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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems
A challenging frontier in modern statistical physics concerns systems with a small number of degrees of freedom, far from the thermodynamic limit. Beyond the general interest in the foundation of statistical mechanics, the relevance of this subject is due to the recent increase of resolution in the observation and manipulation of biological and man-made objects at micro- and nano-scales. A pecu…
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- 978-3-03897-058-3
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Marginality : Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology
This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. “Marginality” is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research based with original empirical analyses…
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- 978-94-007-7061-4
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- XVII, 389 halaman
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- 362 MAR
A Discourse on Property John Locke and his Adversaries
John Locke's theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully uses an hermeneutical and analytical approach to offer a revolutionary revision of early modern theories of property, focusing particularly on that of Locke. Setting his analysis within the intellectual context of the seventeenth century, Professor Tu…
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- 9780511558641
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Women in the World Today: Global Women's Issues
Global Women’s Issues and the Beijing Platform for Action. This book is based on the 12 critical areas of concern identified at the Beijing Conference: 1 The persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women 2 Inequalities and inadequacies in and unequal access to education and training 3 Inequalities and inadequacies in and unequal access to health care and related services 4 Violence…
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Cryptography and information security in the Balkans
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security in the Balkans, Balkan Crypt Sec 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2014. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: symmetric cryptography, cryptographic hardwa…
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- 9783319213569
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- x, 251 pages
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- 005.8
Cryptology Transmitted Message Protection From Deterministic Chaos up to Opti…
This book presents methods to improve information security for protected communication. It combines and applies interdisciplinary scientific engineering concepts, including cryptography, chaos theory, nonlinear and singular optics, radio-electronics and self-changing artificial systems. It also introduces additional ways to improve information security using optical vortices as information carr…
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- 9783319301259
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- xxviii, 364 pages
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Grassroots Governance? : Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean
Traditional leadership is a factor that has long been overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Grassroots Governance?, an interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection, addresses this gap in African scholarship and brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local g…
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- 9781552385654
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- 350 RAY g
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation : Student and Teach…
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoi…
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- 9781351666046
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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability: Third European Conference…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2015, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in October 2015. The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information literacy, environment and sustainability; workplace information literacy and kn…
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- 978-3-319-28196-4
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Inflammation and Lung Cancer
In recent years there have been various discoveries connecting inflammation and lung cancer and clearly there is growing interest in this area of cancer research. The link between unresolved inflammation and cancer has been well established with estimates that 15% of cancer deaths are inflammation‐related. Evidence for this link includes the following: a) some inflammatory diseases are associ…
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- 978-1-4939-2723-4
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