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This Element studies the causes and the consequences of modern imperialism. The focus is on British and U.S. imperialism in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries respectively. The dynamics of both formal and informal empires are analyzed. The argument is that imperialism is moved mainly by the desire of major powers to enhance their national economic prosperity. They do so by undermining sovereignty in peripheral countries and establishin...

Leading experts provide insights into different facets of accountability relationships involving voters, interest groups, legislators, and government bureaucracy. In doing so, the volume considers how changes in media, political polarization, and income and wealth inequality affect accountability and policymaking.

A unified and accessible introduction for graduate courses in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. This unique approach covers all necessary mathematical preliminaries before walking the student through the most common heat transfer and fluid dynamics problems, then testing their understanding further with ample end-of-chapter problems.

Carbon markets ¿ both emission trading systems and baseline and credit systems ¿ are an increasingly common policy instrument being introduced to address climate change mitigation. However, their design is crucial to ensure that they deliver cost-effective emission reductions while maintaining environmental integrity. This Element puts together a comprehensive, principle-based overview of the risks and abuses to environmental integrity and cos...

This Element is a guide to task-based language teaching (TBLT), for language instructors, teacher educators, and other interested parties. The work first provides clear definitions and principles related to communication task design. It then explains how tasks can inform all stages of curriculum development. Diverse, localized cases demonstrate the scope of task-based approaches. Recent research illustrates the impact of task design (complexit...

Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans' exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction.

Hongshan Li provides a groundbreaking account of the confrontation between the United States and the People's Republic of China on the Cold War's cultural front.

This book delivers a first-of-its-kind roadmap for the zero-carbon industrial transition, spotlighting the breakthrough innovations transforming the manufacturing sector and the policies that can accelerate this global shift.

Hongshan Li provides a groundbreaking account of the confrontation between the United States and the People's Republic of China on the Cold War's cultural front.

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights details how capital punishment violates universal human rights-to life, to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, to be treated in a non-arbitrary and non-discriminatory manner, and to be treated with dignity.

Economic crises since 2008 have led to the rise of populist, extremist, Far Right, and conspiracy-focused movements. Emotions borne of economic crises produce cultural discontent (i.e. enflames conflicts over values and identities), an approach the book calls 'Affective Political Economy'. The book studies these dynamics in Europe and the Americas.

Blockchains have become increasingly important for organizing contemporary economic and social activities. This Element offers a deeper understanding of blockchains to both management scholars and practitioners, with an emphasis on blockchains' strategic implications for fundamental issues in organizing. It provides a critical examination of the core themes, theoretical lenses, and methodologies used in blockchain research in business and mana...

Written for students, researchers and professionals interested in emotions in parent-child interactions, this book surveys the known antecedents and consequences of emotion regulation in parenting. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies from around the world provide answers to these questions, and critique and expand both existing sector theory and new sector theories"--

This re-issue makes a classic text widely available again for a new generation of students of international organizations. It discusses with great sophistication three evergreen legal issues: the position of international organizations in public and private international law, issues of membership and representations, and standard-setting"--

This book explains how South Korea has uniquely transformed itself from a developing to a developed country by combining economic analysis with historical perspective, an approach badly needed but rarely taken by previous studies. The book shows that the country has done so through a tortuous process. It first explains how Korea failed earlier in history to emerge as a developing rather than a developed country after the Second World War but S...

Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This fourth edition has been revised with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and new sections, including one on the languages of the Caribbean"--

Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This fourth edition has been revised with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and new sections, including one on the languages of the Caribbean"--