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Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
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- 9783030786274
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Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor impor…
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- 9789811308338
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Single-Event Effects, from Space to Accelerator Environments = Analysis, Pred…
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to providing an extensive overview of the dynamics and composition of different radiation environments, the authors discuss the failure mechanisms, known as single-event effects (…
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- 9783031717239
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- X, 141 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”; A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption…
Mengapa negara-negara dan wilayah yang secara historis Katolik umumnya lebih korup dan kurang kompetitif dibandingkan dengan yang secara historis Protestan?. Bagaimana institusionalisasi agama memengaruhi kemakmuran negara-negara di Eropa dan Amerika?. Buku akses terbuka ini membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan kritis ini dengan menjelaskan faktor-faktor religius hegemonik dan emansipatoris yang meny…
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- 978-3-030-78498-0
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- online resource ( XXXVI, 407 Pages)
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- Kontribusi terhadap Perekonomian
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- 261.8 POR y
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context; Transmi…
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-mo…
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- Volume: 13
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- 9789004471481
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After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity
This book examines the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia, where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth, and in this way it explores the fraught relationship between origins and faith. It treats also of the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and the production of knowledge, tak…
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- 9789004324329
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Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains
This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home…
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- 9783031157738
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Einführung in die Ethik
Der Band stellt die maßgeblichen Theorien der Ethik vor: die Kantische Ethik, den Utilitarismus, die Tugendethik und den Kontraktualismus. Diskutiert werden auch die wesentlichen Probleme der Moraltheorie, wie z.B. die Ursprünge und die Reichweite moralischer...
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- 9783476052933
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Proceedings of the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering: CIBI…
This open access book shows some of the highlights presented at the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering. The papers explore the forefront of Mechanical Engineering, containing research into fluid mechanics, energy systems, tribology, materials science, robotics, mechatronics, biomechanics, instrumentation, thermodynamics, and mechanical sustainability.
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- 9783031385636
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- XVI, 456
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Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
This chapter offers an introduction to the book and is specifically recommended for all readers intending to do the practical exercises it contains. It also provides readers with all the information they require to make the most of the book’s contents. In this chapter, we explain the aim, structure and intended audience for this book. We also give the readers a few tips and guidelines a…
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- 9783030909987
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- XIV, 462
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