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  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development

    ICSUD 2022, Binh Duong - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam. The theme of the conference is “innovative and inclusive growth models for sustainable urban development”. Articles in this book present major issues that cities and regions around the world are facing these days ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics

    Basic Issues

    Series series Scientific Psychology Series
    The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contributors suggested that while many features of modern psychological theory were anticipated by Fechner, many new theoretical approaches owe much more to him than often is realized. As such, they decided to honor Fechner by evaluating his own contribution ... Read more

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    From Innovation to Social Impact

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and ... Read more

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  • The Ethical Engineer

    Contemporary Concepts and Cases

    by Robert McGinn ...
    An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studiesThe Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology transfer to privacy protection to whistle-blowing. Presenting key ethics concepts and real-life examples of engineering work, Robert McGinn illuminates the ethical dimension of engineering practice and ... Read more

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  • Active Inference

    The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

    The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Tourism and Transport

    Modes, Networks and Flows

    Series Book 1 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    The global growth of tourism has been matched by the significant growth in transport networks. In many ways, transport and tourism can be considered mutually dependent. Understanding the dimensions of tourism requires an understanding of how transport is governed, regulated and operated and how it subsequently facilitates tourism development. This book provides an overview of the relationships ... Read more

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  • Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada

    An Introduction

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters. The work introduces the concept of large, medium and small scale hazards, and includes many useful case studies as well as working examples of theoretical concepts.As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Climate Change

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    Series Book 1 - Climate Change, Economies and Society - Leadership and Innovation
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    Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the ... Read more

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  • Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia

    Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan.Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. Asia is ... Read more

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    by Susan Carey ...
    Series series Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
    Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The Origin of Concepts , Susan Carey shows that the answers to both overlap substantially. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD