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This book focusses on new technologies and multi-method research designs in the field of modern archaeology, which increasingly crosses academic boundaries to investigate past human-environmental relationships and to reconstruct palaeolandscapes. It aims at establishing...
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Springer
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2017-12-03
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Dieses Buch erklärt die faszinierende Entstehung der Landschaft im Norden Deutschlands, so wie sie sich heute zeigt. Dabei spannen die Autoren einen Bogen von der Jungsteinzeit bis hin zur Moderne. Im ersten Teil des Buches beschreiben die Autoren detailliert welche...
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Springer
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2017-12-02
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This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world. Zolnikov offers a novel perspective on the environment and human health through autoethnographic stories. Each chapter includes an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-01
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This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world’s largest delta – the Sundarbans. Empirical evidence unpacks grounded vulnerabilities and reveals their temporal socio-economic impacts. A novel...
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Springer
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2017-12-01
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Leadership and management are general skills that apply in most walks of life, but in the scientific domain they require some special characteristics. Science thrives on challenge, whether it is the technical challenge of trying to do something which has not been done...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reasoning is common in everyday life. Despite its widespread use, inference to the best explanation is still in need of precise...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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This book provides the latest information about hairy root culture and its several applications, with special emphasis on potential of hairy roots for the production of bioactive compounds. Due to high growth rate as well as biochemical and genetic stability, it is...
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Springer
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2017-12-01
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This book introduces quantum field theory, together with its most important applications to cosmology and astroparticle physics, in a coherent framework. The path integral approach is employed right from the start, and the use of Green functions and generating...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-12-01
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This is the third volume in a four-part series on Fluid Dynamics:
PART 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics
PART 2: Asymptotic Problems of Fluid Dynamics
PART 3: Boundary Layers
PART 4: Hydrodynamic Stability Theory
The series is designed to give a comprehensive and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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This monograph instructs the reader on how to analyze the hydrogeochemical vulnerability. It introduces notions of geochemical signals, points of migration of pollutants in the unsaturated zone, and new hydrogeochemical classifications. Three test sites in the USA,...
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Springer
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2017-12-01
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Mechanical behaviors of materials are highly influenced by their architectures and/or microstructures. Hence, progress in material science involves understanding and modeling the link between the microstructure and the material behavior at different scales. This book...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-11-30
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This book describes different theoretical models developed to identify the near and mid infrared (IR) spectra of diatomic molecules isolated in the gas phase or subjected to environmental constraints, useful for the study of environmental sciences, planetology and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-11-30
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Mit diesem Buch begeben Sie sich auf die spannende Suche nach der Dunklen Materie, die nach dem aktuellen Stand der Forschung den Großteil der Masse unseres Universums ausmacht. Der Autor erklärt anschaulich, welche Schlüsselbeobachtungen dazu geführt haben, eine...
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Springer
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2017-11-30
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Sabine Stübler compares different proteasome isoforms and subtypes in terms of their transport and active site-related parameters applying an existing computational model. In a second step, the author extends this model to be able to describe the influence of proteasome...
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Springer Spektrum
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2017-11-30
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This cutting edge collection examines Japan’s population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan’s social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy. Considering the failures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
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A groundbreaking synthesis of climate change adaptation strategies for small island states, globallyA wide ranging, comprehensive, and multi-disciplinary study, this is the first book that focuses on the challenges posed by climate change impacts on the Small Island...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-30
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This contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in Geographic Information Science & Technologies, Location Modeling, and Spatial Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many...
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Springer
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2017-11-30
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There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives. We need that nature daily, if not hourly, and so it must be nearby to where we live and work. This is central to the concept of ‘biophilic cities’ which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-30
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Using classification, diagrams and crystallography elements, we describe in this book the bonds in the crystals using the basic patterns. The use of various criteria such as ionicity character of the bonds, the use of hard sphere models, the Pauling rules and the...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-11-30
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