Join Kit and Pup on their most adventurous trip yet - into space! Curious preschoolers will love these books packed with flaps and facts.

This book provides the background that automotive engineers, students and other readers need in order to appreciate the development of the complex machines.

The nuclear industry renaissance will require a workforce with individuals having diverse engineering backgrounds. Nuclear plant dynamics and control not only require an understanding of nuclear engineering principles but also thorough knowledge of classical and modern control concepts applied to the integrated reactor/plant system. This book uniquely provides a highly theoretical treatment of reactor dynamics and shows how the dynamics of the reactor integrate with the performance of the plant.

Building on empirical research and relevant literature, this book describes and analyzes sustainable economic alternatives and looks at their role in a world where the old paradigms of aggregate economic growth, free trade and perfectly competitive markets are fast losing their appeal. What do the eco-social enterprises do? How do they differ from the mainstream? What are the motivations and implications of their organisational and governance structures? How are they conceptualised from different ideological and geopolitical perspectives? This book addresses these questions and others about these new approaches to production, trading, consumption and finance.

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) entered into force on 3 September, 1953, with a binding effect on all member states of the Council of Europe. It grants the people of Europe a number of fundamental rights and freedoms: right to life, prohibition of torture, prohibition of slavery and forced labour, right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, no punishment without law, right to respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, right to marry, right to an effective remedy, prohibition of discrimination; plus some more by additional protocols to the Convention. Any person who feels that his or her rights are being violated under the ECHR by the authorities in one of the Member States can bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights, established under the Convention. The States are bound by the Court's decisions. Professor Grabenwarter's commentary systematically deals with the Convention, article-by-article, including development, scope, relevant case-law and literature.

The go-to book for financial advice you can actually understand and will want to read! Contains money diaries and financial advice written specifically for readers in the UK.

+ - 0 ("plus minus null") is a facsimile of a unique, handmade artist's book crafted by Volker Heinze in 1986. Its photos are the result of the young Heinze's decision to radically capture the world around him-be it cityscapes, rooms casts in warm artificial light, friends or simply objects sitting on a table. Working against the removed perspective of documentary photography, Heinze employs color not as a tool of realism but with experimental flair, and plays with focus and the inevitable "mistakes" of analogue film-all to create an original aesthetic born from the idiosyncrasies of the photographic medium.Heinze originally presented this body of work in two forms: as the large installation The Appearance of the Familiar, composed of individual photos pinned to the wall in the influential 1986 exhibition "Remnants of the Authentic" at Museum Folkwang in Essen. And as + - 0-with its experimental layout, leaves of tracing paper with hand-painted quotes such as "To search for reality is like diving for pearls in an aquarium", and a booklet with excerpts from Martin Kippenberger's 241 Bildtitel zum Ausleihen-now to be published for the first time since its inception more than 30 years ago.Limited edition of 750 books

Increased urbanization coupled with demand for water has placed the provision of a sustainable supply of clean water high on the agenda for large cities. The approach of this book is to describe and compare various contexts in a range of global cities, reviewing different approaches and perspectives that examine key urban water governance issues.

The logical future focus for renewable energy is micro-hydropower, and this book is a guide for professionals and others interested in the broader subject of micro-hydropower.

This book presents an evaluation of the role of gravity in international criminal justice. Undertaking a critical legal analysis of the law and practice of the ICC, it also draws on relevant jurisprudence of other international or internationalized criminal tribunals, as well as on the documents of the International Law Commission.

This is an exacting facsimile-and first re-print overall-of Baron Adolph de Meyer's especially rare book Le Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, first published in 1914 in a handcrafted edition of 1,000. Today only six copies are known to exist, and this Steidl edition recreates a book from Karl Lagerfeld's personal collection.De Meyer's book is a privileged record of Vaslav Nijinsky's performance in the first ballet he choreographed: Le Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) for Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, set to a score by Claude Debussy and inspired by a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. The ballet debuted in Paris in 1912 and shocked audiences and critics with its eroticism and unconventional choreography. De Meyer's 30 photos capture Nijinsky's animalistic performance as the faun surrounded by prancing nymphs, and are an important record of Léon Bakst's Symbolist sets and costumes.In this new edition Gerhard Steidl recreates the original, published by Editions Paul Iribe & Cie, with as much attention to detail as possible. Le Prélude is a hand-stitched brochure with a hand-folded dust jacket. Iribe's collotypes (photomechanical ink prints) on vellum paper are recreated in offset as quadratone prints tipped-in by hand onto Somerset Cotton paper, mould-made by St Cuthbert's Mill-all in a limited edition of 1,000 books.

Monomers composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms are the simple building blocks that make up polyolefins - molecules which are extremely useful and which have an extraordinary range of properties and applications. How these monomer molecules are connected in the polymer chain defines the molecular architecture of polyolefins.

This volume explores, from an international law perspective, the various facets of the notion of accountability of International Financial Institutions. In particular, the book takes prospective and retrospective approaches to accountability; the legal constraints on IFIs towards all stakeholders; the benefits IFIs can achieve for themselves from their financial accountability; the 'soft law' instruments that are adequate for ensuring IFIs accountability with regard to their activities; and the (positive and negative) effects of accountability on civil society and local indigenous populations. By providing a range of contributions on these aspects of the problem of accountability of IFIs the book provides readers with an overview of the issue at stake in a wide range of international institutions and assesses the current state of such issue under the lens of international law.

A procession of natural disasters and other extreme events continues to wreak considerable damage on Western societies and their economies. Man-made threats, both real and perceived, present an unsettling outlook: chemical, nuclear and biological terrorism, cyber-attacks and industrial accidents are ever-present concerns. At the same time, the complex, overlapping and highly diversified layers of regulatory and political environments compound the challenge of tackling extreme events, heralding a future of increased uncertainty. Using new empirical research by the authors undertaken with European Union (EU), North American, Australian and New Zealand policy officials and practitioners, this book explores the dynamics of government efforts to secure the national interest in times of crisis. Aimed at practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of public policy, administrative, constitutional and international law, the text will articulate the fundamental policy and legislative concepts and challenges confronting Australasia, the EU and North America in the field of crisis management. By comparing different national and regional approaches this volume sheds new light on the pressing challenges impeding crisis management, infrastructure protection and the coordination of government globally and regionally. The book explores, from a comparative international perspective, the ongoing struggle between political ambitions and legal reality in crisis management and emergency law.

This book discusses the history of the left labour movement in Cyprus, a country under British colonial rule for 82 years (1878-1960).