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"Carefully distinguishing between big data and open data, and exploring various data infrastructures, Kitchin vividly illustrates how the data landscape is rapidly changing and calls for a revolution in how we think about data... Lees meer
Nonlinear elliptic problems play an increasingly important role in mathematics, science and engineering, creating an exciting interplay between the subjects... Lees meer
Capitalist societies are full of unacceptable inequalities. Freedom is of paramount importance. These two convictions are widely shared across the world... Lees meer
Orofacial pain - defined as pain lasting over three months in the mouth or face - is increasing in prevelance, with approximately 7% of the UK population having experienced it... Lees meer
This new fourth edition has been completely revised and updated, covering all aspects in the field of plant sciences including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and earth sciences... Lees meer
Since the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in magnetic multilayers in 1988, a new branch of physics and technology, called spin-electronics or spintronics, has emerged, where the flow of electrical charge as well as the flow of electron spin, the so-called "spin current", are manipulated and controlled together... Lees meer
John Emsley's Nature's Building Bocks was published in paperback in 2003. In this readable, informative, and fascinating guide to the elements are entries on each of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium... Lees meer
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart... Lees meer
Exceptionally well-loved, Janet Belsky's textbook, written in her signature engaging style and voice, offers a fresh, remarkably brief way to understand the experience of human development throughout the lifespan... Lees meer
Firms in the clothing industry engage in global sourcing and operate in global markets. Their global production networks have often been subject to scrutiny as the power relationships between buyer firms in developed countries and supplier firms in developing countries raise issues concerned with 'fast fashion', the role of brands, labour standards in developing countries, job losses among the most vulnerable workers in Europe and the US, and the growing differentiation within the bloc of developing countries between the least developed and fast developers, such as China and India... Lees meer
This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution... Lees meer
An important and captivating book, one that has been long awaited by all researchers interested in language and the brain... Lees meer
Time, Space, and Metaphysics engages with major philosophical questions concerning time and space, a framework for the investigation being provided by the debate between the absolutists and the relationists, so between Newton and Leibniz, and their followers... Lees meer
A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge... Lees meer
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces... Lees meer
Marine mammals command a high level of public attention, reflected in specific legislation for their protection and management in many countries... Lees meer
Policing the Caribbean explores the emergence of law enforcement and security practices that extend beyond the boundaries of the nation state... Lees meer
Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government analyses a series of interrelated questions... Lees meer
Minority games are simple mathematical models initially designed to understand the co-operative phenomena observed in markets... Lees meer
The Shame of Poverty invites the reader to question their understanding of poverty by bringing into close relief the day-to-day experiences of low-income families living in societies as diverse as Norway and Uganda, Britain and India, China, South Korea, and Pakistan... Lees meer