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Histamine Receptors Preclinical and Clinical Aspects
A comprehensive and detailed overview of the current state of preclinical research on histamine and histamine receptors. Part of the book focuses on novel approaches to the study of histamine receptors such as polymorphism, genetic linkage, and computational analysis, and on the use of new histaminergic ligands in diseases such as asthma and dermatitis. Several chapters will be devoted to the r…
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- 978-3-319-40306-9
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- XIV, 373
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- 616
Gothic incest : Gender, sexuality and transgression
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath.…
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- 9781526107558
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- 304 halaman
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- 800 DIP g
Assessing Social Impact of Social Enterprises: Does One Size Really Fit All?
This book explores the diversity of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) models and outlines a self-assessment on models to support social entrepreneurs. The chapters trace the concept and origins of social entrepreneurship and elicits current implementation of SIA models by social enterprises. The comprehensive review of over seventy five SIA models will be especially useful for social entrepreneurs…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-15314-8
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- X, 111
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- SpringerBriefs in Business
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- 658.421 GRI a
Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The proj…
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- 9783030944964
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Hearing Aids
This volume will serve as the first Handbook of its kind in the area of hearing aid research, often the least-defined, least-understood, part of the multi-disciplinary research process. Most scientific training is very advanced within the particular disciplines but provides little opportunity for systematic introduction to the issues and obstacles that prevent effective hearing-aid related rese…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-33034-1
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- XII, 333
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- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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- 616 HEA
Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing From 1600 to…
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more …
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- 9780810134034
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- 800 STR g
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
From Orientalism to Cultural Capital : The Myth of Russia in British Literatu…
From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and the notion of «cultural capital» associated with Pierre …
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- 9783034322034
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- XIV, 338 halaman
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- 800 SOB o
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transcultural…
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- 9789048552283
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- 358 halaman
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- Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
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- 305 DAS k
Experimental Affinities in Music
Experimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosophical essays, enhancing a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, and exploring various experimental attitudes in music composed between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. The golden thread running through the different chapters is the quest for inherently experimental musical pra…
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- 9789461661883
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