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Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia Flows across Boundaries /

Table of Contents: “…Changing Use and Management of a Traditional Canal Irrigation System in Peri-Urban Kathmandu Valley -- Chapter 4 Public Lives, Private Water: Female Ready-Made Garment Factory Workers in Peri-Urban Bangladesh -- Chapter 5 Digging Deeper: Deep Wells, Bore-Wells and Water Tankers in Peri-Urban Hyderabad -- Chapter 6 Changing Agriculture and Climate Variability in Peri-Urban Gurugram, India -- Chapter 7 Views from the Sluice Gate: Water Insecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh -- Chapter 8 Interventions to Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Peri-Urban Water Management in South Asia -- Chapter 9 Concluding Reflections: Towards Alternative Peri-Urban Futures?.…”
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Foundations of Academic Success Words of Wisdom by Priester, Thomas C.

Table of Contents: “…by Yuki Sasao -- Failure Is Not an Option by Nathan Wallace -- Thinking Critically and Creatively by Dr. Andrew Robert Baker -- Time Is on Your Side by Christopher L. Hockey -- What Do You Enjoy Studying? …”
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Women Worldwide Transnational Feminist Perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Gender-Based Violence Worldwide: Patti Duncan -- Women's Work in a Global Economy: Paula Sheridan -- Women and Environmental Politics: Luhui Whitebear -- Women and Political Systems Worldwide: Carrie N. Baker and Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley -- Women, War and Peace: Amanda Milburn -- Religion in Women's Lives Worldwide: Shannon Garvin -- Women's Activism Worldwide: Khatera Afghan and Folah Fletcher -- About the Authors -- Versioning…”
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Reproductive health indicators and fetal medicine - many things will change by Jørn Olsen, Lars Henning Pedersen

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Revisiting Migrant Networks Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets /

Table of Contents: “…Social capital reliance among second generation Turkish lawyers in Paris -- Chapter 4. Context matters: the varying roles of social ties for professional careers of immigrants' descendants -- Chapter 5. …”
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Migration Between Mexico and the United States IMISCOE Regional Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Educating Across Borders: The Well-being of Students from Mexican Immigrant Families in the United States and in Mexico (Silvia Giorguli, Bryant Jensen, Frank Bean, Susan Brown, Adam Sawyer, and Víctor Zúñiga) -- 4. Migrant Health Vulnerability through the Migration Process: Implications for Health Policy in Mexico and the United States (V. …”
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Wheat Improvement Food Security in a Changing Climate /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History of Wheat Breeding: A Personal View -- Defining Target Wheat Breeding Environments -- Global Trends in Wheat Production, Consumption and Trade -- Breeding Methods: Line Development -- Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods -- Achieving Genetic Gains in Practice -- Wheat Rusts: Current Status, Prospects of Genetic Control and Integrated Approaches to Enhance Resistance Durability -- Globally Important Non-Rust Diseases of Wheat -- Abiotic Stresses -- Wheat Quality -- Nutritionally Enhanced Wheat for Food and Nutrition Security -- Experimental Design for Plant Improvement -- Seed Systems to Support Rapid Adoption of Improved Varieties in Wheat -- Crop Management for Breeding Trials -- A Century of Cytogenetic and Genome Analysis: Impact on Wheat Crop Improvement -- Conserving Wheat Genetic Resources -- Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security -- Disease Resistance -- Insect Resistance -- Yield Potential -- Heat and Climate Change Mitigation -- Drought -- Micronutrient Toxicity and Deficiency -- Pre-breeding Strategies -- Translational Research Networks -- High Throughput Field Phenotyping -- Sequence-based marker assisted selection in wheat -- Application of CRISPR-Cas-based Genome Editing for Precision Breeding in Wheat -- Accelerating Breeding Cycles -- Improving Wheat Production and Breeding Strategies Using Crop Models -- Theory and Practice of Phenotypic and Genomic Selection Indices.…”
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Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding Placing Cultural Literacy at the Heart of Learning /

Table of Contents: “…Involvement and multiperspectivity - how social cohesion impacts argumentation in small student groups Benjamin Brummernhenrich & Regina Jucks (Institute for Psychology in Education Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Michael Baker, Lucas Bietti, Françoise Détienne, Stéphane Safin, (CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique) -- 9. …”
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Co-creation for Responsible Research and Innovation Experimenting with Design Methods and Tools /

Table of Contents: “…Transforming playful movement into sound: co-create a smart system for children with cerebral palsy -- Maker - Plastic In, Plastic Out: Circular Economy and Local Production -- KTP - Collectively improving air quality in Krakow: A new Air Quality Plan for the Małopolska region -- PA4ALL - Innovative learning methods for education in agriculture: an ICT based learning programme for high schools -- ThessAHALL - A life-long learning programme for social inclusion of "early-stage" older adult researchers -- Ciência Viva - Promoting marine activities around Lisbon: self-constructed boats -- Cube design museum - empathic co-design for societal impact -- Science Gallery Dublin -Open mind: Improving mental health of young people -- TRACES - In 2030, artificial intelligences will visit museums? …”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…The National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari became "liquid" -- The museum as information space -- The Museum of Gamers -- Part III: Co-creation and living heritage for social cohesion -- Change of museums by change of perspective - Reflecting experiences of museum development in the context of "EuroVision - Museums Exhibiting Europe" (EU Culture Project) -- Technologies lead to adaptability and lifelong engagement with culture throughout the cloud -- Urban cultural heritage festivals: a resource for promoting community and territorial cohesion -- Tools you can trust? …”
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Writing Guide with Handbook by Robinson, Michelle Bachelor, Jerskey, Maria, Fulwiller, Toby

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 8 Analytical Report: Writing from Facts -- Chapter 9 Rhetorical Analysis: Interpreting the Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 10 Position Argument: Practicing the Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 11 Reasoning Strategies: Improving Critical Thinking -- Chapter 12 Argumentative Research: Enhancing the Art of Rhetoric with Evidence -- Chapter 13 Research Process: Accessing and Recording Information -- Chapter 14 Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources -- Chapter 15 Case Study Profile: What One Person Says About All -- Unit 3 Navigating Rhetoric in Real Life -- Chapter 16 Print or Textual Analysis: What You Read -- Chapter 17 Image Analysis: What You See -- Chapter 18 Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image -- Chapter 19 Scripting for the Public Forum: Writing to Speak -- Chapter 20 Portfolio Reflection: Your Growth as a Writer…”
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Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control /

Table of Contents: “…Christoph Scheiner's The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics (1619): The Role of Contrived Experience at the Intersection of Psychology and Mathematics (Tawrin Baker) -- Chapter 3. One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments (Caterina Schürch) -- Chapter 4. …”
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Volcanic Unrest From Science to Society /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 - Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 - Magma dynamics: Lessons from experiments and models -- Storage and ascent of magma -- Magma rejuvenation: Insights from numerical models -- Crystals, bubbles and melt: critical conduit processes revealed by numerical models -- Interaction between magma and hydrothermal system -- The magma laboratory: Constraining unrest mechanisms -- From unrest to eruption: Conditions for phreatic vs. magmatic activity -- Geochemical and isotopic investigations in the light of unrest -- Magma mixing as a prelude to unrest -- Part 4 - Bridging the gap between science and decision-making -- Legal governance -- A Warner paper incl Cost benefit -- Recognizing and tracking volcanic unrest: a probabilistic approach -- Probabilistic tools for hazard assessment and risk management -- Deterministic vs. probabilistic forecasts -- Perspective on global practices of communication and decision-makers' needs -- Social resilience and compliance during unrest crises -- Outreach and education -- Volcanic Unrest Simulation Exercises - guidance for future exercises -- Glossary -- INDEX.…”
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Selected Abstracts of the 3rd Edition of Transport of High Risk Infants; Oxford (UK); August 31st-September 2nd, 2017 by -

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Climate Risk in Africa Adaptation and Resilience /

Table of Contents: “…Cornforth, Celia Petty Grady Walker -- Chapter 9: Conversations about climate risk, adaptation and resilience in Africa; Declan Conway, Katharine Vincent.…”
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Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens /

Table of Contents: “…A double helix: the intertwined history of the marginalisation of welfare clients and their activist lawyers and advisers in the transformation of the welfare state in england and wales (pete sanderson &hilary sommerlad) -- Chapter 6. …”
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Performing Citizenship Bodies, Agencies, Limitations /

Table of Contents: “…Performing Citizenship - Gathering (in the) Movement; Liz Rech -- 6. On Bodies and the Need to Appropriate Them; Antje Velsinger -- 7. …”
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Design Discourse Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing by Franke, David, Reid, Alex, Di Renzo, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Dev Hathaway -- Reinventing Audience through Distance, Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara -- Introducing a Technical Writing Communication Course into a Canadian School of Engineering, Anne Parker -- English and Engineering, Pedagogy and Politics, Brian D. …”
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Bioethics and the Holocaust A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Professions in a State: The Effects of the Nazi Experience on Health Care Professionalism (Robert Baker) -- Chapter 4. The Physician's Role: Patient v Popualation (David K. …”
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Planning Cities in Africa Current Issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning /

Table of Contents: “…Planning cities in Africa - Current issues and future prospects of urban governance and planning: An introduction -- Part I: Planning theories and models - Application and local challenges -- The State, trust and cooperation: Local government-residents' joint neighbourhood upgrading initiatives in Addis Ababa -- Street vending in downtown Rabat: In resistance to imported urban models -- Revisiting stokes' theory of slums - Towards decolonised housing concepts from the Global South -- Part II: The state of planning education and planning capacity -- In a state of flux: Urban planning programmes in Asia and Africa -- Climate change adaptation and planning education in Southern Africa -- Is climate change knowledge making a difference in urban planning and practice: Perspectives from practitioners and policy makers in Tanzania Fehler! Textmarke nicht definiert -- Contributions of local authorities to community adaptive capacity to impacts of climate change; A case study of sea level rise in Pangani Division, Pangani District -- Part III: Participatory and multi-level governance approach toward current urban challenges -- Qualities of urban planning and the conflict between participatory planning and planning standards: Evidence from Ethiopia -- Complementing or conflicting rationalities? …”
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