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The Physiology of Fishes, Fourth Edition
Series: Marine Biology
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by CRC Press
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The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment
Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting
Launched in April 2006, the United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment has been signed by 860 financial institutions, representing more than 25 trillion US$ in the first five years of their existence. This means that roughly 25% of the world’s financial institutions have made some...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Evolution of Government Policy Towards Homosexuality in the US Military
The Rise and Fall of DADT
Throughout history, homosexuality has been a complicating factor for men and women electing to serve in the armed forces of the United States. The right to serve became increasingly complicated when the Department of Defense responded to congressional legislation in 1993 by adopting a policy that...
To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies
Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their...
To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Hollywood and the CIA
Cinema, Defense and Subversion
Series: Media, War and Security
This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy. As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an...
Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations
With the recent proliferation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), cloud computing technologies, and distributed-interconnected systems, distributed fusion is taking on a larger role in a variety of applications—from environmental monitoring and crisis management to intelligent buildings and...
Published November 13th 2012 by CRC Press
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Politics and the Environment
From Theory to Practice, 3rd Edition
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions so successful. This text is...
Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
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A History of Early Al-Andalus
The Akhbar Majmu'a
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
The Akhbar majmu‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahman III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early...
Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Early Islamic Spain
The History of Ibn al-Qutiyah
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d. Cordova 367 / 977). Including extensive notes and comments, a genealogical table and relevant maps, the text is preceded by a study of the author and his work, and is the...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
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The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the...
Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge