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Disaster Risk
The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but …
NGO Discourses in the Debate on Genetically Modified Crops
The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a number of social science analyses …
Post-Soviet Nostalgia
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying …
Libya: Agriculture and Economic Development (RLE Economy of Middle East)
Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began. This new wealth has affected all sectors of the economy and especially the agricultural sector; there have …
User Comments and Moderation in Digital Journalism
This book is an authoritative discussion of user comments and moderation in digital journalism, examining how user comments have disrupted the field of journalism and how a growing …
Rates of Evolution
Originally published in 1987 Rates of Evolution is an edited collection drawn from a symposium convened to bring together palaeontologists, geneticists, molecular biologists and …
Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India
India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated …
Big Data and Cloud Computing for Development
This book provides a framework for evaluating big data and cloud computing based on how they evolve to fit users’ needs in developing countries in key areas, such as agriculture …
Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema
With crystal clarity, this book conveys the most current principles in digital image processing, providing both the background theory and the practical applications to various …
Geomorphology and Soils
Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute …
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero.Although he is …
The Matrix Of Language
The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their …