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Helium The Disappearing Element
The subject of the book is helium, the element, and its use in myriad applications including MRI machines, particle accelerators, space telescopes, and of course balloons and blimps. It was at the birth of our Universe, or the Big Bang, where the majority of cosmic helium was created; and stellar helium production continues. Although helium is the second most abundant element in the Universe, i…
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- 978-3-319-15122-9
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- XIII, 138
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
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- 641 WHE h
Charting Literary Urban Studies Texts as Models of and for the City
Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts rep…
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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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- 9783030020682
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Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
Mathematics Education; Mathematics Learning; Mathematics Teaching; Mathematics Teachers; ICME-13; 13th Congress on Mathematical Education; Empirical Studies in Mathematics Education; Theoretical Reflections on Mathematics Education; Tertiary Mathematics Education; Secondary Mathematics Education; Primary Mathematics Education; Society of Didactics of Mathematics; Mathematics Educators; Improvem…
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- 9783319721705
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Imperial Physique
"In 2008, JH Phrydas wrote a story about how bodies talk without words. He wanted the story to not just describe the silent ritual of nonverbal communication but to perform it. The interaction would be visceral – the exchange melancholic, yet full of lust. He wanted words to retain the unsayable: the subtle movements of a body in heat. In the years since, Phrydas kept rewriting this story, us…
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- 9781950192533
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Evidence in Civil Law - Austria
This report outlines the rules on the taking and using of evidence in Austrian civil procedure law. On the basis of principles such as the free disposition of parties, the attenuated inquisitorial principle or the principles of orality and directness, the judge and the parties form a “working group” when investigating the matter in dispute. The Austrian concept of an active judge, however, …
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- 9789616842440
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A scholarly inquiry into disciplinary practices in educational institutions
This book is a collection of chapters based on original research dealing with issues of discipline and disciplinary practices in educational institutions. The aim of the book is to provide a scholarly and scientific perspective on the current state of discipline and disciplinary practices in schools and tertiary education settings. The issue of discipline is investigated from diverse paradigmat…
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- 9781928523154
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- 360 halaman
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- NWU Education and Human Rights in Diversity Series, 2
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- 370 WET s
A Hands-On Introduction to Data Science
This book introduces the field of data science in a practical and accessible manner, using a hands-on approach that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. The foundational ideas and techniques of data science are provided independently from technology, allowing students to easily develop a firm understanding of the subject without a strong technical background, as well as being presented wi…
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- 9781108560412
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French Ecocriticism : From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres,…
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- 9783631673454
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- 296 halaman
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- 800 FRE
A Handful of Blue Earth Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems included here as 'exploded narratives, re-assembled in a mosaic or labyrinth in which the reader, like Ariadne, finds a connecting thread'. Khoury-Ghata's book, published in her eighty-first year, is testimony to this Lebanese poet's enduring brilliance. Earlier translations by Hacker were described…
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