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Jon Meacham
Random House Children's Books
In this special illustrated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jon Meacham, young readers will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers. …

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24th International Conference, CN 2017, Ladek Zdroj, Poland, June 2023, 2017, Proceedings
Piotr Gaj, Andrzej Kwiecień, Michał Sawicki
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Networks, CN 2017, held in Brunow, Poland, in June 2017. The 35 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. They are dealing …
Miriam Ramírez-Domínguez
Pancreatic islets make up the endocrine pancreas and they contain the only source of insulin in the body, beta cells. Hence, access to high quality preparations of pancreatic islets is fundamental for in vitro studies and to test pre-clinical applications …
Belinda López-Mesa, Xabat Oregi
This open access book delves into the topic of monitoring the effectiveness of building renovation policies within the European Union (EU) using indicators. Given the substantial environmental impact of existing buildings on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonizing them …

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Bones, Cultures, and Genes
John H. Langdon
This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection of textbooks in the following …
Xiaochu Zhang, Jie Shi, Ran Tao
This book focuses on the similarities and differences between substance and non-substance addictions. It discusses in detail the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of substance and non-substance addictions, and addresses selected prospects that will shape future studies on addiction. Addiction is …

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Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Mounir Bouassida, Mohamed A. Meguid
This volume contains research articles that cover a wide range of topics related to ground improvement and subsurface structures. Selected papers represent the state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of reinforced retaining walls, diaphragm walls and buried pipes. In addition, …
Andres Trostchansky, Homero Rubbo
The purpose of this book is to introduce the readers on the perspective of the role that unsaturated fatty acids and complex lipids play on health and disease. Bioactive lipids can be modified affecting membrane composition, structure and fluidity in …

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Third International Congress, icSPORTS 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, November 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Jan Cabri, Pedro Pezarat Correia
This book contains extended and revised versions of selected papers from the Third International Congress on Sports Science Research and Technology Support, icSPORTS 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2015.The 9 thoroughly revised and extended papers presented in this volume …
Pradeep Kumar Mallick, Akash Kumar Bhoi, Paolo Barsocchi, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque
This book presents best selected research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing (CISC 2021), held at Balasore College of Engineering & Technology, Balasore, Odisha, India, from 2122 August 2021. It highlights, in particular, …
Sofia Brandão, Thuane Da Roza, Isabel Ramos, Teresa Mascarenhas
This book focuses on particular mental and physical aspects of womens health, presenting topics concerning the pelvis and pelvic floor dysfunction and the breast during a womans life, such as rehabilitation for pelvic and breast disorders, and the benefits of …
Mayana Zatz, Oswaldo Keith Okamoto
While most stem cell books focus on basic aspects and/or cell therapy, this book emphasizes the relevance of stem cells obtained from patients, the so-called patients in a petri dish as tools to investigate human genetic diseases for which there …
Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, Sean Welsh
This open access book introduces the reader to the foundations of AI and ethics. It discusses issues of trust, responsibility, liability, privacy and risk. It focuses on the interaction between people and the AI systems and Robotics they use. Designed …

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Towards Social Inclusion through Adult Education
Natasha Kersh, Hanna Toiviainen, Pirkko Pitkänen, George K. Zarifis
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means to engage and re-engage young adults and facilitate …
Katarzyna A. Rejniak
This edited volume discusses the complexity of tumor microenvironments during cancer development, progression and treatment. Each chapter presents a different mathematical model designed to investigate the interactions between tumor cells and the surrounding stroma and stromal cells. The topics covered …

View book details for Megacities 2050: Environmental Consequences of Urbanization

Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development
Viacheslav I. Vasenev, Elvira Dovletyarova, Zhongqi Chen, Riccardo Valentini
This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures. Urbanization is an important trend in current land-use change, with up …

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4th Cyber Security and Privacy Innovation Forum, CSP Innovation Forum 2015, Brussels, Belgium April 28-29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Frances Cleary, Massimo Felici
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed selected papers on the 4th Cyber Security and Privacy Innovation Forum, CSP Forum 2015, held in Brussels, Belgium, in April 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various …
Elena G. Popkova, Bruno S. Sergi
This proceedings book reflects the alternative way of development of the modern global economic system. It sets evolutionary development in opposition to revolutionary leap. The search for the best way to develop the world economy in the present and future …
Seth Joel Corey, Marek Kimmel, Joshua N. Leonard
The blood system is multi-scale, from the organism to the organs to cells to intracellular signaling pathways to macromolecule interactions. Blood consists of circulating cells, cellular fragments (platelets and microparticles), and plasma macromolecules. Blood cells and their fragments result from …
Yizheng Wang
This book discusses the latest findings on the physiological and pathological functions of transient receptor potential canonical/classical (TRPC) proteins in the brain. In addition to reviewing the functions of TRPCs in brain development and neuron transmission, it mainly covers the …

View book details for Computational Intelligence in Data MiningVolume 2

Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 5-6 December 2015
Himansu Sekhar Behera, Durga Prasad Mohapatra
The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM 2015) held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during 5 6 December 2015. The two-volume Proceedings address the difficulties …
K.C. Santosh, Amit Joshi
The book aims to outline the issues of AI and COVID-19, involving predictions,medical support decision-making, and possible impact on human life. Starting withmajor COVID-19 issues and challenges, it takes possible AI-based solutions forseveral problems, such as public health surveillance, early …

View book details for Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Alan T. Zehnder, Jay Carroll, Kavan Hazeli, Ryan B. Berke, Garrett Pataky, Matthew Cavalli, Alison M. Beese, Shuman Xia
Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of …
Fuad Arif Rahman, Vina Kholisa Dinuka, Jessica Olifia, Agus Supriyadi, Rizki Lanniari HS, Zaimah Zaimah, Dewi Junita, Raja Yulianita Sarazwati, Izzatul Jannah
This is an open access book. Envisioning a Sustainable Future: Synergizing Green Economy, Circularity, Smart Cities, and Digitalization through Applied Engineering. Envision a future where a thriving green economy coexists with smart cities and digital advancements. This conference is your …
Lauren J. Wallace, Margaret E. MacDonald, Katerini T. Storeng
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors both …
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