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    Memories, Displacements, and Intimacies

    Series series Global Perspectives on Public History
    This collection of chapters explores how history is created, shared, and contested in urban and marginalized spaces by examining memory, displacement, resilience, and community-driven historical interventions across Mexico.Bridging academic research with lived experiences, the book shows how public history is a powerful tool that both reflects on the past and projects more egalitarian futures of ... Read more

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  • Global Change in Atlantic Coastal Patagonian Ecosystems

    A Journey Through Time

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an integrated view of Atlantic coastal Patagonian ecosystems, including the physical environment, biodiversity and the main ecological processes, together with their derived ecosystem services and anthropogenic impacts. It focuses on the key components of the aquatic ecosystem, covering the lower levels (plankton) to the top predators like large mammals and birds, before turning ... Read more

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  • Purple Power

    The History and Global Impact of SEIU

    Series series Working Class in American History
    Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent.Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of ... Read more

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  • Crisis in Early Religion

    Series series History (R0)
    Religion is closely linked to social development as it often serves as the ideological fundament of a society and one of the foremost expressions of its culture. The articles in this volume are devoted to the study of religious crisis in Anqituity and deal with these pheonomena in the Ancient Near East, Rome, Greece, China and India. ... Read more

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  • Greener Fischer-Tropsch Processes

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    Greener Fischer-Tropsch ProcessesHow can we use our carbon-based resources in the most responsible manner? How can we most efficiently transform natural gas, coal, or biomass into diesel, jet fuel or gasoline to drive our machines? The Big Questions today are energy-related, and the Fischer-Tropsch process provides industrially tested solutions.This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date ... Read more

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  • Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne

    This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They ... Read more

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  • Metal-catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes

    Catalysis underpins most modern industrial organic processes. It has become an essential tool in creating a 'greener' chemical industry by replacing more traditional stoichiometric reactions, which have high energy consumption and high waste production, with mild processes which increasingly resemble Nature's enzymes. Metal-Catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes considers the major areas of the ... Read more

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  • Transboundary Water Management in a Changing Climate

    Most large river basins in the world are transboundary. Experience with such basins emphasizes the urgent need for more efficient transnational water management. This book details recent initiatives undertaken in the Meuse basin (North-West Europe) to develop a transnational adaptation strategy to deal with the impact of climate change.In the 21st ... Read more

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  • Integrated Water Resources Management in the 21st Century: Revisiting the paradigm

    Integrated water resources management (IWRM) advocates a coordinated approach for managing water resources in a way that balances social and economic needs with care for nature. While attractive, IWRM is both controversial and elusive. This book provides a down-to-earth approach to the elusive concept of integrated water resources management, drawing from conceptual frameworks and real-life ... Read more

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  • Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes

    On Brazil and Global Cinema

    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped a generation of influential film critics in his home country, and set the foundations for the serious study of film in Brazil. For the first time in English, this book brings together a selection of ... Read more

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  • Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Cross-Layer Design in Optical Networks

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This work addresses the topic of optical networks cross-layer design with a focus on physical-layer-impairment-aware design. Contributors captures both the physical-layer-aware network design as well as the latest advances in service-layer-aware network design. Treatment of topics such as, optical transmissions which are prone to signal impairments, dense packing of wavelengths, dispersion, ... Read more

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