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Security, Loyalty, and Science
Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress. The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between national safety and individual rights in the administration of our federal loyalty program are presented; all the arguments are objectively weighed.…
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- 9781501740688
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- v, 312 p
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Translation technology in accessible health communication
Meng Ji, Pierrette Bouillon, Mark Seligman ; with contributions from Bastien David, Magali Norre?, Irene Strasly, Herve? Spechbach, Johanna Gerlach, Lu?cia Morado Va?squez, Silvia Rodri?guez Va?squez.
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- 9781108837378
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- xiii, 212 pages; illustration
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- 610.1 JI t
Cultural-historical perspectives on collective intelligence:patterns in probl…
In the new era of digital communication, collective problem solving is increasingly important. With the internet and digitalization of information, large groups can now solve problems together in completely different ways than are possible in offline settings (Le?vy, 1999). These novel online technologies and practices challenge our conceptions of individualized human problem solving in various…
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- 9781108981361
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- 468 p
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- 337.3 BAL c
Civil War settlers:Scandinavians, citizenship, and American empire, 1848-1870
Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it with…
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- 9781108980135
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- 376 p
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- 973.7083 RAS c
Autonomous control for a reliable internet of services :methods, models, appr…
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. It will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, res…
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- 9783319904153
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- xvi, 400p. : ill.
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- 004.678 AUT a
COVID-19 And Capitalism
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, i…
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- 9783030929015
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- Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
War And Peace in The Western Political Imagination
The study of war in all periods of prehistory and recorded history has always commanded the attention of historians, dramatists, poets and artists. The study of peace has, however, not yet gained a comparable readership, and the subject is attracting an increasing amount of scholarly research. This volume presents the first work of academic research to tackle this imbalance head on. It looks at…
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- 9781474258722
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Time For The Ancients; Measurement, Theory, Experience
The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitude…
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- 9783110752397
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Things that travelled :Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
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- 9781787351172
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- xviii, 362 p. ill;
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- 748.20937 THI D
Writing The Digital History Of Nazi Germany
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All contributions focus on aspects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust.
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- 9783110714692
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- Berlin/Boston
Writing The Digital History Of Nazi Germany
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All contributions focus on aspects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust.
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- 9783110714692
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- Berlin/Boston
Cold War Cosmopolitanism
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
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- 9780520296503
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Cold War Cosmopolitanism
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
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Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia
Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In th…
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- 9781108982955
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- 82 p ; ill
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- 959 BRO M
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…
This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …
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- 9781760463892
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- xv, 306p . : ill
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Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…
This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …
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- 9781760463892
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- xv, 306p . : ill
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Automated reasoning
This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving…
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- 9783031107696
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- xv; 756 PG; ill.
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- 006.3 AUT a
Failed states and fragile societies :a new world disorder?
Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state’s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers …
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- 9780821444887
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- 171p. : ill
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- 327.1 FAI f
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