Today "bio-diesel" is the term applied to the esters of simple alkyl fatty acids used as an alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuels. Importance of biodiesel in the recent context increases due ...więcej »
This honorary volume offered to Paolo Biagi for his 65th birthday brings together papers by his friends, former students and colleagues, who have shared with him research experiences on different g...więcej »
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing one of the worst crises in recent history. The economic outlook looks brighter for 2021, thanks for the availability of vaccines. Still, the recovery will be gradua...więcej »
This book aims to reveal that the rise of China has been driven by the ancient glory and modern shame of Chinese nation. However, the Chinese, both leading and the led, are convincing that the rise...więcej »
The concept of diplomacy has drawn a lot of attention over the years, and has been the front burner of heated debate among scholars of political science and international relations. Although no gen...więcej »
The environment in which companies operate in Cameroon remains unfavourable to the development of the private sector. Consequently, the objective of this book is to encourage service companies to b...więcej »
Revision with unchanged content. In times of war, women are subjected to sexual abuse that is largely ignored by military organizations, media outlets, and international courts. Existing literature...więcej »
The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted nations experienced state orchestrated torture and mass brutality. The internaitonally recognised fact finding mission on Myanrmar atrocities on Rohingy...więcej »
The sudden, unexpected, and unexplained death of a healthy infant in its first year of life (usually 4 to 6 months) is surely one of the most tragic human experiences a parent can undergo. The shoc...więcej »
Can a state's nuclear status influence its behavior in dyadic relationships? The present study examines the role played by nuclear status on the proliferating state's level of hostility and coopera...więcej »
The thought of Monsignor Jesús Manuel Jáuregui has been studied from different epistemological and methodological perspectives, one of which is historiography, where the event, the testimony and th...więcej »
The aim of this book is to present a study about the specificities in the demands of women for Career and Vocational Guidance (CPG). The text presents two important points to be considered. The fir...więcej »
As part of our Socio-Economic Analysis and Research Division's (SEARD) annual thematic studies, our research staff has made a tremendous effort to investigate the situation of elderly citizens in t...więcej »
Revision with unchanged content. Hundreds of millions of people experiment with drugs of abuse, but only a small percentage of them become addicted. Vulnerability to develop addiction has been asso...więcej »
Revision with unchanged content. Understanding Work in the Age of Information tells a compelling story about Finland, one of the most advanced information societies in the world. In addition to d...więcej »
Proceedings of the XVI IUPPS World Congress (Florianopolis 4–10 September 2011) / Actes du XVI Congrès Mondial UISPP (Florianópolis 4–10 Septembre 2011) Session VII, Vo...więcej »
Gravity and antigravity underlie the conscious and unconscious mind. The gravitational and anti-gravitational waves or thought fields are structured in the brain by the brain reticular formation an...więcej »
The world's leading universities have been applying various marketing strategies in their management since the late 1980s. The interest in university branding in the West was dictated by the expans...więcej »
Knowledge economy initiated important transformations in labour markets and in the nature of education. This process brought about new understanding of lifelong learning and the restructuring proce...więcej »
This Report documents how the exponential rise in election campaign spending in Uganda has bred commercialization of electoral politics into a monster that now rears its ugly head on democracy, nat...więcej »