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Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- 978-3-030-84570-4
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- VII, 245
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)
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- 500 ZWA c
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
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- 978-3-030-72192-3
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- XII, 284
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 STR
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 1
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- 9783030005788
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- IX, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea f…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-3447-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- -
- Call Number
- 658
The Creative Gesture
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-54219-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
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- -
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them …
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- 978-3-319-62018-3
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- -
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how …
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- 978-1-137-58328-4
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- -
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
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- 978-1-137-53828-4
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- -
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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- VII, 103
Maritime Spatial Planning: past, present, future
This open access book is the first comprehensive overview of maritime or marine spatial planning. Countries across the globe are beginning to implement maritime spatial plans; however the authors of this collection have identified several key questions that are emerging from this growing body of MSP experience. How can maritime spatial planning deal with a complex and dynamic environment such a…
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- 1
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- 9783319986968
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- XXXVII, 477 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems
This course-tested text is an ideal starting point for engineers and physicists entering the field of particle accelerators. The fundamentals are comprehensively introduced, derivations of essential results are provided and a consistent notation style used throughout the book allows readers to quickly familiarize themselves with the field, providing a solid theoretical basis for further studies…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-07188-6
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- -
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