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This collection conceptualizes the question of rulership in past centuries, incorporating such diver... more

Handbook of Magnetic Materials covers the expansion of magnetism over the last few decades and its a... more

Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks. The... more

This edited volume contains ten essays written with first-hand experience of reporting on conflicts ... more

This volume highlights key aspects of new media, knowledge practices and multiliteracies in communic... more

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Over the last few decades, magnetism has seen an enormous expansion into a variety of different area... more

This timely book reports recent progress in research on traumatic brain injury (TBI) by leading inve... more

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Over the last few decades magnetism has seen an enormous expansion into a variety of different areas... more

From Easter 1916 until the bitter end of the Civil War, Kerry was embroiled in bloody conflict. Now,... more

This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and their applications -- fast-growing an... more

Volume 20 of the Handbook of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. As a ... more

three typical somatotypes (pyknic, athletic, aesthenic) could reflect human character traits. Since the 1940’s, W. H...... more

Intensive care is a rapidly changing area of medicine, and after four years from the 2nd edition the... more

This book arises from a workshop on the application of network analysis to ecological flow networks.... more

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a Spring Scho... more

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a Spring Scho... more

Volume 19 of the Handbook of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. As a ... more

Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic... more

Emerging infectious diseases may be defined as diseases being caused by pathogens only recently reco... more

CEOS was established under the auspices of the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations in 1984 in ... more

Volume 18 of the Handbook of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. As a ... more

th It is our great privilege and honor to present the proceedings of the 18 International Symposium ... more

Conceived as the definitive reference in a classic and important field of modern physics, this exten... more

Volume 17 of the Handbook on the Properties of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a d... more

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) studies the interaction between the flow of an electrically conducting fl... more

This book provides a perspective on the current status of bioimaging technologies developed to asses... more

H. K. Colebatch’s The Work of Policy provides an international perspective on the field of policy analysis. Colebatch...... more

heterogeneous structures, especially when the data quality is not very high. GAUTIER et al. perform ... more

Volume 16 of the Handbook on the Properties of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a d... more

Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond what the law requires-beyond bare complia... more

The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding was established in 1941 in recognition of the grow... more

Volume 15 of the Handbook on the Properties of Magnetic Materials, as the preceding volumes, has a d... more

With applications ranging from modelling the environment to automotive design and physiology to astr... more

Addresses the problem of improving public transit systems by taking advantage of various technologie... more

A comprehensive two-volume treatise on superconductivity that represents the first such publication ... more

Magnetoelectronics is a novel and rapidly developing field. This new field is frequently referred to... more

Infections contracted by patients constitute an important factor in the manage- ment of any hospital... more

Lars Qvortrup The world of interactive 3D multimedia is a cross-institutional world. Here, researche... more

Rent-seeking is about buying influence, which can range from lobbying to corruption. The concepts of... more

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Volume 11 of this prestigious series, as the preceding volumes, has a dual purpose. As a textbook it... more

Volume 10 of the Handbook is composed of topical review articles written by leading authorities. In ... more

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