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Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime (2016)
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Cockayne, J. (2016). Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime. Oxford University Press

What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and... Read More about Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime.

The Number Poems (2016)
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Welton, M. (2016). The Number Poems. Manchester: Carcanet

Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the Number Poems abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welton’... Read More about The Number Poems.

Just Property. Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History (2016)
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Pierson, C. (2016). Just Property. Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History. Oxford University Press (OUP)

A history of private property.

Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice (2016)
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Clamp, K., & Paterson, C. (2016). Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice. Routledge

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study. This book draws together these diverse theoreti... Read More about Restorative policing: concepts, theory and practice.

The Integrity of Criminal Process (2016)
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Roberts, P., Hunter, J., Young, S. N., & Dixon, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Integrity of Criminal Process. Hart Publishing

Ancient mythological images and their interpretation: an introduction to iconology, semiotics and image studies in classical art history (2016)
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Lorenz, K. (2016). Ancient mythological images and their interpretation: an introduction to iconology, semiotics and image studies in classical art history. Cambridge University Press

When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic... Read More about Ancient mythological images and their interpretation: an introduction to iconology, semiotics and image studies in classical art history.

Linguistic Purism. Language Attitudes in France and Quebec (2016)
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Walsh, O. (2016). Linguistic Purism. Language Attitudes in France and Quebec. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.41

The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (2016)
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Milbank, J., & Pabst, A. (2016). The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield International

Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination (2016)
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Norris, D. (2016). Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559810

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of th... Read More about Haunted Serbia: Representations of History and War in the Literary Imagination.

Theatre & the Rural (2016)
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Robinson, J. (2016). Theatre & the Rural. Palgrave

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body (2016)
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Schrank, S., & Ekici, D. (2018). D. Ekici, & S. Schrank (Eds.). Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586298

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to th... Read More about Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body.

Linear algebra for computational sciences and engineering (2016)
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Neri, F. (2016). Linear algebra for computational sciences and engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40341-0

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All rights reserved. This book presents the main concepts of linear algebra from the viewpoint of applied scientists such as computer scientists and engineers, without compromising on mathematical... Read More about Linear algebra for computational sciences and engineering.

The Language of the Past (2016)
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Wilson, R. (2016). The Language of the Past. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak o... Read More about The Language of the Past.

Sustainable energy for a resilient future: proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (2016)
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Rodrigues, L. T. (2016). L. T. Rodrigues (Ed.), Sustainable energy for a resilient future: proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. University of Nottingham

Volume I, 898 pages, ISBN 9780853583134
Energy Technologies & Renewables
Session 1: Biofuels & Biomass
Session 5: Building Energy Systems
Session 9: Low-carbon/ Low-energy Technologies
Session 13: Biomass Systems
Session 16: Solar Energy
Sessi... Read More about Sustainable energy for a resilient future: proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies.

Tsunami science and engineering (2016)
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(2016). V. Heller (Ed.), Tsunami science and engineering. MDPI AG

In 2013, I was approached by the editorial team of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering to act as guest editor of a Special Issue on tsunamis. I was very keen to take on this project given that recent tragic events such as the 2004 Indian Oc... Read More about Tsunami science and engineering.

Merleau-Ponty for architects (2016)
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Hale, J. (2016). Merleau-Ponty for architects. London: Routledge

Theatre and residual culture: J.M. Synge and pre-Christian Ireland (2016)
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Collins, C. (2016). Theatre and residual culture: J.M. Synge and pre-Christian Ireland. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94872-7

Nietzsche's Great Politics (2016)
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Drochon, H. (2016). Nietzsche's Great Politics. Princeton University Press

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves awa... Read More about Nietzsche's Great Politics.

Human Rights and Private International Law (2016)
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Fawcett, J. J., Shah, S., & Ní Shúilleabháin, M. (2016). Human Rights and Private International Law. Oxford University Press

China’s governance model: flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism (2016)
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Lai, H. (2016). China’s governance model: flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism. Routledge

Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciat... Read More about China’s governance model: flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism.