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  • Regulating Technology

    International Harmonization and Local Realities

    by Patrick van Zwanenberg, Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented. The authors use a 'framings' approach that starts with the concerns and experiences of technology users and works 'upwards' in order to examine how best to improve regulation.The book ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Edge of Medicine

    The Technology That Will Change Our Lives

    by William Hanson ...
    Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an inventor of medical technology, offers true-life and intensely intimate stories about ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization and the Decolonial Option

    Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar ...
    This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    by Ian Scoones ...
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Introduction to Biomedical Engineering

    by John Enderle, Joseph Bronzino ...
    Series series Biomedical Engineering
    Introduction to Biomedical Engineering is a comprehensive survey text for biomedical engineering courses. It is the most widely adopted text across the BME course spectrum, valued by instructors and students alike for its authority, clarity and encyclopedic coverage in a single volume. Biomedical engineers need to understand the wide range of topics that are covered in this text, including basic ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Hyperspectral Imaging for Food Quality Analysis and Control

    Edited by Da-Wen Sun ...
    Based on the integration of computer vision and spectrscopy techniques, hyperspectral imaging is a novel technology for obtaining both spatial and spectral information on a product. Used for nearly 20 years in the aerospace and military industries, more recently hyperspectral imaging has emerged and matured into one of the most powerful and rapidly growing methods of non-destructive food quality ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Turkey Reframed

    Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony

    Edited by İsmet Akça, Ahmet Bekmen, Barış Alp Özden ...
    The first decade of the 2000s was a period of radical change in Turkish society and politics, marked by the major economic crisis of 2001 and the coming to power of ex-Islamist cadres organised under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). As the 'Turkish model' gains traction across the Middle East, this chronicle of Turkey's recent history dispels some important myths.This period of radical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean Economic Developmental Path

    Confucian Tradition, Affective Network

    by S. Lew ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book defines the Korean development as the moral economy of growth derived from a synergy between strong state and strong society and argues that Confucian cultural orientation has played a critical role in the process. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Skin Tissue Models

    Edited by Alexandra P. Marques, Rui L. Reis, Rogério P. Pirraco, Mariana Cerqueira ...
    Skin Tissue Models provides a translational link for biomedical researchers on the interdisciplinary approaches to skin regeneration. As the skin is the largest organ in the body, engineered substitutes have critical medical application to patients with disease and injury – from burn wounds and surgical scars, to vitiligo, psoriasis and even plastic surgery. This volume offers readers preliminary ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Production of Biofuels and Chemicals with Ultrasound

    Edited by Zhen Fang, Richard L. Smith, Jr., Xinhua Qi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources. By integrating processing methods with ultrasound and microwave irradiation into biorefineries, the time-scale of many operations can be greatly reduced while the efficiency of the reactions can be remarkably increased so that ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • From Transition to Power Alternation

    Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997

    by Carl Saxer ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    In 1987 South Korea began a democratic transition after almost three decades of significant economic development under authoritarian rule. Increased civil unrest caused by dissatisfaction resulted in the regime agreeing to constitutional changes in the summer of 1987. By 1992 the first president without a military background was elected and during his tenure a further deepening of democracy took ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Nanoscale Surface Modification for Enhanced Biosensing

    A Journey Toward Better Glucose Monitoring

    by Guigen Zhang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of electrochemical-based biosensors and their crucial components. Practical examples are given throughout the text to illustrate how the performance of electrochemical-based biosensors can be improved by nanoscale surface modification and how an optimal design can be achieved. All essential aspects of biosensors are considered, including electrode ... Read more

    $89.09 USD