Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not in reality a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practi...

Demand and Supply

First published in 1971 Demand and Supply is an introduction to the economics of resource allocation often known as micro-economics. Ralph Turvey exam...

Recent Advancement in Prodrugs

Recent Advancement in Prodrugs Drugs used as medicines have many limitations like low chemical stability aqueous solubility or oral absorption/bioavai...

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

For Decadent authors Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism perversion transition and partial negation. But for all these strong...

Recent Advances in Biochemistry

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Advances in biochemistry directly influence medicine and the field of human health. The field of...

Search Theory Some Recent Developments

Providing immediate access to modern search theory state-of-the-art methods related areas of mathematics and their techniques and applications this im...

Recent Developments in Mathematical Programming

This work is concerned with theoretical developments in the area of mathematical programming development of new algorithms and software and their appl...

Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its app...

Serial Offenders Current Thought Recent Findings

Although serial offenders have been a recognized problem in society for centuries only recently have the complexities of these individuals come to lig...

Perversions Deviant Readings by Mandy Merck

In this series of provocative essays on culture art and film former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether...

Recent Advances in Energy Harvesting Technologies

Energy demand is continuously rising mainly due to population growth and rapid economic development. There are substantial worries about the environme...

The Global 1930s The international decade

Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines Soviet show trials and German fascists The Global 1930s takes a truly international appro...

Demand Forecasting for Executives and Professionals

This book surveys what executives who make decisions based on forecasts and professionals responsible for forecasts should know about forecasting. It ...

After Life Recent Philosophy and Death

Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell into time as Augustine recount...

The Early History of the Levant Company

The Levant Company in England was first established in 1592 to help regulate trade with Turkey and the Levant area. Originally published in 1908 this ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Recent Trends and Applications

This book aims to bring together leading academic scientists researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research re...

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant and housing law. The book is designed to provide a c...

Dangerous Decade Taiwan’s Security and Crisis Management

Taiwan’s position looks increasingly precarious and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reu...

Digitalization in Construction Recent trends and advances

This book highlights the latest trends and advances in applications of digital technologies in construction engineering and management. A collection o...

Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Environmental science integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the environmen...

Graph Theory (on Demand Printing Of 02787)

An effort has been made to present the various topics in the theory of graphs in a logical order to indicate the historical background and to clarify ...

Entrepreneurial Marketing How to Develop Customer Demand

How do you sell an innovative product to a market that does not yet exist? Entrepreneurial businesses often create products and services based on radi...

Consumer Demand In China A Statistical Factbook

This factbook provides an overview of China's consumers their incomes and the goods and services on which they spend their money. It consists of a bri...

Cooperative Firms and the Sustainable Development Goals Pursuing Decent Work and Reducing Inequality

With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promo...

Recent Trends in Communication and Electronics Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Communication and Electronics

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of KIET Group of Institutions Delhi-NCR organized the 4th International Conference ICCE-20...

Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Informat

The increase in computing power and sensor data has driven Information Technology on end devices such as smart phones or automobiles. The widespread a...

Machine Learning in Healthcare Fundamentals and Recent Applications

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques play an important role in our daily lives by enhancing predictions and decision-maki...

Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation

Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation focuses on minor crustacean groups and regionally endemic groups all from fresh...

Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan

This book is a detailed account of the multi-faceted history of the Deccan. Beginning with its historical foundations it goes on to delineate how it i...

Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources it exami...

Economic Sociology in Europe Recent Trends and Developments

This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological political and social change i...

Foundations Of Mechanics (on Demand Printing Of 30102)

Foundations of Mechanics is a mathematical exposition of classical mechanics with an introduction to the qualitative theory of dynamical systems and a...

From Popular Movements to Rebellion The Naxalite Decade

From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time the...

Recent Wireless Power Transfer Technologies via Radio Waves

Recent Trends and Best Practices in Industry 4.0

Industry 4. 0 is used interchangeably with the fourth industrial revolution and represents a new stage in the organization asnd control of the industr...

Diseases of Fruits and Vegetable Crops Recent Management Approaches

Diseases of Fruits and Vegetable Crops: Recent Management Approaches covers certain basic aspects of knowledge on diagnostic symptoms modes of perpetu...

The Positive Deviant Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World

An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring ...

Medieval English Drama An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Criticism

Originally published in 1990 Medieval English Drama is an exhaustive bibliography of scholarship on medieval English drama. Each item has been annotat...

Geographies of Mobility Recent Advances in Theory and Method

This book seeks to bring together different philosophical theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of human mobility within the discipli...

The Reform Decade in China From Hope to Dismay

This book first published in 1992 provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it a distinguished group of specialists s...

Recent Advances in Computing Sciences Proceedings of RACS 2022

The 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Computing Sciences (RACS-2022) organized by the School ofComputer Application Lovely Profession...

Ecophysiology of Tropical Plants Recent Trends and Future Perspectives

Plants in tropical regions are coping with enormous challenges of physiological stresses owing to changing environmental and climatic conditions. Rapi...

The Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded Recent Advances

First published in 1985. The field of mental handicap is a broad one encompassing the interests of many professional groups. As a result there is a ne...

Functional Form And Utility A Review Of Consumer Demand Theory

This book presents a review of classical consumer demand theory emphasizing the form of utility and demand functions. The theory is developed in gener...

Truth in Perspective Recent Issues in Logic Representation and Ontology

First published in 1998 this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in J...

Recent Trends in Blockchain for Information Systems Security and Privacy

Blockchain technology is an emerging distributed decentralized architecture and computing paradigm which has accelerated the development and applicati...

Recent Advances and Applications of Fuzzy Metric Fixed Point Theory

This book not only presents essential material to understand fuzzy metric fixed point theory but also enables the readers to appreciate the recent adv...

Iran At The Crossroads Global Relations In A Turbulent Decade

This book concerns more with Iran's foreign relations and problems in the area of international affairs in light of the Gulf war and in anticipation o...

Approaching Recent World History Through Film Context Analysis and Research

Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context Analysis and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and fi...

Anxiety Gut Microbiome and Nutraceuticals Recent Trends and Clinical Evidence

Healthy gut function is associated with normal central nervous system (CNS) function. Hormones neurotransmitters and immunological factors released fr...

Soft Computing Recent Advances and Applications in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

This book explores soft computing techniques in a systematic manner starting from their initial stage to recent developments in this area. The book pr...

US Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East The Realpolitik of Deceit

This book offers a realist critique of US foreign policy towards the Middle East in the past decade. It critically examines four core foundations of c...

Transport Demand Management and Social Inclusion The Need for Ethnic Perspectives

Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for ...

Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics development economics and classical political economy. It off...

Recent Advances in Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy A Nano-Based Approach

This book provides information about different types and stages of cancer and their subtypes with their respective molecular mechanisms etiology histo...

The TV Showrunner's Roadmap Creating Great Television in an On Demand World

This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating writing and managing your own ...

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs Fifty Years of Learning

Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last 50 years and...

Sex Work Mobility & Health

First published in 2004. Major changes have taken place in the sex industry in Europe. Over the past decade we have seen increasing migration and dive...

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales...

Understanding Conduct Disorder and Oppositional-Defiant Disorder A guide to symptoms management and treatment

Understanding Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiance Disorder offers parents caregivers and practitioners a concise accessible introduction to the...

Cuba and the Economic Policies of Peripheral Socialism Recent Reforms in a Historical Perspective

Departing from the category of 'peripheral socialism' this book offers an economic history of the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 2019 with a focus ...

The Lion and the Unicorn What England Has Meant to Scotland

Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism this book ascribes many of Scotland’s misfortunes in history to the s...

Creating Mixed Model Value Streams Practical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand Second Edition

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor Kevin J. Duggan an executive mentor and recognized authority on Lean and Operational Excelle...

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004 challenging the narrative of decline th...

The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

The demand and supply chain planning process for manufacturers distributors and retailers has evolved over the years. It has gone from a disjointed un...

Thinking Sex with the Great Whore Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation

Many scholars in Biblical and Revelation studies have written at length about the imperial and patriarchal implications of the figure of the Whore of ...

Mixed Use and Residential Tenants' Rights The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and Leasehold Enfranchisement

This book provides everyone associated with mixed use buildings with clarity of information in understanding the key laws. It includes a detailed over...

Recent Advances in Analysis Design and Construction of Shell & Spatial Structures in the Asia-Pacific Region

This edited volume features a collection of extended versions of 13 papers originally published in the proceedings of the 12th Asian Pacific Conferenc...

Conservation and Restoration of Built Heritage A History of Conservation Culture and its More Recent Developments

The word conservation when used in the context of the preservation of built heritage implies an intrinsically complex concept that evolved over time s...

Keep Calm and Call the Dean of Students A Guide to Understanding the Many Facets of the Dean of Students' Role

The role of Dean of Students is pivotal: in students’ lives; for their institutions as a conduit to senior administration about issues of concern to s...

The Intentional Dean A Guide to the Academic Deanship

Based on faculty leadership and administrative experiences The Intentional Dean explores the reasons to pursue a deanship and how to successfully atta...

Recent Advances in Security Privacy and Trust for Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

Security privacy and trust in the Internet of Things (IoT) and CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) are different from conventional security as concerns revol...

Recent Advances in Materials Mechanics and Management Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Materials Mechanics and Managemen

These proceedings present a selection of papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Materials Mechanics and Management 2017 (IMMM 2017) w...

The Latin American Development Debate Neostructuralism Neomonetarism And Adjustment Processes

In the 1980s Latin America experienced its second worst economic crisis of the century; today the average per capita income is about 10 percent less t...

Recent Trends in Computational Sciences Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science Machine Learning and Bloc

This book is a compilation of research papers and presentations from the Fourth Annual International Conference on Data Science Machine Learning and B...

The Universities We Need Higher Education After Dearing

This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reap...

Disadvantaged Post-Adolescents Approaches to Education and Rehabilitation

Originally published in 1983 this book elucidates the urgent problems of disadvantaged and delinquency-prone post-adolescents at the time by providing...

The Strategic Implications of China's Energy Needs

China is frequently described as a threat to regional and global stability and its rapidly rising demand for imported energy is seens as one cause of ...

Synthetic Organic Photochemistry

With contributions from 24 international authorities Synthetic Organic Photochemistry offers a leading-edge presentation of the most recent and in-dem...

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fl...

Indian Indies A Guide to New Independent Indian Cinema

This book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films which have orchestrated a recent renai...

Grid Integration of Solar Photovoltaic Systems

This book covers the various aspects of solar photovoltaic systems including measurement of solar irradiance solar photovoltaic modules arrays with MA...

Stem Cell-based Biosystems

Stem cell science has emerged as a novel discipline in biomedical research over the past decade. With advancements in this field stem cells have demon...

Physiology of Soybean Plant

The book provides in-depth knowledge on the physiology of soybean. It is written lucidly systematically and in depth. The book provides recent informa...

The Business of Higher Education The American University and its Banking Function

Originally published in 1995 The Business of Higher Education focuses on innovation in student financial services. It looks at the area of banking fun...

Statistics In the Pharmaceutical Industry

The growth of the pharmaceutical industry over the past decade is astounding but the impact of this growth on statistics is somewhat confusing. While ...

Differentiated Integration Beyond Brexit Revisiting Cleavage Perspective in Times of Multiple Crises

This book examines differentiated integration in Europe providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants – political conflict party respo...

Manipulation of the Avian Genome

Many genes have been cloned from chicken cells and during the next decade numerous laboratories will be concentrating their resources in developing wa...

Critical Theory and Social Transformation Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues that a...

Satellite Meteorology Second Edition

Satellite Meteorology is the youngest and fastest growing branch of the science of meteorology and the present book traces its fascinating history des...

Business Innovation and Development in Emerging Economies Proceedings of the 5th Sebelas Maret International Conference on Business Economi

Business Innovation driven by the advancement of technology has dramatically changed the business landscape over recent years not only in advanced cou...

The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema

The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highli...

Advances in Web-based GIS Mapping Services and Applications

Advances in Web-based GIS Mapping Services and Applications is published as part of ISPRS WG IV/5 effort and aims at presenting (1) Recent technologic...

Optimizing Small Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aircraft A Practical Design Guide

This design guide was written to capture the author’s practical experience of designing building and testing multi-rotor drone systems over the past d...

The New Industrial System A Study of the Origin Forms Finance and Prospects of Concentration in Industry

This book first published in 1936 analyses the then-recent phenomenon of industrial combination. Concentration was new. Industrial combination was new...

Children’s Literature and the Posthuman Animal Environment Cyborg

An investigation of identity formation in children's literature this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with post...

Handbook of Plum Fruit Production Postharvest Science and Processing Technology

In the last ten years there has been an exponential increase in the adoption of high-density farming which leads to better yield and higher-quality fr...

Unemployment in Ireland Alternative Perspectives

Published in 1998 this book looks at unemployment in Ireland the country's most serious social and economic problem. It is the major contributor to po...

Supreme Decisions Volume 1 Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volume One: To 1896

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volumes 1 covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases that have shaped American constitution...

Supreme Decisions Combined Volume Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volumes 1 and 2 covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have sh...