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The third edition of this highly respected book covers the numerous political developments that have taken place in Belgium since 2012. This book features topics such as the implementation of the si……続きを見る

Larry the cat, chief mouser of Downing Street, has seen off five Prime Ministers so far and is a national treasure. Though certainly the most famous cat in Britain, Larry is only one of a long line ……続きを見る

No Brasil, em pleno século 21, cerca de 40% da população prisional volta a cometer crimes após sair do cárcere. A nossa alta taxa de reincidência está ligada a questões práticas: muitas vezes, quand……続きを見る

Il Quarto Rapporto Censis-Tendercapital sulla “sostenibilità sociale e la rinnovata sfida del welfare italiano” ha l’obiettivo di porre l’attenzione, tramite le opinioni, i comportamenti e i valori ……続きを見る

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifest……続きを見る

Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surf……続きを見る

"Flashback 2015" is another collection of essays and newspaper columns by Peter Cavanaugh. "Flashback 2015 " chronologically tracks this particular collection of observations with the 2015's very la……続きを見る

Using a communicological perspective, Recovering the Voice in our Techno-Social World: On the Phone identifies voice (phone in Greek) as the essential medium for a re-enchantment of human communicat……続きを見る

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, so……続きを見る

Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventures An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm. There he manage……続きを見る

As discussões sobre turismo e cultura têm suscitado crescente interesse pelas dinâmicas dos processos que afetam ao desenvolvimento de regiões e lugares. O desafio posto pelos autores do livro é con……続きを見る

The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in……続きを見る

A classic travelogue that brilliantly conjures 1930s Britain. In this series of pen-portraits of England from the 1930s, Victor Canning ‘evocatively captures the pattern and colour of English life’ ……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social scien……続きを見る

This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolutio……続きを見る

Over the course of his life, Keynes often abandoned ideas previously developed and at times assumed positions which were contradictory to his earlier thought. This inconsistency, it is charged, is e……続きを見る

Some of the chief aims of President Ronald Reagan’s economic agenda were to reduce the “regulatory burden,” minimize state intervention, and reinvigorate market mechanisms. Toward these ends, his ad……続きを見る

This is a book for those who want to know what really happens when, in circumstances of enormous complexity and under the impetus of the New Deal, an irresistible drive for labor organization runs h……続きを見る

A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around the……続きを見る

Abduction issues an Amber Alert for the souls and minds of America’s youth. The book exposes how the liberal Left seeks to brainwash our children. It places a spotlight on the corruption that permea……続きを見る

We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with ……続きを見る

Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wid……続きを見る

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media a……続きを見る

Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of mos……続きを見る

For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were fre……続きを見る

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral haz……続きを見る

The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. This volume explo……続きを見る

Historiquement, la mise en évidence du caractère stratégique du pétrole et des approvisionnements énergétiques reste associée à la Première Guerre mondiale. Les problématiques d’accès et de sécurisa……続きを見る

Stupeurs dans un cabinet dentaire. Tout accuse Gilles Vuizelle, remarquable dentiste, comme l'assassin de Barbara, jeune comédienne en vogue. Le commissaire Juillard et le docteur Fugon, médecin-lég……続きを見る

Sueurs froides sur la piste de danse... Béryl, belle danseuse sportive, aimée et respectée, est assassinée au cours de danse qu’elle dirige avec son époux. Un meurtre audacieux, commis en pleine soi……続きを見る