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Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Centring on South Africa''s Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa''s oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management interventions, including the rescue of the white rhino from extinction. In addition, the book highlights the ecological science produced in the park, much of which has become widely influential, including the megaherbivore concept, new functional approaches to understanding biomes, and new understandings about the role of consumers in shaping ecosystems. The volume is ideal for researchers and policymakers interested in the conservation of relatively small, isolated and protected areas.

DKK 505.00
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Combinatorial Games - Jozsef Beck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Combinatorial Games - Jozsef Beck - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Traditional game theory has been successful at developing strategy in games of incomplete information: when one player knows something that the other does not. But it has little to say about games of complete information, for example, tic-tac-toe, solitaire and hex. The main challenge of combinatorial game theory is to handle combinatorial chaos, where brute force study is impractical. In this comprehensive volume, József Beck shows readers how to escape from the combinatorial chaos via the fake probabilistic method, a game-theoretic adaptation of the probabilistic method in combinatorics. Using this, the author is able to determine the exact results about infinite classes of many games, leading to the discovery of some striking new duality principles. Available for the first time in paperback, it includes a new appendix to address the results that have appeared since the book''s original publication.

DKK 754.00
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6G: The Next Horizon - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

6G: The Next Horizon - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The first book on 6G wireless presents an overall vision for 6G - an era of intelligence-of-everything - with drivers, key capabilities, use cases, KPIs, and the technology innovations that will shape it. These innovations include immersive human-centric communication, sensing, localization, and imaging, connected machine learning and networked AI, Industry 4.0 and beyond with connected intelligence, smart cities and life, and the satellite mega-constellation for 3D full-Earth wireless coverage. Also covered are new air-interface and networking technologies, integrated sensing and communications, and integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. In addition, novel network architectures to enable network AI, user centric networks, native trustworthiness are discussed. Essential reading for researchers in academia and industry working on B5G wireless communications.

DKK 810.00
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Bread, Cement, Cactus - Annie Zaidi - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Bread, Cement, Cactus - Annie Zaidi - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. This title is also available as Open Access.

DKK 173.00
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Democratizing the Hegemonic State - Ilan Peleg - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Democratizing the Hegemonic State - Ilan Peleg - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a new, comprehensive analytical framework for the examination of majority-minority relations in deeply divided societies. Hegemonic states in which one ethnic group completely dominates all others will continue to face enormous pressures to transform because they are out of step with the new, emerging, global governing code that emphasizes democracy and equal rights. Refusal to change would lead such states to lose international legitimacy and face increasing civil strife, instability, and violence. Through systematic theoretical analysis and careful empirical study of 14 key cases, Peleg examines the options open to polities with diverse populations. Challenging the conventional wisdom of many liberal democrats, Peleg maintains that the preferred solution for a traditional hegemonic polity is not merely to grant equal rights to individuals, but also to incorporate significant group rights via mega-constitutional transformation.

DKK 410.00
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Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Much of the real value in the entertainment industry today lies in franchises – fictional universes, entertainment concepts, reinventions of cultural traditions and celebrity – that create an ongoing presence in the marketplace. The entertainment franchise now shapes the global cultural landscape. However, scholars have devoted little attention to how intellectual property law has changed or is being stretched in practice to accommodate this type of creativity and form of enterprise. Covering law and practice in jurisdictions such as the UK, the EU, the USA, Australia, Spain and the Caribbean, this collection explores the ''fit'' of intellectual property laws with specific franchises and tracks the way creators and entrepreneurs work around law''s limitations. Case studies include mega-film franchises, fan activity, hip-hop, the management of celebrity reputation, flamenco, ''Disneyfied'' theatre, film and television funding, arts festivals and ''carnival in a box''.

DKK 1013.00
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ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The fast-growing last decade of strong economic growth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has played a critical role in Asia-Pacific regionalism and global trade. This book explores the concept of ASEAN law under the normative framework of the new regional economic order. It examines the roadmap of the new ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2025 by evaluating the impact of ASEAN trade agreements on domestic legislation on professional services, financial integration, investment disputes and digital trade. More importantly, it sheds light on the legal implications of ASEAN''s agreements with China and India and the potential developments of mega-regional trade agreements such as the CPTPP and the RCEP. Hence, the legal analysis and case studies in the book offer a fresh view of Asia-Pacific integration and bridge the gap between academia and practice.

DKK 403.00
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Elephants - Shermin R. De Silva - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Elephants - Shermin R. De Silva - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This volume compiles more than twenty years of behavioral research on the three living species of elephants in Africa and Asia (African Savannah, African Forest, and Asian elephant), together with their implications for conserving and managing wild elephant populations. The theoretical background, key terminology and findings are explained and presented in engaging language accessible to a wide range of non-specialists, from students to seasoned professionals. By viewing data from numerous studies through a comparative evolutionary perspective, the similarities and distinctions among species and populations come into clear relief, providing insight into the complexities of protecting these charismatic yet highly threatened mega-herbivores. Rather than mere exposition of what is known, readers are invited to reflect on the additional questions and puzzles that are still in need of answers, in the hope of inspiring a new generation of researchers and conservationists.

DKK 606.00
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Managing Employee Performance and Reward - Sarah (university Of Technology Kaine - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Managing Employee Performance and Reward - Sarah (university Of Technology Kaine - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The third edition of Managing Employee Performance and Reward: Systems, Practices and Prospects has been thoroughly revised and updated by a new four-member author team. The text introduces a new conceptual framework based on systems thinking and a dual model of strategic alignment and psychological engagement. Coverage of chapter topics provides a balance between research evidence and practice and, in this new edition, is enhanced with a more applied and technical approach. The text also includes chapters dedicated to conceptual framing, base pay and individual recognition and reward; ''reality check'' breakout boxes with practical examples and current problems on each of strategic alignment, employee engagement, organisation justice and workforce diversity; and a new chapter exploring new horizons in performance and reward practice and research with a focus on the mega-trends of technological transformation under ''Industry 4.0'', new economic forms and relationships arising from the ''gig'' economy, and generational change.

DKK 773.00
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Security Beyond the State - Michael C. (university Of Ottawa) Williams - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Security Beyond the State - Michael C. (university Of Ottawa) Williams - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology, political science and sociology, Security Beyond the State maps the emergence of the global private security sector and develops a novel analytical framework for understanding these global security assemblages. Through in-depth examinations of four African countries – Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa – it demonstrates how global security assemblages affect the distribution of social power, the dynamics of state stability, and the operations of the international political economy, with significant implications for who gets secured and how in a global era.

DKK 302.00
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How the East Was Won - Andrew Phillips - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

How the East Was Won - Andrew Phillips - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today''s modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same ''define and conquer'' and ''define and rule'' strategies to carve out the West''s biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the ''rise of the West'', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

DKK 348.00
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How the East Was Won - Andrew Phillips - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

How the East Was Won - Andrew Phillips - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today''s modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same ''define and conquer'' and ''define and rule'' strategies to carve out the West''s biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the ''rise of the West'', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.

DKK 967.00
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Chinese Small Property - Shitong (the University Of Hong Kong) Qiao - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Chinese Small Property - Shitong (the University Of Hong Kong) Qiao - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Small property houses provide living space to about eight million migrant workers, office space for start-ups, grassroots police stations and public schools; their contribution to the economic growth and urbanization of a city is immense. The interaction between the small property sector and the formal legal order has a long history and small property has become an established engine of social and legal change. Chinese Small Property presents vivid stories about how institutional entrepreneurs worked together to create an impersonal market outside of the formal legal system to support millions of transactions. Qiao uses an eleven-month fieldwork project in Shenzhen - China''s first special economic zone that has grown to a mega city with over fifteen million people - to demonstrate this. A thorough and detailed investigation into small property rights in China, Chinese Small Property is an invaluable source of new information for students and scholars of the field.

DKK 1059.00
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Security Beyond the State - Michael C. Williams - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Security Beyond the State - Michael C. Williams - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology, political science and sociology, Security Beyond the State maps the emergence of the global private security sector and develops a novel analytical framework for understanding these global security assemblages. Through in-depth examinations of four African countries – Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa – it demonstrates how global security assemblages affect the distribution of social power, the dynamics of state stability, and the operations of the international political economy, with significant implications for who gets secured and how in a global era.

DKK 759.00
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