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Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …
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- 978-3-031-27128-1
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- XVIII, 454
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Territory and Democratic Politics
The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often analysed from the point of view of its institutions, citizens and voters, while little is said about the territory through whi…
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- 978-3-031-35672-8
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- XI, 138
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Die Akten des Kaiserlichen Reichshofrats (RHR)
"Der Reichshofrat übte gemeinsam mit dem Reichskammergericht im Namen des Kaisers die Höchstgerichtsbarkeit im Heiligen Römischen Reich aus. Er fungierte darüber hinaus als oberster Lehnshof, als Beratungsgremium des Reichsoberhaupts und als Administrationsorgan der kaiserlichen Reservatrechte in Standeserhebungs- und Privilegienangelegenheiten. Das archivalische Erbe des Reichshofrats w…
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- 978-3-503-21255-2
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- 725
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Translational neuroscience :toward new therapies
Today, translational neuroscience faces significant challenges. Available therapies to treat brain and nervous system disorders are extremely limited and dated, and further development has effectively ceased. Disinvestment by the private sector occurred just as promising new technologies in genomics, stem cell biology, and neuroscience emerged to offer new possibilities. In this volume, experts…
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- 9780262329859
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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Neuroplasticity
The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes -- with or without ""brain training."""Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager …
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- 9780262337069
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- 1 online resource (x, 181 pages).
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Trees of the brain, roots of the mind
"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…
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- 9780262329026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :illustrations
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Becoming fluent :how cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language
"Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights f…
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- 9780262330466
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century
Esai tentang teori dan praktik keuangan dan kebijakan publik. Enam belas esai dalam buku ini ditulis untuk merayakan ulang tahun kesembilan puluh Richard Musgrave dan untuk memperingati ulang tahun kesepuluh CES, Pusat Studi Ekonomi di Universitas Munich. Musgrave dianggap sebagai bapak pendiri ekonomi publik modern. Ia termasuk dalam tradisi intelektual yang memandang pemerintah sebagai instru…
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- 9780262270502
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 535 pages) :
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- CESifo Seminar Series
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- 336 CNO p
Pulsed Neural Networks
Sebagian besar aplikasi praktis jaringan Neural Networks didasarkan pada model komputasi yang melibatkan penyebaran variabel kontinu dari satu unit pemrosesan ke unit pemrosesan berikutnya. Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, data dari eksperimen neurobiologis telah memperjelas bahwa jaringan saraf biologis, yang berkomunikasi melalui pulsa, menggunakan pengaturan waktu pulsa untuk mengirimkan infor…
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- 9780262278768
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 377 pages)
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- 006.32 MAA p
Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is…
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- 978-3-031-37049-6
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- XVI, 331
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