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Touring Consumption
This book attempts to confront spatial, performative and cultural interrelations between tourism and social economic behavior by providing a critical platform for the articulation of touring consumption in our contemporary world. Tourism has become a significant area of scholarship especially given the industry’s product development opportunities on a global scale. However, the emphasis place…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-10018-6
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- VIII, 315
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- Management – Culture – Interpretation
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Invasive Tightly Coupled Processor Arrays
This book introduces new massively parallel computer (MPSoC) architectures called invasive tightly coupled processor arrays. It proposes strategies, architecture designs, and programming interfaces for invasive TCPAs that allow invading and subsequently executing loop programs with strict requirements or guarantees of non-functional execution qualities such as performance, power consumption, a…
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- 78-981-10-1058-3
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Total, Subtotal and Proximal Gastrectomy in Cancer
This richly illustrated volume describes the performance of total and subtotal gastrectomy with extended D2 lymphadenectomy by providing a detailed step-by-step guide to both manual and mechanical procedures. Gastric cancer is the fourth most commonly occurring cancer and the second most common cancer-related cause of death worldwide, and surgery remains the only potentially curative treatment.…
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- 978-88-470-5749-4
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- XI, 216
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Introduzione alla Meccanica Razionale: Elementi di teoria con esercizi
Il libro mira a fornire le basi di Meccanica Razionale, corredando l'esposizione teorica con un alto numero di esempi ed esercizi, di tutti i quali si fornisce la soluzione. Il testo è particolarmente indicato per i corsi di breve o media durata, e può servire da appoggio a corsi che si sviluppino al secondo, o anche al primo anno del corso di studi universitario.
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- 978-88-470-5779-1
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Adapted Primary Literature: The Use of Authentic Scientific Texts in Secondar…
This book specifies the foundation for Adapted Primary Literature (APL), a novel text genre that enables the learning and teaching of science using research articles that were adapted to the knowledge level of high-school students. More than 50 years ago, J.J. Schwab suggested that Primary Scientific Articles “afford the most authentic, unretouched specimens of enquiry that we can obtain” a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-9759-7
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- XIV, 242
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- Innovations in Science Education and Technology
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- 507 YAR a
Introduction to the Theory of Standard Monomials: Second Edition
The book is a reproduction of a course of lectures delivered by the author in 1983-84 which appeared in the Brandeis Lecture Notes series. The aim of this course was to give an introduction to the series of papers by concentrating on the case of the full linear group. In recent years, there has been great progress in standard monomial theory due to the work of Peter Littelmann. The author’s l…
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- 978-981-10-1813-8
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Introduction to the Representation Theory of Algebras
This book gives a general introduction to the theory of representations of algebras. It starts with examples of classification problems of matrices under linear transformations, explaining the three common setups: representation of quivers, modules over algebras and additive functors over certain categories. The main part is devoted to (i) module categories, presenting the unicity of the decomp…
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- 978-3-319-11475-0
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Survival and Sacrifice in Mars Exploration
With current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take three years. That’s a lot of time for things to go wrong. But sooner or later a commercial enterprise will commit itself to sending humans to Mars. How will the astronauts survive? Some things to consider are: ith current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take three years. That’s a lot of time for things to g…
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- 978-3-319-12448-3
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- XXV, 163
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- Springer Praxis Books
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Organic Chemistry I
An open textbook that is suitable for the first semester of Organic Chemistry. Basic concepts of the structures and reactivities of organic molecules are covered in this open textbook. Besides the fundamental discussions of organic acids-bases, stereochemistry, IR and NMR, this book also includes the topics of substitution and elimination reactions, radical substitution of alkanes, preparation …
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- 9781989864524
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- 547 LIU c
Survivable Restructuring of Vegetable Distribution and Wholesale Markets in W…
The subject of this book is to reveal the formation process of circulation structure centering on vegetable wholesale market in western cities of China. The data are mainly from the interview and survey on farmers, vegetable wholesalers and retailers and operators of vegetable wholesale markets. The findings of the research show that the large vegetable production bases in eastern economically …
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- 978-3-662-47253-8
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- X, 71
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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