Anna S : 106 books
Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta
Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
by Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Frank R. Baumgartner, Anna Palau
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalonia and the Basque region, and the declining role of religion.
by Sharon Alker, Emile Bojesen, Jess Domanico
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writing dating between 1663 and 1788, when the understanding of disability altered dramatically. We begin with Margaret Cavendish, whose natural...
Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
by Martin Egli, Andy Flavell, Anna Marie Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The structure, function and reactions of nucleic acids are central to molecular biology and are crucial for the understanding of complex biological processes involved. Revised and updated Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology 3rd Edition discusses in detail, both the chemistry and biology of nucleic...
Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...
by Guillermo Bautista, Federico Borges, Anna Forés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Esta obra es un referente para los docentes que se inician en la formación en un entorno virtual de enseñanza y aprendizaje o para quienes deseen saber, de forma práctica, en qué consiste enseñar y aprender en un entorno virtual. El lector encontrará a lo largo de estas páginas, ideas y ejemplos...
Networks Against Time
Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Despite significant achievements, the discipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handle many practical real-world challenges. The authors of Networks Against Time claim that a unified supply chain network analytics framework is needed which should be able to handle optimization...
Tourism and Wellness
Travel for the Good of All?
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space...
Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity
Six Types of School Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The...
Why We Live in Hierarchies?
A Quantitative Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy. To do so, it discusses recent experiments and models that are simple and realistic enough to reproduce the observations, and develops concepts for a better understanding...
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)
From the Global to the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states'...