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Network Infrastructures

Technology meets Institutions

By: Rolf Kunneke,Claude Ménard,John Groenewegen

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Network Infrastructures

Technology meets Institutions

By: Rolf Kunneke,Claude Ménard,John Groenewegen

Infrastructures are complex networks dominated by tight interdependencies between technologies and institutions. These networks supply services crucial to modern societies, services that can be provided only if several critical functions are fulfilled. This book proposes a theoretical framework with a set of concepts to analyse rigorously how these critical functions require coordination within the technological dimension as well as within the institutional dimension. It also shows how fundamental the alignment between these two dimensions is. It argues that this alignment operates along different layers characterized successively by the structure, governance and transactions that connect technologies and institutions. These issues of coordination and alignment, at the core of the book, are substantiated through in-depth case studies of networks from the energy, water and wastewater, and transportation sectors.

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279

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Cambridge University Press

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1108961886

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9781108961882

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

Vol. I

By: John Taylor

Reprint of the original.

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974

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BoD – Books on Demand

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336815284X

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9783368152840

The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation

By: John C. Lamoreaux

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The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation

By: John C. Lamoreaux

Reportedly, the prophet Muhammad told his followers that after he was gone prophecy would come only through "true dreams." Based on this and other statements, early Muslims created what might be called a theology of dreams. Dreams were regarded as an important means used by God to guide the faithful, especially after the cessation of Koranic revelation. However, since these dreams were often symbolic, they required interpretation, and early Muslims wrote numerous manuals dedicated to deciphering their meaning. Utilizing manuscripts preserved in Middle Eastern mosques and libraries, this book offers the first comprehensive account of the early Muslim tradition of dream interpretation. In addition to describing how and when the tradition developed, author John C. Lamoreaux discusses the social context in which dream interpretation arose and its role in the intellectual life of the time. He demonstrates that early Muslims considered dream interpretation a fully orthodox theological discipline, one sanctioned both by the Koran and the example of the prophet Muhammad.

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260

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State University of New York Press

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0791488608

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9780791488607

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.

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508

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630006X

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9780806300061

Led into Mystery

Faith Seeking Answers in Life and Death

By: John de Gruchy

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Led into Mystery

Faith Seeking Answers in Life and Death

By: John de Gruchy

Led into Mystery is an unanticipated sequel to John de Gruchy's book Being Human: Confessions of a Christian Humanist. It was prompted by the untimely and tragic death of his eldest son, Steve, in February 2010, and the questions this posed about the meaning of life and death from the perspective of Christian faith.

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SCM Press

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0334049865

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9780334049869

Himalaya

Exploring the Roof of the World

By: John Keay

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Himalaya

Exploring the Roof of the World

By: John Keay

Excellent ... packed with information and interesting anecdotes."--The Washington Post A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate change is re-casting one of the world's most unique geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions. More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himalaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. It contains around 50,000 glaciers and the most extensive permafrost outside the polar region. 35% of the global population depends on Himalaya's freshwater for crop-irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydro-power. Over an area nearly as big as Europe, the population is scattered, often nomadic and always sparse. Many languages are spoken, some are written, and few are related. Religious allegiances are equally diverse. The region is also politically fragmented, its borders belonging to multiple nations with no unity in how to address the risks posed by Himalaya's environment, including a volatile, near-tropical latitude in which temperatures climb from sub-zero at night to 80°F by day. Himalaya has drawn an illustrious succession of admirers, from explorers, surveyors, and sportsmen, to botanists and zoologists, ethnologists and geologists, missionaries and mountaineers. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates continue to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate change. Himalaya is historian John Keay's striking case for this spectacular but endangered corner of the planet as one if its most essential wonders. Without an other-worldly ethos and respect for its confounding, utterly fascinating features, John argues, Himalaya will soon cease to exist.

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433

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632869454

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9781632869456

Coastal Missouri: Driving On the Edge of Wild

By: John Drake Robinson

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Coastal Missouri: Driving On the Edge of Wild

By: John Drake Robinson

Water and Wilderness... Robinson's irreverent humor gets a workout in Missouri's back country. ...Beauty and Danger "I'd crossed a threshold, a no man's land scattered with rattlesnakes and rednecks, whirlpools and whiskey stills, deep woods caverns and cracks named after devils, nervous meth cookers and fish that jump up and smack you in the head. The journey was a wild, wooly hoot!" John Robinson is back on his second tour for the road trip reader. This book comes on the heels of his amazing and humorous first book, "A Road Trip Into America's Hidden Heart - Traveling the Back Roads, Backwoods and Back Yards." In addition to having his car, Erafnus as a character in the book, John introduces the reader to a new companion...

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Compass Flower Press

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1936688735

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9781936688739

How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

By: John C. Eccles

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How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

By: John C. Eccles

In this book the author has collected a number of his important works and added an extensive commentary relating his ideas to those of other prominentnames in the consciousness debate. The view presented here is that of a convinced dualist who challenges in a lively and humorous way the prevailing materialist "doctrines" of many recent works. Also included is a new attempt to explain mind-brain interaction via a quantum process affecting the release of neurotransmitters. John Eccles received a knighthood in 1958 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1963. He has numerous other awards honouring his major contributions to neurophysiology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364249224X

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9783642492242

Assault at West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker

By: John Marszalek

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Assault at West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker

By: John Marszalek

A dramatic account of one of the most momentous trials in American history. Set in the 1880s, this riveting story focuses on Whittaker, a former slave who became the third black man to enter West Point. Like his two predecessors, he was ostracized for the entire three years of his training. One morning Whittaker didn't show up for drill. He was found in his room, unconscious, tied tightly to the bed, with blood streaming from his head. In a trial that received major attention from the press, Whittaker was accused of faking the crime to get sympathy from the public and from his professors. Author Marszalek weaves his rich narrative from historical records to tell how Whittaker sought justice against all odds.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439124035

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9781439124031

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Network Infrastructures

Network Infrastructures

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

A Treatise on the Law of Evidence

The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation

The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Led into Mystery

Led into Mystery

Himalaya

Himalaya

Coastal Missouri: Driving On the Edge of Wild

Coastal Missouri: Driving On the Edge of Wild

How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

How the SELF Controls Its BRAIN

Assault at West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker

Assault at West Point, The Court Martial of Johnson Whittaker

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