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City Planning for the Public Manager is designed to fill a significant gap in the literature and provide students and practitioners with hands-on, practical advice from experts with diverse city administration experience to aid the reader in real-life application and to demonstrate where theory and practice intersect.

A thorough revision of a popular text in combinatorial game theory, this second edition reorganizes presentation to make it more widely accessible.

This new volume, Biopolymers and Biomaterials, covers the science and application of biopolymers and biomaterials. It presents an array of different studies on biopolymers and biomaterials, along with their results, interpretation, and the conclusions arrived at through investigations.

The book covers federal law and public policy as well as the various technologies and programs that transportation agencies are exploring or putting into place to accommodate this population in their facilities, vehicles and communities.

This new volume presents an up-to-date review of modern materials and physical chemistry concepts, issues, and recent advances in the field. It presents a modern theoretical and experimental approach in applied physical chemistry.

This volume is devoted to novel architectures at the nano-level with an emphasis on new synthesis and characterization methods. Special emphasis is given to new applications of nanostructures and nanocomposites in various fields, such as nano-electronics, energy conversion, catalysis, drug delivery and nano-medicine.

This new volume provides a wealth of realistic and applicable information for addressing mental health related issues resulting from disasters. It provides readers with both a theoretical and practical look at community-based psychosocial support and community consultation from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book uses case study methodology and practical examples to share how communities can come together, care for themselves, and use their social capital and problem-solving skills to survive and thrive. The information in the book will aid in the development of program offerings for mental health and psychosocial support in disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

This book covers crime, criminal justice and victimization in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, focusing on the issues, their effect on the country and the government's efforts to mitigate them. Authors are from the U.S., India, UK, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Singapore.

Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations addresses the continued and growing need for gaming security professionals to properly and successfully investigate the increasing and unique types of crime they will face in their careers.

This book outlines and discusses the framework (or lifecycle) for innovation. This book provides a comprehensive look at the Innovation Body of Knowledge for product strategy, marketing, R&D, development, and commercialization functions.

This new book, The Future of Organizations: Workplace Issues and Practices, provides valuable insights into how organizations are changing and evolving and how human resource personnel, employers, and employees are reacting to these emerging workplace transitions.

This new volume presents an up-to-date review of modern materials and physical chemistry concepts, issues, and recent advances in analytical and physical chemistry. Distinguished scientists and engineers from key institutions worldwide have contributed chapters that provide a deep analysis of their particular subjects.

Gangs and Organized Crime offers an informed and carefully investigated examination of gangs and organized crime groups.

This volume addresses the challenges of the short shelf-life of fruits and vegetables. Innovative packaging technologies are the most promising strategies for overcoming these limitations. The book will provide a host of sustainable packaging solutions that deliver protection, branding, consumer attractiveness, and speed to market in a competitive retail environment.

The growing complexity of projects and the uncertainty that reigns in today's global economy are rendering ineffective traditional project practices and processes. These outdated techniques are based on the premise that knowledge about a project is complete before it ever starts¿this is nearly impossible in today's ever-changing world. New methods are needed to allow projects to adapt to changing conditions. Simply said, project management has to evolve! This book presents the latest steps in this evolution.

Whether discussing casual sex in the Star Wars universe; analyzing various Otome games; examining "the gaze" in various games; player romance behavior in games; or exploring the ethical ramifications of sexuality in virtual reality and other emerging technologies, this book discusses what players want in video game romance.

This volume is a thorough presentation of the state-of-the-art research and developments in drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and its applications. It includes 12 chapters that focus on the targeting facet of drug delivery systems. Targeting is a focused maneuver to achieve the specified goals, including achieving the desired result and reaching the specific location. Targeting has now been successfully achieved for several diseases/disorders; however, its role is noteworthy in cancer treatment where chemotherapy is a main course of approach. Nanotechnology-based products have great potential by virtue of their inherent features.

This volume presents a full picture of the state-of-the-art research and development in drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and its applications. This volume, the first of a two-volume series, addresses the ever-expanding application of nanotechnology or nano-sized materials in the medical field and the real-world challenges and complexities of current drug delivery methodologies and techniques.

This text highlights individuals¿ own lived and felt experience, in order to share expertise about mental health problems. Looking at five common mental health states ¿ anxiety, depression, mood extremes, states of altered reality and impaired cognition ¿ the book also addresses the experience of care offered by health and social services and the impact of other people¿s responses. Drawing on personal narratives from a range of sources, this text foregrounds the voices of experts by experience, relates those voices to the academic literature and emphasises the importance of person-centred care and participation by services users in their own care.

This new volume, Engineering Interventions in Sustainable Trickle Irrigation: Irrigation Requirements and Uniformity, Fertigation, and Crop Performance, presents valuable research that evaluates crop water and fertigation requirements, examines optimum irrigation and fertigation scheduling, and analyzes the performance of agricultural crops under micro irrigation. With an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume addresses the urgent need to explore and investigates the current shortcomings and challenges of water resources engineering, especially in micro irrigation engineering.

Plant Biotechnology, Volume 2: Plant Biotechnology is on Transgenics, Stress Management, and Biosafety Issues is the second of this new two-volume set. This volume covers many recent advances in the development of transgenic plants that have revolutionized our concepts of sustainable food production, cost-effective alternative energy strategies, microbial biofertilizers and biopesticides, and disease diagnostics through plant biotechnology. With the advancements in plant biotechnology, many of the customary approaches are out of date, and an understanding of new updated approaches is needed.