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  • Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families

    Edited by Michel Chambon, James Ponniah ...
    Series series Contemporary Asian Catholics
    Foreword by José CasanovaAsian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families attends to the ways in which Asian Catholics navigate and negotiate the ethical ideals, normative discourses, and devotional practices of their religion as they construct and reconstruct their understandings of the family in contemporary society. In addition to family structures based on biological ties, ... Read more

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  • Polymers and Multicomponent Polymeric Systems

    Thermal, Thermo-Mechanical and Dielectric Analysis

    In recent years, multicomponent polymers have generated much interest due to their excellent properties, unique morphology and high-end applications. Book focusses on thermal, thermo-mechanical and dielectric analysis of polymers and multicomponent polymeric systems like blends, interpenetrating polymeric networks (IPNs), gels, polymer composites, nanocomposites. Through these analyses, it ... Read more

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  • Engineering Practice in a Global Context

    Understanding the Technical and the Social

    This volume aims to provide the reader with a broad cross-section of empirical research being carried out into engineers at work. The chapters provide pointers to other relevant studies over recent decades � an important aspect, we believe, because this area has only recently begun to coalesce as a field of study and up to now relevant empirical re ... Read more

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  • 101 Science Fiction Short Stories

    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • Billie Builds a RoboCorn

    Series series Billie
    A hilarious picture book character has hit the scene! Meet Billie: she's wily, she's precocious, she's funny and she will not take no for an answer . . . but even Billie has to make new friends sometimes! Perfect for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing.Billie is relentlessly resourceful. Nothing can keep her down!Band has no instruments? Easy. She’ll make some.Bike tire flat? Piece of cake. She’ll ... Read more

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  • Processing and Characterization of Multicomponent Polymer Systems

    New Insights

    Recent years have witnessed the sheer growth of macromolecular concepts and nanotechnology-based innovations in polymer science. Processing and Characterization of Multicomponent Polymer Systems is a collection of contributions from materials science experts across the globe. The fabrication and characterization of polymeric systems are still important in the study of materials science, and the ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and Sponges

    Impacts Across Multiple Levels of Organization

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    While sponges represent a very simple group of organisms, which are represented by over 8000 species, there is considerable interest in the increasing role they may play in future marine ecosystems. While we still have a comparatively limited understanding of how sponges will respond to ocean warming and acidification there is evidence that some species may have the ability to acclimate or even ... Read more

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  • Temporary Appropriation in Cities

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city.The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, ... Read more

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  • Hydrogeological and Environmental Investigations in Karst Systems

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT provides a detailed introduction to the full range of advanced, multidisciplinary techniques used in the study of water resources from understanding individual aquifers to the protection and management of water in a sustainable way, compatible with the preservation of the environment. Based on a masters course from UNESCO’s International Hydrological Program, this ... Read more

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  • With Santa Anna in Texas

    A Personal Narrative of the Revolution

    Translated by Carmen Perry ...
    The discovery of an additional week's worth of entries in the diary of José Enrique de la Peña has opened another chapter in the longstanding controversy over the authenticity of the Mexican officer’s account of the Battle of the Alamo.In this expanded edition of With Santa Anna in Texas, Texas Revolution scholar James E. Crisp, who discovered the new diary entries in an untranslated manuscript ... Read more

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  • The Hive

    Translated by James Womack ...
    Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, ... Read more

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