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Civil Law Reforms in Post-Colonial Asia: Beyond Western Capitalism (Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research)

Springer, 2019

This book focuses on the legal systems of the late-developing countries of ASEAN (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, often referred to as the CLMV countries). These nations are apt to be placed in an economically disadvantageous situation within the opportunity of communalization of legal systems being advanced by the ASEAN...

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights: A Public Policy Agenda for Uniting a Divided America

Routledge, 2014

This book could be aptly entitled After MarriageâWhat Is Next for the LGBT Community? Now that marriage is increasingly being institutionalized in many states within the United States it is quite likely that marriage will be acceptable in all 50 states (dependent upon action of the U.S. Supreme Court). What lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

Addressing the Human Capital Crisis in the Federal Government : A Knowledge Management Perspective

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government: more than 50 percent of federal civil servants will be eligible to retire in the next five years, and 71 percent of these are senior executives. Human capitalthe accumulated value of an individual's intellect, knowledge, and experiencemust be managed so it will not be lost. This book is an...

The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis (New Politics of Autonomy)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

Through the concepts of the ‘coloniality of asylum’ and ‘solidarity as method’, this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; in so doing, it questions the idea of ‘autonomous politics’, showing how both refugee mobility and solidarity are intimately marked by the...

Hydraulic Structures

Springer, 2019

This graduate/upper-division undergraduate textbook provides a solid grounding in the theory underlying the design and analysis of hydraulic structures, including spillways, energy dissipators, culverts, flow measuring structures and others. It describes well-established theory and procedures, as well as recent developments gleaned...

ICRRM 2019 – System Reliability, Quality Control, Safety, Maintenance and Management: Applications to Civil, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering

Springer, 2019

Content of this proceedings discusses emerging trends in structural reliability, safety and disaster management, covering topics like total quality management, risk maintenance and design for reliability. Some papers also address chemical process reliability, reliability analysis and engineering applications in chemical process equipment systems...

Highways: The Location, Design, Construction and Maintenance of Road Pavements

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002

'Highways' is a comprehensive textbook on all aspects of road engineering. This new edition, written by a team of acknowledged experts in the field, teams up with 'Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering' to become a worthy successor to O'Flaherty's classic 'Highway Engineering' set. This fourth edition covers road location and plans, roadwork...

Sustainable Transportation Systems

American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012

This collection contains 81 papers describing innovations in the development of sustainable transportation systems. In the face of ongoing challenges such as traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and rising energy costs, transportation professionals look for new strategies, methods, and technologies to address issues of funding,...

Ship-shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and Operation

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Ship-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas, and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive to develop oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep water areas and remote locations away from existing pipeline infrastructures. Recently, the...

South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military: Lost in Transition and Transformation (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)

Springer, 2020

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country’s new security, political and social environment since 1994. In South Africa’s changed political state, how has civilian control of the military been implemented and what does this mean for ‘defence in a democracy’? This...

We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

PublicAffairs, 2021

This investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology asks the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety?

As we rethink the scope of police power, Jon Fasman’s chilling examination...

e-Discovery For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

Electronic discovery gone wrong is kryptonite to a legal action, as many have learned since the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) took effect in December 2006. Now you may urgently want to learn about e-discovery (short for electronic discovery) but don’t know who to call, or even better, what to read. e-Discovery For Dummies...

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