'Free trade' strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, s[...]
"Authorised translation from the Swedish language edition published by Arx F'orlag."
In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while talking and writing about ourselves in these terms. This form of disclosur[...]
In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while talking and writing about ourselves in these terms. This form of disclosur[...]
In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with [...]
Presents a pedagogical introduction to the physics of complex systems driven far from equilibrium. This book discusses the basic concepts and theoretical techniques which are commonly used to study classical stochastic transport in systems of interacting driven particles.[...]
Published in partnership with HP, this guide shares more than 20 years of software testing wisdom from both HP consultants and customers aimed at improving performance measurement. You'll learn from the experts how to move through software development and testing processes in the most effective, cos[...]
Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks. The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into pers[...]
This book will provide a descriptive outline of both the fundamental and the applied aspects of systems chemical biology approaches, focused primarily on the drug discovery context. It will cover a broad range of aspects related to prediction of phenotypic outcome to interfering with key pathways, a[...]
This is the first Handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume.[...]
Batch effects and experimental shift are major sources for noise in a microarray dataset. Their effect on gene expression profiling has been largely ignored until now. This book provides a valuable insight into the nature of batch effects, providing guidance on possible ways of dealing with it and i[...]
Wireless Communications, Second Edition has been fully updated throughout with new material including three new chapters on ad-hoc networks, WiMAX and LTE. It provides a self-contained all-encompassing current treatment of the area, covering topics such as directional channel modelling, multi-user d[...]