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Bending opinion: essays on persuasion in the public domain
With communication playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society, rhetoric appears to have gained in influence and importance. The ancients knew all along: power belongs to those who know how to use their words. Nowadays, we know that rhetoric pervades all discourse. There is no communication without rhetoric. In a society with ever-increasing amounts of information, and with m…
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- 9789400600201
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- 455 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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- Rhetoric in society
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- 320.014 BEN b
Foundations of multi-paradigm modelling for cyber-physical systems
This open access book coherently gathers well-founded information on the fundamentals of and formalisms for modelling cyber-physical systems (CPS). Highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of CPS modelling, it also serves as a bridge for anyone entering CPS from related areas of computer science or engineering. Truly complex, engineered systems—known as cyber-physical systems—that integra…
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- 9783030439460
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- 004 FOU f
Time for mapping: cartographic temporalities
"The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This co…
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- 9781526122520
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- 140p: ill.
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- 526 HIN t
Water resources systems planning and management : an introduction to methods,…
This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources infrastructure in the environment. Previously published in 2005 by UNESCO and Deltares (Delft Hydraulics at the time), this new edition, written again with contributions from Jery R. Stedinger, Jozef P. M. Dijkman, and Monique T. Villars, is aimed equally at students and pro…
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- 9783319442341
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- xx, 624p. : ill.
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- 333.91 LOU w
Active ageing: voluntary work by older people in Europe
In this topical book older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or hinder older people's inclusion in voluntary work and makes policy suggestions for an integrated strategy. URI
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- 9781447354765
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- xvi, 353p.: ill.
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- 305.3 ACT a
Informatics in the future : proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science…
This volume discusses the prospects and evolution of informatics (or computer science), which has become the operating system of our world, and is today seen as the science of the information society. Its artifacts change the world and its methods have an impact on how we think about and perceive the world. Classical computer science is built on the notion of an “abstract” machine, which ca…
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- 9783319557359
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- xi, 109p. : ill.
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- 004 INF i
The evolution of case grammar
There are few linguistic phenomena that have seduced linguists so skillfully as grammatical case has done. Ever since Panini (4th Century BC), case has claimed a central role in linguistic theory and continues to do so today. However, despite centuries worth of research, case has yet to reveal its most important secrets. This book offers breakthrough explanations for the understanding of case t…
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- 9783946234333
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- 252 p.; 22 cm.
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- Computational Models of LanguageEvolution 4
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- 410 VAN e
Formative assessment for mathematics teaching and learning : teacher professi…
This book aims at describing pathways and achievements of the LLP Comenius Project “FAMT&L – Formative Assessment in mathematics for teaching and learning”. The main purpose of this research project was to encourage the use of formative assessment in the teaching-learning process carried out by mathematics teachers in lower secondary school. Through the voices of the several actors involv…
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- 9788891774637
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- 177 p.
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- Ricerca e formazione, 2
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- 371.3 FER f
Social democracy after the cold war
Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, ho…
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- 9781926836881
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- 332 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 300 SCH s
Evaluating climate change action for sustainable development
This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major internation…
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- 9783319437026
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- xxiv, 355p. : ill.
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- 363.73874 EVA e
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