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This open access book offers a critical examination of large-scale, state-led green industrial policies, with a particular focus on the European Union. Drawing on empirical evidence from sectors such as ethanol, hydrogen, wind power, and biogas, i...

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What if psychology isn't as liberal as we think? Psychology is often seen as a progressive discipline - a champion of social justice, diversity, and liberal values. But this provocative book challenges that assumption. It argues that psychology, f...

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This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice.¿In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or g...

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This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls' studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public...

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This practical book features more than 1000 questions and answers with illustrations for pediatric neurologists, adult neurologists, general pediatricians and students taking their initial board examination and maintenance of certification.

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By 2030, AI is expected to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy. However, corporate boards are increasingly struggling to respond to this systemic change. As AI increasingly influences business strategies and operations, board members a...

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The distinctive compilation of topics in this text provides readers with a smooth and leisurely transition from basic number theory to graduate topics courses on the Langlands program.

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This book addresses the confinement problem, which concerns the behavior of non-abelian gauge theories, and the force which is mediated by gauge fields, at large distances.

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Issues related to central banks feature regularly in economic news coverage, and in times of economic or financial crisis, especially when a commercial bank is bailed out, they become the focus of the policy debate. How do central banks wield infl...

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This book includes several special features related to Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Assessment (LCA and TEA) to enhance clarity, understanding, and engagement.

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This volume is a practical resource for the diagnosis and multi-disciplinary management of patients with vascular anomalies.

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This book offers the first systematic analysis of economic thought concerning war. Allio shows different economic perspectives from which it is possible to study war as a tool to achieve economic ends: causes, consequences, costs, funding methods,...

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This book investigates the state of maritime transport and supply chain resilience by developing emerging topics and real case studies. This offers a clear outlook on the resilience of maritime transport and supply chains, especially in emerging m...

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This book provides a contemporary and practical resource for exploring critical social work practices in mental health. It explores how a power analysis can be enacted, through a variety of skills and actions, in order to navigate complex organisa...

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This book offers a critical examination of the collaborative turn unfolding across the Nordic welfare states. Focusing on co-production-partnerships between citizens, public authorities, and civil society-the volume explores how this approach is r...

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Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties? Or that they have been ignorant, complacent or downright complicit in these scandals and downfalls? Of course, corporate scandals are nothing ne...

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This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language. Rather than treating silence with awe and wonder, this book puts silence to work, and it ...

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This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

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Intended for a one- or two-semester course, this text applies basic, one-variable calculus to analyze the motion both of planets in their orbits as well as interplanetary spacecraft in their trajectories.¿ The remarkable spacecraft missions to the...

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This textbook explores the working principles of all kinds of turbomachines. Readers will gain a fundamental understanding of turbomachines and will be able to make a reasoned choice of a turbomachine for a particular application.

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It describes the fundamental concepts and system requirements, presents the architecture and measurement principles and demonstrates the anti-interference design, access and slot planning, network transmission and routing, calibration and test eva...

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The book explores the geometric and kinematic design of the various types of gears most commonly used in practical applications, also considering the problems concerning their cutting processes. The cylindrical spur and helical gears are first con...

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This book explores the geometric and kinematic design of the various types of gears most commonly used in practical applications, also considering the problems concerning their cutting processes. The cylindrical spur and helical gears are first co...

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This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe. It provides a theoretical overview of post-modernism, why post-modern conservatism emerged, what distinguishes it from o...

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In this book, the author examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new sociocognitive-technological environments.

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This unique textbook offers a mathematically rigorous presentation of the theory of relativity, emphasizing the need for a critical analysis of the foundations of general relativity in order to best study the theory and its implications.¿ The tran...

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This textbook aims to introduce radiographers to the basic principles, ethics, governance and clinical applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across different medical imaging modalities including advantages, challenges and future work needed...

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In accordance with the Lacanian approach, autism is examined with detailed attention to the subject's use of language, culminating in Brenner's "autistic linguistic spectrum." A compelling read for students and scholars of psychoanalysis and autis...

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This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. A comparison is made between Artistic Research and Practice Research recognizing that research through practices with being-doing-knowing is central to both.

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