The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial ...

This sensuous memoir strips away all preconceptions about what it means to be, or to love, a person with Alzheimer's, giving comfort to those who have walked the caregiving path and offering insight, hope, and a compass to those embarking ...

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

How is this affecting archaeology? Can archaeology transcend it? This volume will delve into the context of archaeological practice within the neoliberal world and the opportunities and challenges of activism from the profession.

This book is not anti-urban, but it does advocate a greater range of options for people to live the way they want at all stages of their lives.

Through a weak constructionist theoretical perspective, the book shows the utility of this new sub-field by addressing two central themes: trauma and ressentiment.

Clay geosynthetic barriers are most frequently used in environmental areas, such as landfill cover systems. This work discusses the durability and lifetime aspects of clay geosynthetic barriers related to the synthetic yarns and fibres.

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014.

This edition is an introduction to concurrency and examines the growing importance of concurrency constructs embedded in programming languages and of formal methods such as model checking.