Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Situating Child Consumption
Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Providing extensive examples of the conditions of children's everyday consumption as well as how children themselves understand issues of work, money, scarcity, and consumer products, this book challenges the prevailing theories of consumption and opens up new ways of thinking about children. Arguing...
The Wrong Country
Essays on Modern Irish Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice...
Global Jihad and the Tactic of Terror Abduction
A Comprehensive Review of Islamic Terrorist Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In recent decades, the taking of hostages has proven to be a particularly effective tactic for Islamic terrorist organizations worldwide, including al Qaeda. The global jihad movement regards citizens of foreign (mainly Western) countries as prime targets for abduction, although in fact local residents...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In this anthology a group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. A detailed overview of how perspectives like being” and life-world” can be applied to studies of everyday life as well as a historical background of phenomenology...
Heretics Within
Anthony Wotton, John Goodwin, and the Orthodox Divines
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The polemical revisionary writings of 17th-century puritan pastor Anthony Wotton on topics such as Christ’s redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God’s saving grace and the moral law, faith and works, and the gracious covenant and legal covenant—as well as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This study of civil–military relations in Latin America begins by noting that, since 2000, military dictatorships in the region have virtually disappeared, with the political role of the military in many countries dramatically diminished. The book then examines the new types of regimes, including...
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...
The Predictive Brain
Consciousness, Decision and Embodied Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An investigation of the working of the human mind, this book sets out to show that the brain is not only a reactive mechanism, but rather proactive, allowing people to make hypotheses, anticipate consequences, and formulate expectations. The book discusses how the evolution of motor modes of behavior,...
Pathways to Modern Physical Chemistry
An Engineering Approach with Multidisciplinary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Pathways to Modern Physical Chemistry: An Engineering Approach with Multidisciplinary Applications focuses on recent trends and takes a systematic and practical look at theoretical aspects of materials chemistry. The book describes the characterization and analysis methods for materials and explains...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This volume, edited by a well-known specialist in the field of theoretical chemistry, gathers together a selection of papers on theoretical chemistry within the themes of mathematical, computational, and quantum chemistry. The authors present a rich assembly of some of the most important current research...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this book, new developments based on conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) and its applications in chemistry are discussed. It also includes discussion of some applications in corrosion and conductivity and synthesis studies based on CDFT. The electronic structure principles—such as the...
Food Engineering
Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This new volume presents a selection of recent advances and emerging trends in food process engineering from several disciplines. Exploring the key concepts of food engineering, Food Engineering: Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications presents the information in four parts: Modeling in food engineering;...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Engineering Interventions in Agricultural Processing presents recent advanced research on biological engineering, bioprocessing technologies, and their applications in agricultural food processing, and their applications in agriculture science and agricultural engineering, focusing on biological science,...
Food Safety
Rapid Detection and Effective Prevention of Foodborne Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This new volume, Food Safety: Rapid Detection and Effective Prevention of Foodborne Hazards, focuses on the general concepts, mechanisms, and new applications of analytical and molecular biology techniques for detecting, removing, and preventing chemical and biological hazards from food. Edited by...