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Multiphase Flow Dynamics 1
In its fifth extended edition the successful monograph package “Multiphase Flow Dynamics” contains theory, methods and practical experience for describing complex transient multi-phase processes in arbitrary geometrical configurations, providing a systematic presentation of the theory and practice of numerical multi-phase fluid dynamics. In the present first volume the local volume and time…
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- 5
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15295-0
- Collation
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
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- -
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Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes
Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formation of a new rulin…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-09510-9
- Collation
- XII, 148
- Series Title
- Studien zur Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
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- -
Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9965-2
- Collation
- XXXII, 1000
- Series Title
- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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- -
How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108921855
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- -
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- 091 LEV h
Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108914895
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 325.3 LEE h
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
It is widely agreed that Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. But how did he manage this seminal accomplishment? In this book,Benjamin Folit-Weinberg finally provides an answer.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009047562
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 880 WEI h
Multimodal Computational Attention for Scene Understanding and Robotics
This book presents state-of-the-art computational attention models that have been successfully tested in diverse application areas and can build the foundation for artificial systems to efficiently explore, analyze, and understand natural scenes. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most recent computational attention models for processing visual and acoustic input. It covers the biological…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-33794-4
- Collation
- XXIV, 203
- Series Title
- Cognitive Systems Monographs
- Call Number
- -
Multiphase Flow Dynamics 5:Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
This Volume 5 of the successful book package "Multiphase Flow Dynamics" is devoted to nuclear thermal hydraulics which is a substantial part of nuclear reactor safety. It provides knowledge and mathematical tools for adequate description of the process of transferring the fission heat released in materials due to nuclear reactions into its environment. It step by step introduces into the heat r…
- Edition
- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-37449-9
- Collation
- XL
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- -
- Call Number
- -
Historians' Virtues: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Why do historians so often talk about objectivity, empathy, and fair-mindedness? What roles do such personal qualities play in historical studies? And why does it make sense to call them virtues rather than skills or habits? Historians' Virtues is the first publication to explore these questions in some depth.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108993067
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153.9 PAU h
Beginning HTML5 Media : Make the most of the new video and audio standards fo…
Beginning HTML5 Media, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to HTML5 video and audio. The HTML5 video standard enables browsers to support audio and video elements natively. This makes it very easy for web developers to publish audio and video, integrating both within the general presentation of web pages. For example, media elements can be styled using CSS (style sheets), viewed on a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4842-0460-3
- Collation
- XX, 304
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 005.1
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