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Global Learning in the 21st Century
this 21st century, technological and social changes have never been as rapid as before, and educative practices must evolve and innovate to keep up. What is being done by educators today to prepare future global citizens? What are the skills and competencies that will be required by our students? What changes in how we approach education might need to be made? This book presents a modern focus…
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- 978-94-6300-761-0
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- 370 GLO
Global Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice for Sustainable Economic Development
This book is a comparative study of international practices in bankruptcy law, providing perspectives from a variety of specialisms including practitioners, lawyers, bankers, accountants and judges from the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Singapore.
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- 978-1-349-56191-9
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- XI, 273
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- 657 GLO
Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination : An Approach to Kant's Aes…
This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part …
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- 646.7
Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) assessment report is a product of the generous dedication and extraordinary investment of numerous individuals, whose knowledge, expertise and insight helped shape this important body of work.
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- 9781108627146
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Global China as Method
Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different 'other' that somehow exists outside the 'real' world. Either implic…
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- 9781108999472
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Beauty and Body Dysmorphic Disorder : A Clinician's Guide
Over the decades, research has demonstrated that in categories of life deemed to be important, beautiful people achieve more desirable outcomes, are judged more favorably, and receive preferential treatment. An understanding of the historical aspects, science, and implications of what the human mind finds aesthetically pleasing is quintessential for dermatologists, plastic surgeons, and others …
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- 978-3-319-17867-7
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- X, 210
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- 616.5
Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries
People have been digging in the ground for useful minerals for thousands of years. Mineral materials are the foundation of modern industrial society. As the global population grows and standards of living in emerging and developing countries rises, the demand for mineral products is increasing.
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- 9781108904209
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Modern Techniques and Solvents for the Extraction of Microbial Oils
A valuable reference presenting many processes that facilitate lipid extraction from micro-organisms. Amongst the techniques included are Folch, Bligh and Dyer methods, and the Soxhlet technique as well as intensified green processes (ultrasound, microwave, supercritical fluid extraction, agro-solvent, accelerated solvent extraction, enzyme-assisted extraction, instant controlled pressure drop,…
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- 978-3-319-22716-0
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- XII, 52
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- SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
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Gillespie Algorithms for Stochastic Multiagent Dynamics in Populations and Ne…
Many multiagent dynamics can be modeled as a stochastic process in which the agents in the system change their state over time in interaction with each other.
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- 9781009239158
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- 511.8 MAS g
Beach Renourishment
Beach renourishment is the restoration of beaches that have been depleted. The text deals with the sources of beach sediment as well as the causes and typical responses to beach erosion, before discussion of beach renourishment. Some of the first documented renourishment projects were undertaken in the early 1900’s on the east coast of the United States. Several countries have since renour…
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- 978-3-319-09728-2
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- IX, 137
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- 551.46
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