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Positive Aging and Precarity Theory, Policy, and Social Reality within a Comparative German Context / by Crăciun, Irina Catrinel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter 1: Positive Aging Theories and Views on Aging -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Positive Aging -- Chapter 3: The Social Reality of Aging -- Chapter 4: Perceptions of the Precarious Life: The Middle-Aged Precariat in Germany -- Chapter 5: Views on Aging in Precarious and Financially Secure Individuals -- Chapter 6: Preparing for Old Age -- Chapter 7: Precarity and Views on Aging -- Chapter 8: Precarity and Preparing for Old Age -- Chapter 9: Positive Aging in the Context of Precarity: Conclusions and Implications.…”
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Egg freezing, fertility and reproductive choice : negotiating responsibility, hope and modern motherhood / by Baldwin, Kylie

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The birth of the West : Rome, Germany, France, and the creation of Europe in the tenth century / by Collins, Paul, 1940-

Subjects: “…Middle ages civilization. 5315…”
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Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science From the Middle Ages to the 17th Century /

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Youth in Saudi Arabia by Fadaak, Talha H., Roberts, Ken

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Gülün adı : roman / Umberto Eco ; italyanca aslından çeviren Şadan Karadeniz. by Eco, Umberto

Subjects: “…Monastic and religious life Middle Ages,600-1500 Italy History Fiction 18696…”
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Barbarların Avrupa'sı : Roma'nın mirasçıları karşısında Germenler ve Slavlar / by Modzelewski, Karol

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Death in Venice / by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Subjects: “…Middle age Fiction. 65308…”
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The old man and the sea / by Hemingway, Ernest

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Fathering in India Images and Realities /

Table of Contents: “…Hope and Commitment: Challenges of Fathering Sick Children Rajalakshmi Sriram.19 Trials and Triumphs of Parenting: Practitioners Look at The Experience of Fathers in Raising Children with Special Needs Sudipta Roy, Prachee Joeg, Shruti Bhargava -- 20. 'New Age' Fathering and Trysts with Faith Jass Harpreet Kaur -- 21. …”
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Youth engagement the civic-political lives of children and youth /

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Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South

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Osmanlı denizgücü : keşifler çağında Osmanlı denizgücü ve Doğu Akdeniz'de diplomasi / by Brummett, Palmira Johnson, 1950-

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2015 (ICoSSEET 2015)

Table of Contents: “…Enhancement Effects of Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma Longifolia) Supplementation on Performance Functions Following Strength Training in Middle-aged Women -- Effects of Age on Physical Activity Level, Strength and Balance towards Fall Risk Index Among Women Aged 20-73 Years Old -- Gender Differences On The Sources of Anxiety and Level of Sport Performance Among Malaysia Athletes -- The Effect of Enhanced Sensorymotor Feedback on Balance among Football Players -- Development of Portable Biofeedback Devices for Sport Applications.  .…”
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Inference in Argumentation A Topics-Based Approach to Argument Schemes / by Rigotti, Eddo, Greco, Sara

Table of Contents: “…The richness and originality of medieval contributions -- Chapter 4. After the Middle Ages -- Chapter 5. Modern and contemporary approaches -- Part II: The Argumentum Model of Topics -- Chapter 6. …”
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Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa Beyond Class / by Neubert, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Patterns of Individual Social Positioning: Gender, Age and Disability -- 6. Risks and Aspirations: Strategies for Coping with Uncertainty -- 7. …”
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Between Worlds Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…-- Animate Caves and Folded Landscapes -- Familiar Caves and Unfamiliar Landscapes: Approaching Cave-Use During the 1st Millennia in Britain -- How to Detect Ritual in Middle Bronze Age Central Italy? A Contextual Approach at Pastena Cave -- Pan Rituals of Ancient Greece Revisited -- The Watery Way to the World of the Dead: Underwater Excavations (Old and New) at the Cave of Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium -- Part II: Innovative Digital Capture Techniques in Cave Archaeology -- The Bronze Age Decorated Cave of Les Fraux: Ritual Uses of an Atypical French Heritage Site -- From Macro to Micro: Multi-scalar Digital Approaches at the Sculptor's Cave, NE Scotland -- How a Community Digital Heritage Project has Helped to Imagine the Circumstances of Pictish symbols in the Wemyss Caves, Scotland -- Reverberant Spaces Preferentially Selected by Prehistoric Artists: Ritualistic Use of Sound Underscored by Choice of Subject Matter.…”
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Tartaglia's Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII-VIII / by Pisano, Raffaele, Capecchi, Danilo

Table of Contents: “…The Background -- 2.1.The scientia de ponderibus in the Middle Ages -- 2.2. Revival during the Age of Humanism -- 2.3. …”
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Sense and sensibility / by West, Clare

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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines / by Koetsier, Teun

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- Cultural evolution -- Production technology and information technology -- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens -- Animals using production tools -- Monkeys and apes using production tools -- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals -- Communicating honey bees -- Communication among monkeys and apes -- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens -- Olduwan technology -- The adze makers of Langda -- Language as an information tool -- The control of fire -- The Stone Age Revolution -- Information tools -- Whistle languages -- Talking drums -- The Ishango bone -- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific -- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires -- Economic surplus -- Agriculture -- The wheel -- Monumental architecture -- Complete writing -- Towards the alphabet -- Mathematics -- Sundials and water clocks -- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science -- The Axial Age -- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India -- Oral versus written thought -- Aristotle's Logic, a New Information Tool -- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that -- Deductive science -- The birth of the theory of machines -- The wedge and the pulleys -- Archimedes -- The invention of the screw -- Heron's Mechanics -- Combinations of simple machines -- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane -- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity -- The invention of artillery -- Production machines in Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture -- The Phaistos disc -- The abacus -- Water clocks and sundials -- The Armillary Sphere -- The anaphoric clock -- The astrolabe -- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism -- The front dial -- The upper back dial -- The pin and slot mechanism -- The hodometer -- Automata -- 6 The Middle Ages -- Marco Polo -- Textile machines -- Military technology -- Metal technology -- Movable type printing -- The hodometer and Su Sung's clock -- Automata -- Chinese influence in the West -- The Golden Age of Islamic Science -- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa -- Al-Jazari's production machines -- Al-Muradi -- The rise of the West -- Jordanus -- The Vision of Ramon Llull -- The invention of the printing press -- Llull's influence -- A new information machine: the mechanical clock -- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution -- The impact of the printing press -- Da Vinci and the others -- Parachute, tank and machine gun -- Da Vinci as an engineer -- Da Vinci's fame -- Theaters of machines -- Exterior ballistics -- Del Monte and simple machines -- Galilei and simple machines -- The Archimedean screw pump -- Astronomy -- Galilei's Discorsi -- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin -- There is more -- The dream of a mathesis universalis -- Calculators -- Scepticism -- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron -- The background -- The role of the Scientific Revolution -- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution -- The Malthusian trap -- The escape -- One or more Industrial Revolutions? …”
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