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Maritime spatial planning : past, present, future
Maritime or marine spatial planning has gained increasing prominence as an integrated, common-sense approach to promoting sustainable maritime development. A growing number of countries are engaged in preparing and implementing maritime spatial plans: however, questions are emerging from the growing body of MSP experience. How can maritime spatial planning deal with a complex and dynamic enviro…
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- 9783319986968
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- xxxvii, 477p. : ill.
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- 333.9164 MAR m
Quality of life and quality of working life
In this book, we can read about the well-being, quality of life, and quality of working life. The authors come from different countries, and their ideas, studies, findings, and experiences offer beneficial contributions to enhance our knowledge in the field of well-being and quality of life, as well as quality of working life. The book is divided into two sections, and their respective chapters…
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- 9789535134459
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- 312 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306 QUA q
Socialization : a multidimensional perspective
This is the first book that highlights how socialization is experienced as being a complex concept in everyday life in various countries of the world. The book represents the first attempt to provide an original and multidimensional definition of socialization that takes into account the contribution of different disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, education, and even archit…
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- 9781789233087
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- 202 p.; 22 cm.
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- 301 SOC s
New pedagogical challenges in the 21st century: contributions of research in …
The societies of the twenty-first century are subject to social, cultural, political, and economic changes. In this context, the school is asked to educate the future citizens in the present. To respond to this kaleidoscopic reality, the school is immersed in a pedagogical revolution. In this book, the reader will find a selection of avant-garde research works from different disciplines and con…
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- 9781789233803
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- 316 p.; 22 cm
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- 378.013 NEW n
Modern slavery: a comparative study of the definition of trafficking in persons
In Modern Slavery – A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons Dominika Borg Jansson discusses why, despite international anti-trafficking efforts, there are so few trafficking convictions worldwide. In an easily accessible language, the author explains why international legal harmonization in this area has been difficult. Making use of the concept of legal transplants, D…
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- 9789004281073
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- x, 369p.
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- 345.025 JAN m
Evolutionary genomics : statistical and computational methods
This open access book addresses the challenge of analyzing and understanding the evolutionary dynamics of complex biological systems at the genomic level, and elaborates on some promising strategies that would bring us closer to uncovering of the vital relationships between genotype and phenotype. After a few educational primers, the book continues with sections on sequence homology and alignme…
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- second edition
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- 9781493990740
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- xvii, 780p. : ill.
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- 572.838 EVO e
The places where community Is practiced : how store owners and their business…
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places wher…
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- 9783658253936
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- xiii, 325p. : ill.
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- 307.33 STE p
Data and text processing for health and life sciences
This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combined to retrieve data and text from web resources, to filter and mine literature, and to explore t…
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- 9783030138455
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- xv, 98p. : ill.
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- 006.312 COU d
Visualizing the invisible with the human body : physiognomy and ekphrasis in …
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literatur…
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- 9783110642698
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- VI, 501 p.
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- Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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- 480 JOH v
Politics of (dis) integration
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related t…
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- 9783030250898
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- xiv, 217p. : ill.
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- 305.8 POL p
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