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This book explores that while today¿s water crises pose serious threats to environments and societies, they also provide opportunities to learn from experience and recraft water governance with coherent visions of more ecologically and socially sustainable futures. It was originally published as a special issue of Society & Natural Resources.

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a multi-disciplinary text, for both researchers and scholars of African Studies, the environment and postcolonial literature.

This two-volume work covers the main known equivalents to the Riemann hypothesis. Classical and modern arithmetic statements equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis are elucidated, proved and applied using analytic and computational methods. Each volume can be read independently.

This book sheds new light on the unique critiques of modernity offered by the school of thinkers associated with Georg Lukács, informed as its members¿ insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet socialism and the liberal-democratic West. Presenting studies of topics central to contemporary critical theory, authors draw on the works of Heller, Márkus and Fehér, demonstrating their enduring relevance to critical theory and th...

Introduces nine exciting and talented playwrights who have emerged in twenty-first century America, exploring issues of race, gender and society.

Bridging the gaps between non-relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, this novel approach to quantum mechanics for graduate students and researchers extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus. It includes key experiments and worked examples to encourage the reader to focus on empirically sound concepts and avoid metaphysical speculation.

The 10th novel in Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive Wesley Peterson seriesWhen Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiance, Peter, knew nothing about.But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that July day in South Devon. At Morbay registry office a terrified yo...

Explores video games as important cultural artifacts and as sources of powerful, compelling storytelling. It begins by considering the fundamental structures of video games. The book then moves from the theoretical to the practical by considering numerous modern games and the stories they tell through careful, considered analysis of each title's story.

In heutigen Zeiten benötigen wir "cleane" Lebensmittel mehr denn je: Fertiggerichte, Gewürzmischungen oder zubereitete Obst- und Gemüsesorten führen wir uns immer mehr Geschmacksverstärker und Zuckersorten zu, die für eine gesunde Ernährung völlig überflüssig sind. "Clean Eating" hingegen öffnet das Bewusstsein für Lebensmittel, die bei vielen längst in Vergessenheit geraten waren, immer mit den Prämissen: "Saisonal, regional, unverarbeitet! F...

Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li¿, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Central to the study of history and the classics, this anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history within the ancient world.

Tim Blanning is the author of a number of major works on eighteenth century Europe, including The Pursuit of Glory : Europe 1648-1815, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture and Joseph II. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His latest book, Frederick the Great, won the British Academy Medal 2016.

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history. Contributions to this volume analyse banking and financial history in a long-term comparative perspective. Lessons drawn from these analyses may well help future generations of policy makers avoid a repeat of the financial turbulence that erupted in 2008.

For years prior to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized protests with limited success. So why and how did thousands of Egyptian citizens suddenly take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in January 2011? Contesting the Repressive State not only answers this question, but asks specifically why and how people who are not part of political movements choose to engage or not engage in anti-government protest under repressi...

For years prior to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized protests with limited success. So why and how did thousands of Egyptian citizens suddenly take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in January 2011? Contesting the Repressive State not only answers this question, but asks specifically why and how people who are not part of political movements choose to engage or not engage in anti-government protest under repres...

This book interrogates theories in the anthropology of religion through examining the ritual practices of the Andean community of Rapaz"--

This book interrogates theories in the anthropology of religion through examining the ritual practices of the Andean community of Rapaz"--

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