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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “martin galis”
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  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Edited by Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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  • Earthquakes

    Tragic Challenges in History

    by Peter Moczo, Eva Rutšeková, Jozef Kristek, Martin Galis, Miriam Kristekova ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011, and 2023. Uncover the impact these events have had on our understanding of the planet we call home and explore how they shaped the destinies of entire nations.In this book, you’ll delve into the intriguing connection between seismic events ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions

    Waves and Ruptures

    by Peter Moczo, Jozef Kristek, Martin Gális ...
    Among all the numerical methods in seismology, the finite-difference (FD) technique provides the best balance of accuracy and computational efficiency. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to FD and its applications to earthquake motion. Using a systematic tutorial approach, the book requires only undergraduate degree-level mathematics and provides a user-friendly explanation of the ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

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  • Adventures in Volcanoland

    What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves

    by Tamsin Mather ...
    ***A Library Journal Best Book of 2024*A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world**In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Earth Grids

    The Secret Patterns of Gaia's Sacred Sites

    by Hugh Newman ...
    Do ancient maps prove that the planet was surveyed 12,000 years ago? Were the poles once in a different position to where they are today? Is there a secret pattern joining the great sites of antiquity? In this revolutionary little book, ancient sites expert Hugh Newman outlines various theories concerning geometry in the distribution of sacred sites on Earth and comes to some startling conclusions ... Read more

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  • Upheaval!

    Why Catastrophic Earthquakes Will Soon Strike the United States

    by John L. Casey ...
    The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors of this book, all of them leading experts in the geophysical effects of climate change. They make a strong case for a link between the suns cycles of behavior with highly destructive earthquakes. The authors explain that when the sun goes into a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Plate Tectonics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Molnar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle consist of a small number of rigid plates that move, and there are significant boundaries between pairs of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations

    Edited by Jacquie L'Etang, David McKie, Nancy Snow, Jordi Xifra ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Marketing, Advertising and Communication
    Critical theory has a long history, but a relatively recent intersection with public relations. This ground-breaking collection engages with commonalities and differences in the traditions, whilst encouraging plural perspectives in the contemporary public relations field.Compiled by a high-profile and widely respected team of academics and bringing together other key scholars from this field and ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • This Erratic Planet

    What Happens When the Earth Changes Its Axis of Rotation

    by Ian Niall Rankin ...
    This Erratic Planet is a book of vital importance to the future of our species. Drawing on a staggering range of references across disciplines including geology, astronomy, archaeology and palaeontology, Ian Rankin outlines his radical ideas about the worlds past. Contrary to conventional scientific thinking , the evidence he has examined has convinced him that the history of our planet is not one ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond

    by Barbara Prainsack, Alena Buyx ...
    Series Book 33 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of solidarity is gaining new currency. This book argues that a solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways to address pressing problems. Exemplified by three case studies from the field of biomedicine: databases for health and disease research, personalised healthcare, and organ donation, it explores how solidarity can make ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD