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...