Duterte: Delivering the Promised Peace to Mindanao by Singh, Bilveer

“…After years of starts-stops and derailment of peace agreements, the Philippines is today poised to make a peace breakthrough in strife-torn Muslim-dominated Mindanao in southern Philippines. …”
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Handbook Of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics And Motion Control / by Fossen, Thor I., author 571020, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…References and examples are included to enable engineers to analyze existing projects before making their own designs, as well as MATLAB scripts for hands-on software development and testing. …”
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Introduction. Post-Soviet censorship and regulation in Russia by Raspopina, Aleksandra

“…In the brief post-Soviet history of Russia, journalists have always struggled to work freely, pressured on one hand by the state and business interests, and on the other by their own commercial – and physical – survival. The political and media history of twenty-first century Russia has been characterized by ever-tightening restrictions and increasing state control over the media, marked by widespread self-censorship and assassinations of journalists often occurring without thorough police investigations. …”
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Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances

“…Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. …”

The social atlas of Europe by Ballas, D, Dorling, D, Hennig, B

“…Many of us think of European countries as discreet entities—their own languages, cultures, food, and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries. …”

What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…This chapter argues that the imperial critique of Dicey is correct, but that the remedy can be found in Dicey’s own work, in his discussion of sovereignty and in the hints he dropped about the social basis of the rule of law. …”

‘Urge, urge, urge, dogs gnawing’: pain, play and the material text in Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella by Williams, A

“…This chapter explores how Swift uses his text to record the physical ailments of the public figures who dominate his working life, linking these very public bodies to Swift’s own physical experiences. It also considers the letters as a text not only materially shaped by the corporeal but serving as a substitute for the body. …”

Regimental agents as Language Intermediaries in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Realms by Pataki, K

“…Isenflamm was part of a network of Hallean Pietists and his efforts to communicate with his business partners in their own languages could also be inspired by Hallean missions and translation projects.…”

Science Communication by Ho, Shirley S., Yu, Peihan

“…Science communication encompasses communication about science, as well as communication of science, each with their own aims. The communication about science aims to involve the public in defining the boundaries of science, thus enabling them to shape and conduct science. …”
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Development of applications for mobile devices I by Panganiban, Nicole Dale

“…In the previous years, it was necessary for the patients that want to book a medical appointment to personally head down to the clinic or hospital. …”
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Thematic Analysis : A Practical Guide / by Braun, Virginia, author 541348, Clarke, Victoria (Associate Professor in Sexuality Studies), author 643784

“…"Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences. …”
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Business Research Methods / by Bell, Emma, 1968-, author 200397, Bryman, Alan, author 172014, Harley, Bill, author 655243, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…Above all else, the book places strong emphasis on those challenges faced most frequently by students, such as choosing a research question, planning a project, and writing it up. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…This core idea of this book is that the Basque Country, due to its own intricacies rather than merely as a consequence of its being kidnapped and held captive by the old-fashioned Spanish and French state legal frameworks, has come, over the years, to develop many points of inertia that are inherent in its territorial policies and strategies. …”

Nahj al-Balāghah: the wisdom and eloquence of ʿAlī: a parallel English-Arabic text by al-Raḍī, A-S

“…Showcasing ʿAlī’s life and travails in his own words, it also transcribes his profound reflections on piety and virtue, and on just and compassionate governance. …”

Interactive learning on ECG by Zhu, Yu Ting

“…Moreover, for users who are keen on delving deeper into hardware development, this project offers an opportunity to build and modify their own hardware equipment.…”
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Unprinted: publication beyond the press by Kohler, D, Wakelin, D, Domeisen, N, Jones, E, Mackay, M, Maxton, R, Moore, BM, Noble, K, Simon, FM, Haywood, D, Wojahn, D

“…The picture that transpires is that of a colourful variety of contexts of production and dissemination, underlining the value of studying 'unprinted' publication in its own right.…”

Sentinels of Afghan democracy : the Afghan national army by Chan, Samuel

“…Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community has contributed much in terms of manpower, monetary aid, essential equipment and expertise in rehabilitaring this war-torn Central Asia country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has arguably been one of the leading success stories. …”
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Systematically Working with Multimodal Data : Research Methods in Multimodal Discourse Analysis / by Norris, Sigrid, 1961-, author 654980, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Contains new research data, exceptional illustrations and diagrams Offers step-by-step processes of working through examples, transcriptions and online videos Goes into great depth so that students can use the book as hands-on material to engage with their own data analysis Designed to be easy-to-use with color-coded definitions, tasks, discussion points and notes Written for advanced undergraduate, graduate and PhD level students, as well as participants in research workshops, Systematically Working with Multimodal Data is an authoritative guide to understanding data-driven qualitative Multimodal Discourse Analysis…”
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Heritage science : expanding the thinkable future beyond inherited pasts and the visible presents by Nanetti, Andrea

“…The proceedings of the meeting that are published in this book present a collection of interpretations, whose appreciation would highly benefit from a clear understanding of both the common definition, from which they all start, and the different assumptions, on which each author's discipline bases its own different discourse.…”
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Sex, lies, and memoirs: on writing intimate ethnography, dealing with silence and ethically ambiguous storytelling by Garapich, Michał P.

“…Using the example of a book published about one’s own family history, the author presents several ethical dilemmas where engagement with intimate ethnographies is fraught with pitfalls and can tear apart people, families and individuals; however, it can also give a brief and illuminating holistic experience of mutual horizontal connectedness, human harmony, and communion across time and space. …”
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