This book documents the growing body of evidence compelling us to probe its foundation at a much deeper level. Its excursion from the smallest to largest possible scales... Læs mere
Written by Li Yining, one of the best-known Chinese economists, this book introduces the central concepts of cultural economics and the culture industry, proposing groundbreaking... Læs mere
The book, from the perspective of law and criminology, centers on environmental crime, its commission, the types of entities that commit it, the laws enacted to prohibit it, how it is committed and effective means to control and prevent it.
This book is both a celebration and extension of Paynter and Aston’s ground-breaking work on creative classroom music,... Læs mere
This book focuses on the management of some key tropical fruit species, mitigation strategies and technological counter-measures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to face the challenge of climate change.
Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias presents research combining a range of corpus-linguistic techniques which are employed to analyse how migration discourse is (re)constructed in the contemporary British press.
This book offers a short and accessible introduction to criminology. Written in a clear and direct style, criminological theories are made more accessible for undergraduates, and the workings of the criminal justice system are explained.
This book reveals the role that credit played in the raising of British war loans between 1793 and 1815. It shows how,... Læs mere
This book presents an extensive study on the extant constructs of corruption in infrastructure-related projects and aims to contribute towards the determination and elimination of its incidence and prevalence in the infrastructure projects.
Categorical data requires a different methodology and techniques typically not encountered in introductory statistics courses. This title presents various ways of... Læs mere
The two cornerstones of foresight are organization and management. After an overview of state-of-the-art literature on forecasting methods, the authors... Læs mere