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Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodologic…

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This proceedings contains 78 papers from the 8th International Conference on High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites, held September 22-26, 2013 in…

The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the ra…

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The Aesthetics of Wine shows that discussing wine within the framework of aesthetics both benefits our understanding of wine as a phenomenon, while al…

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n modern polymer science a variety of polymerization methods for the direct synthesis of polymers bearing functional groups are known. However, there …

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Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbani…