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A City in Blue and Green The Singapore Story
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely ur…
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- 1
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- 9789811395970
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- X, 152 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Conviviality at the Crossroads : The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a p…
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- 1
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- 9783030289799
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- XI, 290 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s…
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- Volume: 22
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- 9789004410398
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History and Speculative Fiction
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their soc…
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- 978-3-031-42235-5
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- XIV, 293
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Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours : Vibrant Matter(s)
This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management …
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- 1
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- 9789811500428
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- XII, 202 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on…
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- 978-3-319-24157-9
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- VI, 244
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 3)
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Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy
This book offers a concise, practice-oriented reference-guide to the field of ocean wave energy. The ten chapters highlight the key rules of thumb, address all the main technical engineering aspects and describe in detail all the key aspects to be considered in the techno-economic assessment of wave energy converters. Written in an easy-to-understand style, the book answers questions relevant t…
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- 978-3-319-39889-1
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- XXI, 287
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- Ocean Engineering & Oceanography (OEO, volume 7)
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Data-Driven Fault Detection and Reasoning for Industrial Monitoring
This open access book assesses the potential of data-driven methods in industrial process monitoring engineering. The process modeling, fault detection, classification, isolation, and reasoning are studied in detail. These methods can be used to improve the safety and reliability of industrial processes. Fault diagnosis, including fault detection and reasoning, has attracted engineers and scien…
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- 9789811680441
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The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Scie…
Scientific writing is a key skill for researchers. Scientific writing develops critical thinking, helps scientists connect their local results with global understanding, and helps scientists identify appropriate next questions to explore. Increased scientific writing capacity within a research group allows more study results to be shared with the practitioner community and policy makers…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII, 186
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Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation. This book is useful for s…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-40487-1
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- VIII, 253
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