Publications
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Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning
(2012)
From its initial publication titled Laser Beam Scanning in 1985 to Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, now in its second edition, this reference has kept professionals and students at the forefront of optical scanning ...
Chapter 7 Amazonian Waterway, Amazonian Water-Worlds
(2020)
This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including ...
Care and the City
(2022)
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are ...
Chapter 1 The role of trade credit in corporate activity
(2021)
This chapter describes the role of trade credit in the functioning of enterprises. It presents the essence and the use of this form of finance, as well as placing it in a historical context. The chapter discusses the role ...
From Models to Simulations
(2019)
This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: ...
Models and Theories
(2022)
Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not surprising that the nature of ...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
(2015)
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are
disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches ...
New Paths and Policies towards Conflict Prevention
(2021)
"This book explores the discourse on conflict prevention and peacebuilding by bringing together researchers from China and Switzerland over a series policy dialogues.
The Charter of the United Nations, adopted in the ...
Development and Infrastructure in Developing Countries: A 10–Year Reflection
(2024)
Development and Investment in Infrastructure in Developing Countries. A 10-Year Reflection includes the contributions to the 10th International Conference on Development and Investment In infrastructure (DII-2024, Livingstone, ...
Chapter B5 Linguistic Strategies Used by Lawyers
(2016)
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and ...
War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
(2022)
This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It ...
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe
(2020)
Comparative; EU; Education; Europe; European; School; Union; Choice; Transition; Inequality; Aspiration; International; Justice; Social; Political
Chapter 13 Nordic Literary Translingualism
(2022)
This chapter surveys the diverse landscape of literary translingualism in the Nordic region. A brief overview of contemporary language situations in the Nordic countries is followed by an examination of translingual aspects ...
Chapter 1 One Health
(2023)
The call for a One Health approach that transcends species and disciplinary boundaries assumes that human and veterinary medicine are discrete, distinctive domains whose separation must be overcome to achieve health benefits ...
The Time of Anthropology
(2020)
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which ...
Digital Literacies
(2014)
With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a ...
Extimate Technology
(2021)
"This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood.
New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological ...
Chapter 4 Kruder and Dorfmeister
(2018)
When Cruise , the film whose dialogue I used as an epigraph for this chapter, was
released in 1970, these words were seen as capturing Polish inability to move
beyond the safe zone of a well-known repertoire of images, ...
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery
(2019)
Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By ...
Chapter 11 Ethnic majority and minority youth in multicultural societies
(2019)
Youth in Superdiverse Societies brings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, and acculturation in adolescence. It examines vital issues including ...