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Tokyo Roji
The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of peoples personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the contemporary urban design discourse, the social meaning attached to the roji is being re-interpreted by...
2017
1 novo
R$ 1.383,42
The Philosophy of Play
Play is a vital component of the social life and well-being of both children and adults. This book examines the concept of play and considers a variety of the related philosophical issues. It also includes meta-analyses from a range of philosophers and theorists, as well as an exploration of some key applied ethical considerations. The main objective of The Philosophy of Play is to provide a riche...
2014
1 novo
R$ 491,92
Dominant Political Parties and Democracy
This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party levels and take a fresh look at some of the classic cases of one-party dominance. The book also features me...
2015
1 novo
R$ 478,97
Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical
The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of empirical ones. One theoretical paper discusses several possible motivations for a morphologically organised...
2015
1 novo
R$ 478,97
Statebuilding in Afghanistan
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAFs contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical, historical, and military factors that are related to it. It argues that a general underlying factor i...
2016
1 novo
R$ 483,10
How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God
Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Paying careful attention to her interviews with Christian women survivors, Shooter finds that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others. Shooter brings the survivors narratives into...
2016
1 novo
R$ 536,10
Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song
This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. ...
2016
1 novo
R$ 542,52
The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and revealing...
2015
1 novo
R$ 499,34
Human Rights and Social Equality
The mission of the social work profession and the development of social policy are rooted in a set of core values and are the foundation of social works unique purpose and perspective. Human rights offer a normative base for social work and for the formation of inclusive social policies. This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to expl...
2016
1 novo
R$ 561,29
America, Technology and Strategic Culture
This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viability, and technical feasibility of Americas current strategic approach.The author argues that the situation in which America has found itself in Iraq is the direct result of a culturally predisposed inclination to substitute technology for strategy. This ...
2015
1 novo
R$ 511,64
Human Rights and Social Equality
The mission of the social work profession and the development of social policy are rooted in a set of core values and are the foundation of social works unique purpose and perspective. Human rights offer a normative base for social work and for the formation of inclusive social policies. This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to expl...
2016
1 novo
R$ 561,29
Dominant Political Parties and Democracy
This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party levels and take a fresh look at some of the classic cases of one-party dominance. The book also features me...
2015
1 novo
R$ 478,97
Nonlinear Differential Equations in Ordered Spaces
Extremality results proved in this Monograph for an abstract operator equation provide the theoretical framework for developing new methods that allow the treatment of a variety of discontinuous initial and boundary value problems for both ordinary and partial differential equations, in explicit and implicit forms. By means of these extremality results, the authors prove the existence of extremal ...
2000
1 novo
R$ 1.723,15
The Export of Hazard
This report, first published in 1985, written by a distinguished group of legal and public policy experts, documents the growing trade in hazardous industries and toxic products. Hazard export threatens the health and environment of workers and ordinary citizens the world over. It is carried out by transnational corporations, in order to locate their most dangerous industrial activities outside th...
2018
1 novo
R$ 425,84
Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first definitive survey of the field edited by two of its pioneers. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the Handbooks 32 chapters are ...
2018
1 novo
R$ 527,66
Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical
The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of empirical ones. One theoretical paper discusses several possible motivations for a morphologically organised...
2015
1 novo
R$ 478,97
Queer Environmentality
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarellos book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics and proposes an understanding of literary environmentalism that is rich in poetic complexi...
2016
1 novo
R$ 473,02
Nonlinear Differential Equations in Ordered Spaces
Extremality results proved in this Monograph for an abstract operator equation provide the theoretical framework for developing new methods that allow the treatment of a variety of discontinuous initial and boundary value problems for both ordinary and partial differential equations, in explicit and implicit forms. By means of these extremality results, the authors prove the existence of extremal ...
2000
1 novo
R$ 1.723,15
Chinese Cookery Secrets
To eat a Chinese meal is to enjoy one of the truly delicious pleasures of life. The Chinese are artists when it comes to presentation, seasoning and combining, and their greatest skill is in choosing the freshest and most wholesome foods, and making the most of them. Chinese Cookery Secrets reveals exactly how the magic is accomplished. Written over fifty years ago, this is an authentic book on Ch...
2016
1 novo
R$ 475,14
Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-19
A unique contribution to the architectural and social history of Bath, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Womens Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape approaches the past with the methods of the architectural historian and the site-specific interventions of the contemporary artist. Looking beyond and behind Baths strategic marshalling of its pas...
2016
1 novo
R$ 544,08
Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-19
A unique contribution to the architectural and social history of Bath, Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765-1965: Engaging with Womens Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape approaches the past with the methods of the architectural historian and the site-specific interventions of the contemporary artist. Looking beyond and behind Baths strategic marshalling of its pas...
2016
1 novo
R$ 544,08
Queer Environmentality
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarellos book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of aesthetics and proposes an understanding of literary environmentalism that is rich in poetic complexi...
2016
1 novo
R$ 473,02
Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation
This is a companion book to Earthscans 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities an...
2012
1 novo
R$ 543,16
Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science
Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first definitive survey of the field edited by two of its pioneers. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the Handbooks 32 chapters are ...
2018
1 novo
R$ 527,66
The Contradictions of Austerity
The great financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global economic and financial turmoil have launched a search for models for recovery. The advocates of austerity present the Baltic States as countries that through discipline and sacrifice showed the way out of crisis. They have proposed the Baltic model of radical public sector cuts, wage reductions, labor market reforms and reductions in living...
2015
1 novo
R$ 533,44
How Survivors of Abuse Relate to God
Grappling with theological issues raised by abuse, this book argues that the Church should be challenged, and ministered to, by survivors. Paying careful attention to her interviews with Christian women survivors, Shooter finds that through painful experiences of transformation they have surprisingly become potential agents of transformation for others. Shooter brings the survivors narratives into...
2016
1 novo
R$ 536,10
Chinese Cookery Secrets
To eat a Chinese meal is to enjoy one of the truly delicious pleasures of life. The Chinese are artists when it comes to presentation, seasoning and combining, and their greatest skill is in choosing the freshest and most wholesome foods, and making the most of them. Chinese Cookery Secrets reveals exactly how the magic is accomplished. Written over fifty years ago, this is an authentic book on Ch...
2016
1 novo
R$ 475,14
Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences (both for individuals and communities), removal from water, disposal problems and cost implications.
1990
1 novo
R$ 2.519,83
Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation
This is a companion book to Earthscans 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities an...
2012
1 novo
R$ 543,16
Livro Writing Science
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to ed...
2015
1 novo
R$ 622,77
Livro Writing Science
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to ed...
2015
1 novo
R$ 622,77
Iran
Having been ruled, more or less continuously, by a range of monarchical dynasties for three millennia, the end of the monarchy in Iran was relatively sudden, taking place in two short years. Since then, Iran has gone through tumultuous change, yet is still apparently caught in a cycle of transition. Iran has now created a complex but unique and non-transferrable system of government, but the quest...
2017
1 novo
R$ 553,20
Mechanisms of Everyday Cognition
Based on the proceedings of the twelfth biennial conference on life-span developmental psychology, most of the contributions in this volume deal with the mechanisms of everyday cognition. However, a broad spectrum of additional concerns is addressed within the domain of everyday cognition: its metatheoretical underpinnings, theory and theoretical issues, methods of investigation, empirical conside...
2015
1 novo
R$ 566,97
Financing Terrorism
Without money, terrorists cannot function as organizations and cannot conduct attacks. Yet the questions remain, how vulnerable are terrorists to financial disruptions? Can governments put pressure on their finances in meaningful ways or are they too resilient and adaptive to be affected by state actions? These and other questions about terrorism financing are vigorously debated by scholars and po...
2017
1 novo
R$ 566,97
Formulation Simplified
Many chemists - especially those most brilliant in their field - fail to appreciate the power of planned experimentation. They dislike the mathematical aspects of statistical analysis. In addition, these otherwise very capable chemists also dismissed predictive models based only on empirical data. Ironically, in the hands of subject matter experts like these elite chemists, the statistical methods...
2018
1 novo
R$ 1.632,73
Livro Writing Science
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to ed...
2015
1 novo
R$ 622,77
A Clinicians Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Chil
Clinicians and practitioners-in-training can often lose sight of the normal developmental landscape that underlies behavior, especially in the field of cognitive development. It exists in an insular bubble within the broader field of psychology, and within each sub-domain there is a wide continuum between the anchors of atypical and optimal development. Clinicians need to learn, and to be reminded...
2015
1 novo
R$ 514,76
Livro Writing Science
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to ed...
2015
1 novo
R$ 622,77
Urban Cosmopolitics
Invoking the notion of cosmopolitics from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts and compromises th...
2016
1 novo
R$ 1.389,20
Iran
Having been ruled, more or less continuously, by a range of monarchical dynasties for three millennia, the end of the monarchy in Iran was relatively sudden, taking place in two short years. Since then, Iran has gone through tumultuous change, yet is still apparently caught in a cycle of transition. Iran has now created a complex but unique and non-transferrable system of government, but the quest...
2017
1 novo
R$ 553,20
Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences (both for individuals and communities), removal from water, disposal problems and cost implications.
1990
1 novo
R$ 2.519,83
Caste in Early Modern Japan
Caste, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a combination of ideas, beliefs, and practices roo...
2019
1 novo
R$ 1.384,06
Livro Writing Science
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to ed...
2015
1 novo
R$ 622,77
A Clinicians Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Chil
Clinicians and practitioners-in-training can often lose sight of the normal developmental landscape that underlies behavior, especially in the field of cognitive development. It exists in an insular bubble within the broader field of psychology, and within each sub-domain there is a wide continuum between the anchors of atypical and optimal development. Clinicians need to learn, and to be reminded...
2015
1 novo
R$ 514,76