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Women in the silent cinema
This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America. Annette Förster presents a careful assessment of the long career of Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser; an exploration of the stage and screen careers of French actress and filmmaker Musidora and Canadian-born actress and…
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- 9789048524518
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- 573 p.; 22 cm.
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- 791.43 FOR w
Sensitivity analysis : matrix methods in demography and ecology
This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate population models. Methods are presented for linear and nonlinear, deterministic and stochastic, and …
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- 9783030105341
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- xviii, 299p. : ill.
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- 003 CAS s
Augmented reality : reflections on Its contribution to knowledge formation
There is at present no publication specifically dedicated to analyzing the philosophical implications of augmented reality, especially regarding knowledge formation, which constitutes a fundamental trait of knowledge society. That is why this volume includes an analysis of the applications and implications of augmented reality. While applications cover diverse fields like psychopathology and ed…
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- 9783110497656
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- VII, 322 p.
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- Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, 11
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- 100 AUG a
Purpose-driven organizations : management ideas for a better world
A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocat…
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- 9783030176747
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- xxi, 138p. : ill.
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- 658.401 PUR p
Managed software evolution
This open access book presents the outcomes of the “Design for Future – Managed Software Evolution” priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”) to develop new approaches to software engineering with a specific focus on long-lived software systems. The different lifecycles of software and hardware platforms lead …
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- 9783030134990
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- xxii, 426p. : ill.
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- 005.1 MAN m
Principles of mechanics : fundamental university physics
This open access textbook takes the reader step-by-step through the concepts of mechanics in a clear and detailed manner. Mechanics is considered to be the core of physics, where a deep understanding of the concepts is essential in understanding all branches of physics. Many proofs and examples are included to help the reader grasp the fundamentals fully, paving the way to deal with more advanc…
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- 9783030151959
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- xi, 173p. : ill.
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- 531 ALR p
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
Programming languages and systems : 29th European Symposium on Programming, E…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 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 papers deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.
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- 9783030449148
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- xv, 772p. : ill.
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- 005.1 PRO p
Fundamental approaches to software Eengineering : 23rd International Conferen…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 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 23 full papers, 1 tool paper and 6 testing competition papers presented in this volume w…
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- 9783030452346
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- xiii, 552p. : ill.
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- 005.1 FUN f
Dance and politics: moving beyond boundaries
"Since ancient times and across cultures, dance has provided a powerful form of human expression. In this inspiring book, Dana Mills examines the political power of dance from a global perspective. Mills explores different dimensions of dance as a form of intervention into a politics more commonly articulated in words. She is interested in dance as a system of communication that allows its subj…
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- 9781526105172
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- xi, 132p.
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- 306.4846 MIL d
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