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Precarious Creativity : Global Media, Local Labor
Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regardi…
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Water and Earthquakes
This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effect…
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The Recreational Frontier - Ecotourism in Laos as Ecorational Instrumentality
This study treats ecotourism in National Protected Areas of Lao PDR as a “recreational frontier” which instrumentalizes the recreation of human natures in capitalism’s centers for that of nonhuman natures at capitalism’s (closing) frontiers. This world-ecological practice of ecorational instrumentality – i.e. of nature domination in the name of “Nature” – presents a remedy for c…
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Risk Assessment and Risk-Driven Testing
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Risk Assessment and Risk-driven Testing, RISK 2015, held in conjunction with the OMG Technical Meeting in Berlin, Germany, in June 2015. The revised 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. This workshop addresses systematic approaches that combine risk a…
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Rigorous Data Analysis
In qualitative research, one can often hear the statement that research results are just (social) constructions. In criminal cases and in court hearings, we tend to expect that the true sequence of events has to be found rather than just any story. Here the author shows that qualitative social research can be conducted in the manner of police work or court proceedings. He does so by exhibiting …
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Requirement Engineering for Knowledge-Intensive Processes
Sven-Michael Wundenberg discusses the development of a reference architecture for the Learning Management System’s (LMS) selection-process aimed at the system’s implementation in a polytechnic-knowledge-transfer organization. The focus lies on the requirement engineering (RE) process’s quintessence based on research about standard RE-procedures and -approaches combined with LMS-basic know…
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- 978-3-658-08832-3
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The Citizen's Voice : Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature
Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century’s greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. He observes the infamous characters ranging from Joseph K from Franz Kafka’s The Trial to Ralph from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies to Chauncey Gardiner from Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There and beyond while…
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Research Assessment in the Humanities
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for …
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Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume II: The 150…
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different discipli…
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- 978-3-319-00143-2
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- XIX, 690
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Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquit…
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different discipli…
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- 978-3-319-00137-1
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- XIX, 735
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