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Evolution: The Human Story
Evolution: The Human Story

How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.

Investigating each...

Children in Street Situations: A Concept in Search of an Object (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research)
Children in Street Situations: A Concept in Search of an Object (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research)
This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street situations. It includes a unique selection of texts, which were...
Western Balkan Economies in Transition: Recent Economic and Social Developments (Societies and Political Orders in Transition)
Western Balkan Economies in Transition: Recent Economic and Social Developments (Societies and Political Orders in Transition)
This book explores the economic and social development of the Western Balkan region, a group of six countries that are potential candidates for EU membership. It focuses on the key economic issues facing these countries, including the challenge of promoting economic growth, limiting public deficits and debt, and fostering international...
Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants: Properties and Potential for Human Health (Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork)
Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants: Properties and Potential for Human Health (Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork)

This volume sheds new light on the immense potential of medicinal plants for human health from different technological aspects. It presents new research on bioactive compounds in medicinal plants that provide health benefits, including those that have proven especially effective in treating and managing diabetes mellitus and...

Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole
Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole

This book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to name and identify all 116 Polar dogs who were part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912. The book traces the dogs from their origins in Greenland to Antarctica...

Cursive Script Text Recognition in Natural Scene Images: Arabic Text Complexities
Cursive Script Text Recognition in Natural Scene Images: Arabic Text Complexities
This book offers a broad and structured overview of the state-of-the-art methods that could be applied for context-dependent languages like Arabic. It also provides guidelines on how to deal with Arabic scene data that appeared in an uncontrolled environment impacted by different font size, font styles, image resolution, and opacity of...
Asian Founders at Work: Stories from the Region’s Top Technopreneurs
Asian Founders at Work: Stories from the Region’s Top Technopreneurs

What does it take to successfully launch and scale a startup in Asia? While much of modern business literature covers Silicon Valley and its founders, building a company in Asia?a world center of technology and innovation?is a vastly different journey, and not nearly as widely covered. This book aims to change that.

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Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Disparities and Power Struggle in China’s North-West
Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Disparities and Power Struggle in China’s North-West

In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By...

My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide
My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism.

Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a...

PET/CT for Inflammatory Diseases: Basic Sciences, Typical Cases, and Review
PET/CT for Inflammatory Diseases: Basic Sciences, Typical Cases, and Review

This comprehensive guide sheds new light on the benefits of FDG PET/CT  in diagnosing inflammatory diseases. Although FDG PET/CT offers an invaluable tool for diagnosing inflammatory diseases, the clinical evidence on its application remains limited.

To remedy this gap, each chapter of this book includes detailed...

The Retinal Müller Cell: Structure and Function (Perspectives in Vision Research)
The Retinal Müller Cell: Structure and Function (Perspectives in Vision Research)
The human brain contains more than a billion neurons which interconnect to form networks that process, store, and recall sensory information. These neuronal activities are supported by a group of accessory brain cells coll- tively known as neuroglia. Surprisingly, glial cells are ten times more - merous than neurons, and occupy more than half...
Empire: A New History of the World
Empire: A New History of the World

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,...

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