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View book details for Adapt As An Architect
A Mid-Career Companion
Adapt As An Architect: A Mid-Career Companion is the only book that helps design professionals to navigate the vast heart of the architects journey. It serves as a roadmap: a career GPS that provides options for architects getting from where …
View book details for Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Human-Technology Co-Evolution and the Future of Reproduction
This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiensa new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized …
View book details for Energy, People, Buildings
Making sustainable architecture work
Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used …
View book details for The Basics of Investigating Forensic Science
A Laboratory Manual
The Basics of Investigating Forensic Science: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition presents foundational concepts in forensic science through hands-on laboratory techniques and engaging exercises. The text offers numerous lab projects on a range of subjects including fingerprinting, shoeprint analysis, firearms, …
Ultrafine bubbles (UFBs) are gas-filled bubbles with a diameter smaller than 1 m. They are sometimes called bulk nanobubbles because these are not on a solid surface but inside a bulk liquid (water). They are already being used in commercial …
View book details for Good Practice Guide
Making Successful Planning Applications
How do you obtain permission? How can you satisfactorily tackle objections? How can you convince planning officers of the value of your work? Drawing on substantial experience from both applicant and local planning authority perspectives, this book provides tactics and …
View book details for Clinical Surveillance
The Actionable Benefits of Objective Medical Device Data for Critical Decision-Making
For more than a decade, the focus of information technology has been on capturing and sharing data from a patient within an all-encompassing record (a.k.a. the electronic health record, EHR), to promote improved longitudinal oversight in the care of the …
This title was first published in 2000: The central aim of the Common Agricultural Policy is to support the incomes of farmers, yet reliable information on the overall incomes of farmers and their households is scarce. In general, farmers in …
This laboratory manual covers the study of chromosomes in plants, animal and human systems, dealing with the protocols and principles involved. It caters to the requirements of scientists working laboratories, presenting details of the operational mechanism for use at the …
In this book, the fundamentals of micro- and nanofabrication are described on the basis of the concept of using gases as a fabrication tool. Unlike other books available on the subject, this volume assumes only entry-level mathematics, physics, and chemistry …
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Using Technology to Meet Growing Demands and Deliver Better Patient Care
Today, it is not uncommon for practices and hospitals to be on their second or third EHR and/or contemplating a transition from the traditional on-premise model to a cloud-based system. As a follow-up to Complete Guide and Toolkit to Successful …
View book details for Urban Playground
How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities
What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate, cities urgently need to become more inclusive and …
View book details for Plasma Applications for Material Modification
From Microelectronics to Biological Materials
This book is an up-to-date review of the most important plasma-based techniques for material modification, from microelectronics to biological materials and from fusion plasmas to atmospheric ones. Each its technical chapters is written by long-experienced, internationally recognised researchers. The book …
View book details for The State, Education and Equity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The Impact of State Policies
This title was first published in 2002: Has the South African post-apartheid state been able to achieve its stated goals? What has been the relationship between the process of educational reform and the impact on the state of the Constitution …
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Managing the Environment
Published in 1992. Business information has evolved from typewriter/card index (decentralized) through the era of DP Department and mainframe (centralized) to present mix with PCs and networks (distributed). This book demonstrates how data distribution can function in the best interests …
Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardts brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later …
This volume was first published in 1927, on the centenary of Beethovens death, as part of the Masters of Music series. The author was an established biographer of organ composers, such as The Organ Works of Bach. Attributing Beethovens disagreeable …
Published in 1920, this anthology of childrens stories reflect the lives and festivals celebrated by children in the Jewish colonies in early 20th century Palestine.
First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and …
First published in 1999, this volume examines how the question of autonomy has come to be of recent interest in political theory. The author argues that autonomy goes deep into the Western consciousness and is a part of our very …
View book details for The Economics of Agro-Chemicals
An International Overview of Use Patterns, Technical and Institutional Determinants, Policies and Perspectives
Published in 1998. This book provides a global overview of agrochemical use against the backdrop of future agricultural production requirements and environmental concerns. From acknowledged experts in their field this book examines the relationship between agro-chemical use and sustainability, producer …
The destruction of the British army while retreating from Afghanistan in 1842 is one of the most dramatic episodes in British imperial history. Lieutenant Vincent Eyre was present, and kept a diary throughout. This book, first published in 1843 and …
Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue develops a new model for interfaith dialogue using the work of the French historian of ideas, Michel Foucault. The author argues that it is the injustice done to the 'Other' by Roman Catholic, Protestant and …
View book details for Brecht and Critical Theory
Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics
Arguing that Brechts aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brechts aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist …
View book details for Advances in Nanopathology
From Vaccines to Food
If observed from an objective, epistemological standpoint, medicine is not a science, at least not in its own right. The most important, key feature missing is repeatability, which makes the doctors job extremely difficult. Doctors are not scientists but are …
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