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- Approaches to Disaster Management - ...
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John Tiefenbacher
ISBN 978-953-51-1093-4
217 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 154
- Approaches to Disaster Management regards critical disaster management issues. Ten original research reports by international scholars centered on disaster management are organized into three general areas of hazards and disaster management. The fi ...
- Game Theory Relaunched
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Hardy Hanappi
ISBN 978-953-51-1078-1
344 pages, March, 2013
Downloads: 632
- The game is on. Do you know how to play? Game theory sets out to explore what can be said about making decisions which go beyond accepting the rules of a game. Since 1942, a well elaborated mathematical apparatus has been developed to do so; but ther ...
- Current Topics in Children's Learnin ...
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Heidi Kloos, Bradley J. Morris and Joseph L. Amaral
ISBN 978-953-51-0855-9
150 pages, November, 2012
Downloads: 880
- As a whole, the essays in this book address theoretical and empirical issues related to children's learning and cognition. The first essay, titled Learning in Cognitive Niches, treats the process of sense making on a theoretical level, discussing the ...
- Application of Geographic Informatio ...
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Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
ISBN 978-953-51-0824-5
372 pages, October, 2012
Downloads: 1267
- The importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can hardly be overemphasized in today’s academic and professional arena. More professionals and academics have been using GIS than ever – urban & regional planners, civil engineers, geographe ...
- Distance Education
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Paul Birevu Muyinda
ISBN 978-953-51-0756-9
254 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 937
- Education has become the number one demanded commodity for social and economic transformation for both developing and developed economies. Thus the number of persons going and returning to school has become too big to be handled by existing brick and ...
- Social Sciences and Cultural Studies ...
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Asuncion Lopez-Varela
ISBN 978-953-51-0742-2
500 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 611
- This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst t ...
- Risk Management - Current Issues and ...
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Nerija Banaitiene
ISBN 978-953-51-0747-7
584 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 1221
- Every business and decision involves a certain amount of risk. Risk might cause a loss to a company. This does not mean, however, that businesses cannot take risks. As disengagement and risk aversion may result in missed business opportunities, which ...
- International Trade from Economic an ...
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Vito Bobek
ISBN 978-953-51-0708-8
254 pages, August, 2012
Downloads: 701
- Today's international trade is radically more complex. The revolution in information and communication technologies fostered an internationalisation of supply chains which created a nexus between trade, investment, and services which is at the heart ...