This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics incl... more

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bod... more

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality i... more

The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sound... more

reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition. In essays...... more

Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past ... more

This book is the first quantitative description of Europe s economic development at a regional level... more

Encouraging a conversation among scholars working with questions of transnationalism from the perspe... more

​This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governm... more

This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulner... more

Addressing all aspects of Steuart’s contribution to economics this book reveals the particular impor... more

The Handbook of Olive Oil presents an up-to-date view of all aspects of olive oil. It is written fro... more

While some e-government projects fail to deliver the expected benefits due to numerous technical, or... more

The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and m... more

As governments around the world seek new and more effective methods of organizing their administrati... more

This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, a... more

Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato’s Dialogues as confirmed by writings and ... more

"The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity." This book is... more

The early 21st century has seen a renewed interest in research in the widely-adopted proportional-in... more

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still... more

Molecular Wine Microbiology features rigorous scientific content written at a level comprehensible f... more

Recent financial crises illustrate the risks of financial volatility and macroeconomic instability d... more

The current theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is developing along three interwoven lin... more

The combination of supramolecular chemistry, inorganic solids, and nanotechnology has already led to... more

No foreign policy decision in recent history has had greater repercussions than President George W. ... more

No foreign policy decision in recent history has had greater repercussions than President George W. ... more

Enhanced analytical capabilities and separation techniques, improved detection limits, and accessibi... more

Sturgeons are considered living fossils , sharing many morphological and biological features with a... more

in 2003-2005 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. Ramon Sarró is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of...... more

A large number of biologically relevant species are negatively charged, the- fore it is not surprisi... more

This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Ho... more

Cellular automata are regular uniform networks of locally-connected finite-state machines. They are ... more

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from re... more

The inherent dangers of change are often summed up in the misquoted Chinese curse "May you live in i... more

This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support ... more

This volume is a collection of a variety of brain proteins and peptides whose structures and functio... more

This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance... more

Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached... more

Always considered a classic renewable resource, after a hundred thousand years of farming and indust... more

Artificial Neural Networks in Real-Life Applications offers an outlook on the most recent works in t... more

Statistical Seismology aims to bridge the gap between physics-based and statistics-based models. Thi... more

Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Agustin Lao, Lewis Gordon, James ... more

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism provides an up-to-date review of subnational and multicu... more

Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc Networks collects and synthesizes new material on ... more

An important building block for further advancing world-system theory, this book considers the theor... more

Several of the world’s leading scholars present critical analyses (both conceptual and empirical) of... more

In recent years the fundamental concepts and applied methodologies of molecular similarity analysis ... more

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies o... more

The studyofthehealingpowerofchemicalcompounds, present into the known natural active principles and ... more

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines... more

The Economics of James Steuart reveals the particular importance of Steuart s work on monetary issue... more

Macroeconomics increasingly uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models to understand theoret... more

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions... more

A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looki... more