Ron Alterovitz & Ken Goldberg 
Motion Planning in Medicine: Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-Guided Procedures [PDF ebook] 

Historically, Argentina has been one of the strongest, most independent countries of Latin America. It seems odd then, that Argentina should develop a foreign policy during the post-Cold War period c …

Full Circles describes the very different lives and expectations of women in post-industrial and developing countries from childhood to old age. Analysing how class, ethnicity, nationality and indivi …

This book explores how the policy-making process is changing in the very volatile conditions of present day mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It considers the overall background conditions – the …

In today’s complex and interconnected world, scholars of international relations seek to better understand challenges spurred by intensified global communication and interaction. The complex connecte …

In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists“ responses to past environmental changes and reflects on t …

Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovation …

Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are “powerful“; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regul …

Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey attempts to understand the mobilization strategies of incumbent parties to consolidate and increase their support among swing voters of an ethnic group. By analyzing …

Colonial Cambodia“s ‚Bad Frenchmen‘ provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnames …

The nature of qualitative inquiry means that researchers constantly have to deal with the unexpected, and all too often this means coping with the presence of danger or risk. This innovative and live …