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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries

This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape ...

A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

A Short Dictionary of Furniture : Containing Over 2,600 Entries That Include Terms and Names Used in Britain and the USA / John Gloag

Contains 2,612 entries and over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced from contemporary sources and from drawings by Ronald Escott, ...

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...

Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking

This book describes recent research developments in automatic abstraction refinement techniques. The authors address the ...

Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems

Probabilistic techniques are increasingly being employed in computer programs and systems because they can increase efficiency ...

Active Lighting and Its Application for Computer Vision : 40 Years of History of Active Lighting Techniques

Computer vision entails both passive and active illumination techniques. Whereas passive techniques observe the scene statically ...

Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications

Advanced numerical simulations that use adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods have now become routine in engineering and ...

Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding

This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and ...

African Land Reform Under Economic Liberalisation : States, Chiefs, and Rural Communities

This book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent ...

Agile Software Engineering

This textbook presents the crucial issues in software engineering using the agile approach to software development - one ...

Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It ...

Alive: Advancements in Adaptive Architecture / Manuel Kretzer, Ludger Hovestadt

Proposes to embrace the unknown and cultivate the architectural discipline towards an integrated and cross-disciplinary practice. ...

Alvar Aalto: Das Gesamtwerk : L'oeuvre compléte = The Complete Work ; 3 Volumes / Alvar Aalto

Aalto's designs encompassed the fields of painting, architecture, sculpture, and furniture, and are some of the most beautiful ...

Analytical Methods for Problems of Molecular Transport

"This book is designed to serve a dual function. It is intended that it be capable of serving as a teaching instrument, ...

Apollo

This book provides an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the ground facilities, launch vehicles ...

Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance : Third International Symposium, AGTIVE 2007, Kassel, Germany, October 10-12, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Applications ...

Applied Research in Environmental Economics

Sustainable development, climate policy, and biodiversity conservation are examples of issues on the current political agenda ...

Approval Voting

The book proposes a compelling way to elect some 500,000 officials in public elections. After a generation of discussion ...

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking : Computational Modeling for Beginning Design / Frank Jacobus, Angie Carpenter, Rachel Smith Loerts

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series ...

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