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Recent debates in security policy have highlighted trends towards fragmentation, informalisation and... more

While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles an... more

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exhibits of art brut as a vehicle for fighting stigma. Hans-Otto Thomashoff was born in Germany and lives in Vienna. He is a...... more

exhibits of art brut as a vehicle for fighting stigma. Hans-Otto Thomashoff was born in Germany and lives in Vienna. He is a...... more

This volume shows how the history and practices of mathematics education in Korea (from Volume 7) ha... more

Industrial and academic scientists face increasing challenges to find cost-effective and environment... more

For more than 60 years, The Alkaloids has been the leading book series in the field of alkaloid chem... more

This volume is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2... more

This book examines the relationship between human rights and religiosity. It discusses whether the i... more

This book gathers papers presented at the Logistik-Management-Konferenz 2013, which was organized by... more

Negotiating China’s Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered interna... more

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to ... more

This book was compiled from contributions given at the 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Ear... more

In this book, educational writers and practitioners from many parts of the world, including New York... more

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised selected papers of the 4th and 5th workshops on Big Dat... more

This book is a comprehensive, in-depth, and up-to-date resource on eye pathology that will be of gre... more

This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the ... more

In this book, educational writers and practitioners from many parts of the world, including New York... more

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since ... more

The laws governing humanitarian action stand at the intersection of several fields of international ... more

The Christian doctrines of original sin and the historical fall of Adam have been in retreat since t... more

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International ... more

In recent years, all types of businesses have increasingly focused on the importance of the relation... more

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint proceedings of the Third and Fourth Workshop on ... more

Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of cli... more

This book constitutes the second part of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on... more

The fuel consumption of a modern combustion engine is one of the most important purchase criteria in... more

This volume, which has textbook character, is intended to provide an in-depth introduction to differ... more

The Internet of Services and the Internet of Things are major building blocks of the Future Internet... more

Chest Surgery provides readers with a comprehensive and authoritative text that explains and illustr... more

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Wherea... more

Presenting recent research on the international integration of infrastructures in Europe, this book ... more

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on E... more

This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer v... more

"Divided Nations and Transitional Justice" is a collection of significant writings contributed by th... more

The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are well-known cases of consensus politics. Decision-making ... more

This book - in conjunction with the volumes LNCS 8588 and LNAI 8589 - constitutes the refereed proce... more

These two volumes present the collected works of James Serrin. He did seminal work on a number of th... more

Innate DNA and RNA Recognition: Method and Protocols presents validated experimental strategies to d... more

These two volumes present the collected works of James Serrin. He did seminal work on a number of th... more

. Contributions to this volume give this process a face and a direction, which is highlighted in the introduction by Hans-W. Micklitz....... more

Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the ’death’ o... more

This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-govern... more

This book provides a comprehensive update on the state of the art in cancer immunology, which has ra... more

Climate change highlights the challenges for long-term policy making in the face of persistent and i... more

The purpose of this book is to help engineers and scientists better understand dense nonaqueous phas... more

It can be easy to imagine that Child and Youth Care practitioners are inherently or naturally attune... more

The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. Howe... more

Starting with discussion of basic concepts and the molecular mechanisms of necrosis, this book looks... more

There currently is a clear tendency to an increasing number of accidental injuries in elderly people... more