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by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
by K.V. Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Indo-Anglian Literature is a very vibrant and competent literature among regional literatures in India and among English literatures in the world. It has been growing at a rapid rate along with other postcolonial literatures in other countries. This literature has contributed world renowned writers like...
Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.
The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities...
Renal and Adrenal Tumors
Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Magnetic Resonance (MRI), Therapy, Immunology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors,...
by Zdeněk Dostál, Tomáš Kozubek, Marie Sadowská
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the authors’ newly developed scalable algorithms for the solutions of multibody contact problems of linear elasticity. The brand new feature of these algorithms is theoretically supported numerical scalability and parallel scalability...
Lossy Image Compression
Domain Decomposition-Based Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Image compression is concerned with minimization of the number of information carrying units used to represent an image. Lossy compression techniques incur some loss of information which is usually imperceptible. In return for accepting this distortion, we obtain much higher compression ratios than...
Urban Environmental Governance in India
Browsing Bengaluru
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban models through Indian and global...
Corneal Sensitivity
Measurement and Clinical Importance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We in ophthalmology are fortunate to be able to measure quantitatively many aspects of ocular morphology and visual function. These measurements are either objective (e. g. electroretinography, tonometry, electromyography, visually evoked responses, etc.) or subjective and psychophysical (e. g. visual...
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...
The Human Thymus
Histophysiology and Pathology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Twenty-five years have passed since J. MILLER'S basic work on the central role of the thymus for the generation of immunological reactivi ty. During this time, the abundance of fascinating literature on the immunological and functional aspects of this organ has been in contrast to the paucity of...
Unglaubliche Begegnungen
Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Begegnungen bestimmen unser Leben. Menschen kreuzen unseren Weg. Manche bleiben uns in Erinnerung, Andere erscheinen und verschwinden wieder, wie Irrlichter in dunkler Nacht. Und oft ist es nur eine Kleinigkeit, die diese Begegnungen unglaublich werden lässt: Ein falsches Wort, dämmriges Licht,...
Wir Berliner!
Prominente über Prominente. 33 x Bewunderung, Staunen, heimliche Liebe
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Wenn Udo Walz über Marlene Dietrich schreibt, Katharina Thalbach über Helene Weigel, Gregor Gysi über Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Schneider über Axel Springer, Christoph Stölzl über Heinrich Zille, Peter Raue über James Simon, Irene Bazinger über Knut und Klaus-Dieter Lehmann über Nofretete - dann...
Fr Willie Doyle & World War I
A Chaplain's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
2014 marked the centenary of the start of the ‘Great War’ – the war to end all wars. In a world still rife with conflict and war, what service or insights can we learn from the past? This is the amazing story of Willie Doyle SJ, who died in the trenches at Passchendaele in 1917, serving the...
by Ell Leigh Clarke, Daniel Arenson, J.N. Chaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Thirteen Unforgettable Sci Fi Adventures in One!
Join these award-winning and bestselling sci fi authors as they take you into dystopian worlds, technological societies beyond your imagination, and beyond the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
All proceeds from this collection go to charity!
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