With America on the brink of the largest number of older adults and persons with disabilities in the country's history, the deceleration in housing production during the first decade of the twenty-fi
We are familiar with the unprecedented growth of surveillance after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but a comprehensive analysis of public opinion about how privacy is being protected or invaded has be
Sex and love are central to daily life and to all nations. Despite the universality of these sentiments, their expression is largely shaped by the cultures in which they occur. This massive set explor
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2012, held in Cambridge, UK, in March/April 2012. The 13 revised full pape
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Few issues in Chinese art and art history arouse the passions of scholars and the public as readily as debates about authenticity, especially when the work under scrutiny is as critically important as
This report examines the future of the US military aircraft industrial base, addressing specific questions posed by Congress that relate to the ability of the US to retain adequate competition and inn
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Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his n
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the autho
The third edition of Facing Racism in Education continues the work begun in the first and second editions: breaking the silence about the experiences of people of color in education. The new volume fe
Rwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a gener
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The aim of this book is to provide a uniquely comprehensive source of information on the entire field of radiation therapy physics. The very significant advances in imaging, computational, and acceler
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