Education is a societal matter and takes place in relation to societal changes. How do some European, Muslim, Christian and secular pupils understand the religious education they receive?
This book offers an overview on the applications of microarray gene expression and copy number variation analyses to the various cancer types. Each chapter addresses a single disease with emphasis on how the genomic analyses have been or can be applied.
With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban fabric. It shows how an urban environment can affect the decision to commit a crime, and how some cityscape have crime and inequality 'built in'.
Analysis of the orbital motion of the Earth, the Moon and other planets and their satellites led to the discovery that all bodies in the Solar System are moving with the first cosmic velocity of their proto parents.
This proceedings volume contains the invited and a selection of the contributed papers of the 8th... Læs mere
As clocks struck midnight on the 31st December 2009 announcing the dawn of a new decade, amidst the jubilation of a new beginning we paused momentarily to re?ect on the decade that had just past.
Forest tree breeding has been ongoing for more than 70 years across Europe. In this book, we describe the state-of-art of... Læs mere
This book covers topics that are at the intersection of business ethics and governance as they pertain to entrepreneurship and finance.
This book describes the author’s view of how the mind “thinks” at various levels of operation. These levels include nonconscious mind (as in spinal/brainstem reflexes and neuroendocrine controls), subconscious mind, and conscious mind.
It offers an introduction and 10 chapters by authors in a variety of national contexts to explicate issues such as the cultural turn in... Læs mere
This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. The book will be a... Læs mere