M T S : 168 books
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Compression Schemes for Mining Large Datasets
A Machine Learning Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book addresses the challenges of data abstraction generation using a least number of database scans, compressing data through novel lossy and non-lossy schemes, and carrying out clustering and classification directly in the compressed domain. Schemes are presented which are shown to be efficient...
El Mundo Zurdo 4
Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
by Emilia Barbosa, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Olga Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia,...
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida
Back to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...
Nouveau Projet 06
Automne-hiver 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Nouveaux départs, recyclage et résilience sont au programme d’un dossier spécial sur le riche concept de «régénération»—qu’elle soit individuelle ou collective; sociale, urbaine ou environnementale. Cette édition automnale inclut également une fiction inédite de Stéphane Lafleur...
Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry
Media, Players, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often considered an isolated activity for the hardcore sports fan, fantasy sports play have since been incorporated into sports broadcasting and editorial coverage,...
Material Constitution
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1997
The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
Advanced Aluminum Alloys Containing Scandium
Structure and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is the first book to generalize and analyze the extensive experimental and theoretical results on the phase composition, structure, and properties of aluminum alloys containing scandium. The effects of scandium on these properties are studied from a physico- chemical viewpoint. The authors present...
Anthropology as Ethics
Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2
Diseases, pests, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
by Maurice Chive, Jean C. Bolomey, T.C. Cetas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The enormous potential that hyperthermia has for benefiting patients with cancer is impressively indicated by biological studies, both in vitro and in vivo, and by comparative clinical studies whenever the heat has been appro priate to the size of the tumor. But hyperthermia, as with any other technologically...
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...
Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities
The Ocean Disposal Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protection of coastal waters from direct pollution by coastal cities is a vital task in preserving marine ecosystems and promoting human health. This book, edited by two leading experts on wastewater management for coastal cities, delves deeply into the ecological and oceanographic fundamentals that...