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  • INFORMATION, SECURITY AND SOCIETY IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
    NATALIA MOCH
    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced society to re-evaluate security, crisis and risk management principles and policies so we are better prepared to deal with contemporary threats. This book provides an overview of selected and key changes that have taken place in the security environment across entities. The book analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the security enviro...

    $1,099.00

  • EXCLUSIONARY RATIONALITIES IN BRAZILIAN SCHOOLING
    NATÁLIA GIL
    Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different trajectories according to gender, race, and class; and significant regional variations in...

    $1,099.00

  • JAPAN’S TRIPLE DISASTER
    NOVIKOVA, NATALIA
    The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. The term "natural" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anti...

    $1,099.00

  • INTERSECTIONS OF TOURISM, MIGRATION, AND EXILE
    NATALIA BLOCH
    This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they often intertwine, overlap, and influence one another. Tourism, migration, and exile evoke widely varying policies, diverse popular rea...

    $979.00

  • MUNICIPAL FISCAL STRESS, BANKRUPTCIES, AND OTHER FINANCIAL EMERGENCIES
    TATYANA GUZMAN / NATALIA ERMASOVA
    It is di□fficult to find someone who has not heard about the Puerto Rico, Detroit, Michigan, or Orange County, California, bankruptcies. While guides for responsibly managing government finances exist, problems often originate not because of poor financial reporting or financial deficiencies but because issues external to financial wellbeing arise, such as economic, demographic...

    $1,099.00

  • OPTIMISING THE THIRD SPACE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    NATALIA VELES
    Drawing on an empirical study of the cross-boundary, cross-campus, and intercultural collaborations between professional and academic staff, at both an Australian and a Singaporean university, this book demonstrates the potential of third space collaboration in higher education. Through a multi-case study methodology, the author draws on the antecedent resources of spatial theo...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY
    NATALIA ANTOLAK-SAPER
    This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media’s influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy. This impact is often assumed. And, especially in the wake of high-profile crimes, the press is routinely observed calling for sentences to be harsher, and for governments to be tougher on crime. But how do we know that there is a connection? To...

    $1,099.00

  • INDEPENDENCE AND NATION-BUILDING IN LATIN AMERICA
    SCOTT EASTMAN / NATALIA SOBREVILLA PEREA
    Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in Spanish and Portuguese America. In doing so, the authors critically examine competing interpretations and bring to light the most recent scholarship on social, cultural, and political aspects of the period. Did American ...

    $979.00

  • THE INTER AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    NATALIA ZÚÑIGA
    This book provides a critical legal perspective on the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. The volume offers a critique of ideology of two legal approaches to the legitimacy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) that portray it as a supranational tribunal whose last say on human rights protection has a transformative effect on the democracies of Lat...

    $1,099.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    NATALIA YAKOVLEVA
    The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. Minerals and metals are used throughout the world in manufacturing, c...

    $1,179.00

  • EARLY MODERN DIASPORAS
    MATHILDE MONGE / NATALIA MUCHNIK
    This book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800. Huguenots, Sephardim, British Catholics, Mennonites, Moriscos, Moravian Brethren, Quakers, Ashkenazim… what do these populations who roamed Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have in common? Despite an extensive historiography of diasporas, publications have tended to focus on...

    $1,099.00

  • SHAKESPEARE’S HOBBY-HORSE AND EARLY MODERN POPULAR CULTURE
    NATÁLIA PIKLI
    This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by ...

    $1,059.00

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN RUSSIA
    NATALIA M. UDALOVA / ANNA S. VLASOVA
    Intellectual property rights are essential for a firm’s competitive edge and success and form the significant assets for many firms. The authors of this book argue that intellectual property is a complex phenomenon, which inevitably requires a combination of both economic and legal considerations, because the lack of understanding of the mechanisms for the protection and preser...

    $1,039.00

  • CRISIS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE ARCTIC
    ODD JARL BORCH / NATALIA ANDREASSEN
    This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment. It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of the arctic environment, the book illustrates how factors such as nature, geography...

    $1,099.00

  • MUSEUM DIPLOMACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    NATALIA GRINCHEVA
    Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy. Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages across borders, the book explores the political powers of museums in their online spaces. Demonstrating that digital media allow mus...

    $999.00

  • RUSSIAN IN PLAIN ENGLISH
    NATALIA V. PARKER
    Russian in Plain English enables complete beginners to acquire the skill of reading words written in Cyrillic independently, with no English transcription or imitated pronunciation, within a short period of time. This book introduces the Cyrillic alphabet gradually, feeding in the letters and their various pronunciation aspects one by one over its ten units, thus building a com...

    $999.00

  • CHILDREN READING FOR PLEASURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    NATALIA KUCIRKOVA / TERESA CREMIN
    What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation, multiculturalism and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of...

    $712.30

  • INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY
    FORD LUMBAN GAOL / ‎NATALIA FILIMONOVA / ‎IRINA FROLOVA
    Inclusive Development of Society contains papers that were originally presented at the 2018 International Congress on Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service, Tourism & Hospitality (SERVE 2018), held 6-7 October and 15-16 December 2018 in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia and 18-19 October, 2018 at The Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-don, Russia. The contributions deal with ...

    $1,699.00

  • BIOLOGY OF PLANT VOLATILES
    ERAN PICHERSKY / NATALIA DUDAREVA
    Plant volatiles—compounds emitted from plant organs to interact with the surrounding environment—play essential roles in attracting pollinators and defending against herbivores and pathogenes, plant-plant signaling, and abiotic stress responses. Biology of Plant Volatiles, with contributions from leading international groups of distinguished scientists in the field, explores th...

    $1,279.00

  • STRAIGHT-LINE QUILTING DESIGNS
    CHARLOTTE WARR ANDERSEN, NATALIA BONNER, MARY MASHUTA, AMANDA MURPHY, ANGELA WALTERS & MORE!
    Want inspiration for your straight-line quilting? Now you have the perfect tool! This spiral-bound book is full of designs—JUST designs—and will lie flat on your work surface or your quilt to keep your hands on the quilt and that needle moving! The fourth in our Quilting Inspiration series, this visual guide is filled with more than seventy-five distinctive straight-line design...

    $189.00

  • CORRUPTION IN ARGENTINA
    NATALIA A. VOLOSIN
    The book provides an institutional, historical, and sectorial analysis of Argentina’s structural corruption. Looking back over the last 200 years, the book demonstrates that Argentina has historically addressed corruption through ineffective debates between public-private biases or a cultural-criminal approach reinforced by modernization theory, neither of which have helped tac...

    $1,059.00

  • THE CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY AMONG ETHNIC MINORITIES
    NATALIA WAECHTER
    This book is concerned with European identities among ethnic minorities who live along the eastern border of the European Union. Based on findings from quantitative and qualitative empirical research conducted with minority groups in eight nation-states on both sides of the new eastern border of the EU, it investigates their attitudes and perceptions of the EU based on their co...

    $1,099.00

  • GLOBAL TRENDS IN MUSEUM DIPLOMACY
    NATALIA GRINCHEVA
    Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy traces the transformation of museums from publicly or privately funded heritage institutions into active players in the economic sector of culture. Exploring how this transformation reconfigured cultural diplomacy, the book argues that museums have become autonomous diplomatic players on the world stage. The book offers a comparative analysis a...

    $539.00

  • ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF MATERIALS
    NATALIA CHEZHINA / DMITRY KOROLEV
    This book is a short survey of magnetochemistry as a promising method for revealing the electronic structure of inorganic substances, particularly solid oxide materials. It is supported by five chapters that describe materials with various structures and applications, showing how the method of magnetic dilution with the aid of other physical methods (electron spin resonance, ma...

    $3,000.00

  • SUPERALLOYS
    NATALIYA V. KAZANTSEVA / NATALIA N. STEPANOVA / MIKHAIL B. RIGMANT
    Superalloys form a class of the structural materials for high-temperature applications. Nickel superalloys are extensively used in the high-temperature components of gas turbines due to their excellent creep, fatigue, and corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures. These materials are considered paramagnetic in the range of working temperatures. This book presents the featur...

    $1,199.00

  • REMEMBERING THE JAGIELLONIANS
    NATALIA NOWAKOWSKA
    Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386–1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered since the early modern period and assesses its role in the development of competing modern national identities across Central, Ea...

    $1,039.00

  • SWORD PRINCESS AMALTEA, VOLUME 2
    NATALIA BATISTA
    After rescuing her prince, the warrior princess must traverse a perilous mountain pass in this gender-flipped manga adventure series. Princess Amaltea reluctantly followed the Queen’s orders to embark on her solo coming of age journey. But after battling a dragon, rescuing the beautiful Prince Ossian and getting attacked by bandits, she’s beginning to see that maybe the world i...

    $149.00

  • SWORD PRINCESS AMALTEA, VOLUME 1
    NATALIA BATISTA
    We all know the way the story goes. The valiant prince goes on a perilous journey, kills a ferocious dragon, rescues a captive princess, earns his family's honor. But what if this time the prince… was a princess? In a fairytale world where Queens rule and magic is power, Princess Amaltea is sent on the biggest quest of her life — to rescue a prince in need and fulfill her dutie...

    $149.00

  • MUSCLES OF CHORDATES
    RUI DIOGO / JANINE M. ZIERMANN / JULIA MOLNAR / NATALIA SIOMAVA / VIRGINIA ABDALA
    Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscl...

    $1,659.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
    VLADIMIR MITYUSHEV / WOJCIECH NAWALANIEC / NATALIA RYLKO
    Introduction to Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations is written as a textbook for readers who want to understand the main principles of Modeling and Simulations in settings that are important for the applications, without using the profound mathematical tools required by most advanced texts. It can be particularly useful for applied mathematicians and engineers who ar...

    $1,199.00


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