Publications
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Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud
(2018)
This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing ...
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
(2017)
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending ...
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State
(2017)
This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between ...
History Education and Conflict Transformation: Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and Reconciliation
(2017)
This volume discusses the effects, models and implications of history teaching in relation to conflict transformation and reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective. Bringing together a mix of established and ...
Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands: Between Economy, Public Health, and Ideology
(2018)
Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its ...