On Public Imagination: A Political and Ethical Imperative

In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism. Divided into five sections, these essays explore the social, political, and cultural role of imagination and civic engagem…

Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 14th International Confer…

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in August/September 2015. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including among others molecular (DNA) computing; quantum computi…

Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era

Years of surveillance-related leaks from US whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate on privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. Much of the focus has centered on the role of the US National Security Agency, yet there is an important Canadian side to the story. The Communications Security Establishment, the Canadian counterpart to the NSA, has played an active role i…

Principles of Systems Science

(1). Berfungsi sebagai buku teks untuk mengajarkan dasar-dasar sistem dalam disiplin apa pun atau untuk digunakan dalam kursus pengantar dalam program gelar ilmu sistem. (2). Membahas berbagai audiens dengan berbagai tingkat kecanggihan matematika. (3). Termasuk pertanyaan terbuka dalam kotak khusus yang dimaksudkan untuk merangsang pemikiran terintegrasi dan diskusi kelas. (4). Menjelaskan ban…

Principles of Safety Pharmacology

(1). Buku sumber pertama dalam Farmakologi atau Kedokteran yang menjelaskan peraturan dan farmakologi yang diuraikan dalam buku ini. (2). Semua bidang farmakologi keselamatan yang diuraikan disertai dengan informasi latar belakang yang komprehensif, angka-angka terperinci, tabel inklusif, dan daftar referensi paling penting terkini untuk bidang yang dibahas. (3). Memperkenalkan topik dalam form…

Principles of Human Joint Replacement; Design and Clinical Application

(1). Menyajikan prinsip-prinsip penggantian sendi manusia (2). Ikhtisar desain, aplikasi klinis, dan evaluasi perangkat pengganti untuk ekstremitas bawah. (3). Edisi kedua yang diperluas termasuk. bab baru yang dikhususkan untuk bahu serta berbagai studi kasus  Buku ini ditulis untuk para pengguna dan perancang penggantian sendi. Ini adalah upaya untuk menyampaikan kepada pembaca pengetahuan…

Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international markets. Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book. Topics include agricultural environments in which crops are grown; production of food crops, ca…

Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam

This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the Chamber have been systematically analyzed. On the basis of archival research, data have been assembled on the occupati…

A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

A Gallery of Combustion and Fire is the first book to provide a graphical perspective of the extremely visual phenomenon of combustion in full color. It is designed primarily to be used in parallel with, and supplement existing combustion textbooks that are usually in black and white, making it a challenge to visualize such a graphic phenomenon. Each image includes a description of how it was g…

Foggy Social Structures

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