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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
"Accessibly written and thoughtfully edited, making it essential reading for those studying hospitality and embarking on a career in the industry... Lees meer
This interdisciplinary study follows an international and ecumenical meeting of twenty-four scholars held in New York at Easter 2000: the Incarnation Summit... Lees meer
The Shortt clock, made in the 1920s, is the most famous accurate clock pendulum ever known, having an accuracy of one second per year when kept at nearly constant temperature... Lees meer
In this book Uwe Steinhoff describes and explains the basic tenets of just war theory and gives a precise, succinct and highly critical account of its present status and of the most important and controversial current debates surrounding it... Lees meer
Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of 'existential feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life... 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
Fourteen newly commissioned essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, which lies at the intersection of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception... Lees meer
The study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has attracted enormous interest in the last few years... Lees meer
Amsterdam was, after London and Paris, the third largest city in early modern Europe, and was renowned throughout Europe for its widespread and visible prostitution... Lees meer