This study addresses the experience of, and responses to poverty in a range of transition economies including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia. It covers topics such as the definition of...

This classic textbook covers all aspects of risk theory in a practical way. It builds on from the late R.E. Beard's extremely popular book Risk Theory, but features more emphasis on simulation and modeling and on the use of risk theory...

Human error is now the main cause of aircraft accidents. However, in many cases the pilot simply falls into a trap that has been left for him/her by the poor design of the flight deck. This book addresses the human factors issues...

"A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering" ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk, das sich mit den Prinzipien und Praktiken nachhaltigen Bauens beschäftigt. Es bietet detaillierte Informationen über die neuesten...

"Social Power in International Politics" von Peter Van Ham untersucht die Rolle der sozialen Macht in der internationalen Politik. Er argumentiert, dass traditionelle Machtkonzepte wie militärische und wirtschaftliche Stärke nicht mehr...

Draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, an explanatory theory of the development of the human mind. This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from...

Das Buch "Global Perspectives on Higher Education and Lifelong Learners: International Perspectives" von Hans G. Schuetze untersucht das sich wandelnde Bild der Hochschulbildung und des lebenslangen Lernens aus einer globalen...

The essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. By reading a variety of cultural productions as symptomatic elaborations of unconscious and...

Consisting of a two part structure, this book is focussed in Part I on more general trends of the EU's long-term participation with(in) International Organisations (IOs) and in Part II on more precise case studies on labour standards,...

Examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. This book critically details the strategies and ideologies of control,...

Thoroughly revised from analogue examples to digital examples using simultaneous dual channel EEG, "An Atlas of Amplitude-Integrated EEGs" "in the Newborn" is the definitive clinical atlas-textbook on interpreting Cerebral Function...

"Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation & Perinatal Outcome" von Barbara Luke ist ein umfassendes medizinisches Fachbuch über die Schwangerschaft und Geburt bei Mehrlingen. Das Buch befasst sich mit der Epidemiologie von...