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978-1-4020-5822-6
Accessing and Sharing the Benefits of the Genomics Revolution

This edited volume explores the legal, economic and political context for the debate about intellectual property rights for ...

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978-3-540-28885-5
Accountability for International Humanitarian Law Violations: The Case of Rwanda and East Timor

The main objective of this book is to make available to an informed audience a le­ gal and policy oriented study on accountability ...

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978-1-4020-2797-0
Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors ...

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978-1-4020-3982-9
Action and Responsibility

What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps ...

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978-0-387-22914-0
Activist Business Ethics

The book examines international aspects, the personification of stakeholders, the predominance of values and ethics for CEOs ...

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978-0-387-24270-5
Activity and Sign

This volume provides new sources of knowledge based on Michael Otte’s fundamental insight that understanding the problems ...

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978-1-4020-3933-1
Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems

The chapters in this book jointly contribute to what we shall call the fieldof natural and multimodal interactive systems ...

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978-1-4020-4746-6
Advances in Open Domain Question Answering

This book gives a comprehensive and detailed look at the current approaches to automated question answering. The book can ...

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978-3-319-58689-2
Advancing Human Assessment

This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one ...

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978-1-4020-5110-4
Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

Environmentalissuescontinuedtoloomlargeinthelastdecadeofthetwentiethc- tury,especiallyenvironmentalproblemsrelatedtorisinglevelsofCO ...

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978-1-4020-2589-1
After Bourdieu

Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. ...

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978-4-431-29427-6
Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation

The present volume comprises papers submitted to the special session of ISAGA2003 and provides a good example of the diverse ...

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978-1-4020-5973-5
Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

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978-1-4020-3984-3
Agricultural Standards

This original and informative collection of studies of agri-food standards in the modern economy addresses these and helps ...

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978-3-540-87987-9
Algorithmic Learning Theory : 19th International Conference, ALT 2008, Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008, ...

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978-88-470-0353-8
Alla ricerca della via più breve

Il libro narra la vicenda di Rut, quindicenne, trasferitasi da poco in Germania con la famiglia, al seguito del padre che ...

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978-1-4020-4481-6
Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations

The chapters in this volume greatly develop our understanding of the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and ...

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978-1-4020-6921-5
Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

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978-1-4020-6923-9
Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

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978-1-4020-4986-6
Alternative Education

Alternative streams of education have been and remain an important but difficult theme for teachers, parents, policy-makers, ...

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