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Maritime Security in East and Southeast Asia
Political Challenges in Asian Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This volume investigates the nature of threats facing, or perceived as facing, some of the key players involved in Asian maritime politics. The articles in this collection present case studies on Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia as a whole and focus...
Confucianism and the Chinese Self
Re-examining Max Weber’s China
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book explores the complex nexus among...
Urban Chinese Daughters
Navigating New Roles, Status and Filial Obligation in a Transitioning Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The lives of urban Chinese daughters have changed. Education and employment have propelled them from dependency to self-sufficiency, resulting in new attitudes and lifestyles. However, traditional filial obligation has remained. This book asks why it continues and how it is currently discharged, focusing...
Siloed Diversity
Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity. By focusing on the transient destination hubs of Australia and Singapore, Catherine Gomes shifts our thinking about diversity for two disruptive reasons: the...
Terrorism, Radicalisation & Countering Violent Extremism
Practical Considerations & Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
This book brings together research that covers perspectives and case studies on terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism (CVE). Written by experts involved in these issues at the grassroots, the book bridges the academic-practitioner gap in the field. The proliferation of academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book consists of chapters based on selected papers presented at the EcoDesign2015 symposium (9th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing). The symposium, taking place in Tokyo in December 2015, has been leading the research and practices of eco-design...
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, November 6-8, 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2017). Held from 6 to 8 November 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Fujian University of Technology...
India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation
The Unfinished Economic Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book explores the unfinished India–Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book “India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations” published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral engagement...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book addresses notions of critique in Design and Technology Education, facilitating a conceptual and practical understanding of critique, and enabling both a personal and pedagogical application to practice.
Critique can be a frame of mind, and may be related to a technology, product,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book provides a clear, comprehensible and up-to-date description of how Small Angle Scattering (SAS) can help structural biology researchers. SAS is an efficient technique that offers structural information on how biological macromolecules behave in solution. SAS provides distinct and complementary...
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, December 14-17, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2018). Held from 14 to 17 December 2018 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, the conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Changzhou College...
Cell Mapping Methods
Algorithmic Approaches and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book presents the latest algorithmic developments in the cell-mapping method for the global analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems, global solutions for multi-objective optimization problems, and global solutions for zeros of complex algebraic equations. It also discusses related engineering and...
Education in an Era of Schooling
Critical perspectives of Educational Practice and Action Research. A Festschrift for Stephen Kemmis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory has been influential across all continents...