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The chapters span from the pre-Columbian to contemporaneous indigenous societies for all the main geographical and ecological zones of South America. The book discusses how particular cases of Sout...

This book provides a thorough treatment of privacy and security issues for researchers in the fields of smart grids, engineering, and computer science. It presents comprehensive insight to understa...

This forward-looking volume examines the role of social influence--including social media--in creating and fostering sustainable consumer behavior. Using the concepts behind social influence theory...

For centuries, Romania and the Romanians have been the "in-between". Geographical as well as political situated between the Latin occident and the Byzantine orient, Romanians lived intertwined with...

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs--innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green...

Social Innovation is becoming an increasingly important topic in our global society. Those organizations which are able to develop business solutions to the most urgent social and ecological challe...

This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched. These "...

In this book the authors first provide a comprehensive survey on the available studies on control, management, and optimization strategies in AC and DC microgrids. The authors then provide the desi...

This textbook provides students with real-world social marketing case studies from different countries and regions around the world, taking learners from classroom theory to practice. The primary o...

This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the "East") and the developing world (the "South"), spanning the entire post-Stalin...

This book offers an overview of current methods for the intelligent monitoring of rotating machines. It describes the foundations of smart monitoring, guiding readers to develop appropriate machine...

The Global Dynamics of Disinformation

This book explores Soviet influences on Yugoslav gender policies, examining how Yugoslav communists interpreted, adapted and used Soviet ideas to change Yugoslav society. The book sheds new light o...

With the start of 2020, the wrath of pandemic challenged the scientific community to develop more advanced drug delivery approaches for biomedical applications, endowing conventional drugs with add...

This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. ...