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One Hundred Years of Social Protection The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, ...

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

"This textbook on optimal control of nonlinear processes introduces several innovations compared to standard textbooks on ...

Optimization-Based Energy Management for Multi-energy Maritime Grids

This book discusses the energy management for the multi-energy maritime grid, which is the local energy network installed ...

Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking Practices, Policies, and Trends

This book starts with an introductory chapter that describes the need to bring the waste management aspects and soil nutrient ...

Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945

This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays ...

Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care : An Australian Contribution to an International Debate

The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster ...

Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources : Management, (Bio)Technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts

The aim of the book is to contribute to the knowledge of shared groundwater resources management to avoid conflicts by considering ...

Parenting and Work in Poland A Gender Studies Perspective

The book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers ...

Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope

This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global ...

Paths Why is life ﬁlled with so many detours?

This book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on ...

Pathways and Consequences of Legal Irregularity

This book provides a unique study of the complexities and consequences of irregular legal status of Senegalese migrants in ...

Peer-to-Peer Video

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a communication structure in which individuals interact directly, without going through a centralized ...

Pharma and Profits: Balancing Innovation, Medicine, and Drug Prices / John L. LaMattina

This book clearly explains the value that the pharmaceutical industry offers to society which is often underreported against ...

Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

The aim of this book is provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international ...

Pilot Society and the Energy Transition The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics

This book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context ...

Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012

This book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing ...

Planning Chinese Characters : Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

The whole world has been watching the vast changes that are currently occurring in China, but few people are aware that at ...

Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

This book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics ...

Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiserwilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945 : Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers

The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, ...

Player creation system (PCS) / Mohammad Aws Alsis ; Yahya Haffar ; Basel Abou Jaib ; MHD Rasem Maa Albared

Human simulation in a virtual environment has been the focus of many studies in recent years. Achieving such a task would ...

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