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Hardcover. Based on the 2005 publication The Financial Appraisal Profile Model, this book discusses how the FAP model can present an integrated process for the appraisal of financial and strategic benefits and the assessment of risk in ICT (Information Communication Technology) project proposals. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: K; P. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443519
- ISBN
- 9781137443519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Hardback. From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution. Translator(s): Sholto-Douglas, Anthony. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445766
- ISBN
- 9781137445766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardback. Num Pages: 421 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFF; PBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 421
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446978
- ISBN
- 9781137446978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.77
€ 194.77
Hardcover. Is it possible to approach quantum theory in a 'therapeutic' vein that sees its foundational problems as arising from mistaken conceptual presuppositions? The book explores the prospects for this project and, in doing so, discusses such fascinating issues as the nature of quantum states, explanation in quantum theory, and 'quantum non-locality'. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447142
- ISBN
- 9781137447142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself. Num Pages: 82 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; MBDC; MBS; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452719
- ISBN
- 9781137452719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Hardcover. This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; PDA; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454553
- ISBN
- 9781137454553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. This book proposes a new angle on the controversy over evolution as a biological theory, creation as a theological/worldview doctrine and evolutionism, creationism and Intelligent Design theory as social ideologies. Rather than presenting a polemic that will enrage or delight one camp or another, this book proposes that a cease-fire is possible. Num Pages: 117 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAM3; JHBA; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137464880
- ISBN
- 9781137464880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect policy and action on the global level. Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JFFH; MBNS; PDK; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467195
- ISBN
- 9781137467195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of contextual information and disciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Dey, Bidit; Sorour, Karim; Filieri, Raffaele. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFG; KCM; PDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469496
- ISBN
- 9781137469496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.39
€ 138.39
Hardcover. This book offers insights on effective policies that can be applied to other economies in terms of using technology financing to foster technological innovations. It outlines the role of government in accelerating the nation's innovative capacity by promoting technology investments that will achieve successful and sustainable economic development. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; KJD; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470614
- ISBN
- 9781137470614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.96
€ 128.96
Hardback. This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contributors show how Eastern and Western nations are responding to the challenges of cybercrime, and the latest trends and issues in cybercrime prevention and control. Editor(s): Smith, Russell G.; Chak-Chung Cheung, Ray; Yiu-Chung Lau, Laurie. Series: Palgrave Macmillan's Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFMG; JKV; PDR; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474155
- ISBN
- 9781137474155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial exploration on poets including Barbauld, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Rossetti. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474339
- ISBN
- 9781137474339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardback. This text bridges the gulf between theoretical economic principles of negotiation and auction theory and their multifaceted applications in actual practice. It is intended to be a supplement to the already existing literature, as a comprehensive collection of reports detailing experiences and results of very different negotiations and auctions. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCK; KCP; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475411
- ISBN
- 9781137475411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.44
€ 149.44
Hardcover. In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives, experiences, and institutional cultures that defined the Soviet space program. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 319 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; HBTW; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137481788
- ISBN
- 9781137481788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.28
€ 150.28
Hardcover. Examining the role and impact of technology on creative practice, and how technology evolution determines the forms and format of an artist's work, this book contextualizes technological revolutions with earlier encounters between craft and innovation, endorsing a notion of craft practice within computing that needs rescuing from tech industries. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; TB; UB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486400
- ISBN
- 9781137486400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Hardcover. This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with specific reference to South Africa in both the past and the present. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; GTF; PDK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493064
- ISBN
- 9781137493064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. In the networked age, we are living with changed parameters of time and space. Mobile networked communication fosters a form of virtual time and space, which is super-imposed onto territorial space. Time is increasingly composed of interruptions and distractions, as smartphone users are overwhelmed by messages. Num Pages: 185 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494375
- ISBN
- 9781137494375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. This is the first comprehensive handbook to look at financial modelling post crisis from the legal/historical; empirical modelling; stochastic; and non-stochastic modelling perspectives. Editor(s): Haven, Emmanuel; Fedotov, Sergei. Num Pages: 368 pages, 13 black & white tables, 5 charts, 30 figures. BIC Classification: KFF; PBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494481
- ISBN
- 9781137494481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.90
€ 68.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499431
- ISBN
- 9781137499431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.09
€ 161.09
Hardcover. Science and the End of Ethics examines some of the most important positive and negative implications that science has for ethics. On the basis of strong scientific reasons for abandoning traditional notions of right and wrong, it endorses a new ethical approach that focuses on achieving some of the key practical goals shared by ethicists. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499844
- ISBN
- 9781137499844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. This book reinvigorates the space between scholarly texts on self-representation, voice and agency and practical field-guides to community media and digital storytelling. It offers reflection on the ethical praxis of co-creative media, and an indispensable suite of digitally savvy representation strategies, pertinent to modern people everywhere. Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JMH; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137500731
- ISBN
- 9781137500731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.68
€ 149.68
Hardcover. How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative. It has a sharp focus: to stick exclusively to sound, mechanistic explanations and convey what we can, and cannot, say about how brains give rise to creative ideas. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white tables, 2 figures, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR; PSAN; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 251 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501790
- ISBN
- 9781137501790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.81
€ 182.81
Hardcover. This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, especially the nationalist motif of the frontier, were used to garner public support for these strategic initiatives and, more generally, United States internationalism during this period. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 284 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTW; TBX; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507860
- ISBN
- 9781137507860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardback. Global Automobile Demand is a two-volume work analysing the impact of the Great Recession and the structural factors which shape automobile demand in developed and emerging countries. The first volume of Global Automobile Demand examines the automobile demand in mature economies: the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Korea. Editor(s): Jetin, Bruno. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJK; TR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137516138
- ISBN
- 9781137516138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46