There are many things to watch out for when raising children. The course is set for life. This responsibility in particular means that raising a child is not always an easy task. Parents know that the defiant phase is exhausting, but also important. When a child is going through a developmental spurt, it can be nerve-wracking. But here, too, you know it's important and it will pass. But what if the child is always very sensitive and reacts to things with a lot of emotions, perhaps having e...

This book sheds new light on the complex phenomenon of cell fusion, a vital process in various physiological and pathophysiological contexts, including fertilization, placentation, myogenesis, and cancer. While the merging of cells may seem straightforward, it involves a sophisticated interplay of biological mechanisms that are not yet fully understood.In this new edition, readers will discover insights into the interplay of lipids and peptides in membrane fusion, the role of cell ...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is increasingly recognized as an attractive alternative to national court proceedings, especially in international business relations. This open access book focuses on ADR mechanisms in one specific geographical region: the Western Balkans. This region comprises Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Serbia. Although these countries generally have legal frameworks for ADR mechanisms in place, they remain large...

4.8 Stars out of 5A must-read by anyone interested in national security in Canada or the world....."National PostHidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written, and deeply alarming. - The TimesRevelatory ... A partisan, detailed and necessary examination. - Sunday TimesHidden Hand should be required reading for our diplomats, intelligence analysts, military officers and businesspeople. - The AustralianA remarkable book with a chilling messag...

There are many things to watch out for when raising children. The course is set for life. This responsibility in particular means that raising a child is not always an easy task. Parents know that the defiant phase is exhausting, but also important.When a child is going through a developmental spurt, it can be nerve-wracking. But here, too, you know it's important and it will pass. But what if the child is always very sensitive and reacts to things with a lot of emotions, perhaps ha...

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, this text offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development policy. International public administrations are thus recognized as partially autonomous actors with t...

How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against inst...

In the aftermath of 9/11 Islamic seminaries or madrasas received much media attention in India, mostly owing to the alleged link between madrasa education and forms of violence. Yet, while ample information on madrasas for boys is available, similar institutions of Islamic learning for girls have for the greater part escaped public attention so far. This study investigates how madrasas for girls emerged in India, how they differ from madrasas for boys, and how female students come to inter...

Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga, Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Ba...

This book deals with the ways Netflix influenced the contemporary television landscape and built the infrastructures of streaming. It focusses on various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to undergo a myriad of changes, Netflix has proven itself to be the dominant force in this development, simultaneously driving a number of these changes and challenging television’s existing institutional structures. This comprehensive study ...

Headline: The Globe and Mail:Legal challenge halts Canadian, U.S. and U.K. release of book critical of Chinese Communist Partyby Robert FifeThat said it all. The hands of the Chinese Communist Party were going on the offence. The 48 Group Club a China friendly group of former UK ambassadors and Prime Ministers were embarrassed by their connections to a Club founded by key members of the Chinese Communist ...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme. It collects data and provides comparative indicators of education systems in OECD member and partner countries. PISA provides datasets of outstanding quality regarding samples, instruments and analyses. In addition to its important function for educational monitoring, the PISA datasets are the basis of a wide range of secondary analyses from a number of different scientific per...