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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Leba…
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- 2
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- 9783839445198
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- 912 ATL a
Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre Walking to the End of the …
This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the route to Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage itself, it instead examines a peculiar part of the route, the Camino to Finiste…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-20211-2
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- XVI, 211
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- GeoJournal Library
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- 910 HER
A Handbook for Media Librarians
Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers. Academic, legal and public librarians are often intrigued to discover that some of their peers work for the same people who provide their television progra…
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- 9781856049955
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A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals
This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments. Corporate information professionals serving the workplace rather than learning communities or the general public face specific challenges and demands, from providing competitive intelligence to managing information in a global e…
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- 9781783300433
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Children Defending their Human Rights Under the CRC Communications Procedure …
This book considers the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communication procedure as a key contributor to the realization of children’s Article 12 Convention on the Rights of the Child participation rights. Weaknesses in the current formulation of the CRC communication procedure (its first iteration since entry into force 14 April, 2014) are examined and sugg…
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- 978-3-662-44443-6
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- 341.48
Arterial Stiffness: Implications and Interventions
Arterial stiffness is an emerging risk factor with important implications for cardiovascular disease risk. Herein, we concisely summarize the physiological and pathophysiological aspects of arterial stiffening, and highlight the importance of increased arterial stiffness for future cardiovascular events. Factors contributing to increased arterial stiffness such as advancing age, obesity, race, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-24844-8
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- VIII, 61
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- SpringerBriefs in Physiology
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- 616.12 FLE a
Arterial Chemoreceptors in Physiology and Pathophysiology
Every three years, the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) arranges a Meeting to bring together all of the major International research groups investigating the general topic of oxygen sensing in health and disease, with a prime focus upon systemic level hypoxia and carotid body function. This volume summarises the proceedings of the XIXth meeting of the Society, held in Le…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18440-1
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- XI, 404
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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- 615 ART a
Rights of the Child
This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future generations will benefit or suffer as part of the process in which outcomes cannot be predicted. It does not project into the futur…
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- 978-3-319-18784-6
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Vol. 171
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-43814-6
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Vol. 170
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of the key topics in these archetypal multidisciplinary fields. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- 978-3-319-31492-1
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