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Maritime Poetics: From Coast to Hinterland
In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increasing intensification of global networks and logistics, and the resulting pressure on human societies and earthly environments have been characteristic of the rise of a »planetary age«. This volume engages with contemporary artistic practices and cri…
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- 9783732850235
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- 307.2 MAR m
Krisen, Kollektive und politischer Diskurs: Krisenbedingte Dynamisierungen in…
Können Krisen Veränderungen gesellschaftlicher Ordnungsverhältnisse und die Etablierung neuer Diskurs-Akteure bewirken? Julia Fürwitt geht dieser Frage anhand multipler gesellschaftlicher Krisensituationen Spaniens seit 2010 nach. Basierend auf den Ansätzen Michel Foucaults und Bruno Latours erarbeitet sie einen neuen diskursanalytischen Ansatz, der angesichts gegenwärtiger gesellschafts…
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- 9783839462072
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- 300 FUR k
Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other Pests:Ecology and Applied Technolo…
Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions. This first volume of the Series “Sustainability in plant and crop protection” presents a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary compendium about the recent achievements in the use of ento…
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- 978-3-319-18266-7
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- XVII, 531
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- Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
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Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.
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- 978-1-137-55230-3
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- IX, 302
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Culture 2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
How to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors aim to provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, ex…
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- 9783839457870
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- 306.4 CUL c
Nanotechnologies in Food and Agriculture
This book presents a comprehensive overview of new and emerging nanotechnologies. It includes aspects of nanoparticle monitoring, toxicity, and public perception, and covers applications that address both crop growing and treatment of agricultural wastewater. Topics include nanoagrochemicals (nanofertilizers, -pesticides, -herbicides), nanobiosensors, and nanotechnologies for food processing, p…
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- 978-3-319-14023-0
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- XV, 347
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Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3
This book is the third volume on Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture, published in the Sustainable Agriculture Reviews series. In this book we present ten chapters describing the synthesis and application of nanomaterials for health, food, agriculture and bioremediation. Nanomaterials with unique properties are now being used to improve food and agricultural production. Research on nanomateria…
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- 978-3-319-48008-4
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- XIII, 289
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 2
This book is the second volume on this topic within the series. With unique properties, nanomaterials are rapidly finding novel applications in many fields such as food, medicine, agriculture and pollution. Such applications include to treat cancer, nanosensors to detect food contamination, nanomaterials for food packaging, nanoencapsulation to preserve nutraceuticals, and nanofertilisers for…
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- 978-3-319-39305-6
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- XVII, 373
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1
Nanotechnology is a fast-evolving discipline that already produces outstanding basic knowledge and industrial applications for the benefit of society. Whereas the first applications of nanotechnology have been developed mainly in material sciences, applications in the agriculture and food sectors are still emerging. Due to a rapid population growth there is a need to produce food and beverages …
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- 978-3-319-39302-5
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- XIX, 324
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- Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
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Critical by Design?: Genealogies, Practices, Positions
In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blin…
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- 9783839461044
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