integration and system discussions in the book. The chapters are of high relevance and interest to manufacturers, researchers and academicians as well
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    Shape Memory Alloys (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071060 , 9789535159568
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical technology
    Abstract: In the last decades, the Shape Memory Alloys, with their peculiar thermo-mechanical properties, high corrosion and extraordinary fatigue resistance, have become more popular in research and engineering applications. This book contains a number of relevant international contributions related to their properties, constitutive models and numerical simulation, medical and civil engineering applications, as well as aspects related to their processing
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    Radio Frequency Identification Fundamentals and Applications : Bringing Research to Practice (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789537619732 , 9789535164104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Keywords: Mobile phone technology
    Abstract: The number of different applications for RFID systems is increasing each year and various research directions have been developed to improve the performance of these systems. With this book InTech continues a series of publications dedicated to the latest research results in the RFID field, supporting the further development of RFID. One of the best ways of documenting within the domain of RFID technology is to analyze and learn from those who have trodden the RFID path. This book is a very rich collection of articles written by researchers, teachers, engineers, and professionals with a strong background in the RFID area
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    Modeling Simulation and Optimization : Focus on Applications (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070551 , 9789535158936
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)
    Keywords: Applied mathematics
    Abstract: The book presents a collection of chapters dealing with a wide selection of topics concerning different applications of modeling. It includes modeling, simulation and optimization applications in the areas of medical care systems, genetics, business, ethics and linguistics, applying very sophisticated methods. Algorithms, 3-D modeling, virtual reality, multi objective optimization, finite element methods, multi agent model simulation, system dynamics simulation, hierarchical Petri Net model and two level formalism modeling are tools and methods employed in these papers
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    Mobile Robots Navigation (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070766 , 9789535158943
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (682 p.)
    Keywords: Automatic control engineering
    Abstract: Mobile robots navigation includes different interrelated activities: (i) perception, as obtaining and interpreting sensory information; (ii) exploration, as the strategy that guides the robot to select the next direction to go; (iii) mapping, involving the construction of a spatial representation by using the sensory information perceived; (iv) localization, as the strategy to estimate the robot position within the spatial map; (v) path planning, as the strategy to find a path towards a goal location being optimal or not; and (vi) path execution, where motor actions are determined and adapted to environmental changes. The book addresses those activities by integrating results from the research work of several authors all over the world. Research cases are documented in 32 chapters organized within 7 categories next described
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    Ferroelectrics (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533074399 , 9789535149170
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (466 p.)
    Keywords: Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry
    Abstract: Ferroelectric materials exhibit a wide spectrum of functional properties, including switchable polarization, piezoelectricity, high non-linear optical activity, pyroelectricity, and non-linear dielectric behaviour. These properties are crucial for application in electronic devices such as sensors, microactuators, infrared detectors, microwave phase filters and, non-volatile memories. This unique combination of properties of ferroelectric materials has attracted researchers and engineers for a long time. This book reviews a wide range of diverse topics related to the phenomenon of ferroelectricity (in the bulk as well as thin film form) and provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and students working in this field. The present book containing 24 chapters is a result of contributions of experts from international scientific community working in different aspects of ferroelectricity related to experimental and theoretical work aimed at the understanding of ferroelectricity and their utilization in devices. It provides an up-to-date insightful coverage to the recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, functional properties and potential device applications in specialized areas
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    Trends in Telecommunications Technologies (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533070728 , 9789535158776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (780 p.)
    Keywords: Mobile phone technology
    Abstract: The main focus of the book is the advances in telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology. In particular, several chapters of the book deal with low-level network layers and present issues in optical communication technology and optical networks, including the deployment of optical hardware devices and the design of optical network architecture. Wireless networking is also covered, with a focus on WiFi and WiMAX technologies. The book also contains chapters that deal with transport issues, and namely protocols and policies for efficient and guaranteed transmission characteristics while transferring demanding data applications such as video. Finally, the book includes chapters that focus on the delivery of applications through common telecommunication channels such as the earth atmosphere. This book is useful for researchers working in the telecommunications field, in order to read a compact gathering of some of the latest efforts in related areas. It is also useful for educators that wish to get an up-to-date glimpse of telecommunications research and present it in an easily understandable and concise way. It is finally suitable for the engineers and other interested people that would benefit from an overview of ideas, experiments, algorithms and techniques that are presented throughout the book
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    Urban Transport and Hybrid Vehicles (2010)
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    ISBN: 9789533071008 , 9789535159551
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 p.)
    Keywords: Urban & municipal planning
    Abstract: This book is the result of valuable contributions from many researchers who work on both technical and nontechnical sides of the field to be remedy for typical road transport problems. Many research results are merged together to make this book a guide for industry, academia and policy makers
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