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What Every Woman Should Know about Cervical Cancer Revised and Updated
This book (an updated and extended edition) is about mobilizing women and health care policy makers and providers to unite their efforts in a single strategy for fighting cervical cancer worldwide. The objective of this strategy would be to reverse cervical cancer prevalence and mortality rates among all 2.4 billion women at risk and to achieve this goal within 10-15 years of implementation. Ce…
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- 978-94-017-7560-1
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Well-Being in Contemporary Society
This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society. It discusses developments such as globalization, consumerism and the rapid innovation and use of new and emerging technologies and focuses on the significant impact of these developments on the well-being of people living today. The anthology brings together researchers from various disciplines, including psycholo…
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- 978-3-319-06459-8
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Going big :a scientist's guide to large projects and collaborations
"This book addresses the need for scientists to understand the framework and approach in large science projects, both from the technical project management side as well as the sociology and governance of large science collaborations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378482
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Demystifying the academic research enterprise :becoming a successful scholar …
"Provides a necessary and practical guide to the research enterprise that will introduce graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty across the disciplines to this multifaceted, complex system"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377201
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Model systems in biology :history, philosophy, and practical concerns
"Instead of arguing for a specific animal model, Striedter will review the history and philosophy of animal models in biomedical research, examining their various advantages and limitations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370028
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Playful wearables :understanding the design space of wearables for games and …
"Playful Wearables presents foundational thinking about wearables and play. As play becomes ever more immersive, tools used to increase that immersiveness have to change with it"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376839
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Where futures converge :Kendall Square and the making of a global innovation …
"This book tells the history of Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, and how it came to be one of the world's premiere innovation districts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368498
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Think tank aesthetics :midcentury modernism, the Cold War, and the neoliberal…
How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
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- 9780262357029
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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The matter of facts :skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science
How biases, the desire for a good narrative, reliance on citation metrics, and other problems undermine confidence in modern science. Modern science is built on experimental evidence, yet scientists are often very selective in deciding what evidence to use and often disagree about how to interpret it. In The Matter of Facts, Gareth and Rhodri Leng explore how scientists produce and use evidence…
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- 9780262358279
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- 1 online resource (376 pages).
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The joy of search :a Google insider's guide to going beyond the basics
"How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it--"Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color)
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