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by Magdi El Messiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

Natural Fiber Textile Composite Engineering sheds light on the area of the natural fiber textile composites with new research on their applications, the material used, the methods of preparation, the different types of polymers, the selection of raw materials, the elements of design the natural fiber...
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Nixon Administration and the Middle East Peace Process, 1969–1973

From the Rogers Plan to the Outbreak of the Yom Kippur War

by Boaz Vanetik, Zaki Shalom, Zaki Shalom
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in Israeli society and a national trauma whose wounds have yet to heal some four decades later. In the years following the war many studies addressed the internal and international political background prior to the war, attempting to determine causes and steps...
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Southeast Asian Migration

People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge, and Belonging

by Khatharya Um
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Domestic violence in Asia is explored in this analysis through questions of family ambiguity and the relationship between concept, law, and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of the effectiveness of family regulations and laws in diverse national, cultural,...
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by Bengt Sandin, Maija Runcis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

This look into the transformation of the Swedish welfare state in the 20th century through changes in the structure and content of Swedish educational broadcasting provides new insights into how media education fostered political and social change and reflected the changes of government policies as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

A compilation of carefully selected articles written by international film scholars, this record provides an in-depth look into the history of Swedish film. This scholarly account covers various phenomena, including the early screenings at the turn of the century, Swedish censorship, the golden age...
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Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Diplomacy, Battle, and Lessons

by David Rodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

The State of Israel faced one of its most difficult challenges during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Though the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eventually emerged as the clear victor in the war, it suffered serious reverses at the outset of hostilities, as well as substantial losses in men and equipment. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018

With a roster of international contributors, this volume offers an abundance of solutions to address agricultural water management challenges in today’s water-scarce areas of the world. The authors present studies on farmer-friendly irrigation scheduling methods, model-based analysis of crop water...
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Plant Biotechnology, Volume 1

Principles, Techniques, and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

This book, first of this new two-volume set, provides an informative tour of the basics of biotechnology to recent advances in biotechnology. Knowledge of new and fresh approaches is a prerequisite to solving plant biological problems, and to this end, the editors have brought together a group of...
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Winifred Gérin

Biographer of the Brontës

by Helen MacEwan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), wrote on all the lives of the four Brontë siblings. She also wrote about Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Fanny Burney. This book is based on her letters and on her unpublished memoir. Gérin’s childhood and youth, like the Brontës’, was...
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Aging with Dignity

Innovation and Challenge in Sweden – The Voice of Elder Care Professionals

by Sofia Widén, William Haseltine
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. As the worldwide population ages, the healthcare systems of every country will meet challenges of scale in providing for their elderly. Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden: The Voice of Elder Care Professionals is a study in the...
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology

The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives

by Anders Andrén
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies-from the Middle Age to the present time-that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that...
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The Science of Management

Fighting Fads and Fallacies with Evidence-Based Practice

by Simon Moss, Ronald Francis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

To enhance the performance of their employees, managers need to reach an extraordinary number of decisions every day based on information and training as well as on their experience and instinct for what is right. But are the assumptions and beliefs behind theses decisions always based on real evidence ...
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