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Handbook of Carbon Nanomaterials

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Series Book 11 & 12 - World Scientific Series on Carbon Nanoscience
This two-volume set tackles the applications and implications of carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine, from their unique promise in biotechnologies, to controversies about toxicology. Guided by carbon nanomaterials experts, editors Dr Daniel Heller and Dr Mijin Kim, multiple viewpoints are engaged.Carbon nanotubes emerged as one of the most exciting nanomaterials in the 1990s due to their ... Read more

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This two-volume set tackles the applications and implications of carbon nanotubes in biology and medicine, from their unique promise in biotechnologies, to controversies about toxicology. Guided by carbon nanomaterials experts, editors Dr Daniel Heller and Dr Mijin Kim, multiple viewpoints are engaged.Carbon nanotubes emerged as one of the most exciting nanomaterials in the 1990s due to their
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Absentees

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An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, ... Read more

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An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil,
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Building a Career in Software

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This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates ... Read more

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This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates
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Political Will and Improving Public Schools

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Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through
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Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital

Centering the Periphery

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