This volume takes a look at the trends that have put the global economy on a collision course with the Earth's ecosystems. It aims to provide a vital synthesis ranging across a wide spectrum of both t...
Cities are facing enormous challenges, with rapidly growing urban populations, often worsening environmental conditions and deteriorating infrastructure, inequalities and housing shortages, unemployme...
As the United States casts an increasingly dominant shadow in world affairs, resentment from the international community widens. In "The State of the American Empire", Stephen Burman lays bare the glo...
This in-depth study will be one of the most consulted works on international law. Those who specialize in new areas of international law, whether human rights, environmental law or international crimi...
In this 25th edition of State of the World - long established as the most authoritative and accessible annual guide to our progress towards a sustainable future - the studies pay particular attention ...
We live in a world governed by states whose enduring importance and domination of contemporary politics has been strikingly underlined by their renewed activism in the face of a global economic crisis...
* Provides a multidisciplinary introduction to quantum mechanics, solid state physics, advanced devices, and fabrication * Covers a wide range of topics in a standardized style and notation * Contains...
North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world?s most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet...
The State of Art is the only collection of Ian Banks' short fiction, and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name. From science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale, ...
International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments someti...
This volume identifies the principal issues, social, economic and political, that have shaped and determined Iran's economic performance since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
This book takes a fundamentally different approach to the rights and freedoms set forth in the Law of the Sea Convention. It looks at international shipping from the perspective of those who live in c...
Solid State Spectroscopy is a burgeoning field being applied in many branches of science including physics, chemistry, biosciences, surface science and materials science. The currently available infor...
Here, in well over 500 extraordinary photographs, is the story of our new century: moments that changed the world; trends that touch all our lives; challenges that will shape our future. This landmark...
This book Structure and Properties of Solid State Materials covers mainly the designing aspects of materials, based on the requisite properties and applications. This book also includes some aspects o...
This is a comprehensive work for practitioners on the Law of State Aids in the European Community, and is accessible to practitioners who do not specialize in competition law, as well as being a refer...
A full-color text, complete with DVD, that covers all aspects of vaginal surgery -- from anatomy to advanced techniques Surgery plays a key role in the medical management of a wide range of gynecologi...
Margaret and Casey's scientist father works very hard. He's been spending a lot of time on plant experiments in their basement, and he doesn't like to be disturbed. But Margaret can't help but investi...
This handbook, under the auspices of the Society for Chest Pain Centers and Providers, is the first roadmap to treatment of heart failure patients in an observation unit. It gives practitioners a full...
The Alps and Dolomites stretch 1,000 miles across six countries, from the French Riviera to Slovenia. Never have their snow-capped peaks been so seductive or accessible - although they have been attra...
In Tom Clancy's Op-Centre, bestselling author Tom Clancy and StevePieczenik, novelist and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, havecreated an astonishingly popular thriller series, which has al...
Twenty-first-century Europeans are suddenly confronting new choices about their place in the world. The most immediate challenges reflect tensions in the transatlantic partnership --long the keystone ...
Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholar...
The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban inf...
The profound transformations that preceded the downfall of Communism originated in Poland and Hungary, but played out in strikingly different ways. Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through ...
This book provides a critical analysis of the liberal ideas of the decline of the state through a historical comparison. It takes special note of the implications of state failure to control economic ...
The year 2007 will mark a turning point in human history: the world's urban population will for the first time exceed the world's rural population. But with the concomitant strain this will place upon...
How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the interna...
Media filters and personal preconceptions can make it hard to get a clear view of present-day Indian America. The reality is that the 500+ Native nations in the United States confront many of the same...