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  • PLANNING FOR THE CARING CITY
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    PLANNING FOR THE CARING CITY
    CLAIRE FREEMAN / ETIENNE NEL
    As the world has become increasingly urbanised and planetary well-being ever more threatened, questions have emerged over just what the priorities should be for how we live in cities. Clearly for many the current ways of planning and managing city environments are not working, given so many of their human and non-human inhabitants struggle on a daily basis to maintain their wel...

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  • AFRICA
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    AFRICA
    TONY BINNS / ETIENNE NEL / ALAN DIXON / KENNETH LYNCH
    Africa: Diversity and Development introduces and de-mystifies Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and considers how its peoples and environments have interacted through time and space. The book examines the background and diversity of Africa’s social, cultural, economic, political and environmental systems, as well as key development issues which have affected Africa in the past a...

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  • MASS SOCIETY AND ITS CULTURE, AND THREE ESSAYS CONCERNING ETIENNE GILSON ON BERGSON, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND ART
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    MASS SOCIETY AND ITS CULTURE, AND THREE ESSAYS CONCERNING ETIENNE GILSON ON BERGSON, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND ART
    ÉTIENNE GILSON / HENRI GOUHIER
    A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a paintin...

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  • MASS SOCIETY AND ITS CULTURE, AND THREE ESSAYS CONCERNING ETIENNE GILSON ON BERGSON, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND ART
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    MASS SOCIETY AND ITS CULTURE, AND THREE ESSAYS CONCERNING ETIENNE GILSON ON BERGSON, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND ART
    ÉTIENNE GILSON / HENRI GOUHIER
    A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art. He questioned whether what is reproduced as art in contemporary society is art at all. This is not a simple issue. A cheap version of a novel is still a novel. A picture of a statue is not a statue, nor indeed is a photograph of a painting a paintin...

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  • INTERMEDIATE OFFSHORE FOUNDATIONS
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    INTERMEDIATE OFFSHORE FOUNDATIONS
    STEVE KAY / SUSAN GOURVENEC / ELISABETH PALIX / ETIENNE ALDERLIESTE
    Intermediate foundations are used as anchors for floating platforms and ancillary structures, foundations for steel jackets, and to support seafloor equipment and offshore wind turbines. When installed by suction, they are an economical alternative to piling, and also may be completely removed. They are usually circular in plan and are essentially rigid when laterally loaded. L...

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  • REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
    ETIENNE LOUIS NEL
    First published in 1999, this volume responds to the recent application of Local Economic Development around the world and examines its impact in South Africa in the wake of the nation’s recent political transition. Etienne Louis Nel observes how the initiative is taking on a dual form of community-led and authority-led initiatives. Nel explores the issue through areas includin...

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  • GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT
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    GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT
    ROBERT POTTER / TONY BINNS / JENNIFER ELLIOTT / ETIENNE NEL / DAVID SMITH
    Now in its fourth edition, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies remains a core, balanced and comprehensive introductory textbook for students of Development Studies, Development Geography and related fields. This clear and concise text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demo...

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  • UNTANGLING THE USA
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    UNTANGLING THE USA
    ETIENNE DEFFARGES
    Tom Brady and the “tuck rule”; “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”; “The financial world has become way too complicated and very secretive.” What could Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and Michael Lewis possibly have in common? Complexity. Lewis has analyzed it; Trump has discovered it; Brady has benefited from it. And the USA is entangled in it. Complex systems are an in...

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  • BEAM DYNAMICS
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    BEAM DYNAMICS
    ETIENNE FOREST
    This volume lays down the foundations of a theory of rings based on finite maps. The purpose of the ring is entirely discussed in terms of the global properties of the one-turn map. Proposing a theory of rings based on such maps, this work offers another perspective on storage ring theory. ...

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  • PLANNING ATLANTA
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    PLANNING ATLANTA
    HARLEY F. ETIENNE
    More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War’s devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city’s history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. Together they trace the development of projects li...

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  • RCS SYNTHESIS FOR CHIPLESS RFID
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    RCS SYNTHESIS FOR CHIPLESS RFID
    OLIVIER RANCE / ETIENNE PERRET / ROMAIN SIRAGUSA / PIERRE LEMAITRE-AUGER
    The considerable growth of RFID is currently accompanied by the development of numerous identification technologies that complement those already available while seeking to answer new problems. Chipless RFID is one example.The goal is to both significantly reduce the price of the tag and increase the amount of information it contains, in order to compete with the barcode while ...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF ALFRED W. CROSBY'S THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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    AN ANALYSIS OF ALFRED W. CROSBY'S THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
    JOSHUA SPECHT / ETIENNE STOCKLAND
    One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stand...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF JOAN WALLACH SCOTT'S GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY
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    AN ANALYSIS OF JOAN WALLACH SCOTT'S GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY
    PILAR ZAZUETA / ETIENNE STOCKLAND
    Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that gender is better understood as a social construct than as a biological fact. Scott’s original contribution to the de...

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  • CHIPLESS RFID BASED ON RF ENCODING PARTICLE
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    CHIPLESS RFID BASED ON RF ENCODING PARTICLE
    ARNAUD VENA / ETIENNE PERRET / SMAIL TEDJINI
    Chipless RFID based on RF Encoding Particle: Realization, Coding and Reading System explores the field of chipless identification based on the RF Encoding Particle (REP). The book covers the possibility of collecting information remotely with RF waves (RFID) with totally passive tags without wire, batteries, and chips, and even printed on paper. Despite the many benefits of RF...

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  • AFRICAN HOUSEHOLDS
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    AFRICAN HOUSEHOLDS
    ETIENNE VAN DE WALLE
    This volume in the ?General Demography of Africa? series encompasses many nations and focuses on a feature of the censuses ? household relationships. African households rank among the most complex in the world. This work makes it possible to investigate relationships among individuals within the household and relate them to household characteristics such as structure and heads...

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  • SECONDARY CITIES AND DEVELOPMENT
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    SECONDARY CITIES AND DEVELOPMENT
    LOCHNER MARAIS, ETIENNE NEL AND RONNIE DONALDSON
    The role secondary cities play in the global space economy and national urban hierarchies is increasingly receiving attention from scholars and international agencies, most notably the Cities Alliance. Secondary Cities and Development considers the role of secondary cities through the lens of South Africa, a middle-income country with characteristics of both the developed and d...

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  • SOUTH AFRICA, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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    SOUTH AFRICA, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
    TONY BINNS / ALAN (ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE) LESTER / ETIENNE (RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOU
    This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial...

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  • LEARNING IN LANDSCAPES OF PRACTICE
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    LEARNING IN LANDSCAPES OF PRACTICE
    ETIENNE WENGER-TRAYNER, MARK FENTON-O'CREEVY, STEVEN HUTCHINSON, CHRIS KUBIAK, BEVERLY WENGER-TRAYNE
    If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about the nature of practice knowledge, identity and the experience of practitioners a...

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  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND TUTORING SYSTEMS
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    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND TUTORING SYSTEMS
    ETIENNE WENGER
    Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems: Computational and Cognitive Approaches to the Communication of Knowledge focuses on the cognitive approaches, methodologies, principles, and concepts involved in the communication of knowledge. The publication first elaborates on knowledge communication systems, basic issues, and tutorial dialogues. Concerns cover natural reasonin...

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  • MASSES, CLASSES, IDEAS
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    MASSES, CLASSES, IDEAS
    ETIENNE BALIBAR
    In Masses, Classes, Ideas, well-known French philosopher Etienne Balibar explores the relationship between abstract philosophy and concrete politics. The book gathers together for the first time in English nine of Balibar's most influential essays written over the last decade, which have been carefully revised and reordered in logical succession with an original preface. Baliba...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
    DE VRIES, PIET / YEHOUE, ETIENNE B.
    A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships provides a cutting-edge survey of the field. PPPs remain a highly controversial...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELING FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA
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    INTRODUCTION TO HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELING FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA
    ERIC PARENT / ETIENNE RIVOT
    Making statistical modeling and inference more accessible to ecologists and related scientists, Introduction to Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling for Ecological Data gives readers a flexible and effective framework to learn about complex ecological processes from various sources of data. It also helps readers get started on building their own statisti ...

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  • ORGANIC SOILS AND PEAT MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
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    ORGANIC SOILS AND PEAT MATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    LEON ETIENNE PARENT
    While organic soils have the potential to contribute greatly to agricultural production, the irreversible processes that occur from draining organic soils need to be managed with caution. The wise use of peatlands must include the avoidance of unacceptable ecological effects on the contiguous and global environment. Organic Soils and Peat Materials ...

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  • THE BREATH OF GOD
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    THE BREATH OF GOD
    ETIENNE VETO
    The Holy Spirit is in a way the most mysterious of the three "names" of God. For many it is the "unknown God" (Acts 17:23). How can a "Spirit" be love? How can it be a person? What role can a "Spirit" have in the trinitarian relations?In The Breath of God, Veto argues that a more exact comprehension of the third divine person can be reached by considering the way it acts in the...

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  • STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
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    STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
    ÉTIENNE GILSON
    Those new to Gilson can get a sense of the theme that dominated most of his life's work in the central essay on the historical significance of Thomism. Those familiar with him will perhaps be surprised by the sympathy with which he treats the more traditional theologians who resisted Aquinas and the Latin Averroists alike. Gilson prolongs his seminal demonstration of Scholastic...

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  • GRANULAR GEOMATERIALS DISSIPATIVE MECHANICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
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    GRANULAR GEOMATERIALS DISSIPATIVE MECHANICS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
    ETIENNE FROSSARD
    This book develops a new vision in geomechanics which will be of interest to researchers and engineers. It begins with the key theoretical features of dissipative structures induced by elementary contact friction within geomaterials in slow motion, their multi-scale expression in key tensor relations and associated features including strain localization and shear banding. ...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF BERNARD BAILYN'S THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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    AN ANALYSIS OF BERNARD BAILYN'S THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    JOSHUA SPECHT / ETIENNE STOCKLAND
    Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ, re-examining familiar evidence to establish new connections that in turn allowed h...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF JACK A. GOLDSTONE'S REVOLUTION AND REBELLION IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
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    AN ANALYSIS OF JACK A. GOLDSTONE'S REVOLUTION AND REBELLION IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
    ETIENNE STOCKLAND
    Understanding why revolutions take place when they do, and as they do, is important in itself. Understanding how they are rooted in the societies they upend – and the ways in which those societies share crucial similarities – is arguably even more so. The enduring influence of Jack Goldstone's Revolution and Rebellion lies as much in the challenge that it issues to the long-dom...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF CARLO GINZBURG'S THE NIGHT BATTLES
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    AN ANALYSIS OF CARLO GINZBURG'S THE NIGHT BATTLES
    ETIENNE STOCKLAND / LUKE FREEMAN
    In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg does more than introduce his readers to a novel group of supposed witches – the Benandanti, from the northern Italian province of Friulia. He also invents and deploys new and creative ways of tackling his source material that allow him to move beyond their limitations. Witchcraft documents are notoriously tricky sources – produced by elites ...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN C. CALHOUN'S A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT
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    AN ANALYSIS OF JOHN C. CALHOUN'S A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT
    ETIENNE STOCKLAND / JASON XIDIAS
    Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought – and of critical thinking. On one hand, he is remembered as a committed advocate of slavery, consistently espousing views that are now considered indefensible and abhorrent. On the other, the political theories that Calhoun used to defend the social injustice...

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