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Practical Pediatric Cardiology
Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and all of us involved in the specialty have been caught at one time or another. For example, it is sometimes very difficult to differentiate between respiratory and cardiac disease in infants and between neurological and ca... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Memento Monstrum
by Jochen TilA biting memoir with an over the top package!This is your warning! This book contains Count Dracula&’s memoirs. And as you would expect, there are plenty of hideous creatures in it—giant yetis, insidious werewolves, slimy fish monsters—maybe you shouldn&’t read it! You might learn things you didn&... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia: Nature, Causes and Consequences (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)
by Geoffrey Till • Jane ChanThis edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region. The rise of naval capability in the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region is increasingly recognised as a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems
The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in Geographic Information Science & Technologies, Location Modeling, and Spatial Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems: Contributions from GIS&T, Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling
This book presents cutting‐edge research on urban and regional systems applying modern spatial analytical techniques of Geographic Information Science & Technologies (GIS&T), spatial statistics, and location modeling. The contributions, written by leading scholars from around the globe, adopt a spat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Spatial Multicriteria Decision Making and Analysis: A Geographic Information Sciences Approach (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1999, this volume consists of selected papers presented at the North American Meetings of the RSAI along with invited contributions from scholars active in the field of spatial multicriteria decision making and analysis. It is meant to present diverse lines of research in spatial ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Living With Energy Shortfall: A Future For American Towns And Cities
by Jon Van TilThis book is about the ways Americans may live in the years ahead and the forms their cities, suburbs, towns, and rural areas may take in the light of changing patterns of energy supply and societal affluence. It is written for the ultimate energy policy maker–the private citizen.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Beckett and Musicality
Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett’s engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
GeoComputational Analysis and Modeling of Regional Systems
The contributed volume collects cutting-edge research in GeoComputational Analysis of Regional Systems. The contributions emphasize methodological innovations or substantive breakthroughs on many facets of the socio-economic and environmental reality of regional contexts.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue
by Roger Lohmann • Jon Van TilPublic deliberation and group discussion can strengthen the foundations of civil society, even when the groups engaged in debate share a history of animosity. Scholars have begun to study the dialogue sustaining these conversations, especially its power to unite and divide groups and individuals. Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems: Computational and Algorithmic Advances (IF & IGIS’2019) (Advances in Geographic Information Science)
This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium “Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems 2019” (IF&IGIS'2019), which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from May 22 to 24, 2019. The goal of the symposium was to provide a forum for exchange among leading ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Computer Science and Ambient Intelligence (Wiley-iste Ser.)
This book focuses on ambient intelligence and addresses various issues related to data management, networking and HCI in this context. Taking a holistic view, it covers various levels of abstraction, ranging from fundamental to advanced concepts and brings together the contributions of various speci... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Fire Protection: Detection, Notification, and Suppression
The Second Edition of this introduction to fire protection systems is completely revised and updated to offer the student, architect or engineer the basics of fire protection devices and equipment, and how they may be applied to any given project. Fire Protection: Detection, Notification, and Suppre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Future of Trade Defence Instruments: Global Policy Trends And Legal Challenges (European Yearbook of International Economic Law)
This EYIEL Special Issue is devoted to the European Union’s Trade Defence Instruments (TDIs). The recent legislative changes at the EU level are indicative of global policy trends and legal challenges surrounding trade remedies law. Although TDI measures have always been a fiercely debated topic in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Business In Action
For courses in Introduction to Business An introduction to business text can be comprehensive without being overly complex and overwhelming--and this text proves it! Business in Action, Seventh Edition is uniquely positioned to help today's students become tomorrow's focused, highly productive busi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Business In Action
Business in Action offers instructors and students a much-needed alternative to texts that are either overstuffed and overwhelming or so skimpy that they compromise essential coverage. <P><P>With a full 20 chapters, including chapters dedicated to employee motivation, customer communication, finan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Business Communication Essentials
Business Communication Essentials equips students with fundamental skills for a career in the modern, mobile workplace. With comprehensive coverage of writing, listening, and presentation strategies in a contemporary context, this text balances basic business English, communication approaches, and t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Business Communication Today (12th Edition)
Directed primarily toward college/university students, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. Bovée/Thill provides real-world training for the business world of today and tomorrow. The field's leading text for more than two decades, Business Com... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems (IF&IGIS'17)
This book presents the proceedings of the 8th international Symposium "Information Fusion and Intelligent Geographic Information Systems 2017" (IF&ICIS'2017), which took place at Shanghai Maritime University, China, from May 10 to 12, 2017. The goal of the symposium was to bring together leading gl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Esophageal and Gastric Disorders in Infancy and Childhood
Esophageal anomalies and disorders in infancy and childhood include a wide spectrum of different diseases. These range from emergencies immediately after birth such as esophageal atresia (EA), necessitating an experienced team of neonatologists and pediatric surgeons, up to gastro-esophageal reflux... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Biotechnologies for Plant Mutation Breeding: Protocols
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2. 5 license. This book offers 19 detailed protocols on the use of induced mutations in crop breeding and functional genomics studies, which cover topics including chemical and physical mutagenesis, phenotypic screening methods, traditional TILLING and TILL... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
This book reviews the theories regarding commonly occurring developmental issues among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong, the application of Positive Youth Development (PYD) to a large-scale primary prevention program and the impact of PYD on student well-being, indexed according to adolescent develo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Encyclopedia of Geobiology
by H. W. Fritz • Pamela Reid • Xingliang Zhang • Joachim Reitner • Andreas Kappler • Volker Thiel • Kurt KonhauserThe interplay between Geology and Biology has shaped the Earth from the early Precambrian, 4 billion years ago. Moving beyond the borders of the classical core disciplines, Geobiology strives to identify chains of cause-and-effect and synergisms between the geo- and the biospheres that have been dri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011