This is one of the few books to analyze the systemic and the ethical mistakes that led to the financial crisis of 2008. It keeps the middle ground, while investigating the role of speculation in the formation of the crisis.
The book is centered on how major curriculum reform shapes mathematics and the professional practices of teachers.
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US.
The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified;
This book addresses current activities in strong-motion networks around the globe, covering issues related to designing, maintaining and disseminating information from these arrays.
The book explores factors that have made educational researchers dependent on statistics, and examines their use in such areas as the maltreatment of children, European citizenship, well-being and happiness, illegal migrants, and university expansion.
This book presents the latest findings in the field of research of mechanosensitivity and mechanotransduction in different cells and tissues.... Læs mere
The different models of the universal order and of life here presented, all aiming at the first principles of existence—accord... Læs mere
Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains... Læs mere
Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays... Læs mere
Beyond Einstein’s Gravity is a graduate level introduction to extended theories of gravity and cosmology, including variational principles, the weak-field limit, gravitational waves, mathematical tools, exact solutions, as well as cosmological and astrophysical applications.
This new book takes us through a journey from early life to modern agriculture. Some plants seduce insects for pollination by their appearance (e.g.,... Læs mere