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The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing
Police are required to obey the law. While that seems obvious, courts have lost track of that requirement due to misinterpreting the two constitutional provisions governing police conduct: the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Fourth Amendment…
Traditional Plant-Based Forms of Treatment of Fungal Infections in Suriname: Phytochemical and Pharmacological Rationale
Plant-based traditional medicines are abundantly used in the Republic of Suriname (South America) for treating a wide variety of conditions including fungal infections. This book reviews nine plants with antifungal potential and explains the…
Cultivating Teacher Resilience: International Approaches, Applications and Impact
This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations that have since…
Comportement, conduite et bien-être animal
This work outlines the general principles and recommendations on the raising of domestic animals applied to the Southern countries, especially tropical regions. These recommendations are important in a context of intensification of farms (dairy,…
Stocks for All : People’s Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the…
Aquatic Organisms Research with DNA Barcodes
This issue focuses on DNA barcoding of aquatic life from temperate regions to the tropics. It includes studies discovering an unknown diversity, describing new species with integrative taxonomy, and studies on phylogenies.
It also contains…
It also contains…
Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health
Global health, conceived as a discipline, aims to train, research and respond to problems of a transboundary nature, in order to improve health and health equity at the global level. The current worldwide situation is ruled by globalization, and…
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global : A Study of the Adaptation of Bon Religious Practices in the West
This book provides an in-depth examination of the Yungdrung Bon religion in light of globalization. In its global dimension, Bon has been attracting a growing number of Westerners, particularly to its Dzogchen teachings and meditation practices. In…
Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives
The book raises semiotic questions of human–animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book…