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    This book is strongly recommended to those engaged in activities involving the lubrication of machines, to lubricant manufacturers and to raw material producers. It brings together the experience of many companies, institutions and individual users in a variety of European countries. These user groups have monitored the effect of applying biolubricants to their equipment. Lubrication in Inland and ... Read more

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  • The Community in Rural America

    Series series Society and Natural Resources Book Series
    The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development. Recognized for its detailed theoretical construction and logic for understanding human interactions, this book has been widely adopted ... Read more

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  • Energy Impacts

    A Multidisciplinary Exploration of North American Energy Development

    Development of various energy sources continues across North America and around the world, raising questions about social and economic consequences for the places and communities where these activities occur. Energy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development. Featuring conceptual and empirical ... Read more

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  • Beyond Agricultural Impacts

    Multiple Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa

    Beyond Agricultural Impacts: Multiple Perspectives on Climate Change in Africa presents the theories and methods commonly applied in climate change assessment from various locations in Africa, also inspiring further research that addresses the broad spectrum of societal impacts that result from altered climate status. Using case studies, the work provides insights into climate change impacts and ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Rural

    New Realities in an Urbanizing World

    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are ... Read more

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  • Méthod(e)s

    African Review of Social Science Methodology. Revue africaine de méthodologie des sciences sociales

    The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s, founded in 2015, is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. The desire for a strong understanding of methodology is to situate it above academic trends, thereby placing it in line with a universal history of the sciences. Just as calling dominant paradigms into question leaves room for ... Read more

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  • White Logic, White Methods

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  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

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