Offers a comprehensive and updated guide to the various types of glass-ceramic materials, the methods of development, and ...
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This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the ...
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Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited ...
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Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than ...
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The interactions between environmental change and human societies have a long, complex history spanning many millennia, but ...
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The purpose of the book is to summarize existing information and assess the level of these uncertainties. We want to stimulate ...
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Positioning analysis penetrates beneath surface issues to their underlying psychological causes and social effects, with ...
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Global E-Security, ICGeS 2008, held ...
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offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...
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This book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.
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This book innovative risk governance framework, the careful reviews it received from internationally recognized scientists, ...
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In the global-warming debate, definitive answers to questions about ultimate causes and effects remain elusive. In Global ...
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This book contiants chapters address the theoretical, philosophical, ethical and religious and spatial context of security; ...
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This timely collection explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization. Conflicts between public ...
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A characteristic of the present global ecological situation is increasing instability or— put another way—a crisis in ...
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Their structure, biosynthesis, and mode of action are summarized in the fth chapter. The last chapter covers current methods ...
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Glycostructures play a pivotal and crucial role in a myriad of organisms and important systems in biology, physiology, medicine, ...
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This book introduces several categorical formulations of an abstract theory of relations such as allegories, Dedekind categories ...
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This is an interdisciplinary essay. It looks at art and especially literature in juxtaposition with law and speculates how ...
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All these perspectives (and more) are united in what this book identifies as his Art of Controversies, which might also be ...
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