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Security Science
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 69.95Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based on robust underlying theories, principles, models... more...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 84.95For over 30 years, Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been recognised as a leading text for reliability and maintenance professionals. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been updated to remain the first choice for professional engineers and students. The seventh edition incorporates new material on important topics including software... more...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Elsevier Science 2000; US$ 57.95Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book's reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition. This 6th edition incorporates brand new material on the accuracy of reliability prediction and common cause failure based on the author's PhD research... more...
Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 56.00Historically, segregation and social isolation have been recurring responses to people considered defective or deficient in some way. And it is in the midst of such a society that special educator J. David Smith wrote this book, which presents critical historical and contemporary issues in mental retardation. Told through gripping vignettes and interwoven... more...
The Baltic States and their Region
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 93.80With EU and NATO membership for the Baltic States now a reality, this volume examines the relationship of the three countries, their constituent peoples and their surrounding region to the wider Europe, both historically and in the period since 1991. In particular, the contributors seek to locate the Baltic area within the manifold debates surrounding... more...
RELIABILITY, MAINTAINABILITY AND RISK
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 89.95This book provides engineers with the safety and risk assessment tools and techniques they need to work effectively in any safety or reliability critical environment. These tools are primarily statistical. Where David Smith?s book succeeds is by meeting the needs of an applied audience by setting these tools in the context of the design and operation... more...
Post-Cold War Identity Politics
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 55.95During the past decade northern Europe has started to assume an identity of its own. Categories of East and West have become blurred, challenging as well the idea of what it means to be Nordic. Post-Cold War Identity Politics maps this process in Scandinavia. Looking at projects designed to help regional development in the Nordic countires, it assesses... more...
Forgotten Pages in Baltic History
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 102.00The years from 1918 to 1945 remain central to European History. It was a breath-taking time during which the very best and very worst attributes of Mankind were on display. In the euphoria of peace which followed the end of the First World War, the Baltic States emerged as independent forces on the world stage, participating in thrilling experiments... more...
Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to challenge established understandings of the nation state.... more...
From Recognition to Restoration
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 47.00Taking its cue from the 90th anniversary commemorations of November 2008, this work explores the relationship between state and nationhood during the three phases to date in Latvias existence as a territorial entity: the sovereign statehood of 1918-1940; more...









