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Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City
40.99 €Violent conflict between individuals and groups was as common in the ancient world as it has been in more recent history. detested in theory, it nevertheless became as frequent as war between sovereign states.
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The 'Hippocratic' Corpus
42.75 €The hippocratic corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. collectively, this is the largest surviving body of early greek prose.
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Daydreaming and Fantasy
32.80 €Daydreaming, our ability to give ?to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour.
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Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge in the Global Economy
124.99 €Arising from recent developments at the international level, many developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities are considering using geographical indications (gis) to protect traditional knowledge, and to promote trade and overall economic development. despite the considerable enthusiasm over gis in diverse quarters, there is an appreciable lack of research on how far and in what context gis can be used as a protection model for traditional knowledge-based resources.
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Sustainable Media
34.47 €Sustainable media explores the many ways that media and environment are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human resources during media production to the installation and disposal of media in the landscape; from people's engagement with environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the mediating properties of ecologies themselves. edited by nicole starosielski and janet walker, the assembled chapters expose how the social and representational practices of media culture are necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and environments.
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Professional Communication at Work
70.00 €Description this text prepares future professionals for success in the workplace through identifying interpersonal communication skills and strategies and exploring when, how, and why to use them. informed by academic research, professional literature, and author joseph l.
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Children Reading Picturebooks
124.99 €Children reading pictures has made a huge impact on teachers, scholars and students all over the world. the original edition of this book described the fascinating range of children's responses to contemporary picturebooks, which proved that they are sophisticated readers of visual texts and are able to make sense of complex images on literal, visual and metaphorical levels.
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The Real Situation in Russia
32.80 €The real situation in russia, first published in 1928, contains three of trotsky's harshest rebuttals of stalin's takeover of the russian revolution following the death of lenin. the first part contains a defence of the ?
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The Subject of Tragedy
35.99 €First published in 1985, the subject of tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. catherine belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern.
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Communism and Development
39.44 €First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. robert bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ?
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The Green Case
119.99 €First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of ?green' arguments and their social and political implications.
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Seeking Justice in International Law
134.99 €Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. the international community's commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights, however, does not always produce the results hoped for by the advocates of a more justice-oriented system of international law.
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Discourses of the Developing World
124.99 €Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the third world or the global south. written by leading researchers based in asia, africa and latin america, respectively, this book reconstructs eastern paradigms of communication studies on the one hand and explores the discursive problems, complexities, aspirations, and dynamics of the non-western, subaltern, and developing societies on the other.
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The Falkland Islands as an International Problem
31.99 €Although the falklands war of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of british control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war: the anglo-argentine dispute over sovereignty. relations between the two countries remain unstable, whilst a series of events throughout the past three decades have emphasised the sensitive and important nature of the international problem.
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The International Politics of Antarctica
39.44 €First published in 1986, this book considers the nature of international interest in antarctica and the positions of those involved. it looks at the significance of the historical dimension, the development of the treaty system, the management of marine and mineral resources, the role of the united nations and the impact of such non-governmental organisations as greenpeace international.
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History and Community
46.99 €The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. some of the emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong victorian attraction to ?
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Decolonizing Translation
121.22 €The linguistically innovative aspect of francophone african literature has been recognized and studied from a variety of angles over recent decades, yet little attention has been paid to what happens to such literature when it is translated into another language. taking as its corpus all sub-saharan francophone african texts that have ever been published in english, this book explores the ways in which translators approach innovative features such as african-language borrowings, neologisms and other deliberate manipulations of french, depictions of sociolinguistic variation, and a variety of types of wordplay.
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Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts
124.99 €Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international policy arenas. in contrast to international development organizations' educational policies and programs that tend to ignore literacy as a social practice within diverse contexts, the author unpacks the relationship between education and health, and the role of family and mothers in particular, highlighting how mothers are key actors in children's literacy development and health outcomes..
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Training Nonhuman Primates Using Positive Reinforcement Techniques
121.22 €This special issue illustrates benefits to animals from positive reinforcement training (prt) and--depending on the setting--to scientists, animal care staff, veterinarians, and in the case of the zoo, the visiting public. one important theme throughout is that training is a joint venture between human and nonhuman primate and can lead to a closer, richer relationship between the two.
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Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World
114.99 €Commodity trading, globalization and the colonial world: spinning the web of the global market provides a new perspective on economic globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. instead of understanding the emergence of global markets as a mere result of supply and demand or as the effect of imperial politics, this book focuses on a global trading firm as an exemplary case of the actors responsible for conducting economic transactions in a multicultural business world.
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Intergroup Contact Theory
36.99 €Intergroup contact theory has been one of the most influential theories in social psychology since it was first formulated by gordon allport in 1954. this volume highlights, via a critical lens, the most notable recent developments in the field, demonstrating its vitality and its capacity for reinvention and integration with a variety of seemingly distinct research areas.
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Microorganisms in Home and Indoor Work Environments
59.99 €In 2007, scientists estimated the direct cost of diseases associated with mould and dampness on the us population to be in the range of 4 billion dollars, and the indirect costs of lost work and school days are gauged even higher. the us centers for disease control recently concluded that elimination of moisture and mouldy materials in the home definitively results in improved health.
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Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis
63.99 €Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. however, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.
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Inside Energy
47.99 €Informed by the authors' extensive experience in helping organizations improve the performance of their management systems, inside energy: developing and managing an iso 50001 energy management system covers how to apply each of the many requirements of the standard in a systematic and comprehensive manner. it discusses how converting an existing sub-optimal energy system into a state-of-the-art high quality one produces a demonstrably high return on investment.
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Linear Synchronous Motors
59.99 €Considered to be the first book devoted to the subject, linear synchronous motors: transportation and automation systems, second edition evaluates the state of the art, demonstrating the technological innovations that are improving the design, construction, and performance of modern control systems. this new edition not only illustrates the development of linear synchronous motor drives, but it also discusses useful techniques for selecting a motor that will meet the specific requirements of linear electrical drives.
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Boilers
80.00 €Following the publication of the author's first book, boilers for power and process by crc press in 2009, several requests were made for a reference with even quicker access to information. boilers: a practical reference is the result of those requests, providing a user-friendly encyclopedic format with more than 500 entries and nearly the same number of supporting illustrations.
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Circular Storage Tanks and Silos
75.00 €A design aid for structural engineers circular storage tanks and silos, third edition effectively explains and demonstrates the concepts needed in the analysis and design of circular tanks. tanks have to sustain high-quality serviceability over a long lifespan.
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Aluminum Recycling
80.00 €What makes this book unique is a specific focus on aluminum recovery, rather than just recycling in general. it also offers an integrated discussion of scrap recovery and re-melting operations and includes economic as well as technical elements of recycling.
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Causal Physics
63.99 €Causal physics: photons by non interactions of waves redefines the mathematical superposition principle as an operational superposition effect; which is the measurable physical transformation experienced by a detector due to stimulations induced by multiple waves simultaneously acting on the detecting dipoles. this light-matter interaction process driven model emerges naturally by incorporating the observed properties, non-interaction of waves (niw) and quantized photo detectors needing to fill up their "quantum-cups" with the required quantity of energy from all the stimulating waves around it.
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Foam Fractionation
80.00 €Foam fractionation is a separation process in which proteins and other amphipathic species adsorb to the surface of bubbles. the bubbles are then removed from the solution in the form of foam at the top of a column.
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Project Management Tools and Techniques
47.73 €A combination of art and skill that results in the balancing of project objectives against restraints of time, budget, and quality, effective project management requires skill and experience as well as many tools and techniques. project management tools and techniques: a practical guide describes these tools and techniques and how to use them, giving students the strong foundation they need to develop the skills and experience needed for a successful career in project management.
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Sustainable Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering
59.99 €In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of sustainable practices in geoenvironmental engineering, the combination of population growth and increased exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources has added increased stresses on the quality and health of the geoenvironment. this is especially true when viewed in the context of the growing demand for food and shelter, energy and mineral resources, and their resultant effects on the natural capital of the geoenvironment.
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Unit Operations of Particulate Solids
80.00 €Suitable for practicing engineers and engineers in training, unit operations of particulate solids: theory and practice presents the unit operations in chemical engineering that involve the handling and processing of particulate solids. the first part of the book analyzes primary and secondary properties of particles and particulate systems, focusing on their characterization and the effects on selection and design of silos and conveyors.
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Kinetic House-Tree-Person Drawings
39.44 €This book contains the first documentation of combining house, tree, and person into a single drawing. it helps enrich clinician's test batteries and aids psychologists and physicians in understanding the emotions and self-awareness of their clients.
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Groundwater around the World
77.99 €This book presents a unique and up-to-date summary of what is known about groundwater on our planet, from a global perspective and in terms of area-specific factual information. unlike most textbooks on groundwater, it does not deal with theoretical principles, but rather with the overall picture that emerges as a result of countless observations, studies and other activities related to groundwater in all parts of the world.
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Electrical, Control Engineering and Computer Science
164.99 €Electrical, control engineering and computer science includes the papers from ececs2015 (hong kong, 30-31 may 2015), which was organized by the american society of science and engineering (asee), a non-profit society for engineers and scientists. presenting new theories, ideas, techniques and experiences related to all aspects of electrical engineering, control engineering and computer science, the 41 revised and extended research articles cover the topics below: - electrical engineering - control engineering - communication and computer networks, and - computer science the book should appeal to academics and professionals interested in the above mentioned fields..
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Fundamentals of Database Indexing and Searching
43.99 €Fundamentals of database indexing and searching presents well-known database searching and indexing techniques. it focuses on similarity search queries, showing how to use distance functions to measure the notion of dissimilarity.
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Nutrition-Infection Interactions and Impacts on Human Health
50.99 €Nutrition and infection are often at a crossroads, interacting with each other and influencing human health. infection is a major health problem and nutritional deficiency plays a significant role in increasing the risk of infection.
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Large Scale and Big Data
50.99 €Large scale and big data: processing and management provides readers with a central source of reference on the data management techniques currently available for large-scale data processing. presenting chapters written by leading researchers, academics, and practitioners, it addresses the fundamental challenges associated with big data processing tools and techniques across a range of computing environments.
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