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This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentences,……続きを見る

'A brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty account of our weird eternal obsession with the end times... So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end - the world, or the book.’ – Adam Rutherford, author ……続きを見る

Selfishness is essential to capitalismーor so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and ……続きを見る

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or ……続きを見る

Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. For decades, the quirky but respected counterintelligence expert, religious family man, and father of six, sold top secret information to……続きを見る

European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European i……続きを見る

A BOOK TO CHANGE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Save the Dreaming sets out what author Brian Morgan calls a synchronized four-step plan to rescue Aboriginal culture and make Australia great. Editorial reviews h……続きを見る

The People’s Republic of China and the United States are today at war. It is being fought with the use of information, politics and finance. The Chinese believe that, as in all war, it would be bett……続きを見る

Children’s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people’s interests. Yet, in practice, evidence suggests the contrary: the international framework of treat……続きを見る

“How can I make sure I’m being inclusive?” This is a common question author Belo Miguel Cipriani, Ed.D., owner of the digital access firm Oleb Media, receives almost daily from his clients. The book……続きを見る

Propuestas y aportaciones de académicos y especialistas en el tema que contribuyeron a la reflexión sobre los caminos que se deben impulsar para detener el cambio climático. 続きを見る

At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects ……続きを見る

Imagine getting up in the morning and going to work for a company that, just by virtue of the fact that you work for it, you own part of. Imagine that the company’s president and other officers have……続きを見る

Matricule 78651. Simone Veil a seize ans et elle est condamnée à mourir à Auschwitz. Elle est devenue immortelle. Son destin fascine et intrigue. Il était temps de percer le mystère qui entoure le p……続きを見る

Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author’s experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the interc……続きを見る

Escrito originalmente sob a forma de dissertação de mestrado, tendo como título "Movimento Armorial: o erudito e o popular na obra de Antônio Carlos Nóbrega", orientada pelo professor Sébastien Joac……続きを見る

This volume looks at concepts and processes of social exclusion and social inclusion. It traces a number of discourses, all of them routed in a relational power analysis, examining them in the conte……続きを見る

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industryーand what to do about it There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business an……続きを見る

This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a fo……続きを見る

Todos podemos sentir el impulso de comprender y explorar el impacto de la tecnología en nuestro mundo. El libro "Peregrinos Digitales, hacia una humanidad cuántica" promete llevar a los lectores en ……続きを見る

Soldier-robot teams will be an important component of future battle spaces, creating a complex but potentially more survivable and effective combat force. The complexity of the battlefield of the fu……続きを見る

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an ac……続きを見る

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and th……続きを見る

The Dark Side of Reform: Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity contains nine chapters on the development of social policies with the potential to advance racial equity. In addition ……続きを見る

Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend that has led to deep political divisiveness in America……続きを見る

Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick's book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as ……続きを見る

Audio book out now. It is now 25 years since the first edition of Person-Centred Counselling in Action appeared, offering the definitive exposition of the theory and practice of the person-centred a……続きを見る

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Towar……続きを見る

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The moving bodyーpervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-event……続きを見る

"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nationーa society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual a……続きを見る