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Youth Resilience and Culture Commonalities and Complexities
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important con…
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- 978-94-017-9415-2
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Wine Queens Understanding the Role of Women in Wine Marketing
This book explores a fairly unique wine marketing topic by examining the role and historic function of Wine Queens and Wine Kings. The author charts the history of Wine Queens in Europe, the Americas and Asia, while also focusing on cases from Slovenia. The difference between Wine Queens and Beauty Queens is also described in light of marketing approaches used in the wine industry. The book con…
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- 978-3-319-16661-2
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- XIII, 49
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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- 978-3-662-45837-2
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- IX, 182
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New Approaches to Building Pathology and Durability
This book presents a collection of recent research works intended to assist in the effective management of service loss. It develops and evaluates methodologies for the assessment of defects and failures, and proposes methodologies for preventing and mitigating building defects. As such, the book will appeal to a broad readership of scientists, practitioners, students and lecturers.
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- 978-981-10-0647-0
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- VIII, 207
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- Building Pathology and Rehabilitation
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Farming on the Fringe Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustain…
This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultur…
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- 978-3-319-32235-3
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- XI, 197
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The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
Discussions about the ethics of cultural heritage in the 20th century focused on standards of professionalism, stewardship, responsibilities to stakeholders and on establishing public trust in the authenticity of the outcomes of the heritage process. This volume builds on recent approaches that move away from treating ethics as responsibilities to external domains and to the discipline, and whi…
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- 978-1-4939-1649-8
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- XVII, 219
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- Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8 Preservation of Cul…
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests…
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- 978-3-319-09408-3
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- 362 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
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Nanotechnologies in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
This book presents novel applications of nanotechnology for the preservation of artistic and historical artifacts. It explains the scientific principles behind numerous nanomaterials and discusses their applications to different types of common movable and fixed artistic substrates. It starts with an overview of the nano-tools developed over the last three decades, such as dispersions of nanopa…
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- 978-94-017-9302-5
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- X, 144
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Myths, Symbols and Legends of Solar System Bodies
This book is an amateur astronomer’s guide to the mythology and symbolism associated with the celestial bodies in the Solar System, and even includes some of the legendary tales of people who had or have a connection with these objects. It explores different cultures (for example, the Greco-Roman and the Norse) and different times and how stories were used to explain the worlds they saw above…
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- 978-1-4614-7066-3
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- XVI, 234
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- The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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Encounters with Popular Pasts Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries…
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- 978-3-319-13183-2
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
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