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Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing: 13th International Conference, GPC 2018, Hangzhou, China, May 11-13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11204))

Springer, 2019

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in May 2018.

The 35 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 initial submissions. They are organized in the following...

Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape...

Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of...

A Science Comic of Urban Metro Structure: Performance Evolution and Sensing Control

Springer, 2018

This science comic presents the entire life cycle of the metro system in an accessible and fun way. Just like human beings, a metro system can get sick, and this book introduces its ailments, medical records along with experts’ diagnoses and available treatments. Using cartoons, it enables readers of all levels to quickly...

Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Learning and Teaching with Technologies

Springer, 2019

This book explores the complexities of interacting with digital technologies in the everyday flow of practices in schools, museums, and the home. In particular, the authors pay attention to the material conditions of such practices via the exploration of media discourses on information and communication technologies in the...

Sustainable Tunneling and Underground Use: Proceedings of the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, ... Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

Springer, 2018

This volume comprises a set of high-quality, refereed papers that address the different aspects related to the geotechnical and structural design and construction of deep excavations, tunnels and underground space facilities as well as the effect of their construction on the surroundings. The papers cover planning, design, modeling, monitoring...

Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution?and Why America Might Miss It

Yale University Press, 2018

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we’ll be able to send and receive through fiber optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will...

Project Management and Engineering Research: AEIPRO 2017 (Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering)

Springer, 2018

This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016. It brings together a collection of recent works of researchers and professionals in the Project Management and Engineering fields of Civil Engineering and...

Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central...

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Liveright, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father." ?Charles Kaiser, The Guardian

A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the...

The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

St Martin Press, 2019

"Timely and urgent...The core of The Edge of Anarchy is a thrilling description of the boycott of Pullman cars and equipment by Eugene Debs’s fledgling American Railway Union..." ?The New York Times

"During the summer of 1894, the stubborn and irascible Pullman became a...

TheDadLab: 50 Awesome Science Projects for Parents and Kids

Tarcher, 2019

The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad.

With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their kids. These simple...

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