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Please God Send Me a Wreck; Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australi…
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. T…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-2642-8
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- XV, 243
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- When the Land Meets the Sea
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- 994 DUN p
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide : 1876-2012
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) was the first recognised degree at the University of Adelaide. Although informal classes for some subjects were held at the University between 1873 and 1875, the first official University lecture was a Latin lecture at 10 am on Monday 28 March 1876. This was followed by lectures in Greek, English and Mental Philosophy. By 1878, the first BA student, Thomas Ainslie Cate…
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- 9781922064363
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- 412 pages
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- 900 HAR h
Roars from the Mountain Colonial Management of the 1951 Volcanic disaster at …
"Mount Lamington broke out in violent eruption on 21 January 1951, killing thousands of Orokaiva people, devastating villages and destroying infrastructure. Generations of Orokaiva people had lived on the rich volcanic soils of Mount Lamington, apparently unaware of the deadly volcanic threat that lay dormant beneath them. Also unaware were the Europeans who administered the Territory of Papua …
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- 382 pages
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- 94
Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Au…
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic significance to them. In 2015 they yet again came under attack, this time as an expensive lifestyle choice that can no longer be supported by state governments. Yet outstations are t…
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- 9781925022896
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- 94
Concurrent engineering in the 21st century : foundations, developments and ch…
Presenting the gradual evolution of the concept of Concurrent Engineering (CE), and the technical, social methods and tools that have been developed, including the many theoretical and practical challenges that still exist, this book serves to summarize the achievements and current challenges of CE and will give readers a comprehensive picture of CE as researched and practiced in different regi…
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- 9783319137766
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- 338.5
Confessions of the pricing man : how price affects everything
The worldℓ́ℓs foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer. ℗ℓ In this engaging and practical narrative, Hermann Simon leaves nothing out of the pricing cocktail, explaining each ingredient through dozens of stories collected over four decades in the trenches and behind the scenes. A world-…
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- 9783319204000
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- 338.544
Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture
This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture. In these articles, Professor Tang proves his value as a worthy successor to the Chinese philosophical tradition, while also open to the latest trends of thought both at home and abroad. ℗ℓ The late P…
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- 9783662455333
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- 299.512
Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Robustness in Economics and Finance
This book focuses on general frameworks for modeling heavy-tailed distributions in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics, risk management and insurance. A central theme is that of (non-)robustness, i.e., the fact that the presence of heavy tails can either reinforce or reverse the implications of a number of models in these fields, depending on the degree of heavy-tailed ness. These resu…
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- 978-3-319-16876-0
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- XIV, 119
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- 001 IBR h
Handbook of Purified Gases
Technical gases are used in almost every field of industry, science and medicine and also as a means of control by government authorities and institutions and are regarded as indispensable means of assistance. In this complete handbook of purified gases the physical foundations of purified gases and mixtures as well as their manufacturing, purification, analysis, storage, handling and transp…
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- 978-3-540-32598-7
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- X, 521
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- 621 SCH h
Handbook Factory Planning and Design
This handbook introduces a methodical approach and pragmatic concept for the planning and design of changeable factories that act in strategic alliances to supply the ever-changing needs of the global market. In the first part, the change drivers of manufacturing enterprises and the resulting new challenges are considered in detail with focus on an appropriate change potential. The second par…
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- 978-3-662-46390-1
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- XVIII, 501
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- 621 HAN h
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