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Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

Antimicrobial resistance has existed in nature long before the discovery of antibiotics. The mechanisms of resistance are prevalent among the bacterial population. Over a period of time and facilitated by indiscriminate usage of antibiotics these mechanisms are transferred from one type of bacteria to another including the pathogenic ones. In addition the rate of discovery of novel antimicrobials is much slower than the rate of evolution of antimicrobial resistance. Therefore there is a need for alternative strategies to control antimicrobial resistance to save lives. In this book the novel strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance are described emphasizing collaborative measures of control. We describe the concerted efforts undertaken by global communities to combat antimicrobial resistance in detail. The most efficient strategy could be a behavioral change towards indiscriminate consumption usage and prescription of antibiotics. | Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

GBP 115.00
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The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries world-wide. New features of the 2013 edition include: reorganised and expanded analytical essays. New sections on trends in contemporary armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria as well as trends in defence capability areas with a focus on equipment technological or doctrinal developments. There is also an essay on trends in defence economics and procurement one on European defence industries and another on anti-access/area denial detailed analysis of regional and national defence policy and economic issues for selected states updated graphics feature on comparative defence statistics with focus on defence economics and major land sea and air capability concerns tables graphics and analysis of defence economics issues additional national capability summaries additional data on land forces: combat support and combat service support new graphics and maps on defence capability issues additional data on cyber capabilities.

GBP 145.00
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International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

This study based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors. The author explains what incentives and regulatory structures are needed that do not damage local competitiveness. Asserting that technology transfer is fundamental to effective policies for climate change and for economic development the text examines how the benefits can be maximized. | International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

GBP 120.00
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Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

First published in 1989 Combating Long-Term Unemployment follows on from and is a companion to Local Authorities and New Technologies. The book seeks to inform debate by analysing policy responses to the problem of long-term unemployment and by focusing on the role of local initiatives in a European context. Long-term unemployment in Europe is a complicated and multifaceted problem the policy responses to which need to be studied against various contexts. It is designed to appeal to all those interested in policies to combat long-term unemployment: local and central government officials private sector organizations whose work is relevant to locally based initiatives and interested academics. | Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E. C. Relations

GBP 90.00
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Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain

Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain

The amputation of a limb is a surgical intervention used as a last resort to remove irreparably damaged diseased or congenitally malformed limbs where retention of the limb is a threat to the well-being of the individual. The procedure traumatically alters the body image but often leaves sensations that refer to the missing body part the phantom limb. In 50-80% of cases these sensations are perceived as painful and referred to as ‘Phantom Limb Pain’. Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain provides an overview of research experiences and results for the design development and test of hardware and software components and the ambition to safely implant and evaluate a novel neural interface system to combat phantom limb pain in an amputee volunteer subject.

GBP 94.99
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Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

Desertification and land degradation are complex phenomena and we need to understand their causes consequences and means to mitigate and combat their impact. Therefore this book aims to explain the concept and characteristics of drylands desert and desertification land degradation wastelands and the concept of ecosystem services. It also discusses various types of processes of land degradations their characteristics physics and indicators along with mapping monitoring and assessment of methods involved. Concept of Ocean Biological Deserts is discussed along with international and regional efforts towards combating land degradation and desertification. Key Features:• Provides all the aspect of desertification and land degradation at one place • Includes comprehensive methods to monitor different desertification/land degradation processes • Comprehensive overview of the mapping monitoring and modelling techniques • Role of space borne data in identifying monitoring and combating desertification is evaluated and reported with real case studies • Explains the concept of ocean biological deserts their characteristics and mapping | Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

GBP 160.00
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Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers is a narrative of women participating in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. Focusing on their agency commitment beliefs and actions it describes how women got politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle in South Africa and exile. Siphokazi Magadla discusses the forms of military training they received the combat activities and their transformation as women and soldiers. Magadla also talks about their participation in the South African National Defence Force-led demobilisation process and their contributions to the democratic transformation of the SANDF. By illuminating the different eras and arenas of their participation this book shows the broadness of the armed struggle against apartheid as a historical truth and as a matter of gender equality and justice for an inclusive and more democratic future. | Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa

GBP 130.00
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Change Continuity and Complexity The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions

Change Continuity and Complexity The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions

The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands and elements: the mātṛ and yoginī worship the cult of Kālī and Tripurasundarī Vajrayāna Buddhism Jain Vidyādevīs Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava faith Śrīvidyā the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions etc. This volume is the first attempt to explore the historical process through which these traditions culminated in the Mahāvidyā cult and the goddesses with different origins and contradictory attributes were brought into a cluster with special reference to socio-political changes in the lower Gaṅgā and Brahmaputra Valley between the 9th and 15th centuries CE. Based on a close analysis of Purāṇas Tantras and inscriptional evidence and on extensive field research on archaeological remains as well as sacred sites Jae-Eun Shin discusses the two trajectories of the Mahāvidyās in eastern Śākta traditions. Each led to the systematization of Daśamahāvidyās in a specific way: one as ten manifestations of Durgā upholding dharma in the cosmic dimension and the other as ten mandalic goddesses bearing magical powers in the actual sacred site. Their attributes and characteristics have neither been static nor monolithic and the mode of worship prescribed for them has changed in a dialectical religious process between Brahmanical and Tantric traditions of the region. This is the definitive work for anyone seeking to understand goddess cults of South Asia in general and the history of eastern Śākta traditions in particular. To aid study the volume includes images diagrams and maps. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Change Continuity and Complexity The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions

GBP 130.00
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Digging for Victory Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth

Digging for Victory Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth

Horticultural Therapy is ideally suited to engage veterans alienated from traditional civilian healthcare routes who present with a range of complex and challenging healthcare needs. It presents on the surface as a deceptively simple and accessible activity. Carried out by trained professionals it is an evidence-based effective and cost-effective treatment. By targeting specific client-centred goals it is able to integrate improved individual physical emotional cognitive and social outcomes with broader opportunities to transition successfully into civilian society through learning a valuable skill set and a meaningful occupation. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods of Horticultural Therapy as applied to this unique client group. It describes the type of combat training and experiences veterans may have had and sets out the common issues and pitfalls civilian therapists often face when working with the military. Looking to the future it also identifies promising avenues in terms of how we may improve the treatment we offer to best serve the needs of these ex-service men and women who fight on our behalf. | Digging for Victory Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth

GBP 130.00
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Celebrity and New Media Gatekeeping Success

Celebrity and New Media Gatekeeping Success

This book looks back to the early days of new and social media to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media’s gatekeeping and its ability to exploit humiliate and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as part of this gatekeeping system Stephanie Patrick argues that in order to combat this threat the mainstream media doubled down on gendered narratives of meritocracy that legitimized certain (male) celebrities over others. Using a range of case studies spanning old media sites and new including Disney Playboy and reality television this book demonstrates that sexual exploitation and violation could be considered constitutive of female celebrity rather than a side effect. Patrick’s case studies include some of America’s most (in)famous celebrities including Miley Cyrus Lindsay Lohan Anna Nicole Smith Paris Hilton and Donald Trump urging readers to question their assumptions about these figures and their public trajectories. This nuanced exploration of patriarchal capitalism and women’s ongoing sexual exploitation by the media will be an important reference for scholars and students of digital and new media journalism celebrity studies and gender studies. | Celebrity and New Media Gatekeeping Success

GBP 130.00
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A Guide to School Attendance

A Guide to School Attendance

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every day; a waste of money resources and most of all of opportunity. A school’s practice is now subject to scrutiny as never before with targets and standard procedures required. A Guide to School Attendance provides a detailed practical guide for school leaders and managers teachers Education Welfare Officers and other attendance workers in schools and local authorities. New Registration Regulations have been force since September 2006. All state-maintained schools have a legal duty to combat unauthorised absence to maintain a twice-daily attendance record for every pupil and have attendance policies and procedures ready for OFSTED inspections. These should define everyday practice in all schools but are not always widely known about by those on the front-line. Ben Whitney draws together twenty years of education welfare experience to provide a wealth of ideas to benefit any school. The book provides: summaries of the legal requirements extended case studies Question and Answer sections group work activities model policies and procedures

GBP 130.00
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COVID-19 and the Soccer World

COVID-19 and the Soccer World

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life creating a new sense of (in)security with social distancing physical isolation quarantine and lockdown becoming buzzwords to combat the disease. As in all spheres of life the first wave of the pandemic posed serious challenges to the world of soccer with diverse and intriguing responses across the globe. This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020. It reveals how the process of confrontation negotiation adjustment and overcoming against such challenges necessitated and inspired novel responses and strong improvisations from soccer bodies to players referees to spectators and journalists to sponsors. This process has revealed abrupt as well as radical changes in the organization rules spectatorship and telecast of the game thereby affecting the game’s cultural dimensions commercial prospects and political implications. The volume points out that the way soccer has adjusted to the ‘new normal’ standard of the ‘COVID Regime’ has elicited newer meanings and nuanced representations of the game. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Soccer & Society. | COVID-19 and the Soccer World

GBP 130.00
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Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Technologies in Sustainable Soil Management Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites

Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Technologies in Sustainable Soil Management Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites

This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil such as pesticides petroleum hydrocarbons metals and chlorinated solvents which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth. Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites begins with an overview of phytoremediation and the role of environmental factors. It goes on to introduce soil assessment techniques and offers methods of remediation designed to combat soil and agricultural degradation. It discusses soils contaminated by heavy metals; microbial and phytoremediation-based removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from coal crude oil and gasoline; microbial bioremediation and amelioration of pesticide-contaminated soils; phytoremediation techniques for biomedical waste contaminated sites; as well as biomediation processes for human waste sites. Biopesticides are also explained as an alternative to conventional pesticides. Other volumes in the 4-volume set:• Volume 2: Microbial Approaches and Recent Trends• Volume 3: Inventive Techniques Research Methods and Case Studies• Volume 4: Degradation of Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls Together these four volumes provide in-depth coverage of the mechanisms advantages and disadvantages of the bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies for safe and sustainable soil management. | Bioremediation and Phytoremediation Technologies in Sustainable Soil Management Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites

GBP 131.00
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The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

This special issue of the Climate Policy journal outlines the fundamentals of the new European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) assesses the strategies for and impact of implementation and highlights the scheme's potential including positive aspects and remaining hurdles. The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the first international trading scheme for CO2 in the world. Its aim is to reduce the cost of compliance to existing targets under the Kyoto Protocol. From 1st January 2005 companies in high-energy sectors covered by the scheme must limit their CO2 emissions to allocated levels arranged in two periods: from 2005-2007 and 2008-2012 (to match the first Kyoto commitment period). In practice the scheme is likely to cover over 12 000 installations across the European Union corresponding to approximately 46% of the total EU CO2 emissions. The EU ETS represents a significant development in working at an international level to combat dangerous climate change. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme presents a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the EU ETS written by international experts in the field. The publication includes the latest research on emissions credits the interaction of the trading scheme with national energy policies and the debate on future expansion.

GBP 130.00
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Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing Methods Applications and Preventions

Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing Methods Applications and Preventions

This edited book is a compilation of scholarly articles on the latest developments in the field of AI Blockchain and ML/DL in cloud security. This book is designed for security and risk assessment professionals and to help undergraduate postgraduate students research scholars academicians and technology professionals who are interested in learning practical approaches to cloud security. It covers practical strategies for assessing the security and privacy of cloud infrastructure and applications and shows how to make cloud infrastructure secure to combat threats and attacks and prevent data breaches. The chapters are designed with a granular framework starting with the security concepts followed by hands-on assessment techniques based on real-world studies. Readers will gain detailed information on cloud computing security that—until now—has been difficult to access. This book: • Covers topics such as AI Blockchain and ML/DL in cloud security. • Presents several case studies revealing how threat actors abuse and exploit cloud environments to spread threats. • Explains the privacy aspects you need to consider in the cloud including how they compare with aspects considered in traditional computing models. • Examines security delivered as a service—a different facet of cloud security. | Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing Methods Applications and Preventions

GBP 110.00
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Diseases of Small Grain Cereal Crops A Colour Handbook

Diseases of Small Grain Cereal Crops A Colour Handbook

The small grain cereals wheat barley oats and rye are cultivated worldwide. They form the foundation of most agricultural systems and are essential in the manufacture of staple products such as bread pasta and fermented beverages. Reflecting the global and economic importance of cereal crops this book aims to make identification of diseases afflicting them easier. Covering 40-50 of the most important pathogens in Europe North America Japan and Australia the handbook contains superb color photographs accompanied by clear concise descriptions of diseases with advice on their control and is of use to plant health professionals growers farmers and students of agriculture. Diseases are illustrated at varying stages of development and entries follow an easy-to-use format. First the pathogens involved and their symptoms are described; next information on the disease cycle is given covering epidemiological features and the form taken by the pathogen in different climates. The section on economic significance deals with effects on yield and the ecosystem while that on control advises growers on measures and techniques to combat the outbreak of disease including the latest chemical treatments. For each disease detailed references provide a key to further reading. | Diseases of Small Grain Cereal Crops A Colour Handbook

GBP 175.00
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Mano Dura Policies in Latin America

Mano Dura Policies in Latin America

Leading scholars and policy analysts from around the Americas come together to untangle the factors that have fuelled the implementation of mano dura politics their rising popularity and impacts across nine widely heterogeneous countries in Latin America. Beginning with a discussion on the concept of mano dura the editors move to survey various theoretical approaches to punitivism and later review of the empirical research evaluating different drivers behind the adoption of tough on crime policies. Since hard-line initiatives often have consequences beyond the general goal of reducing violence they then analyze the impacts of these policing strategies on crime rates and different democratic institutions. Country chapters on Mexico El Salvador Honduras Guatemala Colombia Ecuador Bolivia Brazil and Argentina follow a common thematic structure to answer the following questions: What are some of the trends in gangs organized crime and violence? How have governments responded to combat crime and violence? What factors have fuelled the implementation of mano dura policies? Why are mano dura policies popular? What have the consequences of these policies been? Mano Dura Policies in Latin America is essential reading to students of Latin American studies political science public policy and criminal justice. It will also interest scholars working on drug trafficking organized crime and violence in Latin America.

GBP 130.00
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When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

In her fascinating exploration of feline history Georgie Anne Geyer explores the connections between the royal and sacred felines of ancient civilizations and the beloved domestic cats of today. Chasing an irresistible mystery across the globe Geyer conducts exhaustive research into the little-known puzzle of how cats came to occupy their unique position in the lives of humans. Treated with the tenacity resourcefulness and narrative instinct of a seasoned foreign correspondent the investigation yields unexpected answers and poses tantalizing new questions. It was Geyer's curiosity about her own cats that inspired her to study the history of human-feline relations and especially the exalted status of cats among the ancients as royal or sacred beings. In Egypt Geyer learned of the cat-goddess Bastet and of the cat's role in the transmigration of souls. In Myanmar she saw Leonardo DiCaprio Ricky Martin and the other incongruously named cats of the Nga Phe Kyaung monastery trained by the monks to jump through hoops. She even met a family who dutifully guards the heritage of the Japanese Bobtail cultivating the line in of all places rural Virginia. Richly illustrated with photographs of Geyer's journeys and historical cat images When Cats Reigned Like Kings describes forty-one recognized modern cat breeds plus other popular cats. Every cat lover can thus trace his or her cat to these breeds and their many relatives. The result is a remarkable book bound to delight and amaze cat fanciers and adventure seekers. | When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

GBP 130.00
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Preparing for Continuous Quality Improvement for Healthcare Sustainability through Functional Tree Structures

Preparing for Continuous Quality Improvement for Healthcare Sustainability through Functional Tree Structures

This book provides a set of detailed instructions to help you construct your departmental divisional or organizational functional tree structure (FTS) and work towards world-class service. Preparing for Continuous Quality Improvement for Healthcare: Sustainability through Functional Tree Structures outlines a method that will enable your organization to set a stable base for future improvements that are sustainable and create breakthrough improvements in service quality and costs. More importantly the FTS method outlined in the book will provide you with the tools to build processes tailored to your customers specifications and standards. It will enable you to improve your department division and entire organization and edge ahead of your competition. The book explains why organizations steeped in process improvement need to re-evaluate and re-establish their procedures especially if initial outcomes have not met expectations. Illustrating key concepts with examples case studies and flow charts it provides you with a clear understanding of organizational functional structure and how to document current organizational and departmental functional tree structures. Describing how to identify a department's functional deficits shortcomings and waste it explains how to select the best course of action for your organization. After reading this book you will be able to create a pictorial representation of your organization's current functional structure and select the best course of action for achieving sustainable advancements in service quality and costs. The book will help to convert your managers from a people-management mentality to one of process management transforming leaders to educators and not guards. | Preparing for Continuous Quality Improvement for Healthcare Sustainability through Functional Tree Structures

GBP 170.00
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Blockchain and IoT Integration Approaches and Applications

Blockchain and IoT Integration Approaches and Applications

As technology continues to advance and the interconnection of various devices makes our lives easier it also puts us at further risk of privacy and security threats. Phones can connect to household devices to help set alarms turn on or off the lights and even preheat ovens. The Internet of Things (IoT) is this symbiotic interplay of smart devices that collect data and make intelligent decisions. However the lack of an intrinsic security measure within IoT makes it especially vulnerable to privacy and security threats. Blockchain and IoT Integration highlights how Blockchain an encrypted distributed computer filing system can be used to help protect IoT against such privacy and security breaches. The merger of IoT and blockchain technology is a step towards creating a verifiable secure and permanent method of recording data processed by smart machines. The text explores the platforms and applications of blockchain-enabled IoT as well as helps clarify how to strengthen the IoT security found in healthcare systems as well as private homes. Other highlights of the book include: Overview of the blockchain architecture Blockchain to secure IoT data Blockchain to secure drug supply chain and combat counterfeits Blockchain IoT concepts for smart grids smart cities and smart homes A biometric-based blockchain enabled payment system IoT for smart healthcare monitoring systems | Blockchain and IoT Integration Approaches and Applications

GBP 100.00
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Women in the Military

Women in the Military

The role status and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the magnitude of concerns the sources of problems how issues might best be addressed and the future for women in the armed services. It is based on a special issue of the journal Gender Issues supplemented with additional contributions from leading scholars. Historical and theoretical perspectives are provided by Lorry M. Fenner and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Fenner focuses on the role of women in the military since 1940 and argues for broader inclusion of women as well as other groups that have previously been restricted from full participation. Elshtain analyzes the extraordinary ability of war to draw both women and men into civic life and observes how it calls forth and establishes a sense of particular identity for both men and women. Critical views are provided by other scholars. Laura L. Miller examines the feminist movement's insistence on full participation in combat units. Former Army chaplain Marie deYoung provides qualitative and quantitative data on military readiness and unit cohesion in mixed gender units. Leading military scholars (Mady W. Segal David R. Segal Jerald G. Bachman Peter Freedman-Doan and Patrick M. O'Malley) review national surveys comparing male and female high school seniors' responses to surveys conducted on questions about their propensity to enlist. Male-female differences are also addressed by Judith Hicks Steihm who looks at the opinions each group has about the capabilities and performance of women. She finds differences by rank on questions as to how hard female soldiers work as compared to male soldiers and whether women are ready for combat duty. Historically the military has provided minorities equal opportunity. Brenda L. Moore and Schulyler C. Webb examine whether or not this is still perceived to be the case in today's Navy. They focus on different perceptions by women and men and by African American women in particular. Finally William O'Neill examines whether the post-cold war downsized military will find women soldiers more or less important. Drawing upon social science research historical data and contemporary opinion surveys Women in the Military is a cutting-edge assessment of a major gender issue in the United States. It will be valuable to researchers in women's studies as well as those teaching courses in sociology history and military studies. Rita James Simon is University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University. She is the editor of Gender Issues and author of The American Jury the Insanity Defense: A Critical Assessment of Law and Policy in the Post-Hinkley Era (with David Aaronson) Adoption Race and Identity (with Howard Alstein) In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration Social Science Data and Supreme Court Decisions (with Rosemary Erickson) and Abortion: Statutes Policies and Public Attitudes the World Over.

GBP 145.00
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The Transnational Crime of Human Trafficking A Human Security Approach

The Transnational Crime of Human Trafficking A Human Security Approach

Human trafficking is a multi-faceted crime. It suffers from definitional and implementation problems. One facet the focus of this book is the transnational nature of much of the crime and the need for practitioners to operate across borders to combat it. Europe has taken a distinctive approach to cross border law enforcement and judicial cooperation which could be used as a model in other areas of the world. This publication examines these problems from a Council of Europe and European Union perspective including the now post-Brexit UK. The UK has adopted a distinctive approach to legislating and operationalising its trafficking in human beings (THB) legal frameworks also legislating for “slavery servitude forced and compulsory labour” resulting in distinctive results in internal UK law enforcement. It is argued here that this approach and the results should inform THB legislative and operational developments more widely. Further action in legal and operational frameworks is however clearly needed and the book advocates the adoption of a human security “freedom from fear” approach. Ultimately the interaction of different legal frameworks and different jurisdictions requires transnational practitioners to adopt a constructivist approach as was adopted for the development of the internal EU area of freedom security and justice. The book will be of interest to academics researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of transnational law migration law criminology and international relations. | The Transnational Crime of Human Trafficking A Human Security Approach

GBP 130.00
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Moral Injury and the Humanities Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Moral Injury and the Humanities Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury. In the original chapters the contributors present new research to show how the humanities are crucial for understanding the expressions meaning and significance of moral injury. Moral injury is the disorientation we suffer when we are complicit in some moral transgression. Most existing works address moral injury from a clinical or neuroscientific perspective. The chapters in this volume show how the humanities are crucial for understanding the meaning and significance of moral injury as well as suggesting how to grapple with its lived challenges. The chapters address the conceptual sociological historical and ritualistic dimensions of moral injury across three thematic sections. Section 1 explores how tools of the humanities provide new lenses for understanding conceptual and genealogical themes about moral injury. Section 2 highlights the experiences of moral injury in combat soldiers law enforcement and noncombatants such as photojournalists. These chapters examine the power and limits to theorizing moral phenomena by appeals to lived experience. Section 3 considers how humanistic inquiry illuminates important dimensions of the aftermath of moral injury beyond the scope of clinical research. These chapters consider how ritual relationship repair and atonement might shape the ways people navigate moral injury and consider how such responses shape our understanding of what we owe to one another. Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an essential resource for researchers and advanced students in philosophy religious studies literature journalism and the arts who are interested in moral injury. | Moral Injury and the Humanities Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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China's Strong Arm Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad

China's Strong Arm Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad

China has long adhered to a principle of �non-interference� in other states� affairs. However as more of its companies have been investing in projects overseas and millions of its nationals are travelling abroad Beijing is finding itself progressively involved in other countries � through the need to protect these interests and citizens. During the turmoil of the Arab Spring in 2011 China was compelled to evacuate more than 35 000 Chinese workers and expatriates from Libya and later it led the hunt for the killers of 13 Chinese sailors in the Golden Triangle region of the Mekong River. In 2015 Beijing sent a combat battalion to join the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan where it has huge oil ventures. Its plans to construct a New Silk Road will mean new commercial endeavours to protect in Pakistan. The shift in Chinese foreign policy towards a more interventionist approach in protecting nationals abroad has not been the result of grand strategy but an adjustment to unfolding events. The large risk appetite of state-owned Chinese business is inexorably drawing the Chinese state into security hotspots and as China becomes a great power its people are openly calling on their government to protect compatriots caught in crises overseas including via military means. While much attention has focused on Beijing�s increasingly assertive behaviour in disputed Asian seas this book highlights another equally important area of change with potentially far-reaching consequences for international security. | China's Strong Arm Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad

GBP 160.00
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