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3A086714325.jsonld | The chronology of American literature : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times | From publisher: If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal browser's guide, this book outlines the indispensable information in America's rich literary past-from major publications to lesser-known gems--while also identifying larger trends along the literary timeline. Who wrote the first published book in America? When did Edgar Allan Poe achieve notoriety as a mystery writer? What was Hemingway's breakout title? With more than 8,000 works by 5,000 authors, The Chronology makes it easy to find answers to these questions and more. Authors and their works are grouped within each year by category: fiction and nonfiction; poems; drama; literary criticism; and publishing events. Short, concise entries describe an author's major works for a particular year while placing them within the larger context of that writer's career. The result is a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of some of America's most prominent writers. Perhaps most important, The Chronology offers an invaluable line through our literary past, tying literature to the American experience-war and peace, boom and bust, and reaction to social change. You'll find everything here from Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity, to Davy Crockett's first memoir; from Thoreau's Civil Disobedience to Edith Wharton' Ethan Frome; from meditations by James Weldon Johnson and James Agee to poetry by Elizabeth Bishop. Also included here are seminal works by authors such as Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lavishly illustrated-and rounded out with handy bestseller lists throughout the twentieth century, lists of literary awards and prizes, and authors birth and death dates-The Chronology of American Literature belongs on the shelf of every bibliophile and literary enthusiast. It is the essential link to our literary past and present | [
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3A1725384043.jsonld | Teaching language and literature on and off-canon | ""This book examines the usage of literature in language teaching. It also explores the revitalization of cultures through the teaching of language and literature"--Provided by publisher"-- | [
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3A1651082499.jsonld | Light Scattering Reviews, Vol. 6 : Light Scattering and Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Surface | This is the next volume in series of "Light Scattering Reviews". Volumes 1-5 have already been printed by Springer. The volume is composed of several papers (usually, 10) of leading researchers in the respective field. The main focus of this book is light scattering, radiative transfer and optics of snow | [
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3A1879440091.jsonld | Corporate governance and financial performance : a study of German and UK initial public offerings | This important book presents a new original study of the German and UK financial markets. It addresses the relationship between corporate governance, ownership and financial performance in German and UK firms floated during the 1980s. Marc Goergen uses detailed company micro-data to examine the ownership and performance of each firm from the time of its flotation to six years later. He finds that the evolution of ownership depends on certain corporate characteristics and that differences in financial performance cannot be explained simply by differences in the concentration of ownership. The book sheds new light on the important issue of whether corporate ownership influences or is influenced by financial performance. The main findings of the book have important implications for public policy and the current public debate on corporate governance and the globalisation of financial markets. They are important for established financial markets and the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe as well as for international scholars interested in issues of corporate governance and the performance of firms | [
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3A1654520578.jsonld | Developing metadata application profiles | "This book is concerned with the processes for development of metadata application profiles, in an increasingly complex world of data, information standards and requirements for data exchange and interoperability. The chapters in this book cover a range of approaches to the development of metadata application profiles"--Provided by publisher. | [
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3A1648053335.jsonld | Development Co-operation Reviews: European Community 1998 | The European Community (EC) is the world's second largest multilateral channel for development assistance (after the World Bank). Its combined programmes are the fifth-largest among the 22 Members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and EC programmes have grown an average 3.3 per cent annually over the past five years, while the combined effort of DAC countries declined by 4.7 per cent annually. The Community's allocation of resources to lower income countries has not kept pace, however, with the overall growth of the ODA budget over recent years. EC programmes operate within a complex organisation and management structure, and Brussels faces serious challenges of implementation in adapting its operations to achieve agreed development objectives. There have been important steps in the evolution of the European Commission structures: a Common Service has been created to implement co-operation activities for the four Directorates General. But there is still a need to strengthen the capacity of delegations in the field to work fully with partners in advancing local ownership and co-ordination. The EC has a strong role to play in improving the coherence of policies affecting developing countries. The report analyses this question in fields such as agriculture, trade, fisheries agreements and Community fishing fleet subsidies. Co-ordination with other donors also seems to be improving, which bodes well for better overall partnerships between donors and partner countries. In 1998, the development co-operation policy of the following DAC Member countries will be reviewed: Canada, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and the United States. | [
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3A1654972800.jsonld | Race, Culture, and Gender : Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse | This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women’s experiences of violence and abuse. Through in depth interviews and analysis the author reveals their feelings of being silenced as children, women, Black women and as victims/survivors. Being silenced or staying silent about experiences of violence and abuse are key influences in how and when women access help and support and Kanyeredzi illuminates missed opportunities in how and when this help and support can and should be given. Based on women’s descriptions of how they felt supported, listened to, yet ‘unheard’, chapters explore what professionals might face in the process of supporting Black women who access these services. The book contributes valuable understanding to the growing literature discussing challenges faced by minoritised women attempting to live full lives in the UK. It also includes images created as part of the project. This book is a useful resource for victims/survivors, students, researchers, clinical psychologists, counsellors, health professionals, social workers, educators and specialised violence support organisations. | [
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3A1645137252.jsonld | Digital Holography : Digital Hologram Recording, Numerical Reconstruction, and Related Techniques | This book presents a self-contained treatment of the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography). The first part deals with optical foundations and the theory of holography. The next section describes how to record holograms directly with an electronic sensor (CCD) and describes the various reconstruction techniques. A special chapter is designated to digital holographic interferometry with applications in deformation and shape measurement and refractive index determination. Applications in imaging and microscopy are also described. The next part discusses special techniques such as digital light-in-flight holography, holographic endoscopy, information encrypting and comparative holography. In the last chapter related techniques of speckle metrology are treated briefly. This highly practical and self-contained guidebook explains the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography). A special chapter is designated to digital holographic interferometry with applications in deformation and shape measurement and refractive index determination. Applications in imaging and microscopy are also described. Spcial techniques such as digital light-in-flight holography, holographic endoscopy, information encrypting, comparative holography, and related techniques of speckle metrology are also treated | [
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3A670137898.jsonld | Metric handbook : planning and design data | "An essential reference resource for any architect or architect student, the Metric Handbook is the major handbook for planning and design data. For each building type, the book gives basic design requirements, principal dimensional data and details of relevant building regulations. The book also contains information on broader aspects of design applicable to all building types, such as materials, acoustics and lighting, and data on human dimensions and space requirements. Significantly updated, the new edition of this work focuses on sustainable design practice to make projects competitive within a green market. As well as a full revision, including additional new building types and the latest updates to regulation and practice, the book features an improved new layout with color images and text to make it easier to find vital information quickly. Metric Handbook is a tried and tested, authoritative reference for solving everyday planning problems - it is a must have for every design office desk and drawing board"-- | [
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3A1886379602.jsonld | The Rowman & Littlefield handbook of media management and business | "This authoritative handbook connects research and industry practice in a one-stop reference for media students and professionals. Addressing the latest technologies and business practices, the handbook offers strategic guidance for solving media management issues in a convergent environment." | [
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3A664914888.jsonld | The science of language : interviews with James McGilvray | "Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics - the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind, morality and universality, science and common sense, and the evolution of language. McGilvray's extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of interviews accessible to a variety of readers. The volume is essential reading for those involved in the study of language and mind, as well as anyone with an interest in Chomsky's ideas"-- | [
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3A325978573.jsonld | Pastimes and politics : culture, community, and identity in post-abolition urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 | Zanzibar history, slavery and abolition -- Culture and community in Urban Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, identity, and belonging -- Being and becoming an Arab: citizenship, consumption, and race -- Methodology -- Dress, class, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century -- Dressing up: new identities and new clothes -- Islam, veiling and respectability -- Gender, politics, and cultural change -- Conclusion -- From Kiungani to Ng'ambo -- Hut tax, ground rent, and resistance to World War I -- Transformation in urban land tenure and the early years of ground rent in Ng'ambo -- Growing tensions over ground rent -- The ground rent strike of 1928 -- Arab and the creation of a Zanzibari identity -- Background on the band and the role of the religion in the rise of to fame -- The creative context of Siti's songs -- Continuity and change in the constellations of colonial power -- Gender and the colonial courts -- "When you wanted me I stayed with you, now do you not want me I have no need for you" -- Conclusion -- The early years of football in Zanzibar -- The politics of sport in colonial Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, nationalism, masculinity and community: the multiple meanings of football in island life -- Conclusion | [
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3A823805824.jsonld | The achievement habit : stop wishing, start doing, and take command of your life | The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible. Achievement can be learned. It's a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you'll be able to meet life's challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends. In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable insights that stem from design thinking-previously used to solve large scale projects-to help us realize the power for positive change we all have within us | [
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3A597703361.jsonld | International Investment Law: Understanding Concepts and Tracking Innovations : A Companion Volume to International Investment Perspectives | International investment agreements set ground rules for how host governments treat foreign investors. This companion volume to International Investment Perspectives provides an unparalleled source of information on four key issues: the definition of investor and investment; the interpretation of umbrella clauses in investment agreements; coverage of environmental, labour and anti-corruption issues; and the interaction between investment and services chapters in selected regional trade agreements. | [
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3A086770209.jsonld | The foundations of mind : origins of conceptual thought | This title offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts How to build a baby : prologue -- Piaget's sensorimotor infant -- Kinds of representation : seeing and thinking -- Perceptual meaning analysis and image-schemas : the infant as interpreter -- Some image-schemas and their functions -- Some differences between percepts and concepts : the case of the basic level -- Some preverbal concepts -- Conceptual categories as induction machines -- Continuity in the conceptual system : acquisition, breakdown, and reorganization -- Recall of the past -- Language acquisition -- Consciousness and conclusions | [
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3A1750023121.jsonld | Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4 | Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?, Valuing Natural Capital Within an Integrated Economic Ecological, Developing Economies, Urbanization, Climate Change and Health, Viewing Environmental Policy Instruments for Domestic and International Perspective, Quasi experimental Estimation of Environmental Policies, Environment Macro, The Rules for Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Environmental Resources, and How Should Uncertainty Be Integrated into the Methods for Policy Evaluation? | [
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3A625995872.jsonld | Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development | This book is the product of a collaborative effort between the OECD Environment and Development Cooperation directorates on mainstreaming responses to climate change in development planning and assistance. This volume synthesizes insights from six country case studies that review climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, analyze relevant national plans and aid investments in terms of their exposure and attention to climate risks, and examine in-depth key systems where climate change is closely intertwined with development and natural resource management. The case studies cover the Nepal Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the Nile in Egypt, the Bangladesh Sundarbans, coastal mangroves in Fiji, and agriculture and forestry sectors in Uruguay.--Publisher's description | [
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3A1652235620.jsonld | Cultural integration of immigrants in Europe | Taking an economic perspective, this edited collection presents a current, comparative picture of the process of cultural integration of immigrants across Europe. It documents the main economic debates on cultural integration, and provides descriptions of the integration process in 7 main European countries. The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that need to be addressed. What are the patterns and dynamics of cultural integration? How do they differ across immigrants of different ethnic groups and religious faiths? How do they differ across host societies? What are the implications and consequences for market outcomes and public policy? Which kind of institutional contexts are more or less likely to accommodate the cultural integration of immigrants? All these questions are crucial for policy makers and await answers. This book aims to provide a stepping stone to the debate. Taking an economic perspective, this edited book presents a current, comparative picture of the process of cultural integration of immigrants across Europe. It documents the main economic debates on the causes and consequences of cultural integration of immigrants, and provides detailed descriptions of the cultural and economic integration process in seven main European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It also compares the European context with the integration of immigrants in the United States. | [
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3A1733562273.jsonld | Knowledge and education in classical Islam : religious learning between continuity and change / edited by Sebastian Günther ; Volume 2 | Volume 2. Part VI. Travel, the Exact Sciences, and Islamic Learning: 24. War and Travel, Patrons and the Mail: The Education of Abū l-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (d. 440/1048) / Barbara Stowasser -- 25. Variants of Galenism: Ibn Hindū and Ibn Riḍwān on the Study of Medicine / Lutz Richter-Bernburg -- 26. Teaching Mathematical and Astronomical Knowledge in Classical and Post-Classical Islamicate Societies / Sonja Brentjes -- Part VII. Politics of Knowledge and Muslim Identity: 27. The Development of a Sufi Anti-curriculum: Politics of Knowledge and Authority in Classical Islamic Education / Sara Abdel-Latif -- 28. Knowledge in the Buyid Period: Practices and Formation of Social Identity / Nuha Alshaar -- 29. A Ruler's Curriculum: Transcultural Comparisons of Mirrors for Princes / Enrico Boccaccini --30. Interpretive Power and Conflicts of Interpretive Power: Caliphate, Religion, and "True" Islamic Education at the Dawn of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century in Baghdad / Angelika Hartmann -- 31. The ʻĀlim-Caliph: Reimagining the Caliph as a Man of Learning in Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth-Century Egypt / Mustafa Banister -- Part VIII. Principles and Practices in Ibadi and Shiʻi Learning: 32. Teaching Ethics in Early Ibadism: A Preliminary Study / Jana Newiger -- 33. Scholars of Ḥilla and the Early Imami Legal Tradition: Ibn Abī ʻAqīl and Ibn al-Junayd, "The Two Ancient Scholars," Retrieved / Ali R. Rizek -- 34. Shiʻi Higher Learning in the Pre-Safavid Period: Scholars, Educational Ideals, Practices, and Curricula / Maryam Moazzen -- Part IX. Gender, Human Growth, and Authority in Muslim Education -- 35. Denial of Similitude: The Exegetical Concern with Gender in "And the Male Is Not Like the Female" (Q3:36) / Hosn Abboud --36. "If Music Be the Food of Love?" The Singing-Girls and the Notion of Ṭarab as Part of an Adab-Ideal / Agnes Imhof -- 37. Women Scholars of Ḥadīth: A Case Study of the Eighth/Fourteenth-Century Muʻjam al-Shaykha Maryam / Mohsen Haredy -- 38. Knowledge, Piety, and Religious Leadership in the Late Middle Ages: Reinstating Women in the Master Narrative / Asma Afsaruddin -- Part X. Transformations of Classical Muslim Learning: 39. The Development of Arabo-Islamic Education among Members of the Mamluk Military / Christian Mauder -- 40. Dissociation of Theology from Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Period / Mehmet Kalaycı -- 41. The Malaysian Scholar Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (b.1931) on Islamic Education: An Evaluation in View of Classical Islamic Sources / HansDaiber -- General Notes on the Indices -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Geographical Names and Toponyms -- Index of Book Titles and Other Texts -- Index of Scriptural References -- Ḥadīth Index --Index of Topics and Keywords. "Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change is a pioneering collection of essays on the historical developments, ideals, and practices of Islamic learning and teaching in the formative and classical periods of Islam (i.e., from the seventh to fifteenth centuries CE). Based on innovative and philologically sound primary source research, and utilizing the most recent methodological tools, this two volume set sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities that arise from a deep engagement with classical Islamic concepts of knowledge, its production and acquisition, and, of course, learning. Learning is especially important because of its relevance to contemporary communities and societies in our increasingly multicultural, "global" civilizations, whether Eastern or Western. Contributors: Hosn Abboud, Sara Abdel-Latif, Asma Afsaruddin, Shatha Almutawa, Nuha Alshaar, Jessica Andruss, Mustafa Banister, Enrico Boccaccini, Sonja Brentjes, Michael G. Carter, Hans Daiber, Yoones Dehghani Farsani, Yassir El Jamouhi, Nadja Germann, Antonella Ghersetti, Sebastian Günther, Mohsen Haredy, Angelika Hartmann, Paul L. Heck, Asma Hilali, Agnes Imhof, Jamal Juda, Wadad Kadi, Mehmet Kalayci, Alexey A. Khismatulin, Todd Lawson, Mariana Malinova, Ulrika Mårtensson, Christian Mauder, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Maryam Moazzen, Angelika Neuwirth, Jana Newiger, Luca Patrizi, Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Ali R. Rizek, Mohammed Rustom, Jens Scheiner, Gregor Schoeler, Steffen Stelzer, Barbara Stowasser, Jacqueline Sublet, and Martin Tamcke"-- | [
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3A180133157X.jsonld | Design ethnography : research, responsibilities, and futures | Inhaltsverzeichnis: Approach -- Techniques -- Evaluating -- Prototyping -- Experimenting -- Transforming -- Revaluing -- Futuring -- Workshopping -- Engaging. Verlagsinfo: "This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice, and engagement. The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy, and design research, draw on their extensive international experience of collaborating with engineers, designers, creative practitioners, and specialists from other fields. They call for, and demonstrate the benefits of, ethnographic and conceptual attention to design as part of our personal and public everyday lives, society, institutions, and activism. Design Ethnography is essential reading for researchers, scholars and students seeking to reshape the way we research, live, and design ethically and responsibly into yet unknown futures"-- | [
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3A1695567838.jsonld | Social housing and urban renewal : a cross-national perspective | This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies (housing associations) - emerged out of post-war urban renewal programmes and became a prominent feature of the landscape across North American, European and Australian cities. During the last two decades, however, Western governments have launched high-profile 'new urban renewal' programmes whose aim has been to change the image and status of these estates away from that of being zones of concentrated poverty and other social problems. This latest phase of renewal has involved demolishing many social housing estates and replacing them with mixed-tenure housing developments in which deconcentration of poverty and the social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are major goals. | [
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3A170212715X.jsonld | From Cape Town to Kabul : rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights | Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of 'conditional interdependence', the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women's rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law | [
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3A883393190.jsonld | Waves in oceanic and coastal waters | Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to the physical aspects of waves. After introducing observation techniques for waves, both at sea and from space, the book defines the parameters that characterise waves. Using basic statistical and physical concepts, the author discusses the prediction of waves in oceanic and coastal waters, first in terms of generalised observations, and then in terms of the more theoretical framework of the spectral energy balance. He gives the results of established theories and also the direction in which research is developing. The book ends with a description of SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore), the preferred computer model of the engineering community for predicting waves in coastal waters | [
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3A1697691773.jsonld | Monitoring Health System Performance in Peru : Data and Statistics | Peru has seen great progress towards the goal of providing universal health coverage to its population but still faces structural barriers to provide accessible and quality care . At the same time, Peru is going through a demographic and epidemiological transition, with an increasing disease burden from non-communicable diseases, with significant increases in cancer, CVD and diabetes, especially in urban areas. Measuring how the Peruvian health system is responding to these challenges requires a solid set of health sector statistics and indicators, underpinned by a robust health information system. The breadth and depth of data must be relevant and applicable to decision making at all levels of the health system, both to respond to national policy needs as well as comparing Peru in a regional and global context. This report assesses the status and availability of Peru’s routinely reported health sector data and statistics as well as the underlying data infrastructure. The report provides a set of recommendations to improve the health information system and to strengthen data coverage and comparability as Peru’s health care system develops. | [
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3A1615384723.jsonld | France's lost empires : fragmentation, nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale | Introduction : territorial loss and the construction of French colonial identities, 1763-1962 / Kate Marsh -- Remember Saint Domingue : accounts of the Haitian revolution by refugee planters in Paris and colonial debates under the restoration, 1814-25 / Yun Kyoung Kwon -- A celebration of empire : nostalgic representations of l'Inde française in Chocolat Suchard's colonial collecting cards of the 1930s / Kathryn Dale -- De Gaulle and the debt of Louis XV : how nostalgia shaped de Gaulle's North American foreign policy in the 1960s / Olivier Courteaux -- Between history, memory, and mythology : the Algerian education of Albert Camus / John Strachan -- Alexandre Arcady and the rewriting of French colonial history in Algeria / Sophie Watt -- Compensating for l'Inde perdue : narrating a special relationship between France and India in romanticized tales of the Indian uprisings (1857-1858) / Nicola Frith -- L'Inde retrouvée : loss and sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867-1868 / Akhila Yechury -- Alexandra Dumas's and Jules Verne's India : the French republic of letters discusses imperial historiography / Indra N. Mukhopadhyay -- Le symbole de l'Afrique perdue : Carnoux-en-Provence and the Pied-Noir community / Claire Eldridge -- La république postcoloniale? : making the nation in late-twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal | [
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3A1647327466.jsonld | State of the Art for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery | The field of endoscopic spinal surgery has seen significant growth in recent years and has led to new and innovative surgical options that address several pathological conditions in the spinal column without running the risks commonly associated with open surgery. This book, as the result of the PASMISS (Pacific Asian Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery) meeting held in Thailand in 2002, is a collection of the latest research by internationally recognized experts in the field. They discuss current techniques for performing endoscopic spine surgery, as well as examining thoracoscopic and laparoscopic techniques. Individual chapters address subjects as diverse as microdiscectomy, laparoscopic epidural surgery, and foraminoscopic spine surgery, The collected knowledge contained within this volume is sure to be of benefit to orthopedic surgeons interested in gaining knowledge of a wide range of new procedures. | [
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3A1023435500.jsonld | Handbook on the history of European banks | The handbook on the history of European banks combines a comprehensive overview with extensive and detailed empirical analysis on the development of European banking and the subsequent impact of banks on national economies pt. 1. Austria -- pt. 2. Belgium -- pt. 3. Denmark -- pt. 4. Finland -- pt. 5. France -- pt. 6. Germany -- pt. 7. Greece -- pt. 8. Iceland -- pt. 9. Ireland -- pt. 10. Italy -- pt. 11. Luxemburg -- pt. 12. The Netherlands -- pt. 13. Norway -- pt. 14. Portugal -- pt. 15. Spain -- pt. 16. Sweden -- pt. 17. Switzerland/Liechtenstein -- pt. 18. United Kingdom | [
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3A1607158191.jsonld | Subsecond annealing of advanced materials : annealing by lasers, flash lamps and swift heavy ions | The thermal processing of materials ranges from few femtoseconds by Swift Heavy Ion Implantation to about one second using advanced Rapid Thermal Annealing. This book offers after an historical excursus selected contributions on fundamental and applied aspects of thermal processing of classical elemental semiconductors and other advanced materials including nanostructures with novel optoelectronic, magnetic, and superconducting properties. Special emphasis is given on the diffusion and segregation of impurity atoms during thermal treatment. A broad range of examples describes the solid phase and/or liquid phase processing of elemental and compound semiconductors, dielectric composites and organic materials | [
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3A1023609304.jsonld | Berufliche Weiterbildung in Deutschland : ein Vergleich von betrieblicher und individueller Perspektive | Many different factors influence the decisions of companies and individuals to invest time and financial resources in further training. On the most important motive – increasing skills – there are hardly any differences between individuals and firms. As far as obstacles are concerned, it is clear that for both sides it is time which is in short supply. In view of demographic trends, it is generally accepted that further training and, indeed, lifelong learning in general are particularly important for ensuring the supply of skilled workers. Agreements between companies and employees about how the return on their investment in further training is to be shared can help increase willingness to make the commitment. If corporate clients and individual participants are to be able to indentify courses which exactly match their needs and thus avoid wasting effort and expense on unnecessary qualifications, the market for further training needs to become more transparent. Particularly for such target groups as semi- and unskilled workers, training courses also need to be more modular, to make them as specific as possible and take into account both the needs of companies and the competencies of their staff. Es existieren vielfältige Einflussfaktoren auf die betriebliche und die individuelle Entscheidung, zeitliche und finanzielle Ressourcen in Weiterbildung einzubringen. Beim wichtigsten Motiv – der Erhöhung der Kompetenzen – unterscheiden sich die Unternehmen und die Individuen kaum. Bei den Hemmnissen wird deutlich, dass vor allem der Faktor "Zeit" für beide Seiten knapp ist. Allgemein gilt, dass der Weiterbildung und insgesamt dem lebenslangen Lernen vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels eine besondere Bedeutung für die Fachkräftesicherung zukommt. Vereinbarungen zwischen Unternehmen und Mitarbeitern darüber, wie der Erlös einer Weiterbildung aufgeteilt wird, können helfen, die Bereitschaft zu erhöhen, in diese zu investieren. Damit passgenaue Angebote identifiziert und unnötige Qualifizierungen vermieden werden, muss der Weiterbildungsmarkt an Transparenz gewinnen. Speziell für Zielgruppen wie An- und Ungelernte bedarf es einer stärkeren Modularisierung der Angebote, um möglichst spezifische Maßnahmen bereitstellen zu können, welche sowohl die Kompetenzen der Mitarbeiter als auch den Bedarf der Unternehmen berücksichtigen. | [
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3A176956814X.jsonld | Cold War Reckonings : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Romanizations -- Introduction: Ruling Like a Foreigner: Theorizing “Free World” Authoritarianism in the Asia- Pacific Cold War -- Part I. Authorities of Alignment, 1955–1988 -- Part II. Genres of Cold War Reckoning, 1997–2017 -- Epilogue: Authoritarian Lessons for Neoliberal Times -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism to independent nation-states. Assembling a body of transpacific cultural works that speak to this historical conjuncture, Jini Kim Watson reveals autocracy to be not a deficient form of liberal democracy, but rather the result of Cold War entanglements with decolonization.Focusing on East and Southeast Asia, the book scrutinizes cultural texts ranging from dissident poetry, fiction, and writers’ conference proceedings of the Cold War period, to more recent literature, graphic novels, and films that retrospectively look back to these decades with a critical eye. Paying particular attention to anti-communist repression and state infrastructures of violence, the book provides a richaccount of several U.S.–allied Cold War regimes in the Asia Pacific, including the South Korean military dictatorship, Marcos’ rule in the Philippines, illiberal Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, and Suharto’s Indonesia. Watson’s book argues that the cultural forms and narrative techniques that emerged from the Cold War-decolonizing matrix offer new ways of comprehending these histories and connecting them to our present. The book advances our understanding of the global reverberations of the Cold War and its enduring influence on cultural and political formations in the Asia Pacific | [
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3A1671711556.jsonld | Teacher preparation at the intersection of race and poverty in today's schools | Teaching at the intersection of race and poverty / Patrick M. Jenlink -- Appropriation or culturally relevant education? The place of black student culture in school curriculum / Kelly Wallace and J. Amos Hatch -- Improving public education by creating sanctuary in schools : a response to stress and trauma in children and adolescents growing up in poverty / Eileen Santiago, Joanne Ferrara, Sarah M. Yanosy and Kerron Norman -- On slavery and the racialization of teaching practices / Jon N. Hale -- Meeting the challenge of race and poverty in our schools : the role of teacher education / Patrick M. Jenlink -- What do I need to know to become a teacher in today's schools? / Laveria F. Hutchison -- High expectations, content, and support / Carrie Robinson -- Teacher educator responsibilities for preparing teachers to center race / Adam Julian Alvarez -- Real talk about race and poverty / Danné E. Davis -- Adopting a complex, decentered perspective of teaching marginalized students / Kathryn Strom -- Toward a critical race theory for teacher education / Daniel G. Solorzano -- Reimagining three responsibilities of teacher education/preparation : structural racism, poverty, and implicit bias / Sherick Hughes and Ronda Taylor Bullock. | [
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3A642648980.jsonld | Digital signal processing using MATLAB for students and researchers | "This book uses an active learning approach to the topic of digital signal processing (DSP). DSP is a fundamental technology with wide ranging applications as, for example, digital downloads of movies, mobile and broadband communications, digital television, and many other areas. In this book the subject is taught using a "hands-on" experimental approach with MATLAB examples throughout the text to illustrate the mathematical concepts and DSP algorithms developed and explained. Existing books in this area tends to fall into one of two camps - either a highly mathematical treatment with few practical examples of the everyday uses of DSP, or else very verbose and descriptive treatments with little or no mathematical content to back up the topics. The former type of text is excellent as a standard reference, but poor as a learning vehicle. The latter type of text is good for general knowledge, but fails to meet the needs of University students and practicing industry professionals. Students need a learn-by-doing approach, and industry professionals need to come up to speed as rapidly as possible. The book uses MATLAB throughout, inn an established industry and University programming environment. Furthermore, it requires that the reader only have access to the Student/Educational version of MATLAB, not the full commercial version, which is out of reach of most students"-- | [
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3A774015527.jsonld | Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition : learning to use language in context | Section I. Principles of Sociolinguistic Variation and Second Language Acquisition. What sociolinguistics means for the second language learner -- Introduction to sociolinguistic variation -- The role of social characteristics in language variation -- Section II. Approaches to the Study of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Social approaches to second language acquisition -- Cognitive approaches to the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence -- Variationist approaches to the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence -- Empirical research on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence -- The role of study abroad on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence -- Section III. Implications of Research on the Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in Second Languages. Norms and targets --. Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social factors in second languages, summarizes the growing body of empirical research, including examples of findings from a wide range of second languages, and discusses the application of sociolinguistics to the second language classroom. Written for an audience that extends beyond specialists in the field, complete with summary tables, additional readings, discussion questions, and application activities throughout, this volume will serve as the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students of second language acquisition and instruction, and will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of second language acquisition, second language instruction and sociolinguistics. | [
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3A1608374475.jsonld | The Bloomsbury companion to cognitive linguistics | "The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of methods and current research topics and future directions. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It devotes space to looking specifically at the major figures and their contributions. It is a complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and those interested more generally in language and cognition"-- | [
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3A626001137.jsonld | Inclusive Education at Work : Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools | The rights of students with disabilities to be educated in their local mainstream school is becoming more and more accepted in most countries, and many reforms are being put in place to achieve this goal. Further, there is no reason to segregate disabled students in public education systems; instead, education systems need to be reconsidered to meet the needs of all students. Based on in-depth analysis of inclusive practice in eight countries, this book addresses the issues that arise for such practices to be successful. The most detailed international comparative study ever carried out, this book shows that all students, whatever the type and extent of their disability, can be successfully included in mainstream schools, as long as certain safeguards are ensured. Nine areas emerge as being of crucial importance: funding models, systems of public accountability for schools, pupil assessment, curriculum development, adult-to-student ratios, the role of classroom assistants, the functioning of support services, the training of teachers and other professionals and community and parental involvement. The country case studies are complemented by comprehensive annexes describing how teachers can be most efficiently prepared for special education, and developing a procedure for cost-effectiveness analysis of special education. | [
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3A1023443171.jsonld | Financial crises and recession in the global economy | This timely and authoritative book explains the rise and fall of economies in Asia, Central America and Europe since 1980 and discusses these crises in the context of continuing economic globalization. This updated and fully revised edition includes a detailed account of the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, the Japanese crisis which has worsened in the late 1990s and the Asian crisis which emerged in 1997. Professor Allen discusses the impact of new uses and forms of money, and new financial flows such as electronic monies and offshore financial markets 1. The expansion and globalization of financial markets -- 2. Financial market globalization and new trade patterns -- 3. New uses and forms of money, monetary velocity, and wealth transfers -- 4. Financial crises and recession -- 5. International adjustments and political responses | [
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3A1758663057.jsonld | Intelligent system algorithms and applications in science and technology | "Intelligent System Algorithms and Applications in Science and Technology explores the application of intelligent techniques in various fields of engineering and technology. The volume addresses a selection of diverse topics in such areas as machine learning based intelligent systems for healthcare, applications of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, intelligent data analytics techniques, intelligent network systems and applications, and inequalities and process control systems. The authors explore the full breadth of the field, which encompasses data analysis, image processing, speech processing and recognition, medical science and health care monitoring, smart irrigation systems, insurance and banking, robotics and process control, etc. The 21st century has witnessed massive changes around the world in intelligence systems in order to become smarter, energy efficient, reliable, and cheaper. This collection of peer-reviewed book chapters, contributed by renowned experts in the field, will help keep readers up to date; it sheds light on the culture of intelligent techniques in the field of engineering and technology"-- | [
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3A511470819.jsonld | Local information in foreign exchange markets | This study shows that order flow in a foreign exchange market only has permanent price impact if it comes from certain regions. These regions are as predicted by the local information hypothesis centers of political and financial decision making. It is revealing that orders from other regions only show a very short-lived but no permanent price impact. Local information is so important that it carries over from the usually considered market orders to aggressively-priced limit orders too. The finding is robust to various market conditions, common news shocks and consideration of feedback trading. | [
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3A727426877.jsonld | The adventurous life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, physicist (1903 - 1966) | The physicist Friedrich Houtermans (1903-1966) was an essential promoter and proponent of the development of physics in Berne. He introduced a number of activities in the field of elementary particles, with a special focus on the physics of cosmic rays, and important contributions in applied physics. This biography of Houtermans was written by Edoardo Amaldi and was almost finished just before his unexpected death in 1989. The editors have only corrected typographical errors and have introduced only minimal text changes in order to preserve the original content. Additionally they have collected and included unpublished pictures and memories from Houtermans' students and collaborators. The text is the result of a thorough and intensive study on Houtermans' life and character carried out by Edoardo Amaldi. It is more than a biography, since the figure of Houtermans is set in a historical perspective of Europe between the two world wars. This book will be of great interest to historians and historians of science.-- | [
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3A1605303585.jsonld | Introduction to tensor analysis and the calculus of moving surfaces | This text is meant to deepen its readers understanding of vector calculus, differential geometry and related subjects in applied mathematics. This text invites its audience to take a fresh look at previously learned material through the prism of tensor calculus. Once the framework is mastered, the student is introduced to new material which includes differential geometry on manifolds, shape optimization, boundary perturbation, and dynamic fluid film equations. Tensor calculus is a powerful tool that combines the geometric and analytical perspectives and enables us to take full advantage of the computational utility of coordinate systems. The tensor approach can be of benefit to members of all technical sciences including mathematics and all engineering disciplines. If calculus and linear algebra are central to the readers scientific endeavors, tensor calculus is indispensable. The language of tensors, originally championed by Einstein, is as fundamental as the languages of calculus and linear algebra and is one that every technical scientist ought to speak. The tensor technique, invented at the turn of the 20th century, is now considered classical. Yet, as the author shows, it remains remarkably vital and relevant. The authors skilled lecturing capabilities are evident by the inclusion of insightful examples and a plethora of exercises. A great deal of material is devoted to the geometric fundamentals, the mechanics of change of variables, the proper use of the tensor notation, and the discussion of the interplay between algebra and geometry. The early chapters have many words and few equations. The definition of a tensor comes only in Chapter 6 when the reader is ready for it. While this text maintains a reasonable level of rigor, it takes great care to avoid formalizing the subject-- | [
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3A1672335329.jsonld | Avian influenza : a topical issue of increasing concern | Because of its high impact on both animal and human health, avian influenza has become a matter of increasing public concern and growing scientific interest within the last decade. This volume gives an overview of the most important results of these research efforts and provides information about the ecology and epidemiology of avian influenza with particular emphasis on recent H5N1 outbreaks in China, Siberia and Europe. Several articles deal with new vaccination strategies, the use of antivirals and other control measures to combat outbreaks of avian influenza. Further chapters illustrate that molecular biology, culminating in the generation of influenza viruses by recombinant DNA technology, was instrumental in unravelling the roles of the viral hemagglutinin and polymerase as well as cellular signalling pathways and innate immunity in pathogenesis and interspecies transmission. Finally, the threat of a pandemic originating from avian influenza viruses is illustrated by the example of the Spanish influenza of 1918.This comprehensive publication on avian influenza viruses and their relevance for human influenza will be of great value to all influenza virologists, molecular biologists, public health scientists, veterinary virologists, ecologists, and scientists engaged in drug design and vaccine development | [
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3A1788550072.jsonld | Workplace spirituality : making a difference | Workplace spirituality is an emerging field of study and practice and this book asks the questions: Where have we been in the last ten years as a field and where should we be headed in the next ten years? The editors asked these questions of thought leaders from around the globe, leaders who represent different sectors, faith traditions, worldviews and organizational functions. This volume represents the best of current thinking about the state of the field of workplace spirituality and of what the future holds. There are four themes: (1) management themes such as leadership, ethics, change management, and diversity; (2) workplace spirituality in sectors such as health and wellbeing, policing and creative industries, (3) key issues that are emerging, such as self-spirituality, mindfulness, storytelling and the importance of nature, and (4) cutting edge epistemologies and methodologies including indigenous studies, relational ontology, ethnography, and psychodynamics. These articles were chosen to provoke new thinking, new research, and new practice in the field of workplace spirituality, with the goal of helping the field mature in the next decade Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Past, Present and Future of Workplace Spirituality -- 2 Introduction to Spirituality -- Themes -- 3 Leadership and Spirituality -- 4 Ethics and Spirituality -- 5 Spirituality and Religion: Influencing the Strategic Management Field of Research -- 6 Organizational Change and Work Spirituality: Expanding the Moral Circle -- 7 Organizational Behavior and Workplace Spirituality -- 8 Spirituality at Work and Human Resource Management -- 9 Family Business and Work Spirituality and Religion -- 10 Gender and Diversity: Intersections of Faith, Religion, and Spirituality -- Sectors -- 11 Health and Wellbeing in the Context of Workplace Spirituality -- 12 Workplace Spirituality and Policing -- 13 Workplace Spirituality and Creative Industries -- Key Issues -- 14 (Western) Self-Spirituality: Literature Review, Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda -- 15 Mindfulness and More: Spiritual Forms of Meditation -- 16 Storytelling Nature-spirituality: An Autoethnographic Journey of Rediscovery -- Epistemologies/Methodologies -- 17 Indigenous Studies with an Integrative Research Approach -- 18 Relating Differently: Exploring How a Relational Ontology Might Catalyze Transformative and Emancipatory Action- Oriented MSR Research -- 19 Workplace Spirituality and the Ethnographic Gaze -- 20 Psychodynamics and the Field of Management, Spirituality and Religion: Deciphering the Unconscious, Mapping the Soul -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Index -- MSR Journal | [
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3A1727648986.jsonld | Biophysics : a student’s guide to the physics of the life sciences and medicine | This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles underlying biological processes and their applications to the life sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop the readers intuition, understanding, and facility for creative analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales, encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics, electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermodynamics, statistical physics, quantum biophysics, and theories of information, ordering, and evolutionary optimization to biological processes and bio-relevant technological implementations. Sound modeling principles are emphasized throughout, placing all the concepts within a rigorous framework. With numerous worked examples and exercises to test and enhance the readers understanding, this book can be used as a textbook for physics graduate students and as a supplementary text for a range of premedical, biomedical, and biophysics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be a useful reference for biologists, physicists, medical researchers, and medical device engineers who want to work from first principles | [
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3A1772813001.jsonld | Grant writing from the ground up | A career in science relies on developing the skill to convince strangers to give you enormous sums of money. So why do so many scientists write terrible research proposals? Grant Writing from the Ground Up presents a step-by-step process to construct compelling grant proposals that rise to the top of a reviewer's stack. “This book, without a doubt, will be a must-have for early-career researchers and for more experienced ones. I’ve attended quite a number of grant writing workshops and webinars; this book answers all of the critical questions in the most clear and straightforward fashion. Being a bit egoistical, I hope that my immediate ‘competitors’ will miss on this brilliant work, so I’ll have enormously larger chances to be funded.” –Ilia L. Rasskazov, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester | [
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3A1684971683.jsonld | Gibbs Semigroups | This book focuses on the theory of the Gibbs semigroups, which originated in the 1970s and was motivated by the study of strongly continuous operator semigroups with values in the trace-class ideal. The book offers an up-to-date, exhaustive overview of the advances achieved in this theory after half a century of development. It begins with a tutorial introduction to the necessary background material, before presenting the Gibbs semigroups and then providing detailed and systematic information on the Trotter-Kato product formulae in the trace-norm topology. In addition to reviewing the state-of-art concerning the Trotter-Kato product formulae, the book extends the scope of exposition from the trace-class ideal to other ideals. Here, special attention is paid to results on semigroups in symmetrically normed ideals and in the Dixmier ideal. By examining the progress made in Gibbs semigroup theory and in extensions of the Trotter-Kato product formulae to symmetrically normed and Dixmier ideals, the book shares timely and valuable insights for readers interested in pursuing these subjects further. As such, it will appeal to researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and mathematical physics Semigroups and their generators -- Classes of compact operators -- Trace inequalities -- Gibbs semigroups -- Product formulae for Gibbs semigroups -- Product formulae in symmetrically-normed ideals -- Product formulae in Dixmier ideal -- Appendix A. Spectra of closed operators -- Appendix B. Inequalities in ideals -- Appendix B. More inequalities -- Appendix C. Kato functions -- Appendix D. Lie-Trotter-Kato product formulae: comments on the bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index | [
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3A749189789.jsonld | Abstract Systems Theory | This book reports on the new results in Abstract Systems Theory (AST). It shows the progress made so far in the effort launched in 1960 to develop a mathematical theory of systems based on the "top-down"-formalization-approach. The volume can be used as a supplementary reading in courses in systems theory and engineering. The material is organized in such a way that portions of the book relevant for the supplementary reading in different courses can be used independently from the rest of the text | [
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3A1682385140.jsonld | China's Economic Development : Institutions, Growth and Imbalances | 1. Introduction : the reform and opening-up of a large, developing country -- 2. Political and social foundations of economic development -- 3. Urban and rural economic development during the process of urbanization and industrialization -- 4. Industrial agglomeration in the process of globalization and regional economic development -- 5. Transitions of public services and government responsibilities during the marketization process -- 6. Developmental imbalances and mechanisms for improving the market system -- 7. Appropriate institutions and sustainable growth : China's development and its worldwide significance. Written by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urbanrural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth via analyses of factors including urban and rural economic development and their political and social foundations, industrial agglomeration, transitions of public services and governmental responsibilities towards them and developmental imbalances and mechanisms. It is illustrated that whilst contemporary China has obviously made great economic strides, a wide variety of problems are accumulating over time. The book concludes that following three decades of high economic growth, China now faces great challenges for sustainable growth, and the institutions of China's economy have reached a critical point. Strategies for dealing with these challenges and requirements for the successful future development of China are thus prescribed. This fascinating book will provide a stimulating read for scholars, students and researchers in the fields of Asian studies, economics and development | [
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3A1655962868.jsonld | The Innovation Imperative in the Public Sector : Setting an Agenda for Action | The public sector has to become more innovative if it is to tackle today’s complex challenges and meet society’s changing expectations. But becoming truly innovative requires deep and broad changes to organisational culture and operations. Drawing on evidence emerging from the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation’s collection of innovative practices from around the world, this report looks at how to create a government where innovation is encouraged and nurtured. | [
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3A860700615.jsonld | Hard-boiled crime fiction & the decline of moral authority | From virtue to honor: a nineteenth-century paradigm shift -- Carroll John Daly and Leo Malet: the first hard-boiled heroes -- Jim Thompson: "Don't you say I killed her!" -- Jean-Patrick Manchette: the art of falling apart -- Contemporary hard-boiled: rebuilding a culture hero -- Conclusion | [
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3A1743844387.jsonld | The Routledge handbook of historical international relations | "This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines"-- | [
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3A1023442027.jsonld | The militarization of the Persian Gulf : an economic analysis | 1. Introduction -- 2. The justification and economic impact of military expenditures -- 3. Military expenditures in the Persian Gulf -- 4. Military imports in the Persian Gulf -- 5. Military personnel in the Persian Gulf -- 6. Indigenous military sectors in the Persian Gulf -- 7. Militarization of the Persian Gulf : why? -- 8. Militarization of the Persian Gulf : the consequences -- 9. Conclusion : the elements of a fruitful demilitarization The Persian Gulf is arguably the most militarized region in the world. The authors of this insightful book examine military expenditures, arms imports and military deployment to analyze how and why this came to be. Muslim teachings have much to say about peace, war and economics, and this book explores the ways in which Islamic thought affects military and economic developments | [
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3A626002893.jsonld | Devolution and Globalisation : Implications for Local Decision-makers | This book sets out a vision of devolved economic development policies capable of responding to the challenges of globalisation. The key features in this vision are flexible and networked institutions and local strategies emphasising entrepreneurship, human capital and social cohesion. Based on the proceedings of the OECD-Scottish Enterprise Glasgow conference, this publication examines how city and region governments and development agencies need to use their devolved powers to respond to globalisation. Trends and challenges are discussed and examples drawn from across the OECD. They address h | [
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3A1659236037.jsonld | A skills beyond school review of Israel | Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. This report on Israel examines what type of training is needed to meet the needs of a changing economy, how programmes should be funded, how theyshould be linked to academic and university programmes and how employers and unions can be engaged. The country reports in this series look at these and other questions. They form part of Skills beyond School, the OECD policy review of postsecondary vocational education and training. | [
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3A1747963941.jsonld | Wayne Thom - photographing the late modern | A key primer to late-twentieth century Modernism, this monograph devoted to Wayne Thom chronicles his photographic practice and the architectural and urban environment in which he worked. An innovative chronicler of the booming West Coast urbanism of the 1960s and 70s, Thom?s photographs of key projects by path-breaking architecture firms such as William Pereira & Associates, Edward Durell Stone, SOM, Gio Ponti, John Portman, I. M. Pei, and A. Quincy Jones helped establish the idea of cool architectural glamour of the era.00Raised in Hong Kong, Thom moved to California in the mid-1960s and trained in the technical craftsmanship of photography, adept at harnessing natural light for both interior and exterior compositions. He soon began working with the figures who would become his clients and benefactors, most importantly William Pereira and A. Quincy Jones, a prolific architect and Dean of the School of Architecture at USC.00As Emily Bills critically assess Thom?s career, she demonstrates that his photography became inseparable from Late Modernism in the popular imagination, a period of architectural production that ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern is a celebration of this key architectural photographer and a unique chronicle of the works of this transformative period of architectural expression | [
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3A1651758751.jsonld | Evidence in Education : Linking Research and Policy | Education policies and systems in all OECD countries are coming under increasing pressure to show greater accountability and effectiveness and it is crucial that educational policy decisions are made based on the best evidence possible. This book brings together international experts on evidence-informed policy in education from a wide range of OECD countries. The report looks at the issues facing educational policy makers, researchers, and stakeholders – teachers, media, parents – in using evidence to best effect. It focuses on the challenge of effective brokering between policy makers and researchers, offers specific examples of major policy-related research, and presents perspectives from several senior politicians. This book provides a fresh outlook on key issues facing policy makers, researchers and school leaders today | [
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3A08615933X.jsonld | Fatal women of Romanticism | Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale; CHAPTER 2 Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and women's strength; CHAPTER 3 "The aristocracy of genius": Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette; CHAPTER 4 Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies; CHAPTER 5 "In seraph strains, unpitying, to destroy": Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales | [
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3A629804680.jsonld | Free energy relationships in organic and bio-organic chemistry | This product is not available separately, it is only sold as part of a set. There are 750 products in the set and these are all sold as one entity, Introducing the application of free energy correlations to elucidating the mechanisms of organic and bio-organic reactions, this book provides a new and illuminating way of approaching a potentially complex topic. The idea of how free energy correlations derive from polar substituent change is introduced, and common pitfalls encountered in the application of free energy relationships are described, along with the use of these anomalies in mechanistic studies. The concept of effective charge is described in detail, with examples of its application. Throughout, worked answers are provided for the problems posed. Databases of parameters, an extensive bibliography and comprehensive lists of further reading are also included. The text provides an invaluable source of information to senior undergraduates, postgraduates and to industrial researchers with an interest in mechanistic studies. It is the first such book in more than thirty years. Visit www.rsc.org/books/6763 for further information | [
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3A1659046963.jsonld | Hermeneutik : griechisch-deutsch | The work Peri hermeneias (On Interpretation) occupies an important place among Aristotle’s logical writings, but in many places, it is hard to understand. The aim of this bilingual edition is to facilitate understanding for a modern reader interested in Aristotelian philosophy and the history of logic through explanatory notes on the text. | [
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3A729972771.jsonld | The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Insurance Sector and Policy Responses | This special report assesses the impact of the crisis on the insurance sector and reviews policy responses within OECD countries. It is based to a large extent on a quantitative and qualitative questionnaire that was circulated to OECD countries in 2009. The report shows that generallythe insurance sector demonstrated resilience to the crisis, though with some variation across the OECD, and concludes with a number of policy conclusions. | [
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3A1659220734.jsonld | Connected minds : technology and today's learners | In all OECD countries, digital media and connectedness are integral to the lives of today's learners. It is often claimed that these learners are ""new millennium learners"", or ""digital natives"", who have different expectations about education. This book contributes to the debate about the effects of technology attachment and connectedness on today's learners, and their expectations about teaching. The book sets out to answer the following questions: Can the claim that today's students are ""new millenium learners"" or ""digital natives be sustained empirically? Is there consistent research The intensity and variety of uses of technology and connectednessYet not all young people are equally connected; Notes; References; Contrasting views about the digital generation; Alternative views: evangelists, catastrophists and sceptics; Is there room for yet another approach?; Notes; References; What are the effects of attachment to digital media and connectivity?; A research challenge; Cognitive skills development; Limits of available evidence; Social values and attitudes; Overall conclusion; Notes; References; Are learners' expectations changing?; A rationale for evolving expectations Implications for educational institutions and teachersImplications for parents; Implications for research; Concluding remarks Foreword; Table of contents; Executive summary; Introduction - Why connectedness matters; It's not about technology, it's about connectedness; Reasons for increased policy relevance; How this report is organised; Note; References; How connectedness is shaping the economy and society; Overall economic impact on growth and productivity; Implications for employment and skills; The social uses of technology; Beyond access: new digital divides; Notes; References; How relevant connectedness is for young people; Most young people in OECD countries are fully connected Teachers' estimates of students' expectationsAre students more reluctant than expected to adopt technology in teaching?; What works for students then?; Notes; References; Emerging issues for education; Mapping out the issues; Entertainment; Information overload?; Knowledge and learning; Socialisation using digital tools; Psychological issues: new problems or new opportunities?; Notes; References; Key findings; References; Implications for educational policy, research and practice; The agenda for the public debate; Implications for policy makers | [
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3A1750014475.jsonld | Core Electrodynamics | 1. A Brief Tour of Electromagnetism -- 2. Field Energy and Momentum -- 3. A Frame Invariant Electromagnetism -- 4. The Field Tensors -- Index -- Appendix. This book is intended to engage the students in the elegance of electrodynamics and special relativity, whilst giving them the tools to begin graduate study. Here, from the basis of experiment, the authors first derive the Maxwell equations and special relativity. Introducing the mathematical framework of generalized tensors, the laws of mechanics, Lorentz force and the Maxwell equations are then cast in manifestly covariant form. This provides the basis for graduate study in field theory, high energy astrophysics, general relativity and quantum electrodynamics. As the title suggests, this book is “electrodynamics lite”. The journey through electrodynamics is kept as brief as possible, with minimal diversion into details, so that the elegance of the theory can be appreciated in a holistic way. It is written in an informal style and has few prerequisites; the derivation of the Maxwell equations and their consequences is dealt with in the first chapter. Chapter 2 is devoted to conservation equations in tensor formulation; here, Cartesian tensors are introduced. Special relativity and its consequences for electrodynamics are introduced in Chapter 3 and cast in four-vector form, and here, the authors introduce generalized tensors. Finally, in Chapter 4, Lorentz frame invariant electrodynamics is developed. Supplementary material and examples are provided by the two sets of problems. The first is revision of undergraduate electromagnetism, to expand on the material in the first chapter. The second is more advanced corresponding to the remaining chapters, and its purpose is twofold: to expand on points that are important, but not essential, to derivation of manifestly covariant electrodynamics, and to provide examples of manipulation of cartesian and generalized tensors. As these problems introduce material not covered in the text, they are accompanied by full worked solutions. The philosophy here is to facilitate learning by problem solving, as well as by studying the text. Extensive appendices for vector relations, unit conversion and so forth are given with graduate study in mind. . | [
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3A79158450X.jsonld | 5 + 2 : landscapes, Landschaften, Lützow 7 | Lützow 7 own their reputation of long standing to the representative civic open spaces that they have designed for the German Chancellery, the Reichstag building and the Jewish Museum in Berlin, among many others. Yet their design approach of 'representative tranquility', as one of the book's contributions is entitled, has produced about one thousand projects over the years--seven of which, more exactly 5 built + 2 under construction, from Germany, Belgium, Italy and Ireland, form one of the main parts in this landscape-architectural monograph. Other sections strive to grasp the essence of Lützow 7's approach to landscape design in a panoramic portfolio and also in a directory to important design tasks and typical solutions in the realm between wilderness and detail. Tom Sieverts, the creator of the 'in-between city' paradigm, and Richard Weller of PennDesign, well acquainted with the partners Cornelia Müller and Jan Wehberg's work, contribute their personal views.-- | [
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3A1806927225.jsonld | The Milan Institute of Physics : a research institute from fascism to the reconstruction | This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy’s industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan’s Institute of Physics in 1924 up to the early 1960s, when it moved to its current location. It includes biographies and a historical-scientific analysis of the main research topics investigated by world-renowned physicists such as Aldo Pontremoli, Giovanni Polvani, Giovanni Gentile Jr., Beppo Occhialini, and Piero Caldirola, highlighting their contributions to the development of Italian physics in a national and international context. Further, the book provides a historical perspective on the interplay of physics and politics in Italy during both the Fascist regime and the postwar reconstruction period, which led to the creation of the CISE (Centro Informazioni Studi Esperienze, a research center for applied nuclear physics, funded by private industries) in 1946, and of the Milan division of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in 1951. | [
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3A1023437066.jsonld | Handbook of developments in consumer behaviour | pt. 1. Consumer culture -- pt. 2. Consumers in context -- pt. 3. Connsumer impulsivity, compulsiveness and beyond -- pt. 4. Neuroscience and consumer choice -- pt. 5. Consumer behaviour in evolutionary perspective. Consumer research incorporates perspectives from a spectrum of long-established sciences: psychology, economics and sociology. This Handbook strives to include this multitude of sources of thought, adding geography, neuroscience, ethics and behavioural ecology to this list. Encompassing scholars with a passion for researching consumers, this Handbook highlights important developments in consumer behaviour research, including consumer culture, impulsivity and compulsiveness, ethics and behavioural ecology. It examines evolutionary and neuroscience perspectives as well as consumer choice | [
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3A728754460.jsonld | Multiculturalism : a civic idea | At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates. He contends that the rise of Islamic terrorism has neither discredited multiculturalism nor heralded a clash of civilizations. Instead, it has highlighted a central challenge for the 21st century - the urgent need to include Muslims in contemporary conceptions of democratic citizenship. In the second edition of this popular and compelling book, Modood updates his original argument with two new chapters. He reassesses the relationship between multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and assimilation, demonstrating that multiculturalism is crucial for successful integration. He also argues that while multiculturalism poses a significant challenge to existing forms of secularism, this challenge should not be exaggerated into a crisis. In so doing, Modood adds new vigor to the claim that multiculturalism remains a living force which is shaping our polities, even as its death is repeatedly announced. -- Publisher description | [
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3A1649017448.jsonld | Liver MRI : Correlation with Other Imaging Modalities and Histopathology | This book provides a practical approach for MR imaging of the focal and diffuse liver lesions. Its unique layout is based on state-of-the-art MR imaging sequences, computer-generated drawings, concise figure captions, relevant and systematic (differential) diagnostic information, recent literature references, and patient management possibilities. MR imaging findings are correlated to ultrasound, computed tomography, and pathology when appropriate. This book will greatly benefit all professionals interested and involved in imaging, diagnosis, and treatment of focal and diffuse liver lesions. This book provides a practical approach for MR imaging of the focal and diffuse liver lesions. Its unique layout is based on state-of-the-art MR imaging sequences, computer-generated drawings, concise figure captions, relevant and systematic (differential) diagnostic information, recent literature references, and patient management possibilities. MR imaging findings are correlated to ultrasound, computed tomography, and pathology when appropriate. This book will greatly benefit all professionals interested and involved in imaging, diagnosis, and treatment of focal and diffuse liver lesions. Written for:Radiologists, gastroenterologists, surgeons, pathologists, MR physicists, MRI clinical scientists | [
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3A686652428.jsonld | Dark dreams 2.0 : a psychological history of the modern horror film from the 1950s to the 21st century | Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War. It divides modern horror into three varieties (psychological, demonic and apocalyptic) and demonstrates how horror cinema represents the popular expression of everyday fears while revealing the forces that influence American ideological and political values. Directors given a close reading include Alfred Hitchcoc | [
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3A178454440X.jsonld | Ferrites and multiferroics : fundamentals to applications | This book highlights the fundamentals of ferrites and multiferroic materials with special attention to their structure, types, and properties. It presents a comprehensive survey about ferrite and multiferroic materials, in areas significant to research and development in academia as well as in industry. The book discusses various types of methods applied for their synthesis and characterizations. This book is concerned with the fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging applications, including electromagnets, magnetic fluid hyperthermia, antenna applications, memory devices, switching circuits, bio-medical applications, actuators, magnetic field sensors and water purification, etc. | [
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3A112343813.jsonld | The new Cold War? : religious nationalism confronts the secular state | Introduction: The Rise of Religious Nationalism -- Pt. 1. Religion vs. Secular Nationalism. 1. The Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism. Faith in Secular Nationalism. The Religious Rejection of Secular Nationalism. 2. Competing Ideologies of Order. Secular Nationalism in the West. The Competition between Two Ideologies. How Secular Nationalism Failed to Accommodate Religion. Can Religion Accommodate the Nation-State? -- Pt. 2. The Global Confrontations. 3. Models of Religious Revolution: The Middle East. The Ingredients of a Religious Revolt. Iran: The Paradigmatic Religious Revolution. Egypt's Incipient Religious Revolt. Religious Revolt in a Jewish State. The Islamic Intifada: A Revolt within the Palestinian Revolution. 4. Political Targets of Religion: South Asia. Militant Hindu Nationalism. The Sikh War against Both Secular and Hindu Nationalism. Sri Lanka's Unfinished Religious Revolt. 5. Religious Ambivalence toward Socialist Nationalism: Formerly Marxist States. Religious Revival in Mongolia. Islamic Nationalism in Central Asia. The Religious Rejection of Socialism in Eastern Europe. The Ambivalent Relationship of Religion and Socialism. Patterns of Religious Revolt -- Pt. 3. The Problems Ahead. 6. Why Religious Confrontations Are Violent. The Rhetoric of Cosmic War. When Cosmic War Becomes Real. Religious Sanction for the Use of Violence. Empowering Marginal Peoples. 7. Democracy, Human Rights, and the Modern Religious State. Theocracy or Democracy? The Protection of Minority Rights. The Protection of Individual Rights -- Conclusion: Can We Live with Religious Nationalism? | [
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3A749138688.jsonld | Optimal Feedback Control | This book outlines a new approach to constructing optimal feedback controls for linear control systems that are under the influence of constantly acting bounded perturbations. The optimal synthesis problem is solved by using discrete time systems obtained from continuous ones. Feedback and output feedback are also examined within this context. In cases where only incomplete or imprecise data are available, algorithms for optimal estimators as well as algorithms of optimal identifiers are described. Algorithms for optimal controllers are also constructed. An algorithm for optimal stabilization by bounded controls is also proposed whilst the Appendix of the book contains the outline of the adaptive method of programming which is the foundation for the approach used in the rest of the book | [
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3A1632826801.jsonld | Basic graph theory | Preface -- Graphs and Their Applications -- Basic Graph Terminologies -- Paths, Cycles and Connectivity’s -- Trees -- Matching and Covering -- Planar Graphs -- Graph Coloring -- Digraphs -- Special Classes of Graphs -- Some Research Topics -- Index This undergraduate textbook provides an introduction to graph theory, which has numerous applications in modeling problems in science and technology, and has become a vital component to computer science, computer science and engineering, and mathematics curricula of universities all over the world. The author follows a methodical and easy to understand approach. Beginning with the historical background, motivation and applications of graph theory, the author first explains basic graph theoretic terminologies. From this firm foundation, the author goes on to present paths, cycles, connectivity, trees, matchings, coverings, planar graphs, graph coloring and digraphs as well as some special classes of graphs together with some research topics for advanced study. Filled with exercises and illustrations, Basic Graph Theory is a valuable resource for any undergraduate student to understand and gain confidence in graph theory and its applications to scientific research, algorithms and problem solving | [
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3A862688795.jsonld | Cleft lip and palate : epidemiology, aetiology and treatment | Cleft lip and palate is a complex, multifactorial and relatively common craniofacial disorder, which arises because of disrupted facial development in the embryo. The manifestations of this condition can be life-long and associated with significant morbidity. In the last decade, progress has been made in our understanding of how clefts of the lip and palate arise in human populations, and laboratory studies are beginning to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that control development of the lip and palate. In addition, advances in surgical and medical care, and long-term rehabilitation are improving outcome and quality of life for affected individuals. Written by international experts in their respective fields, this publication covers in detail the epidemiology and genetic basis of cleft lip and palate, the developmental biology of lip and palate formation and provides current concepts in the management of patients affected by this condition. Thus, the book provides a contemporary overview of the epidemiology, aetiology and treatment of cleft lip and palate, and will be of use to a wide range of individuals, including students, biologists and clinicians, who have an interest in this subject | [
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3A738789984.jsonld | Theories of small groups : interdisciplinary perspectives | Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives brings together the threads that unify the field of group research. The book is designed to define and describe theoretical perspectives on groups and to highlight select research findings within those perspectives. In this text, editors Marshall Scott Poole and Andrea B. Hollingshead capitalize on the theoretical advances made over the last fifty years by integrating models and theories of small groups into a set of nine general theoretical perspectives. Theories of Small Groups is the first book to assess, synthesize, integrate, and e | [
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3A1651945020.jsonld | EMC and the printed circuit board : design, theory, and layout made simple | Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 EMC Fundamentals -- Ch. 2 EMC Inside the PCB -- Ch. 3 Components and EMC -- Ch. 4 Image Planes -- Ch. 5 Bypassing and Decoupling -- Ch. 6 Transmission Lines -- Ch. 7 Signal Integrity and Crosstalk -- Ch. 8 Trace Termination -- Ch. 9 Grounding -- App. A The Decibel -- App. B Fourier Analysis -- App. C Conversion Tables -- App. D International EMC Requirements "This reference text shows how and why RF energy is created within a printed circuit board, and the manner in which propagation occurs. With thorough explanations, this book enables engineers to grasp both the fundamentals of EMC theory and signal integrity, along with the mitigation process needed to prevent an EMC event while maintaining optimal functionality for low- and high-technology products. Mr. Montrose also shows the relationship between time and frequency domains, helping one meet mandatory compliance requirements."--Jacket | [
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3A730251713.jsonld | Eero Saarinen : furniture for everyman | "One of the most celebrated, prolific, and unorthodox architects and designers of the twentieth century, Eero Saarinen has become a beacon of American modernism. While famous for his sculptural and bold architecture, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri and the TWA Terminal at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman is the first monograph to focus exclusively on his furniture designs. A self-declared "form-giver," his furniture, like his architecture, is characterized by its sleek and expressive forms. Taken into production by the furniture company Knoll, which was co-owned by his friend Florence Knoll, Saarinen's designs were trend-setting and revolutionary. As many of them continue to be produced today, such as the well-known and loved Womb chair and his Pedestal Collection, they are ubiquitous. Featuring rare and never-before-seen archival photographs that span Saarinen's technical work to his personal life, a preface by Florence Knoll, and a piece by designer and Saarinen protégé Niels Diffrient, Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman is the authoritative and comprehensive guide to the furniture designs and legacy of the modern master "-- Publisher's web site | [
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3A661526771.jsonld | Globalization, the multinational firm, and emerging economies | Globalization, the multinational firm, and emerging economies / Attila Yaprak, H(c)·ulya T(c)·utek -- Emerging economies and the challenge of globalization / John D. Daniels -- Foreign direct investment in the emerging markets of central and eastern Europe: motives and marketing strategies / Marin A. Marinov, Svetla T. Marinova -- The restructuring role of outward foreign direct investment by Central European firms: the case of Slovenia / Marjan Svetlicic, Matija Rojec, Andreja Trtnik -- Marketing and economic development: implications for emerging economies / Hugh M. Cannon, Attila Yaprak -- Globalization and currency crises in emerging Asian economies: implications on economic reform and development / C. B(c)·ulent Aybar, Marca Bear, Claudio Milman -- Managerial perceptions on performance determinants of multinational companies in an emerging economy / Muzaffer Bodur, G(c)·uven Alpay, G(c)·ulden Asugman -- Marketing practices and performance of the Turkish clothing industry firms exporting to the European Union / Selime Sezgin, Nimet Uray, Sebnem Burnaz -- Joint ventures in globalization: a perspective from Turkey / Tuna Taner, H(c)·ulya T(c)·utek, Semra (c)·Onc(c)·u, Canan Ay -- On the determinants of export internalization: an empirical comparison between Catalan and Spanish (non-Catalan) exporting firms / A. Rialp -- Differences and similarities between born globals and other types of exporters / Tage Koed Madsen, Erik Rasmussen, Per Servais -- The evolution of an internationalisation culture in the small firm: an Australian perspective / Peter Lamb, Peter Liesch -- Investing in emerging Asian markets: a study of prospects for and problems of doing business in Vietnam / Aahad M. Osman-Gani, Zafar U. Ahmed, Sok Ling Ng -- The development of local marketing knowledge within joint ventures: an analysis of the performance of Belgian multinationals in China / Daniel Van Den Bulcke, Haiyan Zhang -- Exporting firms, the learning organization and market orientation: a conceptual and empirical investigation of Dutch exporters / Paul Breman, Tevfik Dalgic -- Emerging patterns of international business: implications for public policy / Gary A. Knight, Attila Yaprak | [
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3A573052786.jsonld | Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire | Introduction: Jewish public culture -- The Jews of this world -- Libraries: from the study hall to the public library -- Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time -- Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture -- Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word -- Theater: the professionalization of performance -- Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences -- The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past -- Public history: imagining Russian Jews -- Conclusion: this world and the next | [
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3A1818469294.jsonld | Bloodchild and other stories | "A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability-and responsibility-to save humanity from itself? Like all of Octavia Butler's best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature's strongest voices"-- | [
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3A1694058751.jsonld | Ferroelectric-gate field effect transistor memories : device physics and applications | This book provides comprehensive coverage of the materials characteristics, process technologies, and device operations for memory field-effect transistors employing inorganic or organic ferroelectric thin films. This transistor-type ferroelectric memory has interesting fundamental device physics and potentially large industrial impact. Among various applications of ferroelectric thin films, the development of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) has been most actively progressed since the late 1980s and reached modest mass production for specific application since 1995. There are two types of memory cells in ferroelectric nonvolatile memories. One is the capacitor-type FeRAM and the other is the field-effect transistor (FET)-type FeRAM. Although the FET-type FeRAM claims the ultimate scalability and nondestructive readout characteristics, the capacitor-type FeRAMs have been the main interest for the major semiconductor memory companies, because the ferroelectric FET has fatal handicaps of cross-talk for random accessibility and short retention time. This book aims to provide the readers with development history, technical issues, fabrication methodologies, and promising applications of FET-type ferroelectric memory devices, presenting a comprehensive review of past, present, and future technologies. The topics discussed will lead to further advances in large-area electronics implemented on glass, plastic or paper substrates as well as in conventional Si electronics. The book is composed of chapters written by leading researchers in ferroelectric materials and related device technologies, including oxide and organic ferroelectric thin films. . I. Introduction -- II. Practical Characteristics of Inorganic Ferroelectric-gate FETs: Si-Based Ferroelectric-gate Field Effect Transistors -- III. Practical Characteristics of Inorganic Ferroelectric-Gate FETs: Thin Film-Based Ferroelectric-Gate Field Effect Transistors -- Ⅳ Practical Characteristics of Organic Ferroelectric-Gate FETs: Si-Based Ferroelectric-Gate Field Effect Transistors -- V Practical Characteristics of Organic Ferroelectric-Gate FETs: Thin Film-Based Ferroelectric-Gate Field Effect Transistors -- VI Practical Characteristics of Organic Ferroelectric-Gate FETs : Ferroelectric-Gate Field Effect Transistors with Flexible Substrates -- Ⅶ Applications and Future Prospects. | [
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