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This book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security. It is within this context that the Nordic countries serve as role models and an exemplification of modern, innovative and ecofriendly solutions. This book highlights that the Nordic countries represent a very broad spect...

This textbook details the nursing care of babies with life limiting conditions and sets the context within the philosophy of internationally collaborative neonatal palliative care emphasising emotional and practical support for their families. Currently, increasing interest from nursing and medical fields regarding palliative care for babies in the antenatal and neonatal period is evident. This innovative and unique text provides experienced n...

This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads, dams, urban centres, etc). It combines extensive empirical evidence with the international literature on frontier-making and regional Amazonian development, and adopts a critica...

Stefan Rocktäschel introduces a branch-and-bound algorithm that determines a cover of the efficient set of multiobjective mixed-integer convex optimization problems. He examines particular steps of this algorithm in detail and enhances the basic algorithm with additional modifications that ensure a more precise cover of the efficient set. Finally, he gives numerical results on some test instances.

Communication is increasingly moving beyond 'ways of seeing' to 'ways of feeling'. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens, tangibles, wearables, haptics for virtual reality, to the...

The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver Cromwell's failed attempt to form a republic, has not yet published Paradise Lost. When one of the worst plagues in history descends upon London, he and his much younger wife are forced to flee to the countryside. There Milton is befriended by the local curate, Rev. Theodore Wesson, w...

The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver Cromwell's failed attempt to form a republic, has not yet published Paradise Lost. When one of the worst plagues in history descends upon London, he and his much younger wife are forced to flee to the countryside. There Milton is befriended by the local curate, Rev. Theodore Wesson, w...

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The United States, and the community of Bakerville, face a new threat...a threat that could change America forever. As the neighbors band together, all worry about friends and family members. Have they found safety from this latest danger? Lindsey and Logan escape extreme danger on the West Coast. They thought they had faced the worst of this disaster, but they're not prepared for what they find on the road to Bakerville. Sisters Sylvia and Sa...

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I have this thing for words, especially those containing secret fire, like empathy and mystical. Empathy seems a mild word, warm perhaps but hardly fiery. Mystical seems vague and murky enough to connote anything but ardor. Wise elders of our species in the pages ahead will help us see deeper, see empathy as a blazing mountain to climb, see mystical as burnishing gold buried beneath our feet.

They survived the Alaskan winter after the Virus devastated the North, but summer in the land of the midnight sun is fraught with a brutality of its own-long, grueling days, mosquito-ridden evenings, and woods with lurking shadows more dangerous than grizzlies. With the discovery of impossible superhuman Abilities, and the looming threat of General Herodson in the lower forty-eight, the Yukon is no longer the refuge it once was.After deciding ...

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Bidlack, Sterns Introduction to Plant Biology includes sufficient information for some shorter introductory botany courses open to both majors and nonmajors. It is arranged so that certain sections can be omitted without disrupting the overall continuity of the course and emphasizes current interests while presenting basic botanical principles.

Mariëlle Hoefnagels' passion as a classroom instructor is evident in Biology: Concepts and Investigations, an introductory biology textbook written to explain the general concepts of biology at a level of detail that allows students to understand concepts rather than memorize details.

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This is the story of three little boys that set out on their own journey to figure out where they belong and what path they want to take. Through trial and error, they realize there is only one pathway that leads to everlasting happiness.

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