Providing a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the phenomenon of cuckooing, this volume is a timely insight into this longstanding practice whereby individuals or groups take over a person's home and use the property to facilitate exploitation.
Tips & Tricks in Endovascular Surgery is a practical, experience-driven guide to mastering both the fundamentals and the most advanced aspects of endovascular procedures.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of nanotechnology in food preservation, food packaging, and the development of novel preservation methods.
This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages.
Emerging Perspectives and Applications of Computational Intelligence and Smart Systems delves into the transformative role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, robotics, smart technologies etc.
This book covers the analysis of biosensing, site-targeted therapeutics, as well as visual analytics of release profile at the delivery site as possible uses for nanotheranostics therapies following the route of smart polymers.
This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (northern Italy).
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire.
The International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences (ICAMEMS-2025) was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru from 10th to 11th March 2025 at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru.
Interprofessional teams of health and social care professionals encounter, and respond to, significant ethical challenges and complexity in their everyday work.
The Allocation of Resources (1978) examines the main problems associated with resource allocation, such as those arising from economies of scale, externalities, short- and long-run market adjustments, and government intervention in various sectors of the economy.
New Conversations on Global Citizenship Education explores the multifaceted aspects of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of contemporary university research, teaching and learning.
This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of their entanglements, and traces in detail the underlying and lasting causes and effects of their association-from the closing years of the last Chinese imperial dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Hair loss is one of the most common conditions encountered in both clinical and aesthetic medicine, and its impact often extends well beyond the physical appearance of patients.
Crisis in the East European Economy (1982) is a collection of essays, written by leading specialists in centrally planned economies, examining developments in late-stage Soviet-style economies in East European countries.
Theatre and Media for Social Change in Malawi examines contemporary participatory theatre and media as instruments for social transformation across multiple domains, including education, prisoner rehabilitation, gender equality, mental health support and climate action.
This book explores the multifaceted role of algae in addressing sustainable development, circular economy practices, and climate change mitigation issues.
Offering a practical guide to all aspects of modern journalism, Essential Journalism is a key resource for anyone wishing to become a qualified journalist in the UK, and in particular, those studying for the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Diploma.
This thought-provoking book exposes and challenges the hidden assumptions of modern medicine: the body is a kind of machine, symptoms must be caused by disease, health depends on healthcare, prevention is better than cure, things that can be measured are more real than those that cannot, how we see things is how they are, relationships are peripheral to medical care, and proper doctors just keep going.
England in Transition (1931) examines life and work in eighteenth-century England, a time of massive upheaval as the Industrial Revolution changed every aspect of the country's economic and social conditions.
Taxing the State: The Politics of Changing Taxes in the American States is a comparative analysis that explores the socioeconomic and political causes and effects of tax policy and budget spending at the state level.
This book explores the journey of entrepreneurship, from idea to reality, and outlines the different stages associated with starting an innovative business.
Economics of the Australian Service Sector (1977) assesses the crucial role of service activities in contributing to gross product or absorbing the workforce.
This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of their entanglements, and traces in detail the underlying and lasting causes and effects of their association-from the closing years of the last Chinese imperial dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Fairytales form a cornerstone of children's and YA literature studies, and the tale of 'Hansel and Gretel' has been translated, adapted and retold across the years.
If you are just starting out on a career in motorsport, whether this is your first vocational choice, or a second career looking to be involved in something which is more exciting than being in an ordinary office or factory, this book will get you started.
In India, traditional social collectivities like caste, tribe, gender, and religion continue to form the base of social exclusion, marginalisation and inequality to a large extent, despite operation of the mighty forces of modernisation and globalisation.
Welcome to the fifth volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices - the first series of its kind dedicated to the art, science, and craft of game audio programming.
This book provides an overview of AI's historical development while understanding the cultural and scientific foundations that make today's AI possible.
