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This book examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to understand its significance in planning and geography. Case studies of New York, Paris, Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo and Los Angeles explore specific metaphors allowing the reader to understand the city from differing points of view.

This book discusses the evolution, growth and future of mobile financial services (MFS) as well as identifying the frameworks, stakeholders, and technologies used in financial information systems in general and MFS in particular.

Using radical theories of democracy, Eklundh constructs an analytical framework based on concept of visceral ties, seeing emotions and affect as constitutive of any collective identity. She later demonstrates empirically, using both ethnographic method and social media analysis, how the movement Indignados has stronger visceral ties than Podemos.

This book uncovers the multiple political dynamics that influence governments to adopt and implement gender equity policies, pushing the debate beyond simply the role of women's inclusion in influencing policy.

This book examines the survival of neoliberal capitalism through an analysis of its seductive appeal as a fundamentally counter-cultural logic, infused by a spirit of rebellion and self-creation.

Editing in the Modern Classroom is a research-based collection that defines the current state of technical editing pedagogy and plots a potential roadmap for its future.

Editing in the Modern Classroom is a research-based collection that defines the current state of technical editing pedagogy and plots a potential roadmap for its future.

This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our feelings.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a critical survey of L2 pragmatics, collecting 32 chapters that highlight the field's key theories, pedagogies, and research findings. This collection is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and applied linguistics.

Animal foods are important in the human diet as a source of protein, vitamins, and minerals. But many in developing economies lack a good source of animal-based foods. In this book, each chapter covers a specific type of animal food, its nutritional significance, preservation techniques, processed products, safety and quality aspects.

This is the first handbook published on the Tutte Polynomial. It consists of thirty-four chapters, written by experts in the field, that collectively offer a concise overview of the polynomial¿s many properties and applications. Each chapter covers a different aspect of the Tutte polynomial.

A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History provides readers with primary sources of a manageable length translated into English, and concise explanations of their context and meaning. It is ideal for students and scholars of early modern history.

A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History provides readers with primary sources of a manageable length translated into English, and concise explanations of their context and meaning. It is ideal for students and scholars of early modern history.

This book aims to enrich the knowledge and toolkit of executive coaches and help them on their development path towards mastery.

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Germany, these essays form a transnational dialogue that strongly argues that whiteness needs to be rigorously examined if its hegemonic effects are to be dissolved.

This book focuses on systems architecture optimization. The first two parts are a concise presentation for classical optimization methods. Part three presents recent advances in systems architecture optimization. Part four outlines detailed engineering applications.

With original studies and examples consistent with the NGSS standards, this book offers comprehensive research methods for integrating discourse and sociocultural practices in science and engineering education, and provides key tools for applying this framework for students, pre-service teachers, scholars, and researchers.

This book is written to provide designers with realistic, reliable knowledge of human anatomy from a design perspective. This book will provide not only an everyday resource for wearable product designers, but also a resource for students designing wearable products.

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías y conceptos imprescindibles en el campo de la pragmática del español.

This edited volume interrogates the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability in the implementation of innovative solutions in cities, and in doing so offers a new perspective on the politics of urban planning innovation and urban sustainability.

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías y conceptos imprescindibles en el campo de la pragmática del español.

This book presents a framework to model the main activities of information security management and governance. The same model can be used for any security sub-domain such as cybersecurity, data protection, access rights management, business continuity, etc.

By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition, Viking Silver, Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards¿ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia.

This important volume explores how racism operates at various levels of school and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling.

Breaking new intellectual and theoretical ground, leading literacy scholars to re-examine how educational and sociocultural contexts frame and define literacy events and practices. Drawing from Brian V. Street¿s work, this volume offers insights into fractures, tensions, and developments in literacy for scholars, students, and researchers.

This text offers innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the subject of play in a range of environments: the classroom, playground, home, and local community. Extensively revised, this third edition explores the theory and clearly demonstrates how to take the theory from the academic classroom and apply it to practice in a child's setting.

This book provides insight into the world of pharmaceutical quality systems and the key elements that must be in place to change the business and organizational dynamics from task-oriented procedure-based cultures to truly integrated quality business systems that are self-detecting and correcting. Chapter flow has been changed to adopt a quality systems organization approach, and supporting chapters have been updated based on current hot topics including the impact of the worldwide supply chain complexity and current regulatory trends.

This book responds to a growing interest among early childhood professionals and scholars for more nature and sustainability focused programs. Doing so rewards the reader with opportunities to critically reflect on their own practice and explore new pedagogical pathways. It will be essential reading for practitioners and scholars alike.

This unique book brings together research on human-animal relations, animal behaviour, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviours towards animals. It explores topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, and animal welfare science to demonstrate how humans both value and devalue animals.

Introductory Organic Chemistry helps students by teaching organic chemistry based on the broader and simplified use of quantum chemistry theories. Presentation of these topics will also help students to apply physical chemistry concepts (of thermodynamics and quantum chemistry) to organic chemistry and show how they are interrelated.