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Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja : The Practice o…
Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, Maleisië).; Readership: All concerned with the fields of livelihoods, migration, transnationalism, decentralization, economic crisis, and anyone interested in an ethnography of a…
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- 9789004252400
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HabitusAnalysis 1 Epistemology and Language
This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu’s approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals wi…
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- 978-3-531-17511-9
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- XXIV, 372
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- 300 SCH h
Risk Assessment of Storms in Coastal Zones: Case Studies from Cartagena (Colo…
This book assists the reader in determining storm risks, focussing on sandy coasts and cliff coasts in the context of expected sea level rise from littoral transformation and climate change. It examines storm impacts through matrixes concerning physical parameters, socio-economic activities, ecological and historic resources, and it presents the Coastline Risk to Storms Index as a single numeri…
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- 978-3-319-15844-0
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Before Kukulkán : Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classi…
This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chichén Itzá. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. "Before Kukulkán" is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research at the Classic Maya capital of Yaxuná, located at a contentious cross…
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- 9780816541713
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Innovative Statistical Methods for Public Health Data
The book brings together experts working in public health and multi-disciplinary areas to present recent issues in statistical methodological development and their applications. This timely book will impact model development and data analyses of public health research across a wide spectrum of analysis. Data and software used in the studies are available for the reader to replicate the models a…
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- 978-3-319-18535-4
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- XIV, 351
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- 614 INN
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume II: The 150…
Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different discipli…
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- 978-3-319-00143-2
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- XIX, 690
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- 624.183 ARC a
Approaching China's Pharmaceutical Market: A Fundamental Guide to Clinical Dr…
This authoritative volume examines the major laws, regulations and guidelines related to pharmaceutical product development in China. With a focus on patent, clinical and registration strategies, the book helps Western companies introduce their clinical drugs to the Chinese market, determine a strategic path and bridge the gap for regulatory and legal differences between China and the Wester…
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- 978-3-319-15576-0
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- XVI, 648
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- 615.19 APP a
Relevance and Sustainability of Wild Plant Collection in NW South America
This study focuses on understanding the socio-economic relevance of plant resources collected from the wild and its relation to current patterns of trade and sustainability. Grischa Brokamp reviews and analyzes the current extent of palm trade in northwestern South America, its impact, limitations and future perspective. Indeed there are conflicts between the commercialization of wild plant res…
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Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of the…
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- 978-3-319-15013-0
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- XIII, 242
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Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials
This book provides an up-to-date review of the general principles of and techniques for confirmatory adaptive designs. Confirmatory adaptive designs are a generalization of group sequential designs. With these designs, interim analyses are performed in order to stop the trial prematurely under control of the Type I error rate. In adaptive designs, it is also permissible to perform a data-driven…
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- 978-3-319-32560-6
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- XVI, 301
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