Catch up with current theories on a major public health menace! Adolescent smoking has increasingly become a concern as a public health issue, yet the theoretical and empirical literature in the area remains skimpy. Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents furnishes researchers and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of current theories and statistics. Moreover, it offers fresh empirical research as well as suggestions for promising avenues of investigation.The first half of Ni...

Das Metaverse ist eine virtuelle Welt, in der Menschen zusammenkommen und miteinander interagieren können. Teilweise wird auch von einer neuen Generation des Internets gesprochen, die sowohl die Arbeitswelt als auch viele Bereiche der Freizeit verändern wird und immer mehr an wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung gewinnt.Im Metaverse stellen sich rechtliche Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen, wie insbesondere IPR und allgemeines Zivilrecht, Zivilprozessrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Gesellschaftsrec...

Les techniques d'imagerie dans l'exploration du pancréas sont en constante évolution.Ce nouveau volume de la collection des Syllabus de la Société française de radiologie propose un état de l'art sur l'imagerie du pancréas en présentant la radioanatomie normale et pathologique de la glande et en détaillantles protocoles de réalisation des principaux examens :échographie, tomodensitométrie et IRM. La place de l'échoendoscopie et de la TEP/TDM est également abordée. La stratégie d'exploratio...

What the fates of seabirds reveal about the changing ocean and our shared futureEvery spring, thousands of rhinoceros auklets return to Destruction Island off Washington’s coast, where they dig burrows, lay eggs, and raise their chicks. Small, gray, and adorned with a curious horn on their bill, these funny-looking birds have become an unlikely but vitally important indicator for the health of oceans and the Pacific ecosystem as a whole.In Seabirds as S...

Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of newer developments in 2020. Drawing on original research conducted by leading experts, The Internet and the 2020 Campaign attempts to cover these developments in a comprehensive fashion. How are campaigns making use of the Internet to organize and mobilize their ground game? To communicate their message? How are citizens making use of online sources to become informed...

Från Sönderlandets öar fem, kommer ingen levande hem.Det har gått ett år sedan Nora Wagners närmaste kollega sköts till döds. Både hon själv och hennes kollegor anser att hon borde ha kunnat stoppa mordet, och mardrömmarna förföljer henne. Hennes närmaste chef skickar iväg henne på en nyinrättad tjänst i skärgården för att ge henne tid att läka.Men ute bland öarna vilar sedan länge dolda hemligheter och när en ung kvinna faller ihop medvetslös på polisstationens golv dras N...

This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human development. This is an important and timely topic since the international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will guide international development efforts over the next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper understanding of the SDGs, the international ...

2020 als globaler WendepunktEine akribisch recherchierte Untersuchung einer pandemischen Zeit, in der nichts mehr sicher war und alles auf dem Spiel stand: Der renommierte US-Soziologe und Bestsellerautor Eric Klinenberg über ein Jahr, das unser aller Leben auf den Kopf stellte.»Eine packende, tief bewegende Darstellung eines bedeutenden Jahres in der modernen Geschichte.« Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer-Preisträger...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity—a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in Genesis.As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitica...

Humanity suffers from an Emotional Plague, declared Dr. Wilhelm Reich. For his controversial ideas, his books were banned and burned, and he died in prison. Robert Anton Wilson explores the trials of Reich in this essay and play script. In his introduction, Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt writes, "Wilhelm Reich In Hell is an appropriate title for the horrific experiences that Dr. Reich, our hero, endured. Dr. Wilson's sensitive and insightful expression, using two literary forms, provide...

On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed.Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting ...

Continuing a three-decade tradition, The State of the Parties 7th edition brings together leading experts to evaluate change and continuity in American electoral politics. Political parties in America have never been more contentious and divided than they are right now. Even splits within the parties themselves have the power to elevate relatively unknown candidates to power and topple established incumbents. With sections devoted to polarization and the electorate, polarization and politi...