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Wilderness Tales: Adventures in the Backcountry

Adventures in the Backcountry

by Peter Christensen ...

Series series Amazing Stories
These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun wisdom. Wasp, the talented saddle horse, teaches his rider more than just horsemanship. From life-and ... Read more

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These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun wisdom. Wasp, the talented saddle horse, teaches his rider more than just horsemanship. From life-and
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The Decline of Iranshahr

Irrigation and Environment in the Middle East, 500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

by Peter Christensen ...

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this ... Read more

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The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this
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Precious Metal

German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology

by Peter H. Christensen ...

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world.Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist ... Read more

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With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world.Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist
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Germany and the Ottoman Railways

Art, Empire, and Infrastructure

by Peter H. Christensen ...

The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the lens of the Ottoman Railway network, its architecture, and material cultureWith lines extending from Bosnia to Baghdad to Medina, the Ottoman Railway Network (1868–1919) was the pride of the empire and its ultimate emblem of modernization—yet it was largely designed and ... Read more

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The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the lens of the Ottoman Railway network, its architecture, and material cultureWith lines extending from Bosnia to Baghdad to Medina, the Ottoman Railway Network (1868–1919) was the pride of the empire and its ultimate emblem of modernization—yet it was largely designed and
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Prior Art

Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture

by Peter H. Christensen ...

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits ... Read more

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A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits
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HBR's 10 Must Reads Ultimate Boxed Set (14 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Porter ...

Series series HBR's 10 Must Reads
Essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business ReviewYou want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as a 14-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, change, leadership, ... Read more

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Essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business ReviewYou want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as a 14-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, change, leadership,
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HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman ...

Series series Harvard Business Review Classics
Build your professional library and advance your career with these 14 timeless business classics.Key concepts for managers and aspiring leaders.Builds a manager's professional library.Advances a manager's career with timeless, ground-breaking business classics.Audience: Managers and aspiring leaders. ... Read more

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Build your professional library and advance your career with these 14 timeless business classics.Key concepts for managers and aspiring leaders.Builds a manager's professional library.Advances a manager's career with timeless, ground-breaking business classics.Audience: Managers and aspiring leaders.
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Henry and Mabel: The First Tales

Henry and Mabel, #1

by Jack Christensen, Peter Christensen ...

Series Book 1 - Henry and Mabel
Join Henry and Mabel in the land of the Unbound Hills as they travel to distant paths and plights around them. Upon the town of Lancilane, the two hungry adventurers let us into their world in the first ever tales put to page, as Dragons, Cave Dwellers, and a trove of tricksy tormenters ail them and test their might. Serving as the first book, this collection of two extended short stories aims to ... Read more

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Join Henry and Mabel in the land of the Unbound Hills as they travel to distant paths and plights around them. Upon the town of Lancilane, the two hungry adventurers let us into their world in the first ever tales put to page, as Dragons, Cave Dwellers, and a trove of tricksy tormenters ail them and test their might. Serving as the first book, this collection of two extended short stories aims to
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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean

by Ünver Rüstem, Gülru Çakmak, Hala Auji, Emily Neumeier, Marcus Milwright, Jessica Gerschultz, Ashley Dimmig, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh ...

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content.Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making ... Read more

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The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content.Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making
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Buffalo at the Crossroads

The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism

Edited by Peter H. Christensen ...

Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture.The essays ... Read more

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Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture.The essays
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Computer Vision Systems

14th International Conference, ICVS 2023, Vienna, Austria, September 27–29, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Henrik I. Christensen, Peter Corke, Renaud Detry, Jean-Baptiste Weibel, Markus Vincze ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume LNCS 14253 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference, ICVS 2023, in Vienna, Austria, in September 2023..The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The conference focuses on Humans and Hands; Medical and Health Care; Farming and Forestry; Automation and Manufacturing; Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems; and ... Read more

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This volume LNCS 14253 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference, ICVS 2023, in Vienna, Austria, in September 2023..The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The conference focuses on Humans and Hands; Medical and Health Care; Farming and Forestry; Automation and Manufacturing; Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems; and
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Automated Market Makers

A Practical Guide to Decentralized Exchanges and Cryptocurrency Trading

by Miguel Ottina, Peter Johannes Steffensen, Jesper Kristensen ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Explore Automated Market Makers (AMMs), the underlying protocols used by decentralized exchanges (DEX) to allow users to perform trades of cryptocurrencies in a decentralized way with no middlemen. This book provides a thorough study and a clear-cut exposition of the principal AMMs (Uniswap v2 and v3, Balancer, and Curve).You'll receive a detailed description of how these AMMs work, unveiling the ... Read more

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Explore Automated Market Makers (AMMs), the underlying protocols used by decentralized exchanges (DEX) to allow users to perform trades of cryptocurrencies in a decentralized way with no middlemen. This book provides a thorough study and a clear-cut exposition of the principal AMMs (Uniswap v2 and v3, Balancer, and Curve).You'll receive a detailed description of how these AMMs work, unveiling the
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