The Battle of Khalkin Gol (also called Nomonhan), sent shockwaves through world history. It was a testbed for future Soviet doctrine and a catalyst for the Japanese political upheaval that brought the United States into every theater of World War II.

A rebuilding Russian army (still reeling from Stalin’s purges) and its combined-arms doctrine faced off against Japan’s modern bushido; the Soviet tactics used successfully here would prove devastating in the war to come. The Russian vi...

This volume represents a bold attempt by the editors to bring scholars from distinct research orientations together, to discuss the interplay between the geographic and social dimensions of different kinds of interaction networks.

Within the humanities, networks afford an umbrella of approaches to the study of social relations and their patterning, both through qualitative and quantitative applications, with two main perspectives standing out: those centered on space and those concerned with ...

There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning, or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things, places and the environment contribute with their own agencies to the shaping of relations.

This means that the environment cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Parallel to this, the field of env...

For the first time seasonality is placed at the centre of the study of rural settlement. Using a Europe-wide approach, it provides a primer of examples, of techniques and of ideas for the identification and understanding of seasonal settlement. As such, it marks an important new step in the interpretation of the use of the countryside by historic communities linked to the annual passage of the year. The particular studies are introduced by an opening essay which draws wider conclusions about ...

A sound understanding of how our built environment came about constitutes a core competence in any architectural training and professional experience. The history of urbanism on the European continent, in particular, constitutes a fundamental basis for thinking about the city today.

This textbook offers a synthetic, chronological and illustrated overview of the essential ideas, protagonists and paradigms that dominated the theory and practice of urbanism on the European continent from Antiq...

My potential = infinite, just like yours. I keep visualizing, and so I keep using my thoughts to create wonderful things. I share this with you and I have a smile on my face. It is nice to work with you even for a certain period wherein principle time does not exist but our ultimate creation.

Revolution (revəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n) noun 1. A forcible overthrow of what was, in order to make room for what is to come 2. A radical, intentional, necessary change;

There has never in history been a better time for your inner revolution than now. Our world is an increasingly confusing place. Conflicting truths. Diminishing freedoms. Mass surveillance.

Society is morally corrupt, and we know; we see it everywhere. But we have to survive, and to do that means we have to participate in it.

And that...

The Dealingroom is the first and only book that provides insight into exactly how banks and hedge funds make their money trading complex financial products. This is taken from the viewpoint/perspective of the trader/dealer and not from the customer to whom the product has been sold.

A trader continuously buys and sells financial products such as stocks and bonds, structuring them in combinations to create more complex products such as synthetics, turbos, interest rate swaps, bond swaps, equi...

Music and technology are ubiquitous. In recent decades, developments in music-listening technology have ensured that our personal music is everywhere and accessible at all times. But how does the coupling of these two phenomena work in therapeutic contexts? In this groundbreaking handbook, Carola Werger, Marijke Groothuis, and Artur Jaschke investigate the various opportunities that music technology can bring to the profession, the field, and the development of music therapy in general. The b...

Take the lead through working together: that is what this book is all about. It is an invitation to CEOs, executives and R&D managers of SMEs who have been around for quite some time and who want to make sure their company is future-fit and thriving.

The era of doing everything yourself is over and done with. Companies that cut themselves off from the outside world are a thing of the past. The future belongs to organisations that are experts in their field and that collaborate across organis...