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Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia : Trends, Issues and Challenges
This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It maps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone some phenomenal changes over the last three decades and have played a key role in the economic pr…
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- 978-3-319-15217-2
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- X, 258
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- 324.6 GOV
Advanced Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Colorectal Surgery
Laparoscopic colectomy has been introduced in the early 90ies as a new technique with proven improvement in short and long term outcome. Despite significant patient benefits the overall adoption rate remains low. On the other hand significant more advanced techniques such as single incision laparoscopy, robotics and transanal access surgery have been introduced in the last several years and are…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-4899-7531-7
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- XVII, 259
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- 617 ADV a
Goodlands A Meditation and History on the Great Plains
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the Great Plains region was inadequate in flora and fauna and the region lack…
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- 978-1-897425-99-2
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- The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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- 388 pages
Glycosignals in Cancer: Mechanisms of Malignant Phenotypes
This book is a collection of cutting-edge studies on the functions and mechanisms of glycosylation in cancers. Along with progress in genomics and proteomics, new findings in the significance of these complex carbohydrates, through the regulation of cell signals, have been elucidated in a wide variety of biological events. This volume provides a comprehensive summary of glycosignals and their i…
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- 978-4-431-55937-5
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- VIII, 219
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- 540.1 GLY
Advanced Techniques in Limb Reconstruction Surgery
As a result of recent advances in surgical techniques and implant technology it is now possible to perform limb reconstruction in patients with a range of congenital, posttraumatic, and postinfection pathologies. This book is a clear, practical guide to the state-of-the-art surgical procedures employed in limb reconstruction for diverse conditions. It includes precise descriptions of the techni…
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- 978-3-642-55026-3
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- VIII, 471
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- 681.761 ADV a
For A Working-Class Culture in Canada A Selection of Colin McKay’s Writing…
This book sets out to present the economic and social writings of Colin McKay, a pioneer Marxian sociologist and economist in Canada (and no relation to the author), and to place McKay in the context of the international socialist tradition. The manuscript takes the form of an extensive biographical essay, five substantive sections that present and examine McKay’s thought both thematically an…
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- 0-9695835-6-7
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- CCLH Publications
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Advanced Surgical Techniques for Rural Surgeons
This unique reference fulfills the unmet need of a textbook that addresses the scope of practice for surgeons practicing in rural regions. The text provides up-to-date content covering a wide breadth of topics relevant to surgical care in rural areas, with focus on the surgical diseases that are often treated by surgical subspecialists in the urban setting. Written by experts in each subspecial…
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- 978-1-4939-1495-1
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- XV, 275
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- 617 ADV a
Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Science
This book gathers invited presentations from the 2nd Symposium of the ICSA- CANADA Chapter held at the University of Calgary from August 4-6, 2015. The aim of this Symposium was to promote advanced statistical methods in big-data sciences and to allow researchers to exchange ideas on statistics and data science and to embraces the challenges and opportunities of statistics and data science in t…
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- 978-981-10-2594-5
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- XVI, 222
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- ICSA Book Series in Statistics
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- 332 ADV a
Expansive Discourses Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Foran examines the complexity of their int…
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- 978-1-897425-13-8
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- The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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- 6 x 9, 284 pages
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land Unfinished Conversations
While diverse in their subject matter, the essays have thematic unity in their focus on the old HBC territory and its peoples from the 1600s to the present. More than an anthology, the chapters of An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land provide examples of Brown’s exceptional skill in the close study of texts, including oral documents, images, artifacts, and other cultural expressions. The volum…
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- 9781771991711.01
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- 6 x 9, 368 pages
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