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  • The New Atlantis
    Francis Bacon
    In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where 'generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit' are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of 'Bensalem'. ...
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    18,12 €

  • Clouds Are Not Spheres
    Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
     The time is right, following Benoît Mandelbrot's death in 2010, to publish this landmark book about the life and work of this maverick math genius.This compact book celebrates the life and achievements of Benoît Mandelbrot with the ideas of fractals presented in a way that can be understood by the interested lay-person. Mathematics is largely avoided. Instead, Mandelbrot&#...
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    70,45 €

  • Contemporary Knowledge and Systems Science
    As branches of research and knowledge continue to expand, platforms for gathering and understanding new information become important aspects of organizational improvement. Contemporary Knowledge and Systems Science provides emerging research on the methods and applications of knowledge systems in social science, economics, and technological developments. While highlighting topi...
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    242,89 €

  • A Bouquet of Dyson
    JEREMY BERNSTEIN
    University of Texas at Austin My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship — the Orion — which would be propelled by atomic bo...
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    35,12 €

  • Hands Off My Food!
    Dr. Sina McCullough
    Americans have stopped being watchdogs over their own food supply. Roughly 100 years ago, with the birth of the FDA, we handed that responsibility over to the government and the food industry. They, in turn, have fundamentally transformed our food supply and it’s making us sick, including our children. Not only are we losing our health to food related illnesses like cancer and ...
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    11,29 €

  • 3D Printing
    Information Reso Management Association
    The advancement of modern technology has allowed for impressive developments in manufacturing processes. Out of these developments, 3D printing has emerged as a new method. 3D Printing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a comprehensive reference source for the latest research and advances on 3D printing processes, technologies, and methods. Highlighting emerging perspec...
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    458,69 €

  • Science and the Big Issues of Our Time
    Martin Gellender
    Within the last few generations, our world has been shaped by technological change enabled by scientific advances. This is particularly evident to the 'baby boomer' generation, who have lived through and witnessed huge changes in society over the course of their lifetimes. Although many have little education in science, or have forgotten what they learned in high school, they u...
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    26,58 €

  • Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
    Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró / Brasilina Passarelli / Joseph Straubhaar
    The way we talk, work, learn, and think has been greatly shaped by modern technology. These lifestyle changes have made digital literacy the new written literacy, where those who are not able to use computers are unable to function and perform everyday tasks. The Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas explores the...
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    426,47 €

  • Introduction to a Future Way of Thought
    Kostas Axelos / Kenneth Mills
    'Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world and interpret the changes in its unfathomability, to perceive and experience the difference binding being to the nothing.'Anticipating the age of planetary technology Kostas Axelos, a Greek-French philosopher, approaches the technological question in this book, firs...
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    18,58 €

  • Enhancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research with Technology
    Shalin Hai-Jew
    In light of the expensive nature of quantitative research, such as experiments, researchers must seek other methods of understanding the world around them. As such, new qualitative methods are gaining ground in the modern research community. Enhancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research with Technology explores the integration of new digital tools into the research process. ...
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    296,26 €

  • Cases on Research-Based Teaching Methods in Science Education
    Eugene de Silva
    While the great scientists of the past recognized a need for a multidisciplinary approach, today’s schools often treat math and science as subjects separate from the rest. This not only creates a disinterest among students, but also a potential learning gap once students reach college and then graduate into the workforce. Cases on Research-Based Teaching Methods in Science Educ...
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    256,29 €

  • Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures
    Abdelaal
    It is surprising to think that in today’s rapidly evolving world of technology, over half of the globe still does not have access to high speed internet. Creating community wireless networks has in the past been a way to provide remote communities with internet and network access. Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures highlights the succ...
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    249,30 €

  • Internet Accessible Remote Laboratories
    Limited resources and other factors pose major challenges for engineering, technology, and science educators’ ability to provide adequate laboratory experience for students. An Internet accessible remote laboratory, which is an arrangement that allows laboratory equipment to be controlled remotely, addresses these difficulties and allows more efficient laboratory management. In...
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    230,89 €

  • Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy
    Juana-Espinosa Susana De
    Businesses worldwide are faced with major challenges related to the progressive (and many times unavoidable) incorporation of information technologies into their processes. Often, organizations don’t suitably react to the new requirements of these technologies, resulting in outdated policies, practices, and strategies. Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating ...
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    230,11 €

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics
    Andrew Chasin
    Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications serves as a valu...
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    321,14 €

  • Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality
    The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field. Exploration of Space, Tech...
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    255,68 €

  • Dynamic Knowledge Representation in Scientific Domains
    The main approach to understanding and creating knowledge engineering concepts is static knowledge. Currently, there is a need to approach knowledge through a dynamic lens and address changing relations on an elaborated syntactic and semantic basis. Dynamic Knowledge Representation in Scientific Domains provides emerging research on the internal and external changes in knowledg...
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    269,26 €

  • WRITINGS I
    Irina Rodica Rabeja
    WRITINGS I: Digital Image Compression / nD Printing / Internet of Things / Unemployment Solution / Environment Pollution / Astronomy ConceptsSyntheses, analyses, writings with original elements compose the book WRITINGS I covering theory and practice topics from science and engineering and placing them in the history of related events with helpful additions to grasp comprehensi...
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    109,61 €

  • WRITINGS II
    Irina Rodica Rabeja
    WRITINGS II:Communicating by Electromagnetic Waves to 7G / Preventing Maladies / Quantum Physics Concepts is a blend of synthesis, analysis and originality covering theory and practice topics from science and engineering and placing them in the history of related events with helpful additions to grasp comprehensively the ideas.Based on a large number of sources of information, ...
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    81,93 €

  • Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    The important concepts in this book include the difference between slave morality and master morality. Nietzsche tries to help the reader understand that there are no absolutes and that everything can be understood differently from a different point of view. He sees the greatest danger as the mindless, instinctive herd, and warns strongly against it, including especially the fl...
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    13,53 €

  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
    Wolfgang Smith
    In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long thought to be dead. Basing himself in part upon epistemological considerations first enunciated by Sir Arthur Eddington, he shows that the so-called physical universe proves finally to be constructed by the strategies of the experimen...
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    15,71 €

  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
    Wolfgang Smith
    In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long thought to be dead. Basing himself in part upon epistemological considerations first enunciated by Sir Arthur Eddington, he shows that the so-called physical universe proves finally to be constructed by the strategies of the experimen...
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    27,88 €

  • Religion and Sex
    Chapman Cohen
    In spite of all that has been done in the way of applying scientific principles to religious ideas, there is much that yet remains to be accomplished. Generally speaking science has only dealt with the subject of religion in its more normal and more regularised forms. The last half-century has produced many elaborate and fruitful studies of the origin of religious ideas, while ...
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    17,01 €

  • Covid
    Henry Kellerman
    We are concerned here with a contradiction. The question becomes: Is the virus a seeking organism for some validation, or is it simply something destructive? Concerning its harmful behavior, one might hypothesize that the virus becomes dangerous only when it does not get what it wants. Thus, the first issue raised concerns whether the virus is an organism that may want somethin...
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    23,49 €

  • Diet Quality and Risk of Cardiometabolic and Diabetes
    Giuseppe Della Pepa
    Cardiometabolic risk factors and type 2 diabetes are the largest contributors to the global disease burden and disease-related mortality. Visceral obesity drives the progression of multiple cardiometabolic risk factors and type 2 diabetes, and behavioral lifestyle weight loss interventions are important strategies for the prevention of these metabolic alterations. Despite the c...
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    54,55 €

  • Nature-Based Solutions
    ’Nature-based solutions’ (NbS) is an umbrella term for ecosystem-based approaches. It focuses on actions and policies that are in harmony with natural principles to achieve development goals and addressing challenges, while benefitting human livelihoods and the environment. The reprint contains empirical studies and systematic reviews regarding, inter alia, natural and green in...
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    89,40 €

  • Hydrogen Energy Technologies
    Hydrogen provides a promising technological solution for storing and delivering energy with minimal to no greenhouse gas emissions. It complements other energy storage options, such as batteries. Consequently, the global hydrogen industry is experiencing rapid growth to support the ambitious emission reduction targets set by countries worldwide. In tandem with this industry’s g...
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    106,19 €

  • Sztuka spójności
    Ubaldo Sánchez Gutiérrez
    Książka z dużym drukiem do łatwego czytania. Kiedy pomyślisz o wszystkich wspaniałych rzeczach, które mogą się wydarzyć w twoim życiu, kiedy będziesz konsekwentny, zobaczysz, jak było warto.Wkrótce będziesz mieć przyjaciół, którzy dzwonią do ciebie regularnie, chcą często z tobą spędzać czas i dobrze się z tobą bawić. ...
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    10,18 €

  • L’art de la cohérence
    Ubaldo Sánchez Gutiérrez
    Livre en gros caractères pour une lecture facile. Lorsque vous pensez à toutes les grandes choses qui peuvent se produire dans votre vie lorsque vous êtes cohérent, vous verrez à quel point cela en vaut la peine.Bientôt, vous aurez des amis qui vous appellent régulièrement, ils veulent sortir souvent avec vous et passer du bon temps avec vous. ...
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    8,94 €

  • La Psicología del fitness
    Ubaldo Sánchez Gutiérrez
    Cuando se trata de fitness, no necesita ser un corredor o aspirar a ser un atleta para comenzar a mejorar su estado físico general. Si desea estar en buena forma física, necesita una determinación completa y concentrarse en lo que desea lograr para que tenga éxito. En este libro te lo explicaremos. ...
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    9,74 €