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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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This book combines the complexities of neuro-ophthalmologic and neuro-otologic disorders into one concise guidebook. It focuses on the basics of these two challenging subspecialties, encountered by the neurologist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologis...

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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 open access textbook welcomes students into the fundamental theory of measure, integration, and real analysis.

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The third edition of this successful book has been fully revised, expanded and updated to reflect the recent advances in vertigo and dizziness, especially with regard to current classifications and clinical trials. The book starts by covering the ...

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This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago. Through a historical and cultural synthesis, the author inv...

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This is the story of humankind's quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun. Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the ...

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shattered the sense of security throughout Europe. As a result of the Russian invasion, cooperation between Russia and the West ended. Moreover, Russia's increasingly aggressive foreign policy increase...

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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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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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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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