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A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life. Pregnancy testing has never been easier. Waiting on one side or the other of the bathroom door for a “positive” or “negative” result has become a modern ritual and rite of passage. Today, the ubiquitous home pregnancy test is implicated in personal decisions an…
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- 9780262371377
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- 618.2
A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Co…
An exploration of science and technology studies in eight different places, and the possibilities that arise for observation, intervention, and collaboration. Where does science and technology studies (STS) belong? In A Place for Science and Technology Studies, Jane Calvert takes readers through eight different rooms—the laboratory, the conference room, the classroom, the coffee room, the …
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- 9780262376914
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- 601
Infinite Matrices and Their Recent Applications
This monograph covers the theory of finite and infinite matrices over the fields of real numbers, complex numbers and over quaternions. Emphasizing topics such as sections or truncations and their relationship to the linear operator theory on certain specific separable and sequence spaces, the authors explore techniques like conformal mapping, iterations and truncations that are used to derive …
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- 978-3-319-30179-2
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- X, 118
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- 510 SHI i
Infiltration Measurements for Soil Hydraulic Characterization
This book summarises the main results of many contributions from researchers worldwide who have used the water infiltration process to characterize soil in the field. Determining soil hydrodynamic properties is essential to interpret and simulate the hydrological processes of economic and environmental interest. This book can be used as a guide to soil hydraulic characterization and in additi…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XI, 386
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- 630 ANQ i
Inequality, Polarization and Conflict An Analytical Study
This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different perspec…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XI, 137
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- 330 MIT i
Industry-Led Growth Issues and Facts
The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The book identifies the major constraints that result in limited demand for labour in the organised manu…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XIV, 88
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- 330 MIT i
Industrialization and Challenges in Asia
This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and named them the ‘Asian economic miracle’. In the recent past, the term ‘emerging economies’ ha…
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- 978-981-10-0823-8
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- XXIV, 265
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- 330 JAY i
The Imagery of Interior Spaces
On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the womb, secluded parks, and train c…
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- 9781950192199
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- 800 IMA
Image, Knife, and Gluepot : Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print
"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced …
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- 9781783745180
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- 366 halaman
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- 800 RUD i
Industrial and Labor Economics Issues in Developing and Transition Countries
This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional arrangements and regulations create a very different scope of analysis. The patterns of ch…
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- 978-3-319-12840-5
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- IX, 314
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- 330 KAR i
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