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Overview: Contributes to the development of epistemology in the humanities.Addresses contemporary issues with regard to society and culture in multidisciplinary ways.Helps to configure the numanistic perspectivThis unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation. Offering an eclectic collection of innovative papers that address such topics as culture, musicology, art consumption, meaning, codes and national identities, to name a few, it has a

Overview: This book sheds light on the emotional side of risk taking behaviour using an innovative cross-disciplinary approach, mixing financial competences with psychology and affective neuroscience. In doing so, it shows the implications for market participants and regulators in terms of transparency and communication between intermediaries and customers.978-1-349-32801-7978-0-230-30382-9Series ISSN 2523-336X Series E-ISSN 2523-3378

Overview: Brings together the social, sociological, sociocultural, and cultural-historical approaches to science education.Deals with the different forms of mediation of learning that arises from the sociality .Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done on showing how the perspectives of these separate approaches might be integrated, this work aims to plug the gap. The book helps lay the

Overview: This book is a comprehensive analysis of the unrecognized role played and burden borne by rural women during the last four decades of South Korean economic development. It offers a new critical understanding of the crucial role played by rural women in the Korean economic ‘miracle‘.978-1-349-40793-4978-0-333-98332-4Series ISSN 2662-2483 Series E-ISSN 2662-2491

Overview: The liver is an exceptionally complex and diverse organ that functions both as an exocrine and an endocrine gland. It secretes bile, which contains many con­ stituents in addition to bile salts, and it synthesizes and releases many substances in response to the body‘s demands, including prohormones, albumin, clotting factors, glucose, fatty acids, and various lipoproteins. It has a dual blood supply providing a rich mixture of nutrients and other absorbed substances via the portal vein and oxygen-rich blood via the hepatic artery. This functional heterogeneity is accompanied by cellu

Overview: Includes examples of research on science education to guide research.Gives theoretical and methodological solutions.Provides a critical review of science education research in Latin America.This edited volume presents an integrated vision around the processes of science teaching and learning in Latin American schools. Existing scientific literacy findings varies greatly between students, influenced by gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status, as well as location. This book provides systematic and cohesive insights, grounded in the existing literature, to move towards equitable sc

Overview: Presents comparative study of distributed rural electrification in three countries.Examines both the institutional and business model factors for distributed electrification projects.Discusses a wide .For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and even a few hours without lights, televisions, or air conditioning is an ordeal. However, for an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide, the absence of electricity is their daily experience. An untold number of others live with electricity

Overview: Sheds light on lesser known aspects of economic rebound research.Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the rebound theory.Supplements the current state of knowledge in the field of energy econo.This book calls for rethinking current climate, energy and sustainability policy-making by presenting new insights into the rebound phenomenon; i.e., the driving forces, mechanisms and extent of rebound effects and potential means of mitigating them. It pursues an innovative and novel approach to the political and scientific rebound discourse and hence, supplements the current state-of-

Overview: This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle‘s Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus‘s career, Melanchthon‘s teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; the rhetoric textbook; the use of rhetoric in Raphael, renaissance drama, Elizabethan romance, and seventeenth century political writing. It will become essential reading for advanced studies in

Overview: The ‘death’ of German Idealism has been decriedinnumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19.th.-centurycritique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy,or analytic philosophy. Yet in the face of two hundred years ofsustained, extremely rigorous attempts to leave behind its legacy, German Idealismhas resisted its philosophical death sentence. Forthis exact reason it is timely ask: What remains of GermanIdealism? In what ways does its fundamental concepts and texts still speak tous? .Drawingtogether new and established voice

Overview: Chapters authored by known leading figures in the fluorescence field..New volume publishes annually.Comprehensive coverage of the year’s hottest and emerging topics.Accessible utility in a single volu.Reviews in Fluorescence 2009, the sixth volume of the book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of fluorescence and closely related disciplines. It summarizes the year’s progress in fluorescence and its applications, with authoritative analytical reviews specialized enough to be attractive to professional resea

Overview: Provides new and timely insights into W. S. Merwin’s work as a major American poet.Explores Merwin’s eco-poetry in light of our current environmental crisis.Considers Merwin’s oeuvre as a whole, incluThis edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first

Overview: Proposes a new approach to the prediction of the long-term properties of concrete with recycled aggregate.Compiles scattered data on the use of recycled aggregate in concrete production in a single vo.Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world since its invention. The widespread use of this material has led to continuous developments such as ultra-high strength concrete and self-compacting concrete.. Recycled Aggregate in Concrete: Use of Industrial, Construction and Demolition Waste. focuses on the recent development which the use of various types of recycled waste mat

Overview: This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British ‘Orientalist‘ perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.978-1-349-46543-9978-1-137-34298-0

Overview: Relational methods can be found at various places incomputer science,notably in data base theory, relationalsemantics of concurrency, relationaltype theory, analysisof rewriting systems, and modern programminglanguagedesign. In addition, they appear in algorithms analysis andin the bulk of discrete mathematics taught to computerscientists.Thisbook is devoted to the background of these methods. Itexplains how to userelational and graph-theoretic methodssystematically in computer science.A powerful formal framework of relational algebra isdeveloped with respect to applications to a div

Overview: Describes state-of-the-art methodologies for analyzing the reliability, failure, and degradation of electronic devices.Discusses how to correlate electronic processing and performance to reliability a.This book describes the latest progress in reliability analysis of microelectronic products. The content grows out of an EU project, named  Intelligent Reliability 4.0 - iRel40 (see www.irel40.eu ).  Different industrial sectors and topics are covered, such as electronics in automotive, rail transport, lighting and personal appliances.  Several case studies and examples are discussed, w

Overview: This book is a fascinating survey of nineteenth-century republicanism, the first of its kind this century. It investigates why it was that although France was one of the first countries in modern Europe to become a republic in 1792, it was nearly a hundred years before a republic was acceptable to the majority. Pamela Pilbeam suggests that republicanism was a witch‘s brew of Enlightenment rationality, bloody memories and conflicting socialist expectations. The book concludes that the successful republic of 1871 used the rhetoric of democracy to conceal persistent elitism.

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Overview: Succinct but thorough discussion brought together in one volume.Contributors are internationally-recognized experts in their field.Current information on important topics like stem cells in the treatmThis volume explores recent advances in the use of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and adult stem cells (ASCs) in basic and clinical applications.  The chapters discuss use of PSCs for drug screening, genome editing, modeling of kidney, motor neuron diseases, and diabetes as well as their application in cancer;  ASCs are discussed in the contexts of banking of umbilical cord stem cells, us