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Veto Power: Institutional Design in the European Union
Veto rights can be a meaningful source of power only when leaving an organization is extremely unlikely. For example, small European states have periodically wielded their veto privileges to override the preferences of their larger, more economically and militarily powerful neighbors when negotiating European Union treaties, which require the unanimous consent of all EU members. Jonathan B. Sla…
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Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Reframing Human Ecology…
At the dawn of the third millennium, dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic are at the forefront of these challenges and lead the way in seeking meaningful respon…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781552385661
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- 288
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- Northern Lights
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- 581.6 BIO b
Trajectories of Memory: Excavating the Past in Indonesia
This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The sec…
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- 9789819919956, 9789819919949
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- 316
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- 907.2 TRA t
Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet
As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of Science Online takes up these genres to explore how scientists are adapting their communications, how publics are increasingly involved in science, and how boundaries between experts and non-experts continue to erode.
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Improving Infrared-Based Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms Using Multi-Spect…
This thesis transforms satellite precipitation estimation through the integration of a multi-sensor, multi-channel approach to current precipitation estimation algorithms, and provides more accurate readings of precipitation data from space. Using satellite data to estimate precipitation from space overcomes the limitation of ground-based observations in terms of availability over remote are…
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- 978-3-319-12080-5
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- XXI, 68
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- 551 NAS i
Histamine Receptors Preclinical and Clinical Aspects
A comprehensive and detailed overview of the current state of preclinical research on histamine and histamine receptors. Part of the book focuses on novel approaches to the study of histamine receptors such as polymorphism, genetic linkage, and computational analysis, and on the use of new histaminergic ligands in diseases such as asthma and dermatitis. Several chapters will be devoted to the r…
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- 978-3-319-18101-1
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- XI, 155
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- 6169 HIS
Histamine Receptors Preclinical and Clinical Aspects
A comprehensive and detailed overview of the current state of preclinical research on histamine and histamine receptors. Part of the book focuses on novel approaches to the study of histamine receptors such as polymorphism, genetic linkage, and computational analysis, and on the use of new histaminergic ligands in diseases such as asthma and dermatitis. Several chapters will be devoted to the r…
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- 978-3-319-40306-9
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- XIV, 373
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- 616
Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!: Replicating the Work of the Grea…
You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus, Galileo, Kepler and Hubble, who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos. This book gives the student or amateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of these seminal observations from their own homes: With your own eyes: Use your own observations and measurements to disc…
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- 978-3-319-15660-6
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- XIII, 549
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- Springer Praxis Books
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- 520 BUC a
Astrobiological Neurosystems: Rise and Fall of Intelligent Life Forms in the …
This book explains why scientists believe that life may be more common in the Universe than previously considered possible. It presents the tools and strategies astronomers and astrobiologists are using in their formal search for habitable exoplanets as well as more advanced forms of life in other parts of our galaxy. The author then summarizes what is currently known about how and where organi…
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- 978-3-319-10419-5
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- IX, 204
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- Astronomers' Universe
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- 611 CRA a
Astro-Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers: A Maker’s Guide
This is the must-have guide for all amateur astronomers who double as makers, doers, tinkerers, problem-solvers, and inventors. In a world where an amateur astronomy habit can easily run into the many thousands of dollars, it is still possible for practitioners to get high-quality results and equipment on a budget by utilizing DIY techniques. Surprisingly, it's not that hard to modify existing …
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- 978-3-319-18546-0
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- XII, 246
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- The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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- 520 CHU a
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