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'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong
The first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC
Every age has strong,...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-14
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This book is a set of introductory lecture notes on Conformal Field Theory (CFT). Unlike most existing reviews on the subject, CFT is presented here from the perspective of a unitary quantum field theory in Minkowski space-time. The book starts with a non-perturbative...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This book offers a systematic study of control algorithms applied in the operation of solar membrane distillation (SMD) facilities. After a short introduction to membrane distillation systems powered by solar energy, it reports on the various stages of the development...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This thesis presents research on novel laboratory-scale synchrotron X-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering and applications of their X-ray radiation using the Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) as an example. It provides an introduction to the theory of this...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current...
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Riverrun
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2023-04-13
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This is an open access book.The first Nusa Tenggara International Conference on Chemistry (1st NITRIC), which will take place in Lombok, Indonesia, on July 28 and 29, 2022. The conference organized by Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-04-13
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This book reports on the results of a survey of 38 major Chinese cities’ public service performances and provides an overview of the development of basic public services in the larger cities. The quality of urban public services is examined from 9 different...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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The book aim to contribute the latest understandings of physiological, biochemical and molecular bases of the responses of major crop plants to a range of different biomass produced biochar to introduce climate resilience crop varieties which leads to enhanced crop...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot. Through fifteen curated chapters, it provides the latest information about the fauna of the northern portion of the...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This volume compiles state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on the technologies that are used to quantify and reduce the environmental impact of livestock production in the cattle, pig and poultry industries. It makes a serious statement about how such technology can...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This book presents the work of Gianfranco Battisti, on Geopolitics and Border Geographies in north-eastern Italy, Europeanization, and Globalization, contributing to debates on the inclusion of non-English speaking scholars in international geography. It highlights the...
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Springer
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2023-04-13
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This book presents a road map to urban regeneration through the contemporary concept of smart cities. It investigates why the concept has gained adoption as it has but until now it has been geared towards a profit-making venture by large corporations and ignoring the...
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Springer
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2023-04-12
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The book considers the riverine paleo structures of the coastal marine zone from the point of view of marine bottom seismic acoustics.The authors describe the mechanisms of the origin and features of riverine paleo structures in the coastal marine area.The methods...
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Springer
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2023-04-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development. By explaining the nature of genetic variation in the human...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-04-12
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This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public. Bichel and Hart provide the first interdisciplinary and...
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Springer
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2023-04-11
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This text describes a comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (C-ASAM), developed by the author, enabling the efficient and exact computation of arbitrarily high-order functional derivatives of model responses to model parameters in large-scale systems....
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Springer
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2023-04-11
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Uncover on-the-ground reporting on the conflict between conservationists, ranchers, and an iconic predator—and discover the solution that might appease them all. The gray wolf has made an astonishing comeback in Washington. Nearly eradicated by the 1990s,...
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Timber Press
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2023-04-11
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This book provides an introduction to the fundamental theory, practical implementation, and core and emerging applications of the material point method (MPM) and its variants. The MPM combines the advantages of both finite element analysis (FEM) and meshless/meshfree...
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Springer
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2023-04-11
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Pyrometrie und Thermografie Die Thermografie ist ein bildgebendes Verfahren, um Oberflächentemperaturen von Objekten anzuzeigen. Dies erfolgt, indem man die Intensität der Infrarotstrahlung, die von einem bestimmten Punkt ausgeht, misst und daraus die dort herrschende...
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Wiley-VCH
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2023-04-11
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Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne from his mid-American origins to the halls of Harvard and UCLA and back again. It naturally details the accomplishments in his lab. This book is a...
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Springer
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2023-04-11
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