E-book The Path to a New Era for Nuclear Energy

The market, technology and policy foundations are in place for a new era of growth in nuclear energy over the coming decades. Demand for electricity is rising fast, not only for conventional uses such as light industry or air conditioning, but also in new areas such as electric vehicles, data centres and artificial intelligence. Electricity use has increased at twice the rate of total energy de…

E-book Tropical Forests

Climate change is already impacting tropical forests around the world, including through distributional shifts of forest biomes, changes in species composition, biomass, pests and diseases, and increases in forest fires (high confidence). These impacts are often compounded by non-climatic factors such as conversion of land for other uses, burning to clear land, mining, and road and infrastructu…

E-book Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia

In the past decade, Southeast Asia’s economic and geopolitical profile in the worldhas risen dramatically. It is one of the fastest growing markets and least well-knownregions in the world. Countries in this region are important because they are large inaggregate, strategically located, exceptionally diverse, and intellectually interesting.This book on Demographic and Family Changes in Southe…

E-book Decentralised Governance : Crafting Effective Democracies Around the W…

For over 60 years, decentralisation has been one of the most powerful reform movements in the world, affecting all of its regions and most of its coun-tries. This marks a major inversion of the much-longer-term global pattern, which featured centralised public administrations and the gradual march of the bureaucratic instruments of centralisation across large parts of the world ove…

E-book Ground Anchors : Tension Force—Vibratory Analysis

The book presents a non-destructive vibration analysis method for calculating theinternal tension force of the tie rods tested.This method was formalized in 2003, and after 2 years of investigation waspatented, our patent which expires in 2025.The aim of this book is therefore to present this method, based on numerousconcrete examples.The theory and principles of instrumentation are explained. …

E-book At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators

The 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam included among its programs a specially commissioned work by Apichatpong Weerasethakul that resists ready classification. SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL, presented by the festival organizers as an “immersive one-off filmproject,” cannot be described simply as a film or straight-forwardly as an installation, despite having the char…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Morocco

Explore Morocco's busy city streets, historic mosques, and delicious food. Discover the different regions of Morocco, and see the beautiful culture firsthand through events, festivals, and local markets.

E-book Citizen Outsider : Children of North African Immigrants in France

n doing so, I lay to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding distinc-tions based on race and ethnicity. I examine how a population that is legally and technically French is not considered culturally French, and is therefore excluded from popular imaginations of who a French person is. This reveals how race, eth-nicity, and culture intersect in determining who is a citizen of the na…

E-book Agroforesterie et Services Ecosystémiques en Zone Tropicale = Agrofor…

ans les deux sites, les acteurs publics et privés mettent en place différents types d’actions en vue de préserver l’environnement qui se traduisent par des pressions environnementalistes sur les agriculteurs. Le premier type de pression renvoie à l’application des réglementations existantes par les pouvoirs publics ou par des acteurs pr…

E-book From Press to Readers: Studies in the Materiality of Print Culture

The seven articles in this volume, written by French and German specialists in book history, address various aspects of the materiality of print culture, examining both the processes of book production and the paths of book circulation. They explore notions of composition, collection and circulation of texts and images, from manuscript to books designed for specific readers. They are based on a…

E-book Megaliths of the World, Volume I

Bringing together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world, 150 researchers offer 72 articles, providing a region-by region account in their specialist areas, and a summary of the current state of knowledge. Highlighting salient themes, the book is vital to anyone interested in the phenomenon of megalithic monumentality.

E-book The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System : The Gover…

The stadium, adorned with flags from throughout the world, is packed. On a central arena, thousands of performers present a rich, colorful spectacle to spectators both present and the millions throughout the planet watching it on television. At last, the parade of nations starts, beginning with the Greek delegation and continuing with those of every nation in the world, with that of the host co…

E-book The Philosophy of Mathematics Education

This ICME-13 Topical Survey is designed to provide an overview of contemporaryresearch in the philosophy of mathematics education. This is a broad cluster ofoverlapping but at times disparate themes. In thefirst instance, this publicationexposes some of the problems and questions in mathematics education that thephilosophy of mathematics education clarifies, illuminates and sometimes helps toso…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Brittany

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E-Book Human-Centered AI: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Policy-Makers, …

Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates our lives in a growing number of ways. Relying solely on traditional, technology-driven approaches won't suffice to develop and deploy that technology in a way that truly enhances human experience. A new concept is desperately needed to reach that goal. That concept is Human-Centered AI (HCAI). With 29 captivating chapters, this book delves deep into the r…

E-book The Nile : Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt

Although they contain a wealth of geographical information, land registers have not been fully exploited with the aim of reconstructing the Nile Valley landscape. However, compared to other written or pictorial sources, they have several advantages. 1) The geographical information they contain is based on onsite observation and therefore directly reflects the r…

E-book AP History : Modern

The structure of the unit guides respects new AP teachers’ time by providing one possible sequence they can adopt or modify rather than having to build from scratch. An additional benefit is that these units enable the AP Program to provide interested teachers with formative assessments—the Personal Progress Checks—that they can assign their students at the end of each unit to gauge progr…

E-book Urban Planning Against Poverty : How to Think and Do Better Cities in …

As a human institution, cities are a reflection of the history of humankind whose description, analysis and forecasting have gradually been appropriated and influ-enced by numerous scientific disciplines, technological advances and humanistic visions, and highlight cities’ morphology, land use and the diverse forms of socio-spatial interaction that take place in …

E-book Dear enemy

Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me--I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium,…

Community and growth

This Vanier classic is a brilliant series of ‘starting points for reflection’ on the nature and meaning of community. For example, Vanier writes that our communities should be signs of joy and celebration. If we are accepted with our limitations as well as our abilities, our communities gradually become places of liberation, fruitfulness and fecundity. Writing in a deeply compassionate way…

DEKORASI: Petunjuk Praktis Memperindah Rumah Anda

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