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Humanizing Science through STEAM Challenges
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Grandpa’s Out-Growth Forest -- The Gift of Water -- Kewanee’s Appreciation of Earth -- The Life of a Lily -- The Storyteller -- Now Our Minds Are One -- Mother Earth -- Honorable Harvest -- Loving our land -- Windigo Footprints -- Grandma’s Healing Herbs -- The New Neighbor -- That’s Not Science -- The Lost and Found of Beauty in Nature -- Lily and the Community Garden -- The Gift of Rain -- A Spring Day -- Summer Camp -- Skywoman Falling -- The Student is the Teacher -- Forest Adventures -- Henry’s Harvest Life -- Marvin’s Bountiful Reward -- The Gods of Tahawus -- Remi’s Adventure -- Genesis and Willow -- Generosity in the Powwow -- The Thanksgiving Address -- Puhpowee -- Jimmy’s Yummy Goodness -- The Honorable Harvest -- Ella’s Sweet Surprise -- Who Is Hiding in the Rain? …”
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3882
Beyond the Limits to Growth New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…1 "Diffusive Demand" and "Creative Demand" -- 2 The 21st Century Paradigm and the Role of Information Technology -- 3 "Vision 2050" as the Rescue of a "Limited Earth" -- 4 Finding a Way Out Through Creative Demand, I -- 5 Finding a Way Out Through Creative Demand, II -- 6 Toward the Realization of a "Platinum Society".…”
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Impact of Materials on Society
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Understanding the Material World -- Clay: The Entanglement of Earth in the Age of Clay -- Ceramics: Firing Clay and Flaking Stone -- Concrete: Engineering Society through Social Spaces -- Copper and Bronze: The Far-Reaching Consequences of Metallurgy -- Gold and Silver: Precious Metals and Coinage -- Steel: Carnegie and Creative Destruction -- Aluminum: Alcoa and Anti-Trust -- Polymers: Fantastic Plastics in Postwar America -- Writing Materials: The Politics and Preservation of Knowledge…”
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3884
Mnemonic Solidarity Global Interventions /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…What the World Owes the Comfort Women- Carol Gluck -- 5. Eddies and Entanglements: Africa and the Global Mnemoscape- Lauren van der Rede and Aidan Erasmus.…”
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Software for Exascale Computing - SPPEXA 2016-2019
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…EXA-DUNE: Flexible PDE Solvers, Numerical Methods, and Applications -- Smart-DASH: Smart Data Structures and Algorithms with Support for Hierarchical Locality -- Terra-Neo: Integrated Co-Design of an Exascale Earth Mantle Modeling Framework -- EXASTEEL-2: Dual Phase Steels - from Micro to Macro Properties -- GROMEX: Unified Long-range Electrostatics and Dynamic Protonation for Realistic Biomolecular Simulations on the Exascale -- ExaStencils: Advanced Stencil-Code Engineering -- ExaFSA: Exascale Simulation of Fluid-Structure-Acoustics Interactions -- EXAHD: An Exa-Scalable Two-Level Sparse Grid Approach for Higher-Dimensional Problems in Plasma Physics and Beyond -- EXAMAG: Exascale Simulations of the Magnetic Universe -- FFMK: A Fast and Fault Tolerant Microkernel-based System for Exascale Computing -- ESSEX-II: Equipping Sparse Solvers for Exascale -- EXASOLVERS: Extreme Scale Solvers for Coupled Problems -- ADA-FS: Advanced Data Placement via Ad-hoc File Systems at Extreme Scales -- AIMES: Advanced Computation and I/O Methods for Earth-System Simulations. …”
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Beyond Safety Training Embedding Safety in Professional Skills /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Claude Gilbert -- Part I Critical assessments -- A practice-based approach to safety as an emergent competence, by Silvia Gherardi -- Line managers as work professionals in the era of workplace health professionalization, by Pascal Ughetto -- Captain Kirk, managers and the professionalization of safety, by Hervé Laroche -- A critique from Pierre-Arnaud Delattre, by Pierre-Arnaud Delattre -- Part II Is professionalism a safety issue or the other way round? …”
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Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Overview of Aviation Weather Information -- Chapter 4. The Earth's Atmosphere -- Chapter 5. Heat and Temperature -- Chapter 6. …”
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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Knowledge-Based Innovations and Social Coordination -- The Communication Perspective as an Empirical Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification -- The Semantics of Shannon-type Information -- Relations, Positions, and Perspectives on Innovation -- Synergy in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations -- Regions, Innovations, and the North-South Divide in Italy -- Horizons of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems -- The Generation of Redundancy against the Arrow of Time -- Codification and Anticipation in Techno-Cultural Evolutions -- Inter-Human Communications and the Possibility of Science -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Bibliography.…”
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Robots in Care and Everyday Life Future, Ethics, Social Acceptance /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter 1: Trustworthiness and digital well-being: The ethical, legal, and social challenge of robotic assistance -- Chapter 2: Images of robotic assistance -- Chapter 4: The challenge of autonomy: What we can learn from research on robots designed for harsh environments -- Chapter 5: The legal challenge of robotic assistance -- Chapter 6: Cognition-enabled robots in care and everyday life: Perspectives, challenges, current views and insights -- Chapter 7: Ethical challenges of assistive robotics in the elderly care: Review and reflection.…”
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Transforming Education for Sustainability Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Finding the most important places on Earth for birds (Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch) -- Chapter 6. …”
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Teaching Low Brass
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Brass History -- The Overtone Series -- General Intonation Tendencies -- Embouchure -- Embouchure Problems -- General intonation Tendencies -- Instruments, Mouthpieces, and Equipment -- Low Brass Literature -- Basic Instrument Maintenance -- Vibrato -- Low Brass in the Marching Band -- Baritone vs. Euphonium-What's the difference by David Werden -- Appendix I - Trombone/Euphonium Etudes -- Appendix II - Tuba Etudes -- Appendix III - Warm-ups -- Appendix IV - Trombone Slide Positions / Euphonium FIngerings -- Appendix V - Tuba Fingerings -- Appendix VI - Major Scales -- Bibliography -- About the Author --…”
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Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Part I - Commencement Of Case; Proceedings Relating To Petition And Order For Relief -- Part II - Officers And Administration; Notices; Meetings; Examinations; Elections; Attorneys And Accountants -- Part III - Claims And Distribution To Creditors And Equity Interest Holders; Plans -- Part IV - The Debtor: Duties And Benefits -- Part V - Courts And Clerks -- Part VI - Collection And Liquidation Of The Estate -- Part VII - Adversary Proceedings -- Part VIII - Appeals To District Court Or Bankruptcy Appellate Panel -- Part IX - General Provisions -- [Part X - United States Trustees] (Abrogated Apr. 30, 1991, eff. Aug. 1, 1991)…”
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A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Three Kinds of Engagement -- Part 1: The Interpretive Framework -- Chapter 2 The Earth -- Chapter 3 Our Humanity -- Chapter 4 The Social -- Chapter 5 The Civic -- Part 2: Telling "Telling" Stories -- Chapter 6 White Compromises and American Prosperity -- Chapter 7 Einhold Niebuhr during the Time of the White Compromise -- Chapter 8 The Sharecropper's Story and an Ethics for Environmentalism -- Part 3: Empowering the Civic -- Chapter 9 Civilian Empowerment: A Theological Inquiry -- Chapter 10 The Citizen's Role in Creating a Climate of Justice -- Chapter 11 An Invitation to Civic Dialogue -- Index.…”
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Histology and Embryology for Dental Hygiene
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Early development -- 7. Pharyngeal arches -- 8. Tooth development -- 9. Enamel development -- 10. …”
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Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean The Cases of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Dominican Republic: The Initial and Continuing Preparation of Teachers: Ivanovnna Cruz and Sarah González -- Chapter 4. Venezuela: Initial and Continuing Preparation of the Mathematics Teacher: Nelly León-Gómez and Walter O. …”
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I Fall, Flow, and Heat
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…-- 2 From motion measurement to continuity -- 3 How to describe motion - kinematics -- 4 From objects and images to conservation -- 5 From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion -- 6 Motion due to gravitation -- 7 Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion -- 8 Measuring change with action -- 9 Motion and symmetry -- 10 Simple motions of extended bodies – oscillations and waves -- 11 Do extended bodies exist? …”
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Learning Diversity
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Identity as a construct between self-invention and straitjacket -- "They don't know where they belong" Case studies of youthful identity formation -- Knocking on the door of closed traditions The overlay of autochthonous ethnicization and migration -- Daring the risk of relationHeimat, identity, human image: perspectives of a weak pedagogy -- The split school.From selective normality ideas to a phenomenology of diversity -- Education after Aleppo.How to deal with right-wing populism, racism and institutional cruelization -- Searching for the lost paradise.Educational dilemmas and potentials for a new treatment of nature and earth.…”
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Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development IMISCOE Short Reader /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…1: Rural world, migration and agriculture in the EU-Mediterranean countries: an introduction -- 2: Restructuring of agriculture and the rural world in EUMed countries -- 3: Mobility and migrations in the rural areas of the EU -- 4: Rural destination areas: impacts and practices -- 5: Rural origin areas: impacts and practices -- 6: Mobility and migrations in Mediterranean Europe: the case of agro-pastoralism -- 7: Conclusions.…”
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