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This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland);

This book provides a multilayered analysis of food import dependency and its impact on food security in the Caribbean region. Moreover, the author evaluates economic and social benefits of food self-sufficiency as a strategy aimed to improve domestic food production by increased availability of locally produced food products.

This book examines statistical techniques that are critically important to Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) activities.

Starting with an analysis of the surplus of women question, it then explores the philanthropic nature of the organisations (the Female Middle Class Emigration Society, the Women's Emigration Society, the British Women's Emigration Association, and the Church Emigration Society).

This book shows how modern Brooklyn's proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn's Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898.

This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply.

This book illustrates original pathways to manipulate light at the nanoscale by means of surface electromagnetic waves (here, Bloch surface waves, BSWs) on planar dielectric multilayers, also known as one-dimensional photonic crystals.

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years.

This book explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973 War.

This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point.

This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. The causal metric hypothesis treats causal relations as the basis of this structure.

This book describes in practical terms the endoscopic neurosurgery of the third ventricle and surrounding structures, emphasizing aspects of intraoperative endoscopic anatomy and ventricular approaches for main diseases, complemented by CT / MRI images.

This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling. Arguing that educational discourses have been overshadowed by discourses of other groups, the book examines the political and ideological policy aims that can be supported by different discourses of wellbeing.

This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law.

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This book addresses the properties of particles in colloidal suspensions.

Starting from the thermodynamics of the Sun-Earthsystem and biosphere, this book steps, via such subjects as the greenhouse effect and energetics of metabolism, into to the microscopic world (physics of bacteria and unicellular life, cells and tissues, biomolecules); and again to zoology and planetary ecology in a journey guided by Physics.

Containing tools for nonparametric analyses, this supplemental text gives guidance on how R is used for nonparametric data analysis in the biological sciences, focusing on how R is used to distinguish between data that could be classified as nonparametric as opposed to parametric, with both approaches to data classification covered extensively.

This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city becomes gridlocked and its resources depleted, the collective resilience of those who remain on the ground becomes critical to its immediate survival and recovery.

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses "lexomic" methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem.

A tense plot deals with devastating scientific, secret intelligence and geopolitical issues. "You alright, Professor?" Mal asked in a whisper. "Yeah, I'll be alright."World renowned ecologist, UCLA Professor David Lev, aged 84, has just begun a contemporary odyssey.

Based on exhaustive archival research, Sinha presents an exciting new thesis that shows how Sraffa challenged the usual mode of theorizing in terms of essential and mechanical causation and, instead, argued for a descriptive or geometrical theory based on simultaneous relations.

This book introduces readers to various radiation soft-error mechanisms such as soft delays, radiation induced clock jitter and pulses, and single event (SE) coupling induced effects.

The content covered encompass not only the theoretic and methodological aspects for culturing human pluripotent stem cells, but also the establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation into specific cellular subtypes.

This book discusses all therapeutic options regarding ingrowing toenails, from conservative to surgery. Theauthors have a wide experience in nail surgery and master all publishedprocedures. In this book they offer to the reader an algorithm of themanagement of ingrowing nails, as there is no "cure-all" procedure.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress."

The new research method presented in this book ensures that all economic theories are falsifiable and that irrefutable theories are scientifically sound.