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'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists,...
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Penguin
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2017-02-21
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This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided...
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Springer
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2017-02-21
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This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature, analyses in this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-21
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This new, updated and enlarged edition of the successful and exceptionally well-structured textbook features new chapters on such hot topics as optical angular momentum, microscopy beyond the resolution limit, metamaterials, femtocombs, and quantum cascade lasers. It...
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Wiley-VCH
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2017-02-21
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The book surveys the state-of-the-art methods that are currently available to model and simulate the presence of rigid particles in a fluid flow. For particles that are very small relative to the characteristic flow scales and move without interaction with other...
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Springer
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2017-02-21
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Susanne Langbein hat auf Basis verschiedener Lehrbücher ein essential verfasst, das den Einstieg in die chemischen Gleichgewichte erleichtern soll. Mit dem zugrunde liegenden Konzept ‚von Studenten für Studenten‘ erläutert sie Sachverhalte rund um die Themen ‚Das...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
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2017-02-21
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This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care...
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Springer
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2017-02-21
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This book focuses on cartilage defects and new mesenchymal stem cell-based treatments for their repair and regeneration. Early chapters provide a review of current etiological findings and repair methods of cartilage defects. The next chapters discuss fundamental...
Editeur :
Humana
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2017-02-21
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This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes. Although such increases are correlated with warming oceans and are...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-02-20
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The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge – why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured.The inquiry unfolds in a series of fifteen case studies, which range in focus from early...
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Springer
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2017-02-20
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Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time. This multidisciplinary expert report, based on an...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-02-20
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This book sheds new light on the current state of knowledge concerning chromatin organization. Particular emphasis is given to the new imaging potential offered by super-resolution microscopy, which allows DNA imaging with a very high labeling density.From the early...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-02-20
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This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most damaging legacies of...
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Springer
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2017-02-20
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This book offers physiology teachers a new approach to teaching their subject that will lead to increased student understanding and retention of the most important ideas. By integrating the core concepts of physiology into individual courses and across the entire...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-02-20
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This book provides a comprehensive update on the latest information and knowledge which emerged from translational and basic science research endeavors, targeting the regeneration of salivary glands. The coverage includes salivary gland growth and development, stem...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-02-20
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Arne M. Weber bietet eine interdisziplinär anwendbare Theorie über die Abhängigkeit von Kognition vom sich bewegenden Körper und damit neue Einsichten in den Aufbau unseres Geistes. Es wird seitens der Philosophie eine begriffliche Analyse gegenwärtiger Auffassungen mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2017-02-18
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This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication. It provides an understanding on how to avoid societal clashes in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-17
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Edited by distinguished experts in this expanding field and with specialist contributions, this overview is the first of its kind to focus on electrodeposition from ionic liquids. This second edition has been completely revised and updated with approximately 20% new...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-02-17
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This book discusses the fundamentals of molecular simulation, starting with the basics of statistical mechanics and providing introductions to Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation techniques. It also offers an overview of force-field models for molecular...
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Springer
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2017-02-17
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Bereits seit vielen Jahren wird die Röntgenfluoreszenzenzanalyse eingesetzt für die Untersuchung kompakter, homogener Proben wie Metallen oder Gläsern, aber auch für die Analyse pulverförmiger Proben wie etwa geologische Proben, Zement und Eisenlegierungen. In den...
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Wiley-VCH
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2017-02-17
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