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Bikes and Bloomers Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear
The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives – cycle wear. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were vastly inappropriate, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedal…
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Word and Image in Russian History Essays in Honor of Gary Marker
''Word and Image'' invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political…
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Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiryâ€â€¦
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Sustainable Land Management in a European Context
This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven y…
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Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Sim…
Numerical simulations; programming; Python
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- Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 15
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Proceedings of 2015 2nd International Conference on Industrial Economics Syst…
* Mengumpulkan makalah berkualitas tinggi tentang keadaan seni dan praktik studi ekonomi industri dan teknik keamanan industri. * Memberikan wawasan yang membahas masalah-masalah yang menyangkut perekonomian nasional, pembangunan sosial dan ketahanan ekonomi. * Para penulis adalah pakar yang dihormati dari Pusat Penelitian Keamanan Industri China dan lembaga penelitian terkemuka lainnya -> Volu…
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- 978-981-287-655-3
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Proceedings of 2014 1st International Conference on Industrial Economics and …
* Mengumpulkan makalah dari forum internasional terkemuka. * Ditulis oleh para ahli terkemuka di bidangnya. * Menyajikan kemajuan mendasar terbaru dalam keadaan seni dan praktik ekonomi industri dan keamanan industri --> Teks ini memberikan informasi tentang prosiding Konferensi Internasional Ekonomi Industri dan Keamanan Industri 2014 (IEIS'2014). Konferensi tersebut diadakan di Berkeley, Cali…
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The Trillion Dollar Shift
Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements. Technology has been developing at an enormous pace and is helping to solve our most pressing social and environmental challenges. Yet, despite this success, our current model of development is still deeply problematic…
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020,…
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Convex Analysis and Global Optimization
This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering. The second edition has been brought up to date and continues to develop a coherent and rigorous theory of deterministic global optimization, hi…
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- Springer Optimization and Its Applications
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