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Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public, scientific, and political discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors outline the dimensions of the …
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- 978-3-319-68152-8
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A Bibliography of the Writings of Dr William Harvey: 1578–1657
First published in 1953, as the second edition of a 1928 original, this book supplies a detailed bibliography of Dr William Harvey, who described the workings of the circulatory system in his revolutionary 1628 treatise, De Motu Cordis. Keynes notes the various editions and translations of Harvey's three key works as well as miscellaneous writings and anthologies and their locations in librarie…
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- 9781316529959
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Timor-Leste: Transforming Education Through Partnership in a Small Post-Confl…
This book argues that development aid in small post-conflict states, particularly in the educational field, benefits from a commitment to a shared vision, fostering co-operative relationships and working within local capacity, credibility, and attentiveness to immediate and longer-term development goals. It uses Timor-Leste as its case study of a faith-based partnership in the development of th…
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- 978-94-6209-884-8
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Time-Sensitive Remote Sensing
This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements. Specifically, it brings together a group of authors who are both researchers and practitioners, who work toward or are currently using remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements with the goal of advancing the effective use of remote sensing to supply t…
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- 978-1-4939-2602-2
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Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application Essays in Honor of…
This book is about time and its powerful influence on our personal and collective daily life. It presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of contemporary knowledge on temporal psychology inspired by Zimbardo's work on Time Perspective (TP). With contributions from renowned and promising researchers from all over the globe, and at the interface of social, personality, cognitive an…
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- 978-3-319-07368-2
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Data Assessment for Electrical Surge Protective Devices
This brief develops a data collection plan to assess loss related to electrical surges in homes, and explores the potential impact devices that prevent these surges could have in mitigating these losses. Key topics such as surge sources, surge effects and residential surge protection are clearly defined. Recent fire safety codes proposed a requirement that every dwelling unit be fitted with a s…
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- 9781493928927
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- xv, 36 pages
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Threshold Concepts in Practice
Threshold Concepts in Practice brings together fifty researchers from sixteen countries and a wide variety of disciplines to analyse their teaching practice, and the learning experiences of their students, through the lens of the Threshold Concepts Framework. In any discipline, there are certain concepts – the ‘jewels in the curriculum’ – whose acquisition is akin to passing throu…
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Data Management in Pervasive Systems
The goal of this book is to provide a systematic description of the various research issues related to the management of information in pervasive systems, illustrating the state of the art in this area. Accordingly, it both outlines the foundations and basic technologies and presents more advanced aspects, making it suitable for self-contained graduate courses or seminars on pervasive data mana…
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- 9783319200620
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- xxii, 366 pages
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A 'Short Treatise' on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1613)
A Short Treatise on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations presents, for the first time, an English translation of Antonio Serras Breve Trattato (1613), one of the most famous tracts in the history of political economy.
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There Is No Need to Talk about This Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio
The mystery of Art Therapy is demystified in this book as the author offers an illuminating glimpse into her therapy practice. The author is deeply immersed in her own creative process and the respect, delicacy, and understanding that she provides her clients shines through. The poems embrace the painful aspects of her clients’ lives and show how by working skillfully and creatively with trau…
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