Smartphones can provide services based on consumers' location, raising potential privacy risks if companies use or share location data without cons...

The book addresses the issues of China's modern social order, as influenced by an evolving economic order and especially legal order. Ongoing Chine...

Modern Exterior Ballistics is a comprehensive text covering the basic free flight dynamics of symmetric projectiles. The book provides a historical...

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for students and a reference for today’s engineering officers, port engineers, superintendent engineer...

This book focuses on the newest information on metal ion contaminations and the influence of some of them in neurological diseases, a subject still...

Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous + Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art ...

Is really "Islam" to blame for many of the ills of the world, like stagnation, gender inequality, social inequality, human rights violations and ec...

This book provides theoretical, methodological and practical insights into the use of autoethnography as a research methodology. Autoethnography of...

The changes in the technological and business environment have complicated the nature of the decision-making process in real-world problems, thus m...

Containing over 40,000 pieces of art from the Seljuk and Ottoman empires as well as other Muslim civilisations, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic A...

This ground-breaking book explores the revolution that’s transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwid...

The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during the centuries. These...

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image -- and the tensions involved in it -- structure the triangular relation betwe...

The role of museums as mediators is assuming central importance around the world as museums react much more intensely to societal needs than they d...

NATO is at a crucial point in its development: on the one hand, the European members are seeking to redefine its mission as the security challenges...

Sustainable use of natural resources is a key element in the livelihoods of rural people. Especially the poor are often disproportionately affected...

This book is part of a broad study on Confucianism and its implications for the modernisation of East Asia. The Opium War symbolises the beginning ...

Cryptography is the study of methods to transform information from its original comprehensible form into a scrambled incomprehensible form, such th...

Niagara is rich with fascinating stories, from daredevils to heroics. From the horrors during the War of 1812, to murder, to technological innovati...

Author and blogger Jason Y Ng has a knack for making the familiar both fascinating and funny. Three years after his best-selling début "Hong Kong S...

Non-linear analysis is a broad, interdisciplinary field characterised by a mixture of analysis, topology, and applications. Its concepts and techni...

This book provides background and salient analyses dealing with North Korea -- a country nobody seems to love but which all seem to court just the ...

Since the nuclear genie was let out of the bottle, nuclear weapons have been the exclusive domain of a select few countries. At the dawn of the nex...

The Nunavut Atlas resulted from a project that assisted the Inuit in selecting the lands they would retain with the settlement of the Nunavut claim...

A severe shortage of nurses is being experienced. Part of the problems is connected to the relentless practices of the so-called healthcare organis...

The golden eagle is widely considered one of the world’s most magnificent birds. It is the epitome of wild places. The bird has a huge world distri...

The work of over seventy Native artists who create miniature silver seed pots is presented in this publication featuring over 240 examples from the...

In the mid-1800s, Victoria grew from a fur-trading post into a provincial capital--the jewel in British Columbia's golden crown. Meanwhile, many of...

Today, the streets of Victoria are busy thoroughfares. Yesterday, they were simple trails, used by the Hudson's Bay Company men and the First Natio...

The Organization of American States (OAS) is the oldest multilateral regional organization in the world. It was founded in 1948 by the United State...

Friend or foe? Pakistan was extremely instrumental in supplying guns to Afghanistan to fight Russia. On the other hand, some of the world's worst t...

This book provides insights into the economic, global and social challenges of peace in today's world. It also explores the nature of contemporary ...

A small, sleepy port in the Persian Gulf, Bandar-e Lengeh has had a varied and chequered history since its launch onto the historical scene around ...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

This book is a continuation of the book Physics Researcher Biographical Sketches and Research Summaries which compiles biographical sketches of top...

Cowboy poet, artist and raconteur Mike Puhallo continues his poetic exploration of the cowboy and modern life. At various times in his life a worki...

This book provides a creative and practical, down to earth perspective on how to tackle the complex planning problems characterised by multiple cri...

This book introduces basic notions of how and why we plan, both as individuals and within the context of an organisation.

This book's primary content explores plantation and non-plantation biodiversity values, mushrooms and woodlands, the roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza...

Poland is one of more than 40 European countries, but it lies at the very centre of the continent. To the south its limits are set by the Sudetic a...

This book focuses on the analysis of language (possibly in conjunction with other semiotic systems) in course of our lives as citizens of establish...

Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...

Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...

Pop music, in one form or another, has been with us almost forever. This book presents 40 of the most important pop rock artists from the late 1950...

In this book, the population issues of the Caucasus are discussed for the first time from the ancient period until the beginning of the 21st centur...

"The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh,...