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Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus between Planning and Science
This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. The book includes case studies of several cities and districts in China, including Shang…
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- 978-3-319-14145-9
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- XIII, 389
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- 910
Placing the History of College Writing : Stories from the Incomplete Archive
In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing's physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, S…
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- 9781602358010
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- 901 SHE p
Stamping American Memory : Collectors, Citizens, and the Post
Winner of the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. While millions of Americans collected stamps from the 1880s to the 1940s, Stampi…
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- 9780472900848
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- 900 BRE s
A History of the University of Manchester : 1973–1990
Frank and entertaining account of the University of Manchester's struggle to meet the Government’s demands for the rapid expansion of higher education in the 1950s and the 1960s. Looks at the University's ambitious building program: the controversial attempts to reform its constitution and improve its communications amid demands for greater democracy in the workplace, the struggle to retain i…
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- 9781526137197
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- 352 halaman
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- 900 PUL h
Identity and Heritage: Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World
This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If the heritage s…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09688-9
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- X, 172
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- 930.1 IDE
Remembering Hedley
Remembering Hedley commemorates the life of Hedley Bull (1932–85), a pivotal figure in the fields of international relations and strategic studies. Its publication coincides with the official opening on 6 August 2008 of the Hedley Bull Centre at The Australian National University in Canberra.
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- 9781921536076
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- 900 REM
Muslima Theology : The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative interpretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, encompassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations, now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate scripture and ot…
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- 9783631628997
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- 340 halaman
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- 200 MUS
A New Approach to Research Ethics : Using Guided Dialogue to Strengthen Resea…
A New Approach to Research Ethics is a clear, practical and useful guide to the ethical issues faced by researchers today. Examining the theories of ethical decision-making and applying these theories to a range of situations within a research career and process, this text offers a broader perspective on how ethics can be a positive force in strengthening the research community.Drawing upon a s…
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- 9781134817979
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- 254 halaman
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- 001.42 MUS n
Cooperative vehicular communications in the drive-thru internet
This brief presents a unified analytical framework for the evaluation of drive-thru Internet performance and accordingly proposes an optimal spatial access control management approach. A comprehensive overview and in-depth discussion of the research literature is included. It summarizes the main concepts and methods, and highlights future research directions. The brief also introduces a novel c…
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- 9783319204543
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- IX, 75
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- SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- 621.39
Cooperative OFDM Underwater Acoustic Communications
Following underwater acoustic channel modeling, this book investigates the relationship between coherence time and transmission distances. It considers the power allocation issues of two typical transmission scenarios, namely short-range transmission and medium-long range transmission. For the former scenario, an adaptive system is developed based on instantaneous channel state information. The…
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- 1
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- 9783319332079
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- XII, 104
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- -
- Call Number
- 620.2
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