Publications
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Chapter 37 The intangible made tangible in Wales
(2017)
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the ...
Permeable Reactive Barrier
(2014)
Remediation of groundwater is complex and often challenging. But the cost of pump and treat technology, coupled with the dismal results achieved, has paved the way for newer, better technologies to be developed. Among these ...
Chapter 3 Global governance
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Information Security Governance Simplified
(2011)
Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these ...
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War
(2023)
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered but did not cause, a crisis that has been deepened by the conflict ...
Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy
(2024)
applied ethics, behavioral ethics, criminal responsibility ethics, experimental bioethics, experimental jurisprudence, experimental moral philosophy, experimental philosophy, feminist X-Phi, folk moral judgments, intuitions, ...
Diversity of Patchwork Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe
(2019)
This book is a comparative study which sheds a new empirical and theoretical light on the nature of post-communist capitalism in 11 EU new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe, or CEE11.
Extending and modifying ...
The Economics of Sustainable Transformation
(2021)
"This book presents the ways in which three key issues of the modern world – transformation, digitalisation and sustainability – may be combined for the greater good and highlights which activities may be designed to ...
The Dialectic of Ressentiment
(2024)
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate ...
Biologically Inspired Robotics
(2012)
Robotic engineering inspired by biology—biomimetics—has many potential applications: robot snakes can be used for rescue operations in disasters, snake-like endoscopes can be used in medical diagnosis, and artificial muscles ...