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The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared?
This book gives insight into the mechanism of the immune system and the influence of the environment on earth. Further, the book explains the changes that occur in our immune system in the absence of gravity and their fundamental consequences. Several limiting factors for human health and performance in microgravity have been clearly identified as an unacceptable risk for long-term and i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-41466-9
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- XVII, 127, 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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- The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared?
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The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area, this book is a unique contribution and a first step toward a networking paradigm, promoting collaboration in preventing and comba…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09441-0
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- XXII, 154, 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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- The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
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The Icelandic Financial Crisis
This book presents a detailed account of Iceland’s recovery from the tumultuous banking collapse that overturned its financial industry in 2008. Early chapters recount how Iceland’s central bank was unable to follow the quantitative easing policies of the time to print money and save the banks, while serving the world´s smallest currency area. The book goes on to explore how the government…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-39455-2
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- XVI, 349, 23 illustrations in colour
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characterization, Testing and Monitoring:…
This book is a collection of ISRM suggested methods for testing or measuring properties of rocks and rock masses both in the laboratory and in situ, as well as for monitoring the performance of rock engineering structures. The first collection (Yellow Book) has been published in 1981. In order to provide access to all the Suggested Methods in one volume, the ISRM Blue Book was published in 2007…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-07713-0
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- XIII, 293, 165 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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- The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characterization, Testing and Monitoring: 2007-2014
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Design for teaching and learning in a networked world : 10th European Confere…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, held in Toledo, Spain, in September 2015. The 27 full papers, 19 short papers, 9 demo papers and 23 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They address topics such as blended learning; self-regulated and self directed learning; reflective learn…
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- -
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- 9783319242583
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- xviii, 624 pages
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- -
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- 004.6
The Hunt for FOXP5: A Genomic Mystery Novel
Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant. As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic t…
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- 978-3319289601
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- 258 pages
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The Humanitarian Challenge
This book includes contributions from academics, practitioners and policy-makers connected with the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), an international association of universities that is committed to interdisciplinary education and research on humanitarian action. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of NOHA, this book highlights some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing hum…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13470-3
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- XII, 286,2 illustrations in colour
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- The Humanitarian Challenge
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The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies
This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a g…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-46504-2
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- XII, 204, 8 b/w illustrations
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- The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies
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Design of Canals
The book presents firsthand material from the authors on design of hydraulic canals. The book discusses elements of design based on principles of hydraulic flow through canals. It covers optimization of design based on usage requirements and economic constraints. The book includes explicit design equations and design procedures along with design examples for varied cases. With its comprehensive…
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- -
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- 9788132223221
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- xi, 183 pages
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- -
- Call Number
- 627.13
Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2016 : Basics, Model…
The revised Fourth Edition of this popular textbook is redesigned with Excel 2016 to encourage business students to develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers as decision makers. Students learn to build models using logic and experience, produce statistics using Excel 2016 with shortcuts, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The textbook features new …
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- 978-3-319-32185-1
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- -
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- -
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- 650
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