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Regional Geological Survey of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, Zhejiang Provinc…
This Open Access book introduces readers to the regional geology of Hanggai, Xianxia and Chuancun, the area between China's northern Zhejiang Province and southern Anhui Province and explores the strata, magmatic rocks and tectonic structures in 1:50,000 scale geological maps. Based on studies of multiple stratigraphic divisions, the standard stratigraphic section of the upper Ordovician Hirnan…
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- 9789811517884
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- VII, 292 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility : Climate Change, A…
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate chang…
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- 9783030311254
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- XXIII, 417: ill; lamp
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : The Authors…
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities a…
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- 9783030308339
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- XV, 396 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time
The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained …
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- Volume: 21
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- 978-90-47-44356-8
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Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval d…
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- Volume: 12
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- 978-90-04-36377-9
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Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
Editors: Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne Animal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the intentional harms inflicted upon animals for the sake of hoped-for benefits in humans. Despite this rationale for continued animal experimentation, shortcomings of this practice have become increasingly more apparent and well-documented. However, th…
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- Volume: 22
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- 978-90-04-39119-2
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Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics
More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film’s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and …
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- 978-90-04-24192-3
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Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture: Visualisation, Data Mining, Communica…
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digi…
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- Volume: 3
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- 78-90-04-39929-7
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Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualizati…
This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in…
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- Volume: 17
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- 978-90-04-50129-4
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Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity
This collection of essays explores processes of innovation in Greco-Roman technology and science. It uses the concept of ‘anchoring’ to investigate the microhistories of technological and scientific practices and ideas. The volume combines broad, theoretical essays with more targeted case studies of individual inventions and innovations. In doing so, it moves beyond the emphasis on achievem…
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- 978-90-04-71491-5
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