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Natural stone and architectural heritage
This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extract…
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- 9783039215508
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- 262 p.; 22 cm.
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- 720.9 NAT n
Contemporary Indonesian film; spirits of reform and ghosts from the past
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and alternative film practices, ceremonial and independent film festivals, film piracy, history and horror, documentary, television soaps, and Islamic films, as well as censorship f…
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- 9789067183819
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- 239 p.; 22 cm
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 301 HEE e
Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services : Methods, Models, App…
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, res…
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- 9783319904153
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- XV, 400 p.
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- 004.678 AUT a
Enabling things to talk : designing IoT solutions with the IoT architectural …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to auto…
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- 9783642404030
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- x, 349p. : ill.
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- 004.678 ENA e
European e-democracy in practice
This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices and shortcomings of e-participation practices in connection…
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- 9783030271848
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- xi, 359p. : ill.
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- 323.042094 EUR e
Social question in the twenty-first century: a global view
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies …
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- 9780520302402
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- xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 306.3 BRE s
International Partnerships for Strengthening Health Care Workforce Capacity: …
A critical problem in resource-scarce countries across the globe is the shortage of appropriately trained health care providers. According to the World Health Organization, the current global health workforce shortage of 7.2 million providers is estimated to increase to 12.9 million by 2035. This disproportionately affects resource-scarce countries, denying basic health care to millions and lim…
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- 9782889455157
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- 244 p.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 610.76 INT i
The mythology in our language
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s “Golden Bough.". At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by an anthropologist, …
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- 9780990505068
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- IX, 250 p.
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- 201.3 WIT m
International reflections on the Netherlands didactics of mathematics : visio…
This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, takes readers on a journey with mathematics education researchers, developers and educators in eighteen countries, who reflect on their experiences with Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), the domain-specific instruction theory for mathematics education developed in the Netherlands since …
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- 9783030202231
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- ix, 366p. : ill.
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- 510.71 INT i
Transformation of solidarity: changing risks and the future of the Welfare state
This study investigates the consequences of processes of social individualisation and economic globalisation for welfare state solidarity. Solidarity is defined as the willingness to share risks. The institutions of the welfare state, such as social security or health care insurance, are founded on the willingness of citizens to share risks and organize solidarity between the young and the old,…
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- 9789089643834
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- 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Changing welfare states
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- 301 VEE t
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