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‘Electrifying … A user manual for our polarized world’ Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again ‘Important, compelling and wise’ Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author o……続きを見る

Institutional shareholder participation has long been considered as vital to good corporate governance yet its potential does not seem to have been realized. The recent banking crisis exposed the pa……続きを見る

As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domes……続きを見る

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step towards a new stage of unification: towards a more f……続きを見る

Summarizing modern research on early hominid evolution from the apes six million years ago to the emergence of modern humans, this book is the first to present a synthetic discussion of many aspects……続きを見る

On one level, this is an intriguing account of expat life in Shanghai's International settlement in the early 20th century. On another level is charted the introduction and growth of new western tec……続きを見る

Although undeniably subject to the coercive political institutions of a liberal state, citizens with cognitive disabilities have frequently and without justification been denied political equality a……続きを見る

Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "Our Common Future" adopted the concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new……続きを見る

Investigating the ideological dimension and exploring the continued impact of Marx, Keynes and Hayek, the authors demonstrate how these three economic narratives became entangled over time and under……続きを見る

It is a global scandal that road traffic crashes in low- and middle-income countries have claimed over a million lives, and caused upwards of 20 million injuries, every year for over a decade. The U……続きを見る

Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to. The authors of this practical and imaginative book explain why patients may behave in the……続きを見る

Working with older people in care can be challenging and frustrating, especially when they behave in ways that seem irrational, aggressive, or unreasonably repetitive, and nothing you can do seems t……続きを見る

Completed hours before Maurice Ward’s shocking murder, this remarkable book is the first autobiography of an Irish criminal. Recording his incarceration in Upton Industrial School, Ward recalls how ……続きを見る

Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking econo……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1978, treats methods of describing the total and special vocabularies of a given text and demonstrates a procedure of description of the vocabulary of the Sufi Mathnavi……続きを見る

This book analyzes the current trends in the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge which contribute to social inequalities, especially in the Global South. The aim of the text is to explor……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2001. This text looks at what being Russian means to a Russian politician, the country they live in and what they think it ought to be. It is a study of self-images……続きを見る

Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the frame……続きを見る

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the worl……続きを見る

Accelerating, human-induced changes in global natural systems, with global warming as a prime example, are modifying international relations. Diplomacy has to recognize that new types of threats wil……続きを見る

This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China. Focusing on China’s economic participation in North Korea’s minerals and fishery industries, the author……続きを見る

Ind i det amerikanske er et stort anlagt forsøg på at indkredse og beskrive en række kulturelle og historiske sammenhænge, som er særegne for det amerikanske. Fokus er lagt på personer, og de fleste……続きを見る

Da Oscar Wilde som fyrreårig i 1895 blev anklaget, dømt og fængslet for homoseksualitet, stod han succesombrust på toppen af sin karriere som æstet, kunstner, selskabsløve og mediepersonlighed. Domm……続きを見る

Samarbejde på tværs af det offentlige er svært. Bogen giver ledere og medarbejdere i det offentlige viden, baggrund, gode eksempler og metoder til at arbejde på tværs - også sammen med borgerne. 続きを見る

Social Support and Health in the Digital Age discusses how theinformation age has revolutionized nearly every facet of human communicationーfrom the ways in which people purchase products to how the……続きを見る

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist accountーa "constructive-engagement" accountーof how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagemen……続きを見る

Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics provides an in-depth application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL……続きを見る

PIGEN DER FORSVANDT - EMILIE MENG MYSTERIET er en dokumentarisk fortælling, der kulegraver en af de mest omfattende kriminalsager i nyere tid. To journalister opruller, hvordan en 17-årig piges fors……続きを見る

This book presents a radically new approach of how societies can bring corruption under control. Since the late 1990s, the detrimental effects of corruption to human well-being have become well esta……続きを見る

Der findes ikke nogen formel på Amerika. Ingen enkel måde at definere landet eller dets indbyggere. Men skal man alligevel gøre forsøget, må det være at sige, at USA er kontrasternes land. Stedet me……続きを見る