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Elderly Population in Modern Russia: Between work, education and health
Elderly Population in Modern Russia: Between work, education and health

This book compares the wellbeing of older Russian adults in the EU, USA, China, Japan, and Russia. Through providing a general overview of population ageing, social, economic and IT-literacy among older Russian adults, it fills the gap in quality of life research in developing and transition societies.  The topic is revealed in...

Power Trip: The Story of Energy
Power Trip: The Story of Energy
A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.

Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy...
The Changing Strategies of International Business: How MNEs Manage in a Changing Commercial and Political Landscape (The Academy of International Business)
The Changing Strategies of International Business: How MNEs Manage in a Changing Commercial and Political Landscape (The Academy of International Business)

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter)

Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.

In line with the 45th AIB-UKI conference, this edited collection brings together fresh perspectives on international business strategy,...

Sensing of Non-Volatile Memory Demystified
Sensing of Non-Volatile Memory Demystified
Research, development, and commercialization of emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs) are being aggressively pursued by the design community to supplement and/or substitute conventional volatile and NV memory technologies that are facing stiff scalability challenges. The emerging NVMs such as Magnetic RAM (MRAM),...
Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control
Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control

Use Neuroscience to Raise an Awesome Person?Starting Now

Searching for a roadmap to raise a successful child who makes a positive difference in this world? Neuroscientist and mother Erin Clabough teaches that to thrive as adults, children need to learn self-regulation, a master life skill founded in empathy,
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LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration
LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration
This book addresses the ‘three moments’ in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers’ and refugees’ efforts to secure protection: The reasons for their flight, the Refugee Status Determination process, and their integration into the host community once they are recognized refugee...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
‘Highly accessible…revolutionary to a glorious degree’ Observer

Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question?

We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages
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Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for Architectural Composition
Diagramming the Big Idea: Methods for Architectural Composition

Becoming an architect is a daunting task. Beyond the acquisition of new skills and procedures, beginning designers face an entirely unfamiliar mode of knowledge: design thinking.

In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher introduce the fundamentals of design thinking by illustrating how...

The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes
The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes

What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the core of the lives of philosophers and their self-reflective contemplations, and it is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully.

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City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San
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Construction Quality and the Economy: A Study at the Firm Level (Management in the Built Environment)
Construction Quality and the Economy: A Study at the Firm Level (Management in the Built Environment)
This book discusses the relationship between construction quality and the state of the Singapore national economy, and describes how construction quality is affected as contracting firms strategically manage issues relating to profitability and survivability during economic boom and bust cycles. 

Adopting a
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Decision Science in Action: Theory and Applications of Modern Decision Analytic Optimisation (Asset Analytics)
Decision Science in Action: Theory and Applications of Modern Decision Analytic Optimisation (Asset Analytics)

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems. Many of these problems can be modeled as nonlinear optimization problems, but due to their complex nature, it is not always possible to solve them using conventional optimization theory....

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