Filter by
A Geometric Approach to Homology Theory
The purpose of these notes is to give a geometrical treatment of generalized homology and cohomology theories. The central idea is that of a 'mock bundle', which is the geometric cocycle of a general cobordism theory, and the main new result is that any homology theory is a generalized bordism theory. The book will interest mathematicians working in both piecewise linear and algebraic topology …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780511662669
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series (18)
- Call Number
- -
Lawmaking for Development. Explorations into the Theory and Practice of Inter…
This volume discusses how legislation (the product) and lawmaking (the process) function in developing countries, and how legislation contributes to development and how lawmaking and legislation can be improved either by the country itself or by donor assisted projects. It covers topics including legal transplantation, legislative quality, linkages between legislation and implementation, and th…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789087280468
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Inside Barefoot Economics
"... the practice of barefoot economics requires more than simply the lived experience of poverty-related phenomena. In contrast to the prevailing positivist paradigm within the scientific discipline of economics that tends to cultivate particular ways of economic thinking by taking their linguistic presuppositions for granted, barefoot economics involves challenging one's own horizon of possib…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783832553463
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Moral Reasoning at Work: Rethinking Ethics in Organizations
Business and Management, Leadership and Strategy, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resources
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137532619
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The governance of female drug users
Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, this book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447354727
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110393323
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Evidence in Civil Law - Austria
This report outlines the rules on the taking and using of evidence in Austrian civil procedure law. On the basis of principles such as the free disposition of parties, the attenuated inquisitorial principle or the principles of orality and directness, the judge and the parties form a “working group” when investigating the matter in dispute. The Austrian concept of an active judge, however, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789616842440
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
McCloskey's Rhetoric
The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of Deirdre McCloskey and…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781134373161
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 358
Elements of Robotics
robotics; autonomous mobile robots; algorithms; Braitenberg creatures; decision making
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319625331
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950
Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000877342
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography