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  • ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF LAND POLITICS
    SATURNINO M. BORRAS JR. / JENNIFER C. FRANCO
    This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A–Z format. This book takes a broad view on land, across the rural and urban corridor, and advocates for a holistic view of the politics of land, as an aggregation of land and global social life, that is, the politics of food, climate, labour, citizenship, and geopolitics. The a...

    $1,160.00

  • CHANGING ABORTION LAWS IN MEXICO THROUGH ADVOCACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    CLARA EUGENIA FRANCO YÁÑEZ
    Changing Abortion Laws in Mexico Through Advocacy and Human Rights presents the recent evolution of abortion laws in Mexico (2007–2021) and how advocates have shaped them through human rights discourses, challenging social norms. Utilizing extended expert interviews, it offers a uniquely deep dive into the mapping of Mexico’s recent legal landscape concerning abortion, addressi...

    $1,140.00

  • REGULARITY THEORY AND STOCHASTIC FLOWS FOR PARABOLIC ISPDES
    FRANCO FLANDOLI
    The book treats two topics in the theory of stochastic partial differential equations: space-regularity of solutions and existence of stochastic flows. The equations considered in the book are linear parabolic with multiplicative noise, like those arising in non-linear filtering or diffusion models in randomly moving media. Regularity theory in Sobolev spaces is extensively inv...

    $2,000.00

  • BLOOD ON ALBINTIMILIUM
    FRANCO GARRONE
    Albintimilium, a Roman city in Cisalpine Gaul, in the year 264 AD. The lifeless body of a prostitute is found tied to a pole on the beach. The milites immediately sense they are dealing with a ruthless killer. The murders have just begun. Milites Marco Decimo Apronio is young, determined, and more intelligent than the older colleagues he works with in the local Urbaniciani barr...

    $69.00

  • ANCIENT SACRED SITES IN THE GULF OF NAPLES
    LUCA DI FRANCO
    The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed, including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century BC ...

    $580.00

  • THEATRE AND BOXING
    FRANCO RUFFINI
    Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor’s believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdl...

    $740.00

  • RIDING THE ACADEMIC FREEDOM TRAIN
    JEANETT CASTELLANOS / JOSEPH L. WHITE / VERONICA FRANCO
    Mentoring demonstrably increases the retention of undergraduate and graduate students and is moreover invaluable in shaping and nurturing academic careers. With the increasing diversification of the student body and of faculty ranks, there’s a clear need for culturally responsive mentoring across these dimensions.Recognizing the low priority that academia has generally given to...

    $1,060.00

  • BIOLOGICAL AND NEUROSCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY
    FRANCO FABBRO
    Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy is an authoritative text addressing both academicians and students, and it proposes an integrated and holistic view of scientific study and presents a new paradigm by which to study philosophy. It highlights, in a systematic and sufficiently simple manner, the fundamental role of neuroscience, neuropsychology and biology ...

    $1,060.00

  • PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK WITH CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL
    FRANCO D'ALBERTON
    Psychoanalytic Work with Children in Hospital presents the experiences of a psychoanalyst working within a hospital paediatric department. It explores the possibilities for applying psychoanalytic theory when working with children in hospital and how it can be extended to include parents, caregivers, health care staff and volunteers. Each chapter of the book addresses an issue ...

    $920.00

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
    FRANCO MALOBERTI
    After an overview of major scientific discoveries of the 18th and 19th centuries, which created electrical science as we know and understand it and led to its useful applications in energy conversion, transmission, manufacturing industry and communications, this Circuits and Systems History book fills a gap in published literature by providing a record of the many outstanding s...

    $495.00

  • A HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    MARCO P. VIANNA FRANCO / ANTOINE MISSEMER
    Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights ...

    $1,160.00

  • GEORGE ELIOT’S ‘THE LIFTED VEIL’
    FRANCO MARUCCI
    The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’ amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in Eliot’s major canon. The premise of the present book is that George Eliot’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with vari...

    $1,240.00

  • ENDING WAR
    CHIARA DE FRANCO, ANDERS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN AND MARTIN MENNECKE
    Ending War: A Dialogue across Disciplines examines how wars end from a multidisciplinary perspective and includes enquiries into the politics of war, the laws of war, and the military and intellectual history of war. In recent years, the changes in the character of contemporary warfare have created uncertainties across different disciplines about how to identify and conceptuali...

    $1,200.00

  • "BREXIT" AS A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CRISIS
    FRANCO ZAPPETTINI
    Through a focus on media and political discourses both before and after the UK 2016 EU Referendum, this volume provides a set of comprehensive, empirically based analyses of Brexit as a social and political crisis. The book explores a variety of context-dependent, ideologically driven, social, political, and economic imaginaries that have been attached to the idea/concept of Br...

    $1,200.00

  • AGELESS TALENT
    LISA M. FINKELSTEIN / DONALD M. TRUXILLO / FRANCO FRACCAROLI / RUTH KANFER
    Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce provides organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors with clear, evidence-based tactics by which to develop and manage an aging and age-diverse talent pool. This volume provides an easy-to-implement set of tools for addressing the difficult problems related to employee performance and w...

    $920.00

  • SUSTAINABLE PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    CECÍLIA GUERRA / ‎AMANDA FRANCO / ‎MÓNICA SEABRA
    Considering both the theoretical and practical possibilities of the sustainability of higher education research in a world in which research budgets are often hard to secure, this book shares results from international research to demonstrate the innovation occurring to secure sustainable research funding. Rooted in diverse research experiences and reflections of academics and ...

    $1,000.00

  • FAITH WITHOUT DOGMA
    FRANCO FERRAROTTI
    We live in a time of high Church membership, but low Church attendance. Franco Ferrarotti, arguably the most important sociologist of religion alive, captures the source of this paradox In the title of his new book, Faith without Dogma. For it is belief that propels membership, while the absence of dogma results in a reticence to accept hierarchical direction from above or beyo...

    $920.00

  • ANIMAL DRUGS AND HUMAN HEALTH
    LESTER M. CRAWFORD / DON A. FRANCO
    The presence of drug and chemical residues in food products from animal sources is both a public health problem and a consumer concern. This is the first book to examine and analyze this problem in a scientific, non-partisan way. The twelve contributing authors are all recognized authorities on this topics. An important resource for food scientists and analysts working with mea...

    $6,100.00

  • ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
    JENNIFER FRANCO
    First published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democratic, still contributed to democratization by creating the political space needed for democratic oppostion to arise. ...

    $1,360.00

  • A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO TREATING PSYCHOSIS
    FRANCO DE MASI
    A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis shows how, by understanding the antecedents and dynamics of psychosis, a psychoanalytic approach can offer a long-term alternative to the only psychotropic therapy and an explanation of the infantile origin of the illness. This ground-breaking examination begins by clearly explaining complex terms and theories from the most signif...

    $980.00

  • A HISTORY OF SIENA
    MARIO ASCHERI / BRADLEY FRANCO
    A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena’s history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city. Well informed by archival research and recent scholarship on medieval Siena and the Italian city-states, this book places Siena’s develo...

    $1,160.00

  • THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    FRANCO AMATORI - ANDREA COLLI
    The Global Economy: A Concise History traces the history of the global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East, as well as the North and the South of the world. This book examines the Industrial Revolution and...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ECOLOGICAL CITY AND THE CITY EFFECT
    FRANCO ARCHIBUGI
    First published in 1997, this volume responds to the increasingly urgent issue of degradation of the urban environment. It moves beyond the indirect environmentalism up until the 1990s, examining urban degradation and how urban planning can be directly applied to the concept of an ecological city. Particular focus is given to the Italian government’s ‘Urban Environment Programm...

    $1,000.00

  • DEMOBILISATION AND REINTEGRATION IN COLOMBIA
    FRANCY CARRANZA-FRANCO
    This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically focused on Africa and Asia. The continuous proces...

    $1,120.00

  • RADIATION SENSORS WITH 3D ELECTRODES
    CINZIA DA VIÀ / GIAN-FRANCO DALLA BETTA / SHERWOOD PARKER
    Written by the leading names in this field, this book introduces the technical properties, design and fabrication details, measurement results, and applications of three-dimensional silicon radiation sensors. Such devices are currently used in the ATLAS experiment at the European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) for particle tracking in high energy physics. These sensors are ...

    $1,360.00

  • RETHINKING THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE 'NEW SOUTH AFRICA'
    FRANCO BARCHIESI
    Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South Africa's unions unprecedented legal and constitutional rights. Despite these gains, the country's unions have faced a fresh set of challenges, many of them emanating from their political allies in Government. From Parliament to the factory floor, Sout...

    $1,480.00

  • RETHINKING JAPAN VOL 2
    ADRIANA BOSCARO / FRANCO GATTI / MASSIMO RAVERI
    These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies. ...

    $3,600.00

  • EXPERIMENTAL MATHEMATICS WITH MAPLE
    FRANCO VIVALDI
    As discrete mathematics rapidly becomes a required element of undergraduate mathematics programs, algebraic software systems replace compiled languages and are now most often the computational tool of choice. Newcomers to university level mathematics, therefore, must not only grasp the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, they must also learn to use an algebraic manipulator an...

    $2,320.00

  • NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ROBOTICS
    NANCY ARANA-DANIEL / ALMA Y. ALANIS / CARLOS LOPEZ-FRANCO
    The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, f...

    $1,800.00

  • UNDERSTANDING MOLECULES
    FRANCO BATTAGLIA / THOMAS F. GEORGE
    Chemistry is a subject that many students with differing goals have to tackle. This unique general chemistry textbook is tailored to more mathematically-oriented engineering or physics students. The authors emphasize the principles underlying chemistry rather than chemistry itself and the almost encyclopedic completeness appearing in a common textbook of general chemistry is sa...

    $1,360.00


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