Icp imprint: 267 books
Explaining Islamist Insurgencies
The Case of al-Jamaah al-Islamiyyah and the Radicalisation of the Poso Conflict, 20002007
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Since 9/11 many books have been published on Islamic terrorism, but few of these have considered the issue from the perspective of strategic studies or in terms of an “insurgency.” As a result, much of this literature ignores the process of radicalisation and fails to ascertain why some people...
Resilience and Resolve
Communities Against Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
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This book aims to provide an overview of the importance of communities to mitigate the threat of terrorism, drawing key lessons and experiences from countries adopting community-based approaches. There has been growing recognition among countries to understand the construct of...
‘Home-Grown’ Jihad
Understanding Islamist Terrorism in the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown' Islamist terrorism (HGIT) in the US and UK to date. Beginning with an examination of the development of militant networks during the 1980s and 1990s, it traces the origins...
by Mu Li, Yang Feng Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.
Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers...
Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa
The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and in light of socio-economic and geopolitical challenges facing governments old and new, women's rights and empowerment have gained new urgency and relevance. Groups in power, or groups contesting for power, are m
by Bernardo Lafuerza Guillen, Panackal Harikrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive foundation in Probabilistic Normed (PN) Spaces for anyone conducting research in this field of mathematics and statistics. It is the first to fully discuss the developments and the open problems of this highly relevant topic, introduced by A N Serstnev in the early...
by Agnieszka B Malinowska, Delfim F M Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This invaluable book provides a broad introduction to the fascinating and beautiful subject of Fractional Calculus of Variations (FCV). In 1996, FVC evolved in order to better describe non-conservative systems in mechanics. The inclusion of non-conservatism is extremely important from the point of...
Computational Intelligence and Its Applications
Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and their applications — fast-growing and promising research topics that have drawn a great deal of attention from researchers over the years. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on intelligence technologies...
Discontinuous Innovation
Learning to Manage the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights...
Technology Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation
Theory, Practice, Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Technology Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation analyzes business incubators worldwide through a series of empirical and theoretical papers. The authors examine the extent to which business incubators are influential in situations such as nurturing young technology firms, increasing success of...
Workbook for Opening Innovation
Bridging Networked Business, Intellectual Property and Contracting
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Workbook for Opening Innovation — Bridging Networked Business, Intellectual Property and Contracting focuses on the implementation of phenomena, theories and ideas presented in the book Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development — Bridging Networked Innovation, Intellectual Property...
by Rafael Ramírez, Ulf Mannervik
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
During the 1980s and 1990s, Richard Normann and his colleagues developed an original approach to strategy, based on seeing value as inherently co-produced in systems. Their 'Value Creating Systems' approach was a strong contrast to the idea of 'competitive advantage' that defined strategy at the time....
Juridification in Bioethics
Governance of Human Pluripotent Cell Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research....
Erythrocytes
Physiology and Pathophysiology
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
The book covers the functional significance and properties of erythrocytes, their generation, senescence, and suicidal death. It further summarizes knowledge about hormones influencing erythrocyte formation including erythropoietin as well as disorders affecting and involving erythrocytes such as...