Maggie O'Neill, "Criminal Women: Gender Matters"
English | ISBN: 1529208394 | 2021 | 152 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Accounts of female offenders' journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalised. Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen, and updating her seminal book 'Criminal Women', this collection uses participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies to highlight the lived experiences of these women. It presents studies focused on drug use and supply, sex work, sexual exploitation and experiences of imprisonment including self-harm, maternal loss and education. Bringing together cutting-edge feminist research, this book exposes the oppression and social control which is often central to women's experiences of the justice system. The contributors offer invaluable insights for the development of penal policies which account for the needs of women.
Coronavirus Replication and Reverse Genetics by Luis Enjuanes
English | PDF | 2005 | 260 Pages | ISBN : 3540214941 | 3.3 MB
Coronaviruses are the RNA viruses with the largest genome known to date (27 to 32 kb). Members of this virus family affect most domestic animal species, causing important socio-economical losses, and also infect humans.
Peter M. Lewis, "Coping with Crisis in African States"
English | ISBN: 1626372292 | 2016 | 235 pages | PDF | 1502 KB
Although large-scale conflicts, political upheavals, and social violence are common problems throughout Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their susceptibility to these crises and their capacities for responding effectively. What accounts for this variance? How do crises emerge, and how are they resolved? When are unexpected events most likely to spiral into crisis? Are there institutions and policies that can help to manage adverse shocks? The authors of Coping with Crisis in African States assess the capability for crisis management in countries across the continent, shedding new light on the sources of instability in the region, as well as on comparative questions of state capacity and resilience.
Harold Wolman, "Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy"
English | ISBN: 0801478545 | 2017 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors employ a wide range of techniques to examine the experience of all metropolitan area economies from 1978-2014. They then look closely at six American metropolitan areas to determine what strategies were employed, which of these contributed to regional economic resilience, and which did not. Charlotte, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, are cases of economic resilience, while Cleveland, Ohio, Hartford, Connecticut, and Detroit, Michigan, are cases of economic nonresilience. The six case studies include hard data on employment, production, and demographics, as well as material on public policies and actions.
Marie-Eve Morin, "Continental Realism and Its Discontents "
English | ISBN: 1474421148 | 2017 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.
Arnab Banerji, "Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata, India "
English | ISBN: 0367496127 | 2021 | 182 pages | PDF | 38 MB
This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre. Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to studying a non-Western theatre event allows Banerji to critically examine the material conditions in which theatre is created and seen outside the Euro-American context. And second, by shifting the critical lens onto a contemporary urban theatre phenomenon from India, the book attempts to even out the scholastic imbalance in Indian theatre scholarship which has largely focused on folk and classical traditions.
Conservative Finite-Difference Methods on General Grids By Mikhail Shashkov
1995 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0849373751 | PDF | 9 MB
This new book deals with the construction of finite-difference (FD) algorithms for three main types of equations: elliptic equations, heat equations, and gas dynamic equations in Lagrangian form. These methods can be applied to domains of arbitrary shapes. The construction of FD algorithms for all types of equations is done on the basis of the support-operators method (SOM). This method constructs the FD analogs of main invariant differential operators of first order such as the divergence, the gradient, and the curl. This book is unique because it is the first book not in Russian to present the support-operators ideas.Conservative Finite-Difference Methods on General Grids is completely self-contained, presenting all the background material necessary for understanding. The book provides the tools needed by scientists and engineers to solve a wide range of practical engineering problems. An abundance of tables and graphs support and explain methods. The book details all algorithms needed for implementation. A 3.5" IBM compatible computer diskette with the main algorithms in FORTRAN accompanies text for easy use.
Rajan Menon, "Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order "
English | ISBN: 0262029049 | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1154 KB
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West.
Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops: CyberICPS, SECPRE, ADIoT, SPOSE, CPS4CIP, and CDT&SECOMANE, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4-8, 2021, Revised Selected Papers by Sokratis Katsikas
English | PDF | 2022 | 577 Pages | ISBN : 3030954838 | 49.1 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six International Workshops that were held in conjunction with the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2021, which took place during October 4-6, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Darmstadt, Germany, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies by Pompeu Casanovas
English | PDF | 2008 | 351 Pages | ISBN : 3540855688 | 11.1 MB
Information technology has now pervaded the legal sector, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes are ubiquitous. European policies on transparency and information society, in particular, require the use of technology and its steady improvement.