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Transformational Change for People and the Planet Evaluating Environment and Development /

Table of Contents: “…Sustainability After Project Completion: Evidence from the GEF -- 5. From the Big Picture to Detailed Observation: The Case of GEF IEO's Strategic Country Cluster Evaluations -- 6. …”
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OER A Field Guide for Academic Librarians by Wesolek, Andrew, Lashley, Jonathan, Langley, Anne

Table of Contents: “…-- Section 2: The Pedagogical Implications of OER -- From Textbook Affordability to Transformative Pedagogy: Growing an OER Community -- Creating Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication -- Experiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility -- Course Material Decisions and Factors: Unpacking the Opaque Box -- An Open Athenaeum: Creating an Institutional Home for Open Pedagogy -- Section 3: OER Advocacy, Partnerships, Sustainability, and Student Engagement -- Open Partnerships: Identifying and Recruiting Allies for Open Educational Resources Initiatives -- Getting to Know You: How We Turned Community Knowledge into Open Advocacy -- Advancing Access for First-Generation College Students: OER Advocacy at UT San Antonio -- Student-Driven OER: Championing the Student Voice in Campus-Wide Efforts -- From Conversation to Cultural Change: Strategies for Connecting with Students and Faculty to Promote OER Adoption -- Making the Connections: The Role of Professional Development in Advocating for OER -- Advocacy in OER: A Statewide Strategy for Building a Sustainable Library Effort -- Interinstitutional Collaborations to Forge Intracampus Connections: A Case Study from the Duke Endowment Libraries -- Section 4: Library-Supported Adoption and Creation Programs -- Seeking Alternatives to High-Cost Textbooks: Six Years of The Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst -- From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma's OER Efforts -- A Grassroots Approach to OER Adoption: The University of Saskatchewan Experience -- Bringing OER to the Liberal Arts: An Innovative Grant Program -- Transforming Publishing with a Little Help From Our Friends: Supporting an Open Textbook Pilot Project with Friends of the Libraries Grant Funding -- Closing Reflections…”
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Agricultural Implications of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (IV) After 10 Years /

Table of Contents: “…Recovery of Food Production from Radioactive Contamination Caused by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- 3. …”
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Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme -- Chapter 2 Climate Resilience: interpretations of the term and implications for practice -- Chapter 3 Towards a step change in co-production for climate resilience -- Chapter 4 Learning from organisational embedding for climate resilience -- Chapter 5 Putting climate resilience in its place: developing spatially literate climate adaptation initiatives -- Chapter 6 Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK -- Chapter 7 What have we learnt from the climate service projects delivered through the UK Climate Resilience Programme? …”
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Engineering a Better Future Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation /

Table of Contents: “…-- Ecole des Mines de Paris: a few lessons from a long history -- Part II: Engineering and Social Sciences -- The Cult of Innovation: Its Myths and Rituals -- Does Law Wear out? …”
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Information Systems A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise -- Chapter 2: Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Understanding What Separates Winners from Losers -- Chapter 3: Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems -- Chapter 4: Netflix: The Making of an E-commerce Giant and the Uncertain Future of Atoms to Bits -- Chapter 5: Moore's Law: Fast, Cheap Computing and What It Means for the Manager -- Chapter 6: Understanding Network Effects -- Chapter 7: Peer Production, Social Media, and Web 2.0 -- Chapter 8: Facebook: Building a Business from the Social Graph -- Chapter 9: Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers -- Chapter 10: Software in Flux: Partly Cloudy and Sometimes Free -- Chapter 11: The Data Asset: Databases, Business Intelligence, and Competitive Advantage -- Chapter 12: A Manager's Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications -- Chapter 13: Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else) -- Chapter 14: Google: Search, Online Advertising, and Beyond…”
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Introduction to Biosystems Engineering

Table of Contents: “…Energy Systems -- Bioenergy Conversion Systems -- Biogas Energy from Organic Wastes -- Biodiesel from Oils and Fats -- Baling Biomass: Densification and Energy Requirements -- Information Technology, Sensors, and Control Systems -- Basic Microcontroller Use for Measurement and Control -- Visible and Near Infrared Optical Spectroscopic Sensors for Biosystems Engineering -- Data Processing in Biosystems Engineering -- Machinery Systems -- Traction -- Crop Establishment and Protection -- Grain Harvest and Handling -- Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems in Agricultural Machinery -- Natural Resources and Environmental Systems -- Water Budgets for Sustainable Water Management -- Water Quality as a Driver of Ecological System Health -- Quantifying and Managing Soil Erosion on Cropland -- Anaerobic Digestion of Agri-Food By-Products -- Measurement of Gaseous Emissions from Animal Housing -- Plant, Animal, and Facility Systems -- Plant Production in Controlled Environments -- Building Design for Energy Efficient Livestock Housing -- Processing Systems -- Freezing of Food -- Principles of Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods -- Deep Fat Frying of Food -- Irradiation of Food -- Packaging…”
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ePortfolio Performance Support Systems Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios

Table of Contents: “…An ePortfolio as Bridge from University to the World, Karen Ramsay Johnson and Susan Kahn -- Chapter 6. …”
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Schools as Community Hubs Building 'More than a School' for Community Benefit /

Table of Contents: “…- Part 2: Partnering -- School-community collaboration: Insights from two decades of partnership development -- Brokering school-community partnerships: Cross-sector advocacy and hard work -- Rear Vision: Lessons from community education in the 80s -- Nature as partner: How school communities benefit from ecological connections -- Part 3: Planning -- School and community infrastructure networks: What might these look like?…”
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Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900 Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher / by Gehmacher, Johanna

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 5: Letters from Paris: Letters from Germany -- Chapter 6: Trans/national Encounters: Winter Travels Through Europe -- Chapter 7: 'The Modern Women's Rights Movement' -- Chapter 8: 'As Interpreter for This Convention, I Feel That I Must Not Continue My Office': London 1909 -- Chapter 9: 'Suffragettes in Germany': Translating Militancy -- Chapter 10: When Translation Ends.…”
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II Relativity by Schiller, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…– Motion In The Universe -- 9 Black Holes – Falling Forever -- 10 Does Space Differ From Time? -- 11 General Relativity In A Nutshell – A Summary For The Layman…”
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Genetics, Agriculture, and Biotechnology by Suza, Walter, Lee, Donald

Table of Contents: “…Deviations from Mendelian Genetics: Linkage (Part 2)…”
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Hipsterism A Paradigm for Modernity / by Semple, Tara

Table of Contents: “…1 Overview -- 2 Methodology and Methods -- 3 The Space of Hipsterism - The paradox of being and doing -- 4 From Individuality to Global Citizenship -- 5 Conclusion.…”
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Writing Fabulous Features by Kraft, Nicole

Table of Contents: “…Revising and Being Read -- V. Learning Features from the Experts…”
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Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking Practices, Policies, and Trends /

Table of Contents: “…Composting as a Municipal Solid Waste Management Strategy: Lessons Learned from Cajicá, Colombia -- 3. Composting: a Sustainable Route for Processing of Biodegradable Wastes in India -- 4. …”
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Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) / by Kirchhelle, Claas

Table of Contents: “…Slippery FACTs: The Rise of a "Mandated" Animal Welfare Science -- Part Five: From Eclat to Consensus (1979-2000) -- 11. From Protest to 'Holy Writ': The Mainstreaming of Welfare Politics -- 12. …”
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Contracting and Safety Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries /

Table of Contents: “…Contracting and Safety: Lessons From Observing an Outsourcing Process 'in the Making' -- 2. …”
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River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa - A Policy Crossroads by Carr, Claudia J.

Table of Contents: “…The Dassanech in the Lower Omo Basin: From Adaptation to Facing Devastation from 'Development' -- Chapter 8. …”
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The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine Classical to Contemporary /

Table of Contents: “…The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches, David Fuller, Jane Macnaughton, and Corinne Saunders -- 2. Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen, A. A. Long -- 3. Our Common Breath: 'Conspiration' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers, Phillip Sidney Horky -- 4. …”
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Understanding the Creeping Crisis

Table of Contents: “…Migration, borders and society -- 7. From creeping to full-blown crisis: lessons from the Dutch and Swedish responses to Covid-19 -- 8. …”
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