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This volume addresses children and young people’s
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis textbook
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Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various soci..
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This book on FDI in India is an up to date compilation of all
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Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book discusses and provides insight on the legal and
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ABOUT THE BOOKFor this new edition, Tony Hey has updated the lectures with an invitedchapter from Professor John Preskill on “Quantum Computing 40 YearsLater”. This contribution ca..
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Across the world political liberalism is being fought for, consolidated and defended. That is the case for nations that have never enjoyed a liberal political society, for nations ..
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This
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While moving
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ABOUT THE BOOKThe first overview of the moving image in advertising, this far-reaching and innovative new text brings together an international ensemble of leading archivists and s..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book provides an original account detailing the
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ABOUT THE BOOKWhat role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blen..
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This textbook provides complete coverage of discrete-time financial models that form the cornerstones of financial derivative pricing theory. Unlike similar texts in the field, thi..
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ABOUT THE BOOKThe finite element method has undergone a major paradigm
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The book titled Fiscal Federalism and Indian Constitution
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This book offers a comprehensive review of current
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This all-new, 7th edition
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Food Futures is a compilation of unique design projects that act as visual stimulus for designers and food enthusiasts alike, illustrating the possibilities that new technolog..
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This work
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In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang
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This book examines the tension between formal and informal
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development of formal logic and many succ..
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In this book Part 1 contains Legal Foundation and Consequence of Compromises or Part 2 contains Machinery, Practice and Enforcement of a Compromise or Part 3 contains Practice on I..
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ABOUT THE BOOKJohn Vince describes a range of mathematical topics to provide a foundation for an undergraduate course in computer science, starting with a review of number systems ..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in research and applications of Foundation Models and is intended for readers familiar..
This book studies the foundations of quantum theory through
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Foundations in Microbiology is an allied health microbiology text with a taxonomic approach to the disease chapters. It offers an engaging and accessible writing style through the ..
Based on papers given at a conference at King's College,London, in 1998, Foundations of Charity brings together established scholarsin the fields of charity law, public law, and tr..
ABOUT THE BOOKDiscrete Mathematics has permeated the whole of mathematics so much so it has now come to be taught even at the high school level. This book presents the basics of Di..
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material for solving problems in vibroacoustics. These include the prediction
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book provides the background and the mathematical methods necessary to understand the basic transforms in signal processing and linear systems and probability an..
Concerned with the fundamental concepts and methods of
fracture mechanics and micromechanics, this textbook primarily focuses on the
mechanical description of fracture process. H..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book analyzes top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from the Secon..
This book discusses the main legal questions raised by free
and open source software (FOSS) licenses and other alternative license models,
such as Creative Commons. The legal que..
This work examines the system of co-ordination of national social security laws in the European Union from a gender perspective. The central question that it raises concerns the le..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis volume brings together many of the world’s leading theorists of free will and philosophers of law to critically discuss the ground-breaking contribution of David..
ABOUT THE BOOKIn his book, philosopher and law professor Ken Levy explains why he agrees with most people, but not with most other philosophers, about free will and responsibility...
The present book titled, “Freedom of Contract: A Legal
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and control approaches for freeway traffic systems, moving from the early
methods to the most recent scie..
ABOUT THE BOOKFreshwater ecosystems have the greatest
species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows
that, rather than being a marginal part of terr..
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book offers a new account of Freud’s
work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to
be, and not as the medical scientist he pu..
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ABOUT THE BOOKThis book uses digital radios as a challenging design example, generalized to bridge a typical gap between designers who work on algorithms and those who work to impl..