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"Provides a framework by which to assess the ability of liberal democratic states to manage migration in a rapidly changing geo-political environment. This book will appeal to students and scholars of comparative political behaviour, immigration, public opinion, public policy, international relations, international security and area studies"--

"This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between 'real' and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in medieval studies and history, offering interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational insights into this period of immense change and innovation"--

"Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended, failed even, in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger's critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger's basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy's attention to reason. The Culmination offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism"--

"Bringing together leading experts on Korea and U.S.-Korean relations, this book provides a nuanced look at the critical relationship between the U.S. and Korea during and after the Trump years. An important study for students and scholars interested in U.S. foreign policy and Korea"--

"Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the "relational subject": a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has. Recognizing ourselves as such subjects allows us not only to rethink politics, but, more profoundly, to envision sovereignty as the means by which we each rejuvenate ourselves and the polities we constitute with others"--

"Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, the Chinese surveillance state is also a hugely labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the heart of CCP power."--

Xi Jinping has been pushing to make his thought a major addition to China's ideology, which guides China's direction of travel. No other Chinese leader apart from Mao Zedong had their theoretical contributions elevated to this status. This book provides a contextualized reading of Xi Jinping Thought and examines how it has been implemented in practice. While China's political system remains a Leninist party-state, how it operates has been substantially modified following the introduction of Xi Thought. What has happened is akin to replacing the operating system of a computer. This book conceptualizes the modified system as a Sino-centric consultative Leninist system. The Chinese Communist Party is being reinvigorated as a Leninist machine, by which the Party leads everything. A new de facto social contract is offered to the Chinese people, who are being indoctrinated by Xi Thought so they will think like "one patriotic people." China's economy is being restructured following Xi's vision of a "socialist market economy," while its interactions with the rest of the world, his reconstruction of the ancient tianxia, or all-under-heaven, world order, which commits to a "China First" principle. The end goal set in Xi Thought is the fulfillment of "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" by 2050 at the latest. Whether this will come to pass or not, the introduction of Xi Thought has already changed China, with significant implications for the rest of the world.

"The concept of sovereignty is a crucial foundation of the current world order. Regardless of their political ideologies no states can operate without claiming and justifying their sovereign power. The People's Republic of China (PRC) - one of the single most powerful states in contemporary global politics - has been resorting to the logic of sovereignty to respond to many external and internal challenges, from territorial rights disputes to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this book, Pang Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty. Surveying the four different political structures of modern China - imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist - and the dramatic ruptures between them, Pang argues that the ruling regime's sovereign anxiety cuts across the long twentieth century in China, providing a strong throughline for the state-society relations during moments of intense political instability. Focusing on political theory and cultural history, the book demonstrates how concepts such as popular sovereignty, territorial sovereignty, and economic sovereignty were constructed, and how sovereign power in China was both legitimized and subverted at various times by intellectuals and the ordinary people through a variety of media from painting and literature to internet-based memes. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large, globalization disintegrating, and populism on the rise, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance"--

"This textbook combines the theory and practice of international human rights law. Now in its fourth edition, it is the key text around the globe for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in law and other disciplines with a human rights dimension"--

"The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy. The ninth edition offers updated material throughout, including two new chapters: Disparities in Health and Health Care (Chapter 7) examines issues of race, ethnicity, income, gender, and geography with respect to health care access, health inputs, and health outcomes; Pandemic Economics (Chapter 9) introduces a new and simplified economic treatment of epidemics and pandemics within the context of COVID-19. The book further highlights the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and updates the path-breaking comparative analyses across countries to focus on the differences in access and costs. The book continues to provide a clear, step-by-step understanding of health economics, making economic principles accessible to students, supported by boxed examples, figures and tables. Each chapter contains concise summaries, discussion questions and quantitative exercises to promote student learning. There is also a glossary of key terms and an extensive reference list. Instructors are supported by a range of digital supplements. It is the perfect textbook for students and practitioners taking undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health economics, health policy and public health"--

"English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment, beginning with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s use of an analogy that is now known as the 'marketplace of ideas'"--

Part 1: Programming and Remote Sensing Basics -- 1. JavaScript and the Earth Engine API -- 2. Exploring Images -- 3. Survey of Raster Datasets -- 4. The Remote Sensing Vocabulary.-Part 2: Interpreting Images -- 5. Image Manipulation: Bands, Arithmetic, Thresholds, and Masks -- 6. Interpreting an Image: Classification -- 7. Accuracy Assessment: Quantifying Classification Quality -- Part 3: Advanced Image Processing -- 8. Interpreting an Image: Regression -- 9. Advanced Pixel-based Image Transformation -- 10. Neighborhood-based Image Transformation -- 11. Object-based Image Analysis -- Part 4: Interpreting Image Series -- 12. Filter, Map, Reduce -- 13. Exploring Image Collections -- 14. Aggregating Images for Time Series -- 15. Clouds and Image Compositing -- 16. Change Detection -- 17. Interpreting Annual Time Series with LandTrendr -- 18. Fitting Functions to Time Series.-19. Interpreting Time Series with CCDC -- 20. Data Fusion: Merging Classification Streams -- 21. Exploring Lagged Effects in Time Series -- Part 5: Vectors and Tables -- 22. Exploring Vectors -- 23. Raster/Vector Conversions -- 24. Zonal Statistics -- 25. Advanced Vector Operations -- 26. GEEDiT - Digitizing From Satellite Imagery -- Part 6: Advanced Topics -- 27. Advanced Raster Visualization -- 28. Collaborating in Earth Engine with Scripts and Assets -- 29. Scaling up in Earth Engine -- 30. Sharing Work in Earth Engine: Basic UI and Apps -- 31. Combining R and Earth Engine -- Part 7: Human Applications -- 32. Agricultural Environments -- 33. Urban Environments -- 34. Built Environments -- 35. Air pollution and population exposure -- 36. Heat Islands -- 37. Health Applications -- 38. Humanitarian Applications -- 39. Monitoring Gold Mining Activity using SAR -- Part 8: Aquatic and Hydrological Applications -- 40. Groundwater monitoring with GRACE -- 41. Benthic Habitats -- 42. Surface Water Mapping -- 43. River morphology -- 44. Water Balance and Drought -- 45. Defining Seasonality: First Date of No Snow.-Part 9: Terrestrial Applications -- 46. Active fire monitoring -- 47. Mangroves -- 48. Mangroves II - Change Mapping -- 49. Forest Degradation and Deforestation -- 50. Deforestation Viewed from Multiple Sensors -- 51. Working With GPS & Weather Data -- 52. Creating Presence and Absence Points -- 53. Detecting Land Cover Change in Rangelands -- 54. Conservation I - Assessing the spatial relationship between burned area and precipitation -- 55. Conservation II - Assessing Agricultural Intensification Near Protected Areas.

"The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society"--