Subject Code Books

New and Published Books

1. Organizational Resilience

   Managing the Risks of Disruptive Events - A Practitioner’s Guide

   By James J. Leflar, Marc H. Siegel

   Moving towards resiliency is more than just implanting policy and procedure; it is a process that takes organizations on a winding path requiring patience and tolerance. A good deal of learning will have to take place during the trip and that is why it is necessary to have patience and tolerate the...

   Published May 21st 2013 by CRC Press
2. Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations

   The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb

   By Alina Sajed

   Series: Interventions

   Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Data Collection in Sociolinguistics

   Methods and Applications

   By Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk

   This edited volume provides up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research. It covers the main areas of research design, conducting research, and sharing data findings with longer chapters and shorter vignettes written by a...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security

   Balancing Technology and Social Issues

   Edited by Francesco Flammini, Roberto Setola, Giorgio Franceschetti

   Series: Multimedia Computing, Communication and Intelligence

   Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods and tools for the surveillance and protection of citizens and critical infrastructures against natural and deliberate threats. Focusing on current...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
5. Foucault for Architects

   By Gordana Fontana-Giusti

   Series: Thinkers for Architects

   From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Relational Archaeologies

   Humans, Animals, Things

   Edited by Christopher Watts

   Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Fleeing Homophobia

   Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum

   Edited by Thomas Spijkerboer

   Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to the topic, the book identifies and analyzes...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Environmental Engineering IV

   Edited by Artur Pawlowski, Marzenna R. Dudzinska, Lucjan Pawlowski

   @text:Environmental Engineering has a leading role in the elimination of ecological threats. It has an interdisciplinary character that can deal with a wide range of technical and technological problems. It uses the knowledge of the basic sciences – biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physics – to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by CRC Press
10. Smart Sensors for Industrial Applications

    Edited by Krzysztof Iniewski

    Series: Devices, Circuits, and Systems

    Sensor technologies are a rapidly growing area of interest in science and product design, embracing developments in electronics, photonics, mechanics, chemistry, and biology. Their presence is widespread in everyday life, where they are used to sense sound, movement, and optical or magnetic signals...

    Published May 21st 2013 by CRC Press