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The 33 essays in this volume together provide a valuable overview of the progress towards a theory of quantum gravity, and offer succinct treatment of: quantum field theory in curved space-times, supergravity, cosmology, black holes, quantum geometry, supersymmetry and related phenomena.

Quantum gravity --- Gravity, Quantum --- General relativity (Physics) --- Gravitation --- Quantum theory --- DeWitt, Bryce S. --- Quantum gravity. --- DeWitt, Bryce Seligman, --- DeWitt, B. S. --- Seligman, Carl Bryce,

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This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context. In so doing the book offers a reflection on contextual boundaries with an overall boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes important cases of critical participation within engineering education with sophisticated scholarly reflection on both opportunities and discontents. Whether, and in what way engineering education is or ought to be contextualized or de-contextualized is an object of heated debate among engineering educators. The uniqueness of this study is that this debate is given comprehensive coverage – presenting both instrumentally inclined as well as radical positions on transforming engineering education. In contextualizing engineering education, this book offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary, meta- and interdisciplinary perspectives on how cultural, professional, institutional, and educational systems contexts shape histories, structural dynamics, ideologies and challenges as well as new pathways in engineering education. Topics addressed include examining engineering education in countries ranging from India to America, to racial and gender equity in engineering education and incorporating social awareness into the area. Using context as “bridge” this book confronts engineering education head on. Contending engineering ideologies and corresponding views on context are juxtaposed with contending discourses of reform. The uniqueness of the book is that it brings together scholars from the humanities, the social sciences and engineering from Europe – both East and West – with the United States, China, Brazil, India and Australia.

Philosophy --- Curriculum development --- Didactics --- Teaching --- Materials sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Production management --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- filosofie --- onderwijs --- opvoeding --- curriculumontwikkeling --- cursussen --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Engineering --- Study and teaching

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The rise of emerging or new powers has recently become one of the most researched areas in International Relations. While most studies focus on relations between traditional and emerging powers, this edited collection turns the focus 180 degrees and asks how countries outside these two power sets have reacted to the emerging new world order. Are emerging powers creating a united front in a struggle to change the global order, or are they more concerned with national interests? Are we seeing major changes in the global order, or simply an adjustment by the traditional powers to the emergence of new contenders? In order to the answer these questions, the authors take a broad thematic approach in analyzing recent trends in the interplay between states, markets and societies, concentrating in particular on Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and on the three major emerging powers: China, India and Brazil.

Economic development --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Developing countries --- Economic conditions. --- Foreign relations. --- International relations. --- Economic policy. --- Political economy. --- Globalization. --- Development economics. --- International Relations. --- Economic Policy. --- International Political Economy. --- Development Policy. --- Development Economics. --- Economics --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- BRIC countries --- Politics and government. --- Big Four countries --- BRICS countries

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The rise of emerging or new powers has recently become one of the most researched areas in International Relations. While most studies focus on relations between traditional and emerging powers, this edited collection turns the focus 180 degrees and asks how countries outside these two power sets have reacted to the emerging new world order. Are emerging powers creating a united front in a struggle to change the global order, or are they more concerned with national interests? Are we seeing major changes in the global order, or simply an adjustment by the traditional powers to the emergence of new contenders? In order to the answer these questions, the authors take a broad thematic approach in analyzing recent trends in the interplay between states, markets and societies, concentrating in particular on Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and on the three major emerging powers: China, India and Brazil.

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