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  • A TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF ADDICTION
    FRANCISCO BLANCARTE JABER
    Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes. The book discusses the philosophical concepts of ...

    $1,240.00

  • J.M. KEYNES AND THE HISTORY OF PROBABILITY
    FRANCISCO JAVIER ARISTIMUÑO
    John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability. His extensive work culminated in A Treatise on Probability (1921), in which he developed a unique notion of probability that continues to divide scholars regarding its relevance to economic theory. This book delves into the connections betw...

    $1,240.00

  • MEXICO-CHINA RELATIONS
    FRANCISCO ANTONIO-ALFONSO
    This book analyses contemporary Mexico-China relations as a complex cultural encounter. Through an unprecedented analysis of the discursive production of a series of diplomatic, media and academic sources, this book demonstrates how, embedded in the great technological and political transformations of our transition into the 21st century, Mexico-China relations embodied a compl...

    $1,240.00

  • THE MULTIVERSE AS THEORY IN POSTMODERN SPECULATIVE FICTIONAL NARRATIVES
    ANGÉLICA CABRERA TORRECILLA / FRANCISCO SÁEZ DE ADANA
    The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore diverse issues to bridge ideas across cultural, social, and philos...

    $1,240.00

  • REVOLUTIONIZING COMMUNICATION
    RAQUEL V. BENÍTEZ ROJAS, FRANCISCO-JULIÁN MARTÍNEZ-CANO
    Revolutionizing Communication: The Role of Artificial Intelligence explores the wide-ranging effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on how we connect and communicate, changing social interactions, relationships, and the very structure of our society. Through insightful analysis, practical examples, and knowledgeable perspectives, the book examines chatbots, virtual assistants,...

    $1,480.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CO-CREATION AND CREATIVITY
    FRANCISCO TIGRE MOURA
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has deeply impacted our understanding of creativity and the human ability to generate creative outputs. New applications for creative tasks are rapidly evolving, and new tools are constantly being developed with much greater optimal capabilities. Importantly, the success of implementing such tools for creative tasks is still heavily dependent on hum...

    $1,240.00

  • TOWARDS A DIALOGICAL HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
    JORGE FRANCISCO LIERNUR
    The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the canon's significance in comprehending architecture, while seeking to uncover its...

    $1,240.00

  • GREEN AUTOMATION
    FRANCISCO JOSÉ GOMES DA SILVA
    Environmental issues are a growing concern for our society, and should deserve increased attention, given the extremely negative climate changes which have been taking place. Emissions of greenhouse gases, excessive dependence on fossil fuels, growing consumption of power energy, and exacerbated consumption of materials are some of the problems that need to be addressed urgentl...

    $1,480.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE
    DANIEL PEÑALOSA MARTINELL, FRANCISCO J. VERGARA-SOLANA, MARCELO E. ARANEDA PADILLA, FERNANDO ARANCE
    This new textbook provides an accessible introduction to sustainable aquaculture through its relationship with three key pillars: the environment, the economy, and society. As the demand for seafood keeps increasing, aquaculture is considered one of the most promising and sustainable ways to satisfy this demand with nutritious and high-quality food. It is important to understan...

    $1,100.00

  • NATIONALISM, RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE, AND HATE SPEECH IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY WESTERN EUROPE
    FRANCISCO JAVIER RAMÓN SOLANS
    Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe critically analyses the role played by different memories of past religious violence in public debates in nineteenth-century Europe. Looking back, European societies often did not seek to overcome their differences and create a framework of peaceful coexistence among various religions and deno...

    $1,240.00

  • CASH TRANSFERS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
    FRANCISCO V. AYALA / DAVID LAWSON
    Over the past 20 years, more than 100 countries have implemented social safety nets, targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable. Impact evaluations have shown the effectiveness of these programmes, and policymakers have explored different methods of delivery, including cash transfers. Cash Transfers for Poverty Reduction offers the first systematic discussion of the design and...

    $1,200.00

  • STATE, POLITICAL POWER AND CRIMINALITY IN CIVIL WAR
    FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ-SANÍN
    This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and political power into the equation. It argues that the terms in which the debate is generally posed are still inadequate to address the complexities of this relationship, showing how criminalisation and de-criminalisation are deeply pol...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL STUDIES OF OUTER SPACE
    JUAN FRANCISCO SALAZAR
    The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space offers state-of-the-art overview of contemporary social and cultural research on outer space. International in scope, the thirty-eight contributions by over fifty leading researchers and artists across a variety of disciplines and fields of knowledge, present a range of debates and pose key questions about the crafting of ...

    $1,280.00

  • INEQUALITY AND NUTRITIONAL TRANSITION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
    FRANCISCO J. MEDINA-ALBALADEJO
    Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good indicator of living standards and their evolution over time. However, one issue that rema...

    $1,160.00

  • AUGHEY AND FRYE’S COMPARATIVE VETERINARY HISTOLOGY WITH CLINICAL CORRELATES
    FRANCISCO JAVIER SALGUERO BODES / FRANCISCO JOSE PALLARES MARTINEZ
    Organised by body system, the new edition of this highly illustrated textbook covers the normal histological appearance of tissues in a wide range of animals, both domestic and exotic species, with relevant clinical correlates emphasising the need to appreciate the normal in order to recognise the abnormal. In this update by two experienced veterinary pathologists and histology...

    $1,580.00

  • THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS CULTURE FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS IN EAST ASIAN SOCIETY
    JUAN FRANCISCO MARTINEZ
    Religious culture is an important keyword for understanding rapidly changing East Asian society, especially China, Japan, and Korea. Despite the common influence of Confucian culture on these countries, each has shown a very different pattern of social progress in modern and postmodern times. Although surveys report a low ratio of religious identification and membership in this...

    $479.00

  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HOUSING IN CHILE
    FRANCISCO VERGARA-PERUCICH / CARLOS AGUIRRE-NUÑEZ / FELIPE ENCINAS / RODRIGO HIDALGO-DATTWYLER / RICARDO
    Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, housing provision and social inequality based on applied urban economics analyses that...

    $580.00

  • DIALECTOLOGÍA HISPÁNICA / THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY
    FRANCISCO MORENO-FERNÁNDEZ
    Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra coral que presenta las últimas investigaciones sobre las variedades actuales de la lengua espanola en todas sus geografías, sumando los conocimientos de un importante número de especialistas en la materia. Este volumen consta de 49 capítulos, distribuidos en cuatro secciones, que ofrecen inform...

    $1,280.00

  • ALMOST ALL ALIENS
    PAUL SPICKARD / FRANCISCO BELTRÁN / LAURA HOOTON
    Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard, Francisco Beltrán, and Laura Hooton put forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural, racialized, and colonially inflected reality of ...

    $1,340.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF URBAN WATER GOVERNANCE
    THOMAS BOLOGNESI, FRANCISCO SILVA PINTO AND MEGAN FARRELLY
    This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance res...

    $1,260.00

  • VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
    ELISÂNGELA VILAR, ERNESTO FILGUEIRAS AND FRANCISCO REBELO
    Virtual Reality (VR) is the paradigm wherein people use a computer to interact with something which is not real but provides a real-life experience. It is one of the most advanced interfaces between users and computers, where people can interact with a virtual model in real-time allowing them to visualize and manipulate representations of the real world. Together with Augmented...

    $1,320.00

  • HANDBOOK OF USABILITY AND USER-EXPERIENCE
    MARCELO M. SOARES, FRANCISCO REBELO AND TAREQ Z. AHRAM
    This volume of the Handbook of Usability and User Experience (UX) presents research and case studies used to design products, systems and environments with good usability and consequent acceptance, pleasure in use, good user experience, and understanding of human interaction issues with products and systems for their improvement. The book presents concepts and perspectives of U...

    $1,320.00

  • HANDBOOK OF USABILITY AND USER-EXPERIENCE
    MARCELO M. SOARES, FRANCISCO REBELO AND TAREQ Z. AHRAM
    Handbook of Usability and User Experience: Methods and Techniques is concerned with emerging usability and user experience in design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement. This volume presents methods and techniqu...

    $1,320.00

  • SUPPORTING THE WORKPLACE LEARNING OF VOCATIONAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION TEACHERS
    SUSANNE FRANCISCO
    Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers is written to help people understand the arrangements in a workplace that enable and constrain teacher learning – and then to do something about it. It provides an accessible, research based, and practical guide to making changes in the workplace to enable teacher learning. The book illustrates appro...

    $960.00

  • DEATH AND FUNERAL PRACTICES IN PORTUGAL
    RAFAELA FERRAZ FERREIRA / ANA JÚLIA ALMEIDA MIRANDA / FRANCISCO QUEIROZ
    Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essentially historical and artistic point of view. Studies on the practicalities of managing the dead and their spaces are even more recent, and they do not yet form a cohesive body of work. Combining both approaches, Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal is the fi...

    $700.00

  • SHAPING HOLLAND
    JEROEN VAN SCHAICK / FRANCISCO COLOMBO / PETER WITSEN
    All around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity. These will radically transform our living and working environments. Regional design uses the power of visualisation to unite regional players around appealing spatial developmen...

    $980.00

  • OIL, MONEY, AND THE MEXICAN ECONOMY
    FRANCISCO CARRADA-BRAVO
    In the mid-1970s unemployment, inflation and monetary disturbances were dominant forces in the Mexican economy. Beginning in late 1977, however the situation drastically changed. The discovery of enormous oil fields, combined with a structural and social factors, vastly improved the nation's prospects and in terms of business cycles, its economy moved from trough to peak. In a...

    $1,200.00

  • PLASMA APPLICATIONS FOR MATERIAL MODIFICATION
    FRANCISCO L. TABARÉS
    This book is an up-to-date review of the most important plasma-based techniques for material modification, from microelectronics to biological materials and from fusion plasmas to atmospheric ones. Each its technical chapters is written by long-experienced, internationally recognised researchers. The book provides a deep and comprehensive insight into plasma technology and its ...

    $2,999.00

  • CHARITY AND POVERTY IN ADVANCED WELFARE STATES
    CAMERON PARSELL / ANDREW CLARKE / FRANCISCO PERALES
    This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined. Despite professionalised welfare states and strong economies, in many advanced industrialised nations, charity continues to play a major role in the lives of people who are poor. Extending what we know abou...

    $1,200.00

  • ABSTRACT CALCULUS
    FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA-PACHECO
    Abstract Calculus: A Categorical Approach provides an abstract approach to calculus. It is intended for graduate students pursuing PhDs in pure mathematics but junior and senior researchers in basically any field of mathematics and theoretical physics will also be interested. Any calculus text for undergraduate students majoring in engineering, mathematics or physics deals with...

    $4,500.00