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Across the Sahara: Tracks, Trade and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Libya
This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessa…
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- 9783030001452
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- XVII, 260 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Documenting the Armenian Genocide
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish…
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- 978-3-031-36753-3
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
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- XII, 308
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 978-3-030-74443-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XXII, 555
The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…
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- 978-3-030-02068-2
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- Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
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- 2946-2746
Gravity, Positioning and Reference Frames: Proceedings of the IAG Symposia - …
This open access volume contains a selection of papers presented at three different IAG Symposia held in 2022: GGHS2022 – Gravity, Geoid, and Height Systems 2022, Austin, TX, United States of America, September 12 – 14, 2022; IAG Commission 4 – Positioning and Applications, Potsdam, Germany, September 5 – 8, 2022; and REFAG2022 – Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences, Thess…
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- 9783031638558
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- XIII, 252
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X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: Proceedings of the Sympos…
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy which was held from 13 to 17 June 2022 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Since 2006 the series of the Hotine-Marussi Symposia has been under the responsibility of the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory (ICCT) within the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). The ICCT organ…
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- 9783031553608
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- X, 200
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5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-S…
This open access volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Terrestrial Gravimetry: Static and Mobile Measurements (TG-SMM2019) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 1 – 4, 2019. The symposium was hosted by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation Concern CSRI Elektropribor, JSC and was attended by 75 participants from 15 different countries. 32 oral and 20 poster co…
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- 9783031259029
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- VIII, 160
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Geodesy for a Sustainable Earth: Proceedings of the 2021 Scientific Assembly …
This open access volume contains selected papers of the 2021 Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy – IAG2021. The Assembly was hosted by the Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (CSGPC) in Beijing, China from June 28 to July 2, 2021. It was a hybrid conference with in-person and online attendants. In total, the Assembly was attended by 146 in-p…
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- 978-3-031-29506-5
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- XII, 441
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Beyond 100: The Next Century in Geodesy: Proceedings of the IAG General Assem…
This open access book contains 30 peer-reviewed papers based on presentations at the 27th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The meeting was held from July 8 to 18, 2019 in Montreal, Canada, with the theme being the celebration of the centennial of the establishment of the IUGG. The centennial was also a good opportunity to look forward to the next cen…
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- 978-3-031-09857-4
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- International Association of Geodesy Symposia
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- IX, 286
Advancing Energy Policy : Lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and H…
This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is essential. All of its contributions are highly interdisciplinary, with each chapter grounded in at least three different Soc…
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- 9783319990972
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- XXVII, 193 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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