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 Citizen Participation in Local Governance: An Urban-Rural Perspective (Local and Urban Governance) by Karl Kössler, Erika Schläppi English | December 18, 2025 | ISBN: 3031998235 | 325 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 12 Mb This is an Open access book. It provides a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of public participation in local governance. The volume stands out with three essential features. First, the comparative research reflected in the volume has a global geographical scope because it is the outcome of a Horizon 2020 project involving 18 partners from six continents. Therefore, it includes highly topical and so far under-researched case studies beyond just the European continent. Secondly, we look at the above-mentioned topics from a timely urban-rural perspective, as the ultimate aim is to explore the impact of the phenomenon of urbanisation on local governments and the response of urban and rural municipalities. Thirdly, the book focuses within broader research concerning public participation in local governance on several specific topics that have been revealed by our project as particularly relevant. These include people's participation in local development and planning, their involvement regarding large-scale projects, participatory budgeting, as well as the promises and pitfalls of digital participation.  Circadian Clock and Aging by Syed Ibrahim Rizvi, Gaurav Majumdar English | October 16, 2024 | ISBN: 981976694X | 216 pages | MOBI | 3.03 Mb This book aims to understand the inherent circadian cycles of biological processes and their role in maintaining health and healing a variety of diseases. The book is divided into eight sections. The first section introduces circadian rhythms and aging. The second section focuses on the detailed mechanistic approach of oscillatory pathways in mammals. The next section summarizes the sensitivity of the biological clock towards light and the circadian response to melatonin in mammals. The fourth section addresses the circadian architecture at the cellular level and introduces an age-dependent experimental model of rodents for subsequent biochemical and molecular investigations. The subsequent section covers the complexity of circadian regulation in mitochondrial dynamics and its impact on aging. The sixth section of the book discusses the findings obtained from different experimental approaches as a critical threat to the functioning of clock regulatory mechanisms and its associated health consequences during aging in humans and animal models. The circadian oscillatory mechanisms that are dysregulated and might play an important role in the development and progression of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD), Huntington's Disease (HD), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), etc are discussed in the next section. Towards the end, the book explores the circadian clock as a possible drug target to restore circadian oscillations.  Ute Holl, "Cinema, Trance and Cybernetics " English | ISBN: 1041176961 | 2025 | 326 pages | EPUB | 3 MB We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema, one that allows us to see the links among cinema, anthropology, psychology, and cybernetics. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema.  Mark I Johnson, "Chronic Pain Management" English | ISBN: 3725811199 | 2024 | 292 pages | PDF | 8 MB This reprint provides a rich and varied collection of articles reflecting the landscape of contemporary research and scholarship on chronic pain and its management. The collection includes reviews and primary research that challenge established beliefs and open new avenues for exploration. The collection has been edited by Mark I. Johnson, PhD, Professor of Pain and Analgesia, and Director of the Centre for Pain Research at Leeds Beckett University. Mark has investigated the science of pain and its management for over 35 years, focusing on factors influencing pain experience and response to treatment. More recently, he has explored art and pain, community-support pain services, and the concept of painogenicity.  Chromogenics: Smart Switchable Optical Materials and Their Applications English | 2026 | ISBN: 1394159072 | 526 pages | PDF, True EPUB | 172.04 MB Firsthand insights into the current and future technology and large-scale applications of color- and opacity-changing optical materials  Chromatic Visions: Exploring Colour in Art, Archaeology and Digital Realities by Sofia Pescarin, Cristiana Barandoni, Arthur Clay English | November 2, 2025 | ISBN: 3032077915 | 254 pages | PDF | 56 Mb This open access book explores the challenges and opportunities of preserving, reconstructing, exhibiting, and communicating the phenomenon of colour change in heritage collections and artworks through advanced digital technologies, from the perspectives of the authors, many of whom belong to renowned institutions around Europe. Developed within the Horizon Europe project PERCEIVE, this is the first of two volumes offering a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to chromatic heritage.  Malcolm Lambert, "Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede" English | ISBN: 0300236573 | 2017 | 336 pages | MOBI | 4 MB Christians and Pagans offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons.  Chlorine and Chlorine Compounds in the Paper Industry English | 1998| ASIN: B003D7NWHK | 408 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 68.92 MB This handbook provides essential information on toxicology, risk assessment, analysis, monitoring, human and ecological effects, treatment alternatives, ecosystem health, compliance, and much more.  Vassilis K. Fouskas, "China & the USA: Globalisation and the Decline of America's Supremacy" English | ISBN: 3030610969 | 2021 | 109 pages | MOBI | 693 KB This book examines the political economy of conflict between China, a rising power, and the USA, a declining one. It provides an informed analysis as to why China is the main beneficiary of neo-liberal globalisation, a project launched in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the late 1960s under the aegis of the USA. Why are Huawei and other Chinese high-tech giants targeted by the USA and its allies? What is the role of the state and the Chinese political system in the development of China's political economy, as well as its globalisation? Does China's global rise provide a viable and sustainable alternative to neo-liberal globalisation? Since American leaders view increasingly the rise of China as a threat, how likely is an armed conflict between China and the USA? This book answers these questions by using a wealth of empirical material and debating with many theoretical schools of thought, Marxist or otherwise.  Chemistry of Molecules of Life English | 2026 | ISBN: 1041206828 | 288 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 42.1 MB This book presents complex biochemical concepts in accessible language to help understand how molecular structures and interactions sustain life processes and covers biomolecular chemistry, at par with the Choice Based Credit System and NEP 2020 syllabus across India. The book contains six chapters examining the essential molecules in biological systems, and includes themes such as |
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