Learning to prescribe is an essential part of medical training. Due to various high profile serious ... more

Understanding invasion biology, and the dynamics of biological control practices, requires a multidi... more

Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of craft, this ground-breaking volum... more

Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and... more

knowledge and vocabulary so essential to their understanding of subjects like science and social studies. Helen Patrick and...... more

This book gives an overview of advanced emerging technologies for the detection of a range of waterb... more

Academic studies of terrorism grew exponentially in number after the September 11 attacks. The pro... more

This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Eu... more

The Europa Directory of International Organizations 2013 offers a unique guide to the contemporary i... more

If you are an obstetrician whose patient has been admitted to ICU, you need to know how she is manag... more

The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care s... more

The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health p... more

This volume describes the latest findings on transcriptional and translational regulation of stem ce... more

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the fie... more

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar asso... more

The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health p... more

Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine... more

The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but thre... more

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment cultu... more

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment cultu... more

Multilingualism and the Periphery is an edited volume that explores the ways in which core-periphery... more

State authority and power have become diffused in an increasingly globalized world characterized by ... more

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmet... more

A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create valu... more

Food safety concerns have boosted the Asian demand for quality food in general and products of geogr... more

Exhaustively researched and updated, South Asia 2013 is an in-depth library of information on the co... more

Helen Cooper’s unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged...... more

This highly topical book presents recent, significant research from eight nations where childcare ma... more

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of d... more

Rapid progress in health research has led to generation of new knowledge and innovative practices in... more

This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democr... more

What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasib... more

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that ar... more

The effective implementation of human rights treaty obligations in national law is subject to increa... more

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with ’modernization’ projects... more

​​This volume gathers together twenty major chapters that tackle a variety of issues associated with... more

The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improv... more

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative lingui... more

Takes a comparative perspective on family life and childhood in the past half century in Russia and ... more

This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus over three days... more

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know ... more

This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare p... more

makes a novel contribution, too, to "science and society" debates. Helen Lambert is Reader in Medical Anthropology at the...... more

The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored by... more

There can be little doubt that the rapid technological developments that have characterized the deca... more

Clays and soils play an important role in agriculture, environment and mineral deposits. In individu... more

Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the da... more

Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the da... more

An extensive one-volume guide covering some 1,900 international and regional entities, this title gi... more

Written by experts from around the globe (USA, Europe, Australia and Asia) this book explains techni... more

For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to... more

Questions about how social conditioning and historical circumstances influence assumptions about who... more