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This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820¿1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minori...

This handbook is unique in its consideration of social and cultural contributions to sustainable oceans management. It is also unique in its deconstruction of the hegemonic value attached to the oceans and in its analysis of discourses regarding what national governments in the Global South should prioritise in their oceans management strategy. Offering a historical perspective from the start, the handbook reflects on the confluence of (wester...

This book talks about the levels of consciousness and their roles in controlling our life and behaviour. The consciousness has a main role in learning human to behave and to live in all life¿s situation and ages. This book clarifies these situations in details and the laws that make this system work properly. It provides many solutions and suggestions to control ourselves and our minds and put them in the right way. This book explains many of ...

This book discusses a wide range of health-related mining issues, with particular reference to occupational diseases, metal toxicity, postural injuries in miners, modern fire safety controls, noise-induced hearing loss prevention, and noise mapping. Mining plays a central role in the development of modern civilization. By providing the essential raw materials, mining ensures progress, safety, and comfort of people. However, this necessary acti...

Innovative research requires courageous methods. With this in mind, Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology invites students and post-graduate researchers to develop methods that will let them grasp phenomena of interest more fully. Readers will learn how to use established methods, and may be asked to develop them further by combining single steps of extant procedures, or by taking a completely new approach to data collection and analysis. ...

This detailed book compiles a series of laboratory protocols covering the most important aspects of R-loop biology. Beginning with a range of methods allowing for the detection of DNA-RNA hybrids, as well as their purification and visualization by electron microscopy, the volume continues with methods based on the use of RNase H-derived tools to detect DNA-RNA hybrids in vitro and in vivo. Several protocols permit studying non-canonical RNA nu...

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC). It has been developed by experts responsible for the advocacy training of the International Criminal Court's List of Counsel members. Written in a readily accessible style, this guide provides a firm grounding in relevant legal doctrine, essential advocacy techniques and valuable multidisciplinary perspectives...

This book covers many aspects of innovation theory, evolutionary economics, economic geography, and simulation models. It is one of the first books to comprehensively and systematically focus on the evolution of regional innovation based on provincial experience in emerging economics, including stylized facts, theoretical explanation, and simulation. The book is devoted to a pioneering process-based regional innovation matrix used for classify...

Machine learning heavily relies on optimization algorithms to solve its learning models. Constrained problems constitute a major type of optimization problem, and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a commonly used algorithm to solve constrained problems, especially linearly constrained ones. Written by experts in machine learning and optimization, this is the first book providing a state-of-the-art review on ADMM under v...

Pass Interference sheds light on the struggles of Black quarterbacks dealing with racial stereotypes that kept them off the field"--

This book covers designing of various machine elements and serves as a reference for mechanical designing of machine elements in academia and industry. It provides information on designing approaches and several examples and problems, enabling readers to make all of their required calculations for their specific mechanical design or fabrication tasks by using the book¿s plots (graphs), instead of complicated formulas.

This book addresses the manifold crisis of current societies and understands it as a failure of normative social structuration. As an exemplar for this development, it analyses the decline of welfare state models and the corresponding societal compromise. Yet, it evaluates them as a symptom of a wider malaise of normative orders in complex societies. The question thus arises as to how social science can study the ongoing societal transformatio...

The Old Grey is about a man who never knew what he would do in his life, and instead of going out into the world to discover his passion, he waited for the world to bring passion to him. He wastes his life waiting for something great to happen instead of making greatness happen. After years of this misery, he finds the light that guides him to a second chance of living his life in a way where he could be truly happy with himself. Learn the cru...

A little African boy dreams of finding a lion, but instead he discovers a tiger. A Jungle Event encourages children to be brave when facing challenges, and hopefully the story will help them gain self-confidence.About the AuthorMinerva Villarreal Reyes lives in Torreon, a city in the state of Coahuila in Mexico. She studied to be a teacher but before that worked as a journalist. She has worked as an English teacher in private and public school...

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Are you up to the challenge? Can you name all 250 Nintendo NES games featured in this book? Game on! Checklists of licensed and unlicensed games for the Nintendo NES included.

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I movimenti indipendentisti estone, lettone e lituano colsero l¿occasione dello scoppio della Rivoluzione russa per rivendicare la propria identità nazionale, dichiarando l¿indipendenza nel corso del 1918, a cui seguirono anni di sanguinose guerre con il neonato stato sovietico. Il dato comune a tutti e tre i conflitti, seguiti alla dichiarazione d¿indipendenza delle tre Repubbliche Baltiche, fu la carenza di armi, leggere e pesanti, mezzi bli...

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Let this alphabet colouring book entertain your child for hours with a mixture of exotic and well-known sea animals to colour. Perfect for any child who loves the ocean, this book has everything from A-Z, from octopuses and blue whales to the more unusual such as the unique vampire squid and the x-ray fish. Simple and relevant backgrounds are also included to give each animal context and to set the scene. Each image is ideal for a 2 to 5...