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Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today - Joyce Wexler - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and Terrorism Today - Joyce Wexler - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how the anarchist fiction of Joseph Conrad can help us understand terrorism today. Conrad undermines the popular view that terrorists are fanatics. He portrays anarchists and police as counterparts driven by the human desires for autonomy and affiliation, the need to control their own lives and to be part of a group. Postcritique encourages readers to consider the accuracy of such information, and research in Terrorism Studies confirms Conrad''s insights: his characters are more realistic and his political stance is more hopeful than critics have recognized.

DKK 519.00
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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Conrad and Postcritique - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad''s central texts, including Heart of Darkness , The Secret Agent , Under Western Eyes , and Lord Jim . Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge, affect, ethics, and politics that emerge from literature. The essays in this collection recognize the dark elements in Conrad''s fiction-deceit, vanity, avarice, lust, cynicism, and cruelty-yet they perceive hopefulness as well. Conrad''s skepticism unveils the dark heart of politics, and his critical heritage can feed our fear that humanity is incapable of improving. This Conrad is a well-known figure, but there is another, neglected Conrad that this book aims to bring to light, one who delves into the politics of hope as well as the politics of fear. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

DKK 689.00
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Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - Joseph Crawford - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - Joseph Crawford - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical discourses of the period, it investigates the ways in which Britain''s post-Romantic poets understood their own poetic vocations within a cultural context that insistently linked poetic talent with illness and insanity. Joseph Crawford examines the popularity of mesmerism among the writers of the era, as an alternative system of medicine that provided a more sympathetic account of the nature of poetic genius, and investigates the persistent tension, found throughout the literary and medical writings of the period, between the Romantic ideal of the poet as a transcendent visionary genius and the ''medico-psychological'' conception of poets as mere case studies in abnormal neurological development.

DKK 604.00
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Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - Joseph Crawford - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - Joseph Crawford - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical discourses of the period, it investigates the ways in which Britain''s post-Romantic poets understood their own poetic vocations within a cultural context that insistently linked poetic talent with illness and insanity. Joseph Crawford examines the popularity of mesmerism among the writers of the era, as an alternative system of medicine that provided a more sympathetic account of the nature of poetic genius, and investigates the persistent tension, found throughout the literary and medical writings of the period, between the Romantic ideal of the poet as a transcendent visionary genius and the ''medico-psychological'' conception of poets as mere case studies in abnormal neurological development.

DKK 434.00
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Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue - Joseph Wiinikka Lydon - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue - Joseph Wiinikka Lydon - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury, a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience. Drawing specifically on Iris Murdoch''s moral philosophy, and examining the experiences of civilians during the Bosnian War (1992-5), Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon argues that current research into war and current understandings of subjectivity need new ways to articulate the moral dimension of being a subject if we are to understand how violence affects one''s moral being and development. He develops an understanding of the human person as a tensile moral subject , one that forefronts the moral challenges and vulnerability inherent in lives affected by war. With these resources, Wiinikka-Lydon argues for a moral vocabulary and images of the human as a moral being that can better articulate the experience of violence and moral injury.

DKK 689.00
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Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue - Joseph Wiinikka Lydon - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue - Joseph Wiinikka Lydon - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury, a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience. Drawing specifically on Iris Murdoch''s moral philosophy, and examining the experiences of civilians during the Bosnian War (1992-5), Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon argues that current research into war and current understandings of subjectivity need new ways to articulate the moral dimension of being a subject if we are to understand how violence affects one''s moral being and development. He develops an understanding of the human person as a tensile moral subject , one that forefronts the moral challenges and vulnerability inherent in lives affected by war. With these resources, Wiinikka-Lydon argues for a moral vocabulary and images of the human as a moral being that can better articulate the experience of violence and moral injury.

DKK 689.00
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Migration in West Africa - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Migration in West Africa - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Part 1. Changing Patterns and Governance of Migration.- 1. Migration in West Africa: An Introduction (Joseph Kofi Teye).- 2. Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region (Faisal Garba and Thomas Yeboah) 3. Faith and Agency in High Risk Irregular Migration from West Africa across the Sahara: Evidence from Senegal (Priya Deshingkar and Doudou Dièye Gueye).- 4. Gendered Dynamics of Migration in West Africa (Nauja Kleist and Mary Setrana).- Part 2. Managing Environmental and Forced Migration.- 5. Climate-induced Migration in West Africa (Joseph Kofi Teye).- 6. ''Hanging in the Air'': The Experiences of Liberian Refugees in Ghana (Heaven Crawley and Veronica Fynn Bruey).- 7. Gaps in Protection for West African Migrants in Times of Crisis: The Role of a Multi-Stakeholder Platform within a Partnership in Preparedness Model (Leander Kandilige).- 8. Vulnerability in Return and Reintegration of Forced Migrants in Nigeria (Amanda Bisong).- Part 3. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Development.- 9. International Migration, Diaspora Investments and Development: A Nigerian Critical Perspective (Olayinka Akanle).- 10. International Remittances and Development in West Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso (Alexandra Tapsoba).- 11. The Janus-Face of Contemporary Migration: Understanding the Geographies of Return Migration Intentions among West African Immigrants Abroad (Joseph Mensah).

DKK 434.00
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Migration in West Africa - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Migration in West Africa - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Part 1. Changing Patterns and Governance of Migration.- 1. Migration in West Africa: An Introduction (Joseph Kofi Teye).- 2. Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region (Faisal Garba and Thomas Yeboah) 3. Faith and Agency in High Risk Irregular Migration from West Africa across the Sahara: Evidence from Senegal (Priya Deshingkar and Doudou Dièye Gueye).- 4. Gendered Dynamics of Migration in West Africa (Nauja Kleist and Mary Setrana).- Part 2. Managing Environmental and Forced Migration.- 5. Climate-induced Migration in West Africa (Joseph Kofi Teye).- 6. ''Hanging in the Air'': The Experiences of Liberian Refugees in Ghana (Heaven Crawley and Veronica Fynn Bruey).- 7. Gaps in Protection for West African Migrants in Times of Crisis: The Role of a Multi-Stakeholder Platform within a Partnership in Preparedness Model (Leander Kandilige).- 8. Vulnerability in Return and Reintegration of Forced Migrants in Nigeria (Amanda Bisong).- Part 3. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Development.- 9. International Migration, Diaspora Investments and Development: A Nigerian Critical Perspective (Olayinka Akanle).- 10. International Remittances and Development in West Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso (Alexandra Tapsoba).- 11. The Janus-Face of Contemporary Migration: Understanding the Geographies of Return Migration Intentions among West African Immigrants Abroad (Joseph Mensah).

DKK 434.00
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Fluid Mechanics - Joseph H. Spurk - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Fluid Mechanics - Joseph H. Spurk - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This successful textbook emphasizes the unified nature of all the disciplines of Fluid Mechanics as they emerge from the general principles of continuum mechanics. The different branches of Fluid Mechanics, always originating from simplifying assumptions, are developed according to the basic rule: from the general to the specific. The first part of the book contains a concise but readable introduction into kinematics and the formulation of the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics. The second part consists of the methodical application of these principles to technology. In addition, sections about thin-film flow and flow through porous media are included.

DKK 689.00
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French Muslims in Perspective - Joseph Downing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

French Muslims in Perspective - Joseph Downing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

With the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has faced a number of critiques in its attempts to assimilate Muslims into an ostensibly secular (but predominantly Catholic) state and society. This book challenges traditional analyses that emphasise the conflict between Muslims and the French state and broader French society, by exploring the intersection of Muslim faith with other identities, as well as the central roles of Muslims in French civil society, politics and the media. The tensions created by attacks on French soil by Islamic State have contributed to growing acceptance of the Islamophobic discourse of Marine Le Pen and her far-right Front National party, and debates about issues such as headscarves and burkinis have garnered worldwide attention. Downing addresses these issues from a new angle, eschewing the traditional us-and-them narrative and offering a more nuanced account based on people''s actual lived experiences. French Muslims in Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, politics, international relations, cultural studies, European Studies and French studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration, education, and media.

DKK 434.00
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Testing Statistical Hypotheses - Joseph P. Romano - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Testing Statistical Hypotheses - Joseph P. Romano - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The third edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses updates and expands upon the classic graduate text, emphasizing optimality theory for hypothesis testing and confidence sets. The principal additions include a rigorous treatment of large sample optimality, together with the requisite tools. In addition, an introduction to the theory of resampling methods such as the bootstrap is developed. The sections on multiple testing and goodness of fit testing are expanded. The text is suitable for Ph.D. students in statistics and includes over 300 new problems out of a total of more than 760.

DKK 901.00
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French Muslims in Perspective - Joseph Downing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

French Muslims in Perspective - Joseph Downing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

With the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has faced a number of critiques in its attempts to assimilate Muslims into an ostensibly secular (but predominantly Catholic) state and society. This book challenges traditional analyses that emphasise the conflict between Muslims and the French state and broader French society, by exploring the intersection of Muslim faith with other identities, as well as the central roles of Muslims in French civil society, politics and the media. The tensions created by attacks on French soil by Islamic State have contributed to growing acceptance of the Islamophobic discourse of Marine Le Pen and her far-right Front National party, and debates about issues such as headscarves and burkinis have garnered worldwide attention. Downing addresses these issues from a new angle, eschewing the traditional us-and-them narrative and offering a more nuanced account based on people''s actual lived experiences. French Muslims in Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, politics, international relations, cultural studies, European Studies and French studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration, education, and media.

DKK 604.00
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The Nigerian Healthcare System - Joseph Abiodun Balogun - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Nigerian Healthcare System - Joseph Abiodun Balogun - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The modern-day practice of health care was imported into Nigeria over 500 years ago. In 1947, the first national health plan was developed in Nigeria with the primary goal of providing universal health care (UHC), but this goal remains elusive to date. This comprehensive book presents the roadmap needed to attain UHC in Nigeria and offers a blueprint for achieving high-quality health care in the nation. Starting with a brief overview of the Nigerian state, the fundamentals of health care, including the challenges to affordable quality healthcare delivery, the author critically examines the healthcare system in Nigeria and offers specific recommendations to invigorate the system and improve interprofessional collaborations. Each chapter includes case studies to allow readers to contextualize the information presented and behavioral learning objectives to test readers'' knowledge. Among the topics covered: - The Organizational Structure and Leadership of the Nigerian Healthcare System - The Vulnerabilities of the Nigerian Healthcare System - The Spectrum of Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Emerging Developments in Traditional Medicine Practice in Nigeria - The Plight of Persons Living with Disabilities: The Visible Invisibles in Nigeria - A Comparative Analysis of the Health System of Nigeria and Six Selected Nations Around the World - A Qualitative Investigation of the Barriers to the Delivery of High-Quality Healthcare Services in Nigeria - The Political and Economic Reforms Needed to Achieve Universal and High-Quality Health Care in Nigeria - Reimagining the Nigerian Healthcare System to Achieve Universal and High-Quality Health Care by 2030 The Nigerian Healthcare System: Pathway to Universal and High-Quality Health Care is ideal for adoption as a textbook in health services administration, health policy and management, health informatics, healthcare delivery systems, and primary health care courses offered at universities in Nigeria. It also would appeal to students and faculty in African diaspora programs internationally. The book is also essential for policymakers, health systems technocrats, researchers, and professionals in various health disciplines, including medicine, nursing, and allied health.

DKK 363.00
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama - Joseph Jarrett - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama - Joseph Jarrett - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine, Part 1 (1587) and Tamburlaine, Part 2 (1587) by Christopher Marlowe; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589) by Robert Greene; Old Fortunatus (1599) by Thomas Dekker; Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare; and The Tragedy of Hoffman (1603) by Henry Chettle. Each chapter analyses how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon these plays'' vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects.

DKK 646.00
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Drugs, Violence and Latin America - Joseph Patteson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Drugs, Violence and Latin America - Joseph Patteson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic "sobriety" in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a "dialectics of intoxication" that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence.

DKK 731.00
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama - Joseph Jarrett - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama - Joseph Jarrett - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine, Part 1 (1587) and Tamburlaine, Part 2 (1587) by Christopher Marlowe; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589) by Robert Greene; Old Fortunatus (1599) by Thomas Dekker; Hamlet (1600) by William Shakespeare; and The Tragedy of Hoffman (1603) by Henry Chettle. Each chapter analyses how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon these plays'' vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects.

DKK 646.00
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Going to War with Iraq - Joseph M. Siracusa - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Going to War with Iraq - Joseph M. Siracusa - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Going to War with Iraq: A Comparative History of the Bush Presidencies is the account of two United States presidents and their decision to intervene militarily in Iraq, examining the comparative domestic and international contexts in which the decisions to go to war were made by George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush. This book centers specifically on the issue of Saddam Hussein at home and abroad, in the lead up to hostilities with Iraq in 1991 and 2003, respectively. For George H.W. Bush, in 1991, the threat posed by Saddam came from his perceived capabilities as Iraq''s leader, whereas for George W. Bush, in 2003, it was the threat posed by Saddam''s perceived intentions as Iraq''s leader. In both cases, the result was war with Iraq.

DKK 391.00
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Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs - Brian Joseph Mcfarland - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs - Brian Joseph Mcfarland - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical coral reef degradation and loss, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include ecotourism, debt-for-nature swaps, impact investments, and government domestic budgetary expenditures. From the Great Barrier Reef, to the Coral Triangle, to the Mesoamerican Reef, tropical coral reef degradation and loss are serious global environmental issues, contributing to loss revenue and food insecurity for coastal communities, and species extinction. Yet, many leading companies, individuals, and governments are making a positive impact on tropical coral reef conservation through the use of conservation finance. Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs , using 30 case studies which span 23 countries and 6 continents, tells the history of international conservation finance and provides a variety of options for individuals, businesses, and governments to support conservation financing projects.

DKK 816.00
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Interface Development for Learning Environments - Joseph Frantiska Jr. - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Interface Development for Learning Environments - Joseph Frantiska Jr. - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This brief will examine and explore some tools and techniques that can be used to develop interfaces for learning environments. Interface design has been a topic in software engineering for many years. The advent of graphical user interfaces has created many remedies and challenges for the software engineer. In recent years with an increased emphasis in educational technology, instructional designers are also included in this arena. The interface can be a driver in terms of a learning environment''s ability to engage a student. It can also provide a point of information exchange and therefore learning between the student and the environment''s software. Thus, the issue of an interface is vital to the success of a learning environment. This brief will produce a variety of interfaces for various environments to allow the designer to contrast and compare them based upon the required purpose. The designer will have a toolkit filled with tools and techniques which will allow for interfaces that will engage the student and facilitate their learning. The primary audiences are K-12 and post-secondary educators who desire to create digital media based educational materials.

DKK 434.00
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Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets - Joseph Choonara - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets - Joseph Choonara - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement. Often, the prevailing idea is of an endless march of precarity, rendering work ever more contingent and workers ever more disposable. However, this detailed study of the UK labour force challenges the picture of rising precarity and widespread use of temporary employment, suggesting instead that employment tenure and the extent of temporary work have proved stubbornly stable over the past four decades. Choonara offers a new approach to labour markets, drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of Marxist political economy to interrogate research data from the UK. This book examines why, despite the deteriorating conditions in work, employment relations have remained stable, and offers insight into the extent of subjective insecurity among workers. Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets will be of use to students and scholars across the sociology of work, labour economics, industrial relations and political economy.

DKK 816.00
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