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Introduction to Sociology
Published by OpenStax College, Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The text is designed for the Introduction to Sociology course at any two- to four-year …
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Emerging and Young Adulthood Multiple Perspectives, Diverse Narratives
The most distinctive feature of the Second Edition is its theoretical orientation coupled with a focus on understanding emerging and young adulthood from multiple perspectives. The updated and expanded book offers readers an opportunity to “listen to the voices” of emerging and young adults, parents, and employers, which is key to understanding this particular developmental period. In addit…
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- 978-3-319-11301-2
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- XII, 222
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Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance
This book is an outcome of the CIMPA-UNESCO-MESR-MINECO-MOROCCO research school entitled “Statistical Methods and Applications in Finance and Actuarial Science”. The research school, organized by the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, in collaboration with the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA), was held in Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna between 8 and 20 Apr…
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- 978-3-319-30417-5
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Modelling Behaviour
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive focus on building tasks, while posing new challenges in all areas of the industry from material and structural to the urban scale.…
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- 978-3-319-24206-4
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- XXV, 544
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The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics Learning fr…
This book presents a synopsis of six emerging themes in adult mathematics/numeracy and a critical discussion of recent developments in terms of policies, provisions, and the emerging challenges, paradoxes and tensions. It also offers an extensive review of the literature adult mathematics education. Why do adults want to learn mathematics? Did they enjoy mathematics at school so much that they …
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- 978-3-319-32808-9
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Multibody Dynamics
This book includes selected papers from the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, that took place in Barcelona, Spain, from June 29 to July 2, 2015. By having its origin in analytical and continuum mechanics, as well as in computer science and applied mathematics, multibody dynamics provides a basis for analysis and virtual prototyping of innovative applications in many fields of c…
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- 1871-3033
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- VIII, 321
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- Computational Methods in Applied Sciences
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Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering
This collection focuses on the development of novel approaches to address one of the most pressing challenges of civil engineering, namely the mitigation of natural hazards. Numerous engineering books to date have focused on, and illustrate considerable progress toward, mitigation of individual hazards (earthquakes, wind, and so forth.). The current volume addresses concerns related to overal…
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- 978-3-319-80633-4
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Multilevel Business Processes
Christoph G. Schuetz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Business Informatics – Data & Knowledge Engineering of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. His research interests include data warehousing, semantic web, business process management, and data privacy.
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- 978-3-658-11083-3
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Emerging and Evolving Topics in Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis and Treatments
Over the past decade, we have made great advances in the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) research, and this book focuses on those advances in MS pathogenesis and treatment. While some of these advances have been through new approaches and ideas that have emerged in the last decade such as the newly identified protective role that amyloid proteins may play in MS or the use of helminths to treat…
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- 978-3-319-25543-9
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- XII, 235
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Statistical Mechanics of Superconductivity
The purpose of this book is to present the fundamentals of the theory of superconductivity in a self-contained manner by developing and illustrating every required technique of advanced equilibrium statistical mechanics. It is addressed to graduate and undergraduate students who have finished elementary courses of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. No further background knowledge is req…
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