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Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

First published in 1927 this translation of Kulpe’s ‘Einleitung in die Philosophie’ 1895 covered psychology logic ethics esthetics and general philosophy. The author adopted a uniform approach of positivity interest and impartiality aiming his work at a wider public than students of philosophy. The volume was intended as an elementary but complete guide to philosophy past and present and included facts and arguments previously confined to philosophical encyclopaedias. | Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

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Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). After an Executive Summary of the contents the chapters build up understanding of orthodox economics’ role in protecting the neoliberal paradigm. A salient case the ETS is successful in shielding the Business-as-Usual activities of the EU’s industry however this book argues that the system fails in creating innovation for decarbonizing production technologies. A subsequent political economy analysis by the author points to the discursive power of giant fossil fuel and electricity companies keeping up a façade of Cap-and-Trade utopia and hiding the reality of free permit donations and administrative price control concealing financial bills mostly paid by household electricity customers. The twilights between reality and utopia in the EU’s ETS are exposed concluding an immediate end of the system is necessary for effective and just climate policy. The work argues that the proposition of shifting to a global uniform carbon tax is equally utopian. In practice a uniform price applied on heterogeneous cases is not a source of benefits but one of ad-hoc adjustments exceptions and exemptions. Carbon pricing does not induce innovation however assumed by the economic models used by IPCC for advising global climate policy. Thus it is persuasively demonstrated by the author that these schemes are doomed to failure and room and resources need to be created for more effective and just climate politics. The book’s conclusion is based on economic arguments complementing the critique of political scientists. This book is written for a broad audience interested in climate policy eager to understand why decarbonizing progress is slow as it is. It marks a significant addition to the literature on climate politics carbon pricing and the political economy of the environment more broadly. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

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Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion takes place in the Netherlands where consensus-based decision-making is part of the national heritage. The book explores recent Dutch infrastructure development experiences and concludes that communicative planning theory does not offer uniform relevance for the challenges that planning practitioners face. Building on these experiences it proposes the concept of consensus planning as valuable in a complementary normalized and contingent way. Consensus planning in other words has diverse practical appearances and sometimes may not exist or be desirable. | Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

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Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

This carefully designed multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science psychology and neuroscience. With accessible language a uniform structure and many pedagogical features Mind Cognition and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introdution is the best high-level overview of this area for an interdisciplinary readership of students. Written specifically for this volume by experts in their fields who are also experienced teachers the book’s thirty chapters are organized into the following parts: I. Background KnowledgeII. Classical DebatesIII. ConsciousnessIV. Crossing Boundaries Each chapter starts with relevant key words and definitions and a chapter overview then presents historical coverage of the topic explains and analyzes contemporary debates and ends with a sketch of cutting edge research. A list of suggested readings and helpful discussion topics conclude each chapter. This uniform student-friendly design makes it possible to teach a cohort of both philosophy and interdisciplinary students without assuming prior understanding of philosophical concepts cognitive science or neuroscience. Key Features: Synthesizes the now decades-long explosion of scientifically informed philosophical research in the study of mind. Expands on the offerings of other textbooks by including chapters on language concepts and non-conceptual content and animal cognition. Offers the same structure in each chapter moving the reader through an overview historical coverage contemporary debates and finally cutting-edge research. Packed with pedagogical features like defined Key Terms Suggested Readings and Discussion Questions for each chapter as well as a General Glossary. Provides readers with clear chapter-long introductions to Cognitive Neuroscience Molecular and Cellular Cognition Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science Metaphysical Issues and Epistemic Issues. | Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

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Researching Social Problems

Researching Social Problems

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach chapters follow a uniform structure with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context together with a how-to guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method before giving a full assessment of the method’s strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews in-depth interviews narrative inquiry institutional ethnography participatory action research auto-ethnography Actor-Network Theory experimental research visual research methods and research ethics Researching Social Problems will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.

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Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

This book is an in-depth evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities. It provides an overview of current research practices and legal considerations for interviewing vulnerable suspects incorporating guidelines regarding the identification of vulnerabilities engaging with third parties in the interview and training and supervision. It then goes on to cover specific vulnerabilities typically encountered in suspect populations providing clear summaries of current research case studies and practical guidance for conducting interviews with these populations to facilitate best practice in interviewing. Expertise is drawn from both law enforcement practice and academic research to ensure an evidence-based approach that is relevant for contemporary practice. Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects offers the international policing audience a practical guide to interviewing vulnerable suspects for both uniform police and detectives. It is relevant for statutory bodies involved in investigations of misconduct; legal practitioners and forensic psychologists; practitioners in counselling social work and psychology; and students in policing criminology and forensic psychology programs. | Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

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Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A. Wallace to be published in the Variorum series is signaled in the title of the opening paper: 'Domingo de Soto and the Iberian roots of Galileo's science'. The seven essays in the first part provide textual studies of Soto's early formulations of the laws of falling bodies the context in which they were developed in the 16th century and the ways in which they were transmitted in Spain and Portugal to the early 17th century mainly by Jesuit scholars. The following essays focus on the young Galileo and his work at Pisa and Padua leading to his discovery of the law of uniform acceleration in free fall. Textual evidence is presented for an indirect influence of Soto's work on Galileo mediated by Jesuits who were teaching at Padua in the first decade of the 17th century. | Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

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Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different analytical methods and theoretical lenses that can be used for conducting research within the field. As such it provides a coherent accessible and diverse account of key theories and methods. A distinctive feature of this collection is that it adopts a grounded approach to international human rights law through demonstrating the application of specific research methods to individual case studies. By applying the approach under discussion to a concrete case it is possible to better appreciate the multiple understandings of international human rights law that are missed when the field is only comprehended though the doctrinal method. Furthermore since every contribution follows the same uniform structure this allows for fruitful comparison between different approaches to the study of our discipline. | Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

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Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics ranging across material culture the mindset of its people and social and economic factors. In this volume Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader. | Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

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Rethinking Muslim Personal Law Issues Debates and Reforms

Rethinking Muslim Personal Law Issues Debates and Reforms

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate. Tracing the historical origins of this legal mechanism and its subsequent political manifestations it highlights the complex nature of MPL as a sociological phenomenon driven by context-specific social norms and cultural values. With expert contributions it discusses wide-ranging themes and issues including MPL reforms and human rights; decoding of UCC in India; the contentious Triple Talaq bill and MPL; the Shah Bano case; Sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) in postcolonial India; women’s equality and family laws; and MPL in the media discourse in India. The volume highlights that although MPL is inextricably linked to Sharia it does not necessarily determine the everyday customs and local practices of Muslim communities in India This topical book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of law and jurisprudence political studies Islamic studies Muslim Personal Law history multiculturalism South Asian studies sociology of religion sociology of law and family law. It will also be useful to practitioners policymakers law professionals and journalists. | Rethinking Muslim Personal Law Issues Debates and Reforms

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Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

The book explores how small states adjust their military strategies in response to external shocks. Using primary sources from four Nordic countries (Denmark Finland Norway and Sweden) this volume explores how small states have adjusted their military strategies in response to external shocks of the 21st century. The 9/11 terrorist attacks the Russian interventions in Georgia and Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State have all forced the Nordic states to adopt new strategies. While the responses have not been uniform their differing relations to the EU and NATO have not prevented these countries from behaving similarly in military affairs. Limitations in military capacity has led all four countries to pursue strategies that include cooperation with more resourceful partners. It is necessary for them to cooperate with others to protect and promote their national interests. Moreover the Nordic cosmopolitan outlook expresses milieu-shaping ambitions that we generally would not expect small states to pursue against a potential great power aggressor. This book will be of much interest to students of military strategy defense studies security studies and international relations. | Military Strategy of Small States Responding to External Shocks of the 21st Century

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Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development

Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate its impacts on regional development. This book illuminates the regional impacts of this pervasive and important technology. The principle aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of broadband and its connections to regional development. First it uses a geospatial lens to explore how the relationship between broadband and regional development influences access to technology platforms dictates provision patterns and facilitates the shrinkage of space and time in non-uniform and sometimes unexpected ways. Second it book provides a comprehensive guide that details the strengths and weaknesses of publically available broadband data and their associated uncertainties allowing regional development professionals and researchers to make more informed decisions regarding data use analytical models and policy recommendations. Finally this book is the first to detail the growing importance of broadband to digital innovation and entrepreneurship in regions. This book will be of interest to regional development professionals and researchers in economics public policy geography regional science and planning. | Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development

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Urban Quay Walls

Urban Quay Walls

Since the thirteenth century quay walls of significant retaining height have been built in the Netherlands in urban environments. Over time structural revisions were often carried out due to excessive deformations or the use of increasingly larger and deeper vessels. These historic quay walls were seldom designed for the current functional requirements they are subjected to. These mostly older quay walls require more maintenance and revisions to secure a certain degree of safety. In some cases they need to be demolished and completely rebuilt. Urban Quay Walls offers safety protocols and a clear approach on how to inspect design and maintain urban quay walls. The book offers: - an insight on the development of urban quay walls; - a description of the main forms (as used in The Netherlands); - quicksteps for the inspection of existing quay walls. Urban Quay Walls presents a proposal for a uniform and standardised method to verify the actual state of current quay walls in urban environments. This handbook presents an overview of the development of urban quay walls over the course of time and describes the main types in use in the Netherlands. Subsequently a method is presented for deciding whether or not a historic quay wall needs to be renovated renewed or maintained.

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Race Religion and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore

Race Religion and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance however Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to religious services have intensified while there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates. Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims the role of ‘culture’ and ‘race’ in debates about popular religion the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore. | Race Religion and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore

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Cold War Cities The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s

Cold War Cities The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s

This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century. Comprised of ten chapters from a diverse team of scholars from Europe East Asia and North America this edited volume furthers the study of the Cold War in two ways. First it underscores the global scope of the Cold War. Beginning from Europe and extending to East and Southeast Asia it focuses attention on the overlapping local national regional and international rivalries that ultimately divided the world into two opposing camps. Second it shows that the Cold War had different impacts in different places. Although not all continents are included this volume demonstrates that the bipolar system was not monolithic and uniform. By comparing experiences in various cities this book critically examines the ways in which the bipolar system was circumvented or transformed – particularly in places where the line between the Free World and the Communist World was unclear. Cold War Cities will appeal to students and scholars of history and Cold War studies cultural geography and material cultures as well as East and Southeast Asian studies. | Cold War Cities The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s

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The Care of the Older Person

The Care of the Older Person

The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University with international contributions this book advocates the achievement of better longer satisfying and more productive lives for older persons. It is a helpful resource for physicians professional caregivers therapists students and residents in medical and nursing disciplines who care for our burgeoning older population and need to know what to look for and when to consult specialists. Key Features:1. Follows a uniform structure with many chapters having a hypothetical vignette for instructional purposes and with the clinical chapters detailing the features and diagnosis of given conditions along with possible management protocols specific to afflicted older individuals. 2. Builds on the success of the previous four editions to provide high-quality content from international experts for physicians and other caregivers in the field. 3. Provides possible management for pressing problems including the nursing home challenge pandemics such as COVID and precision therapy for cancer. | The Care of the Older Person

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Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study it addresses one central question: If growth has largely failed to be inclusive so far and if employing a work force in increasing returns activities through a different trajectory of industrialization is largely dependent upon industrial clusters of small and medium sized firms then what are the structural infirmities and asymmetries that need to be taken into account in the context of framing policies related to industrial clusters? The book identifies the structural infirmities in industrial clusters in India which could be typical to any of the developing countries and sharply in contrast to European success stories. Blending theory and empirical material it provides a middle ground between the two extremes of a uniform policy assuming ‘one size fits all’ and a specific policy based on individual cases. The book redraws the broad contours where space and production processes mutually constitute each other giving rise to outcomes somewhat generic to underdevelopment. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of economics business administration/ management and development economics. | Small and Medium Enterprises in India Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

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Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at the local levels of society. They show what illiterate lay people learned about their religion but also what priests themselves knew. The Carolingian royal dynasty which ruled over much of Europe in the eighth and ninth century is well-known for its success in war patronage of learning and its ambitious style of rulership. A central theme in their plans for the future of their kingdom was to ensure God's everlasting support and to make sure that all inhabitants – down to the last illiterate farmer – reached eternal life in heaven. This book shows how the ideal of leading everybody to salvation was a central element of Carolingian culture. The grass-roots approach shows how early medieval religion was anything but uniform how it encompassed all spheres of daily life and how well-educated local priests did not only know how to baptise and preach but could also advise on matters concerning health legal procedure and even the future. This volume is of great use to upper-level undergraduates postgraduates and scholars interested in the ecclesiastical history of Europe in the Carolingian period. | Leading the Way to Heaven Pastoral Care and Salvation in the Carolingian Period

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Sectarianism in Iraq The Making of State and Nation Since 1920

Sectarianism in Iraq The Making of State and Nation Since 1920

This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform citizenry. After a theoretical excursus that recasts the notion of primordial identity as a socially constructed reality the author sets out to explain the persistence of sectarian affiliations in Iraq since its creation following the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Despite the adoption of homogenizing state policies the uneven sectarian composition of the ruling elites nurtured feelings of political exclusion among marginalized sectarian groups the Shicites before 2003 and the Sunnis in the post-2003 period. The book then examines how communal discourses in the educational curriculum provoked masked forms of resistance that sharpened sectarian consciousness. Tracing how the anti-Persian streak in the nation-state’s Pan-Arab ideology which camouflaged anti-Shicism undermined Iraq’s national integration project Sectarianism in Iraq delves into the country’s slide from a totalizing Pan-Arab ideology in the pre-2003 period toward the atomistic impulse of the federalist debate in the post-2003 period. Employing extensive fieldwork this book sheds light on the dynamics of political life in post-Saddam Iraq and is essential reading for Iraqi and Middle East specialists as well as those interested in understanding the current heightening of sectarian Sunni-Shicite tensions in the Middle East. | Sectarianism in Iraq The Making of State and Nation Since 1920

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Biodiversity Databases Techniques Politics and Applications

Biodiversity Databases Techniques Politics and Applications

Computing and database management has shifted from cottage industry-style methods — the small independent researcher keeping records for a particular project — to state-of-the-art file storage systems presentation and distribution over the Internet. New and emerging techniques for recognition compilation and data management have made managing data a discipline in its own right. Covering all aspects of this data management Biodiversity Databases: Techniques Politics and Applications brings together input from social scientists programmers database designers and information specialists to delineate the political setting and give institutions platforms for the dissemination of taxonomic information. A practical and logical guide to complex issues the book explores the changes and challenges of the information age. It discusses projects developed to provide better access to all available biodiversity information. The chapters make the case for the need for representation of concepts in taxonomic databases. They explore issues involved in connecting databases with different user interfaces the technical demands of linking databases that are not entirely uniform in structure and the problems of user access and the control of data quality. The book highlights different approaches to addressing concerns associated with the taxonomic impediment and the low reproducibility of taxonomic data. It provides an in-depth examination of the challenge of making taxonomic information more widely available to users in the wider scientific community in government and the general population. | Biodiversity Databases Techniques Politics and Applications

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Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform the burning of German flags newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical images of ‘the other’. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national prejudices by politicians and parts of the media and the strong emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of public concern about the likely negative implications of such reawakening of national clichés and the newly hardening boundaries they construct for the process of European integration. It is evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of and in response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At the same time some of the interpretative and political reactions thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive processes putting into question years of integration efforts. This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis national identities and the use of historical images and prejudices and stereotypes by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. In addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse national settings across Europe the different contributions discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national identities prejudice and stereotyping in the context of socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities. | Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

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Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Development Democracy and Dictatorship

Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Development Democracy and Dictatorship

The latest edition of this renowned textbook explores the states and regimes of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting heavily revised fully updated chapters contributed by the world’s leading experts it analyzes the historical trajectory political institutions economic development and foreign policies of the region’s nearly two dozen countries. The volume can be used in conjunction with its sister volume The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa for a comprehensive overview of the region. Chapters are organized and structured identically giving insightful windows into the nuances of each country’s domestic politics and foreign relations. Data tables and extensive annotated bibliographies orient readers towards further research. Whether used in conjunction with its sister volume or on its own this book provides the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the region’s varied politics. Five new experts cover the critical country cases of Turkey Lebanon Jordan Saudi Arabia and Iran. All chapters cover the latest events including trends that have remarkably changed in just a few years like the gradual end of the Syrian civil war. As such this textbook is invaluable to students of Middle Eastern politics. . The ninth edition brings substantial changes. All chapters also have a uniform streamlined structure that explores the historical context social and economic environment political institutions regime dynamics and foreign policy of each country. Fact boxes and political maps are now far more extensive and photographs and images also help illustrate key points. Annotated bibliographies are vastly expanded providing nothing short of the best list of research references for each country. | Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Development Democracy and Dictatorship

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Proton Therapy Physics Second Edition

Proton Therapy Physics Second Edition

Expanding on the highly successful first edition this second edition of Proton Therapy Physics has been completely restructured and updated throughout and includes several new chapters. Suitable for both newcomers in medical physics and more seasoned specialists in radiation oncology this book provides an in-depth overview of the physics of this radiation therapy modality eliminating the need to dig through information scattered across medical physics literature. After tracing the history of proton therapy the book explores the atomic and nuclear physics background necessary for understanding proton interactions with tissue. The text then covers dosimetry including beam delivery shielding aspects computer simulations detector systems and measuring techniques for reference dosimetry. Important for daily operations acceptance testing commissioning quality assurance and monitor unit calibrations are outlined. The book moves on to discussions of treatment planning for single- and multiple-field uniform doses dose calculation concepts and algorithms and precision and uncertainties for nonmoving and moving targets. Imaging for treatment guidance as well as treatment monitoring is outlined. Finally the biological implications of using protons from a physics perspective are discussed. This book is an ideal practical guide for physicians dosimetrists radiation therapists and physicists who already have some experience in radiation oncology. It is also an invaluable reference for graduate students in medical physics programs physicians in their last year of medical school or residency and those considering a career in medical physics. Features: Updated with the latest technologies and methods in the field covering all delivery methods of proton therapy including beam scanning and passive scattering Discusses clinical aspects such as treatment planning and quality assurance Offers insight on the past present and future of proton therapy from a physics perspective | Proton Therapy Physics Second Edition

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The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

Out of the numerous books and articles on the Third Reich few address its material culture and fewer still discuss the phenomenon of Nazi memorabilia. This is all the more surprising given that Nazi symbols so central to sustaining Hitler’s movement continue to live long after the collapse of his 12-year Reich. Neither did Nazi ideology die; far-right populists would like to see the swastika flown over the White House or Buckingham Palace. Against a backdrop of right-wing extremism military re-enactors think nothing of dressing up in Waffen-SS uniforms and romanticising the Third Reich in the name of living history. Auctioneers are prepared to hammer down Nazi artefacts to the highest bidder but who is buying them and why do they do so? Should collectors be allowed to decorate their homes with Nazi flags? The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia begins by examining the creation and context of Nazi artefacts and symbols during the volatile Weimar Republic to their wider distribution during the Third Reich. There were few people in Nazi Germany who did not wear a badge or uniform of some sort. Whether it be mothers soldiers or concentration camp inmates they were all branded. The chapter on the Second World War demonstrates that although German soldiers were cynical about being given medals in exchange for freezing in Russia. They still continued to fight for which more decorations were awarded. A large proportion of this book is therefore given to the meaning that Nazi symbols had before Nazi Germany was eventually defeated in May 1945. Equally important however and one of the characteristics of this book is the analysis of the meaning and value of Nazi material culture over time. The interpreters of Nazi symbols that this book focuses on are internationally based private collectors and traders. Sustained attention is given in a chapter outlining the development of the collectors’ market for Nazi memorabilia from 1945 onwards. No matter how much collectors go out of their way to paint the hobby in a positive light their activities do not fully escape the troubled past of the material that they desire. So contested are Nazi symbols that another chapter is devoted to the ethics and morals of destroying or preserving them. The issues surrounding private versus public custody and ownership of Nazi artefacts are also discussed. So far in this book the examination of Nazi artefacts has been restricted to physical objects within societies that are generally aware of the consequences of Hitlerism. As we increasingly move into the digital age however and there are few survivors of the Second World War left to relay their horrific experiences the final chapter contemplates the future of Nazi symbols both digitally and physically fake or real. This book will appeal to all those interested in the Third Reich Nazi ideology Neo-Nazism perceptions of the Nazis post-1945 modern European history and political symbolism. It will also hold particular appeal to those interested in the collecting and trading of contested and highly emotive artefacts. It considers aesthetics authenticity commodification gift exchange life histories of people and objects materiality and value theory. | The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

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