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Role of Ecosystem Services in Enabling Rural-Urban Synergies

A European Perspective

Edited by Maria Rosario Partidario, Daniel Keech, Isabel Loupa-Ramos ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This open access book elaborates on the role Ecosystem Services play in relation to establishing, and enhancing, rural-urban synergies. It draws on the concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) as the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing, that is, the benefits that people derive from functioning ecosystems. The empirical and ... Read more

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This open access book elaborates on the role Ecosystem Services play in relation to establishing, and enhancing, rural-urban synergies. It draws on the concept of Ecosystem Services (ESS) as the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing, that is, the benefits that people derive from functioning ecosystems. The empirical and
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Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective

Edited by Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto ...

Series series History (R0)
This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time.
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Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

Edited by Andreas Georgoulias, Daniel Schodek, Spiro Pollalis, Stephen Ramos ...

You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the ... Read more

$166.99 USD

You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the
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Statistical Analysis in Forensic Science

Evidential Value of Multivariate Physicochemical Data

by Grzegorz Zadora, Agnieszka Martyna, Daniel Ramos, Colin Aitken ...

A practical guide for determining the evidential value of physicochemical dataMicrotraces of various materials (e.g. glass, paint, fibres, and petroleum products) are routinely subjected to physicochemical examination by forensic experts, whose role is to evaluate such physicochemical data in the context of the prosecution and defence propositions. Such examinations return various kinds of ... Read more

$94.00 USD

A practical guide for determining the evidential value of physicochemical dataMicrotraces of various materials (e.g. glass, paint, fibres, and petroleum products) are routinely subjected to physicochemical examination by forensic experts, whose role is to evaluate such physicochemical data in the context of the prosecution and defence propositions. Such examinations return various kinds of
... Read more
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Microrrelatos

by Daniel Ramos Ramella ...

La palabra “microrrelato”, en su compuesto modo, junta la descripción de la cualidad de un texto con la afirmación acerca de su extensión. Otros compuestos corrientes en español son las “mentiras piadosas”, que ocultan su intención de provecho personal tras el amor al prójimo, o la “sana envidia”, una extraña y contradictoria alusión a la salud de una emoción que por fuerza debe enfermarnos aunque ... Read more

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La palabra “microrrelato”, en su compuesto modo, junta la descripción de la cualidad de un texto con la afirmación acerca de su extensión. Otros compuestos corrientes en español son las “mentiras piadosas”, que ocultan su intención de provecho personal tras el amor al prójimo, o la “sana envidia”, una extraña y contradictoria alusión a la salud de una emoción que por fuerza debe enfermarnos aunque
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Qualitative Fieldwork with Children

Context and Participation in Child Well-Being Research across Nations

by Samia Michail, Gabrielle Drake, Jan Falloon, Elisabeth Lefebvre, Christine Gervais, Isabel Côté, Flavy Barrette, Jaime Alfaro, Lorena Ramirez-Casas del Valle, Veronica Lopez, Stella Marz, Claudia Bacter, Ioana Sirbu, Adela Lazăr, Sergiu Bălţătescu, Sabirah Adams, Shazley Saval, Phadiel Hoosen, Graciela Tonon, Damian Molgaray, Veronika Magyar-Haas, Catrin Heite, Daniel Stoecklin, Anne Ramos, Emre Erdogan, Pinar Uyan-Semerci, Bassak Akkan, Colette McAuley, Daniel DeCino, Gabrielle Strouse, Lisa Newland, Daniel Mourlam ...

Series series Sociology of Children and Families
Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ‘Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol.The book explores the practical, ethical and philosophical challenges the researchers faced, and the ways in which these issues were ... Read more

$43.19 USD

Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ‘Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol.The book explores the practical, ethical and philosophical challenges the researchers faced, and the ways in which these issues were
... Read more
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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Unabridged)

by DANIEL DEFOE C. ...

Narrated by Martha Ramos ...

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16 hours 17 min

The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character . In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character . In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from
... Read more
Heavy Metal Music in Latin America

Perspectives from the Distorted South

by Eliut Rivera-Segarra, Mario Castañeda, Ximena Molinari, Jeffrey Ramos, Emiliano Scaricaciottoli, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Manuela Belén Calvo, Pedro Manuel Lagos Chacón, José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón0, Guilherme Alfradique Klausner1, Miriela Fernández Lozano2, Alfredo Nieves Molina3, Maximiliano Sánchez Mondaca4, Christian M. Pack5, Nelson Varas-Díaz6 ...

In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors’ southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how ... Read more

$38.99 USD

In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors’ southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how
... Read more

Infrastructures of Consumption

Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...

For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Read more

$82.99 USD

For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of
... Read more
Sorry, I Don't Speak French

Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

by Graham Fraser ...

As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making ... Read more

$12.99 USD

As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided countryCanada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making
... Read more
The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

Love Poems

by Pablo Neruda ...

The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they ... Read more

$11.99 USD

The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they
... Read more
Design Activism

Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

by Alastair Fuad-Luke ...

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the
... Read more

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