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From assessing to conserving biodiversity : conceptual and practical challenges
This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished ta…
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- 9783030109912
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- xiv, 452p. : ill.
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- 333.9516 FRO f
Modelling our changing world
This open access book focuses on the concepts, tools and techniques needed to successfully model ever-changing time-series data. It emphasizes the need for general models to account for the complexities of the modern world and how these can be applied to a range of issues facing Earth, from modelling volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures, to modelling unemployment…
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- 9783030214326
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- xix, 128p. : ill.
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- 330.015195 CAS m
The culture of capital punishment in Japan
This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differen…
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- 9783030320867
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- XV, 125 p.
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- 364.660952 JOH c
Compartment syndrome : a guide to diagnosis and management
Compartment syndrome is a complex physiologic process with significant potential harm, and though an important clinical problem, the basic science and research surrounding this entity remains poorly understood. This unique open access book fills the gap in the knowledge of compartment syndrome, re-evaluating the current state of the art on this condition. The current clinical diagnostic criteri…
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- 9783030223311
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- 616.74 COM c
Principles of security and trust : 8th International Conference, POST 2019, h…
This volume contains the papers presented a t POST 2019, the 8th Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, held April 11, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of ETAPS. Principles of Security and Trust is a broad forum related to all theoretical and foundational aspects of security and trust, and thus welcomes papers of many kinds: new theoretical results, practical applications of ex…
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- 9783030171384
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- ix, 248p. : ill.
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- 005.8 PRI p
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative i…
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- 9781785420184
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- 223 p.
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- 809.933558 TRO w
The social metabolism of Spanish agriculture, 1900–2008 : the mediterranean…
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolis…
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- 9783030209001
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- xix, 281p. : ill.
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- 630.946 SOC s
Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems : 26th Inte…
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The total of 60 regular papers presented in these volumes was …
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- 9783030452377
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- xxiii, 425p. : ill.
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- 004.21 TOO t
Disability in the industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the lives and experiences of those disabled in a sector that was vital to Britain’s economic growth. Although it is often assumed that industrialisat…
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- 978152612577
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- 241 p.; 22 cm
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- Disability History
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- 303.64 BLA d
Integrating information into the engineering design process
Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses in this area effectively, educators need to understand the information needs of engineers and engineering students and their information gathering habits. This book provides essential guidance for e…
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- 9781557536495
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- 373.24 FOS i
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