John Baillieul & Shankar S. Sastry 
Essays on Mathematical Robotics [PDF ebook] 

When a boy realises the grown-ups are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies, he gives up meat. But should he share the truth and break another child’s heart? As a youth he wants to …

When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in June 2020, he signalled the dissolution of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) …

Since the peak of school desegregation in the late 1980s, schools across the nation have been resegregating such that schools are now as segregated as they were during the late 1960s. Segregation is …

After being granted full independence in 1961, Kuwait began its tumultuous relationship with the US. This book sets out to investigate this alliance within the frameworks of a ‘small state’ and ‘infl …

A stimulating new analysis of the dramatic systemic changes of the Russian state, principles of the governance and its foreign policy orientation. It reviews the extent of changes in Russian approa …

In this ground-breaking authoritative study, a highly documented and incisive analysis is made of the galvanising changes wrought to the people and landscape of British Mandated Palestine (1929-1948) …

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 contemporary US Middle East policy: US relations …

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a soc …

In this book, first published in 1990, the authors have provided a scholarly treatment of the body of training literature between 1980 and 1988 that can be used by practitioners. They have drawn from …

Bloomsbury Pocket Guides are essential photographic guides to the natural world. This book is as visually impressive as it is useful in the field, with many stunning full-page and double-page pho …