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The nature can be cruel because it cleans up its weak animals. We now know that the strongest individuals of a species in nature evolve through an admirable adaptability and reproduce.

Birds in cages, poultry, pigs, cows and fish live in captivity. This book describes how caged birds and livestock diseases develop to a greater extent, which can also be transmitted to humans. The expansion in the intensive livesto...

I suppose all you do is put the shells in the bag, take one out and write down the letter. Then you put it back and repeat the procedure until you run out of paper. Don t tell me that s all there is to The Code?

Mr. Haze smiled.

No, that is not all. However, you have unraveled the basic principle. Now let me fill in the details.

During a business trip to San Jose, Peter meets Mr. Haze, an intriguing gentleman who tells him about the scientific principles of fortune telling. When he hands P...

Previous experiences have shown that the implementation of planning policy does not always lead to the originally intended territorial management outcomes. This issue
is particularly crucial when policy ideas, institutions, models and programmes are transferred into places with different cultural settings without adaptations (Knieling and Othengrafen 2009b; Sanyal 2005). These unexpected consequences in planning practice and management outcomes have brought a significant amount of attention...

The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and the dependency of buildings on
fossil fuels were the two main issues that formed this dissertation. UHI results in higher air temperatures in dense urban areas compared with their suburbs and rural surroundings. This phenomenon affects human health through thermal discomfort. Furthermore, in the Netherlands, it is estimated that by 2050 the air temperature could be up to 2.3°C warmer as compared to the period of 1981-2010. Besides, the energy cons...

Since the 1980s China has experienced unprecedented urbanisation as a result of a series of reforms promoting rapid economic development. Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, wh...

Dit boek is het resultaat van een onderzoek naar een architectonisch type, het cultuurgebouw en naar

de rol die 'cultuur' heeft bij de realisering van een democratische maatschappij. Het boek People's

Palaces is geschreven rondom twee specifieke projecten, de South Bank in Londen, met de Festival

Hall ontworpen in 1948 en geopend in 1951, de Hayward Gallery/ Queen Elizabeth Hall, ontworpen in

1960/61 en het Kulturhus in Stockholm, ontworpen in 1966/67 en gerealiseerd tot 1974. De keuze

voor d...

Essentials of Ecology, 4th Edition presents introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student's understanding of and fascination with the natural world. In a concise, engaging style, this text outlines the essential principles of ecology from the theoretical fundamentals to their practical applications. Full color artwork, simple pedagogical features and a wide range of carefully-chosen examples make this book an ideal introduction to ecol...

Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs shows that much of what we now know about common diseases has been achieved by studying rare diseases. It proposes that future advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases will come as a consequence of our accelerating progress in the field of rare diseases. Understanding the complex steps in the development of common diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic diseases, has proven a difficult problem.

Rare diseases...

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.