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Time Blind
Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored. This book looks at how anthropology--a discipline known for the study of...
by César J. Pollo
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands (Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón) are the result of volcanic activity of the Cameroon Volcanic Line that occurred along this fracture in the earth’s crust during the lower Tertiary and early Quaternary and that continues inland as the Cameroon/Nigerian mountains.
They...
History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research. Its four sections are: first, science, culture and education; second, the teaching and learning of science; third, curriculum development and justification; and fourth, indoctrination.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, infonnation, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
The Self and The Other
The Irreducible Element in Man. Part I: The `Crisis of Man'
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
by Jiming Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Mixed-effects models have found broad applications in various fields. As a result, the interest in learning and using these models is rapidly growing. On the other hand, some of these models, such as the linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models, are highly parametric, involving distributional...
Rebel Power
Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Many of the world's states—from Algeria to Ireland to the United States—are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) stand at the verge of a transformation. Scores of clinical programs have yielded only a few regulatory approvals, but a wave of technological innovation now empowers us to overcome past technical challenges. This volume focuses on the next generation of ADCs and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
What things count as individuals, and how do we individuate them? It is a classic philosophical question often tackled from the perspective of analytic metaphysics. This volume proposes that there is another channel by which to approach individuation -- from that of scientific practices. From this...
by J.H. Fetzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical...
The Battle of New Orleans
Including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Spanish Which Led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The Battle of New Orleans
Including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Spanish Which Led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815
This edition features illustrations.
Excerpt from Introduction
...The ink was scarcely dry upon...
Ice Ages and Interglacials
Measurements, Interpretation, and Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets. While other books on ice ages are mostly short, popular, and non-technical, the only book that attempts to deal with the broad issues of what we know about past...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The tropical cyclone warning service is an interdepartmental effort to provide the United States and designated international recipients with forecasts, warnings, and assessments concerning tropical and subtropical weather systems. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the...
Answer is Blowing in the Wind
Mankind’s Hunt For Signs Of Life Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
With a thought-provoking insight into the possibility of life beyond Earth within the universe, the story explores the history of our past, present and the future ahead. It helps our understanding of the ages of the Galaxy, the Solar System and other planetary systems in the Milky Way that could answer...