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This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy, and in many parts of the Mediterranean, use to study the archaeology of landscapes, marking a departure from the traditional site-based approach. The aim of the book is to...
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Springer
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2018-04-25
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This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization...
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Birkhäuser
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2018-04-25
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Psychological terms are widely used to describe the biological world: plants, insects, bacteria colonies, even single cells are described as making decisions, anticipating rewards, and communicating with language. Carrie Figdor presents a comprehensive critical...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-24
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Dieses Werk umfasst in zwei Bänden die gesamte Geschichte der Chemie von den Anfängen der Zivilisation bis hin zum 20. Jahrhundert. Es füllt in seiner umfassenden Darstellung eine Lücke in der Chemiegeschichtsschreibung, indem es den Wandel und das verbindende Element...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-04-24
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This unique book provides a concise account of Indian Paleogene and presents a unified view of the Paleogene sequences of India. The Paleogene, comprising the early part of the Cenozoic Era, was the most dynamic period in the Earth’s history with profound changes in the...
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Springer
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2018-04-24
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Society of Earth Scientists Series
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This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing experiences and successes in this field. It is devoted to a wide range of water resources management issues, including water quality...
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Springer
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2018-04-24
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This monograph provides an account of how the synthetic nitrogen industry became the forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe, the United States and Asia. Based on an earlier SpringerBrief by the same author, which focused on the period of World War I,...
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Springer
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2018-04-24
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Christian Stein untersucht anhand einer deutschlandweiten repräsentativen Stichprobe von 600 Gemeinden, ob das Vorliegen eines Landschaftsplans einen positiven, d. h. steuernden Einfluss auf Landschaftszustand und -wandel innerhalb der Kommune hat. Mit Hilfe von...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-04-23
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This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and fostering progress toward a nuclear...
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Springer
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2018-04-23
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This book reviews the current strategies and challenges for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infectious diseases in developing countries. Contributing authors present expert analysis on the transmission, epidemiology, bacteriology, pathogenesis...
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Springer
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2018-04-23
Collection :
Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
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What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? This book uncovers gravity as a key to understanding these fascinating phenomena that have so captivated public interest in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-23
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This book introduces readers to the application of fracture mechanics and mesomechanics to the analysis of the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo. It presents a range of research methods to study the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo, taking into account their...
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Springer
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2018-04-23
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This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order...
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Springer
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2018-04-23
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This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories and methodologies in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) target scattering mechanism modeling and interpretation, which is dedicated to bridge the gap between the acquired data and practical applications....
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Springer
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2018-04-21
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This book presents the most important advances in the class of topological materials and discusses the topological characterization, modeling and metrology of materials. Further, it addresses currently emerging characterization techniques such as optical and acoustic,...
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Springer
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2018-04-21
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This book deals with a natural convective heat transfer situation of significant practical importance that has not been adequately dealt with in existing texts or widely available review papers: natural convective heat transfer from horizontal and near horizontal...
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Springer
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2018-04-21
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This book provides an information fusion model with information fusion theory, geographic information system technology and modern mathematical methods to evaluate the risks of groundwater inrushes from aquifers underlying coal seams. In this new model, the water inrush...
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Springer
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2018-04-21
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This book describes the development of a system dynamics-based model that can capture the future trajectories of housing energy and carbon emissions. It approaches energy and carbon emissions in the housing sector as a complex socio-technical problem involving the...
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Springer
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2018-04-20
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This book is an introduction to quantum Markov chains and explains how this concept is connected to the question of how well a lost quantum mechanical system can be recovered from a correlated subsystem. To achieve this goal, we strengthen the data-processing inequality...
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Springer
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2018-04-20
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This book focuses on the worldwide threats to mangrove forests and the management solutions currently being used to counteract those hazards. Designed for the professional or specialist in marine science, coastal zone management, biology, and related disciplines, this...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-04-20
Collection :
Coastal Research Library
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