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A Patriot’s Progress Henry Williamson and the First World War


Free Download Anne Williamson, "A Patriot’s Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War"
English | ISBN: 0750913398 | | 208 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Draws on the letters, diaries, photographs, and notebooks of Williamson (author of the sequence of novels A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight and the short story Tarka the Otter) written during his time in the trenches in the First World War. The book is at once a biographical narrative of life as a trench soldier and a critical analysis of how this life affected Williamson’s writings. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment Final report of the RILEM Technical Committee 217-PRE


Free Download Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment: Final report of the RILEM Technical Committee 217-PRE By Enric Vázquez (auth.), Enric Vázquez (eds.)
2013 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 9400749074 | PDF | 7 MB
This report is a useful tool for countries starting to recycle aggregates or construction and demolition waste. It contains the latest developments in this field, introduces a completely new approach to the procedure of proportioning concrete mixtures with recycled aggregate, references recent publications, opinions and discrepancies in relation to the durability of recycled concrete, such as freeze-thaw standards, studies of chloride penetration and diffusion, and sulfate attacks, the use of the fine fraction <4mm, quality assurance of concrete recycled aggregate, sustainability and recycling construction waste and global impact assessment of urban renewal based on sustainable recycling strategies for construction and demolition waste. This volume will be of interest to recyclers, researchers and consumers.

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Progress in Hydrogen Energy, Fuel Cells, Nano-Biotechnology and Advanced, Bioactive Compounds


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031759834 | 920 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 71 MB
From cutting-edge quantum dots poised to revolutionize energy, health, and environmental sectors to the intricate design and characterization of perovskite-based solar cells, this comprehensive volume delves into the forefront of materials science and technology. Offering both theoretical depth and practical insights, it explores the latest advancements in fuel cells, spintronics, and quantum computing materials. Furthermore, it scrutinizes the mesmerizing realm of magnetism, phonon dynamics, and thermophysical properties through a detailed examination of gamma-Fe4N. Seamlessly integrating theory with experimentation, this book serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts navigating the dynamic landscape of modern materials innovation.

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Eriophyoid Mites Progress and Prognoses


Free Download Edward A. Ueckermann, "Eriophyoid Mites: Progress and Prognoses"
English | 2010 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 9048195616, 9400793340 | PDF | 4,3 mb
Fourteen informative papers dealing with their DNA, species interactions, adventiveness, host specificity, potential as boi-contol agents of weeds, chemical control, behaviour, their role in fungal pathogen epidemiology, influence in forests and on ornamentals, collecting and mounting techniques and their interaction with crops are presented here. This is an extensive and valuable contribution to eriophyoid science and a must for present and future researchers in this field.

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Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004


Free Download Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004, Puebla, Mexico, October 26-29, 2004. Proceedings By Ilias Kolonias, William Christmas (auth.), Alberto Sanfeliu, José Francisco Martínez Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco Ochoa (eds.)
2004 | 706 Pages | ISBN: 3540235272 | PDF | 14 MB
First of all, we want to congratulate two new research communities from M- ico and Brazil that have recently joined the Iberoamerican community and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. We believe that the series of congresses that started as the "Taller Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones (TIARP)", and later became the "Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP)", has contributed to these groupconsolidatione?orts. We hope that in the near future all the Iberoamerican countries will have their own groups and associations to promote our areas of interest; and that these congresses will serve as the forum for scienti?c research exchange, sharing of – pertise and new knowledge, and establishing contacts that improve cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas. CIARP 2004 (9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition) was the ninthinaseriesofpioneeringcongressesonpatternrecognitionintheIberoam- ican community. As in the previous year, CIARP 2004 also included worldwide participation. It took place in Puebla, Mexico. The aim of the congress was to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis,and natural languagep- cessing and recognition, to name a few.

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‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country


Free Download Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos, David Moore, "’Progress’ in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1138382973, 0415594650 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.5 mb
Zimbabwe’s severe crisis – and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground – demands a coherent scholarly response. ‘Progress’ can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe’s societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins ‘modern’, ‘liberal’ and ‘radical’ perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of ‘progress’ are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this.

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