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Interpreting Art
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interp…
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- 9781800081772, 9781800081789
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- Spotlights
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- 730 ROS i
Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?
This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030970123, 9783030970123
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- 315
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- Global Power Shift
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- 327 RUS r
Carbon Footprint Report 2020: Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from EIB Gro…
This report provides a comprehensive breakdown of EIB Group greenhouse gas emissions arising from internal operations at head office locations in 2020. It also analyses comparatively against performance in previous years dating back to the 2007 baseline. As a result of the teleworking arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EIB Group’s net emissions in 2020 were more than 70% below 201…
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- 9789286149290, 9789286149290
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- 551.6 EUR c
The Australian Continent: A Geophysical Synthesis
The Australian Continent: A Geophysical Synthesis is designed to provide a summary of the character of the Australian continent through the extensive information available at the continental scale, as a contribution to the understanding of Australia's lithospheric architecture and its evolution.The results build on the extensive databases assembled at Geoscience Australia, particularly for pote…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781760462468
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- 550 KEN a
Computer Aided Surgery
This book presents the latest research advances in the theory, design, control, and application of robot systems intended for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, manufacturing, automation, surgery, locomotion, and biomechanics. Several chapters deal with fundamental kinematics in nature, including synthesis, calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, inverse and forward kinemati…
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- 9784431558101
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- xii, 148 pages
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- 004
The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies, the ideas of their individual members, and the actions of those opposed to slavery and its expansi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781501726453, 9781501726446
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- 272
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- 901 WIE s
Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University
"This new and expanded edition is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge Colleges for conditional offers in mathematics. They are also used by some other UK universities and many mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781783747764
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- 510 SIK a
Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing: An Introduction
Spin glasses are magnetic materials with strong disorder. Statistical mechanics has been a powerful tool to theoretically analyse various unique properties of spin glasses. A number of new analytical techniques have been developed to establish a theory of spin glasses. Surprisingly, these techniques have offered new tools and viewpoints for the understanding of information processing problems, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780198509400
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- 256
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- International Series of Monographs on Physics
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- 006.32 NIS s
Give peace a chance: on violence and warfare in prehistory and why it matters
How is it possible that people kill each other? And above all: how is it possible that people who are able to peacefully live with each other at one moment, can kill each other at another one? These are fundamental questions about the human condition – questions that religions, philosophers and scientists have been wanting to solve since times immemorial and that continue to fascinate us toda…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789082948134
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- 65
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- 303.66 FAN g
Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2015 15th International Conference…
This volume constitutes the papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2015, held in February 2015 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The total of 107 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The contributions are organized in topical sections on Systems Theory and Applications; Modelling Biological…
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- 9783319273402
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- xviii, 887 pages
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- -
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- 004
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