Laboratories: A Guide to Planning, Programming, and Design

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Laboratories book review

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Laboratories

Laboratories: A Guide to Planning, Programming, and Design
Fernand Dahan , and Fernand W. Dahan
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0393730581

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A handbook for those involved in the planning and design of chemical, biochemical, and other laboratories. Laboratories is a comprehensive reference covering guidelines for site selection, the design of complete facilities (including sustainable labs) and individual lab rooms, and strategic master planning for architects, engineers, and project managers as well as those who commission, operate, and manage laboratories at every level from schools to industry. 200 black-and-white illustrations.

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Laboratory Architect.......2001-08-28

As an architect who is actively engaged in the planning and design of laboratories I found this book to be an indisposible resource. Mr. Dahan's knowledge of what makes a good lab work comes through on every page.

Laboratories book review.......2001-07-14

This is a complete and comprehensive handbook which shall be used by all involved in the planning and design of chemical, biochemical, and other laboratories. It is a comprehensive reference covering guidelines for site selection, the design of laboratory rooms and wings as well as of complete facilities. It provides the most up to date criteria for the design of sustainable type of labs. It also give a unique process for the analysis of needs and the determination of what type of building should be acquired for each given set of circumstances, all in the context of strategic master planning. We feel here in our laboratory that it is an excellent tool for architects, engineers, and project managers as well as for those who commission, operate, and manage laboratories at every level from schools to industry.

Laboratories book review.......2001-07-14

This is a complete and comprehensive handbook which shall be used by all involved in the planning and design of chemical, biochemical, and other laboratories. It is a comprehensive reference covering guidelines for site selection, the design of laboratory rooms and wings as well as of complete facilities. It provide the most up to date criteria for the design of ustainable type of labs. It also give a unique process for the analysis of need and determination of what type of building should be acquired for each given set of circumstances, and that in the context of strategic master planning. We fell here in our laboratory that it is an excellent tool for architects, engineers, and project managers as well as for those who commission, operate, and manage laboratories at every level from schools to industry.

A Review from London, England.......2001-07-13

This is a complete and comprehensive handbook which shall be used by all involved in the planning and design of chemical, biochemical, and other kinds of laboratories. It is a comprehensive reference covering guidelines for site selection, the design of laboratory rooms and wings as well as of complete facilities. It provides the most up-to-date criteria for the design of sustainable type of labs. It also gives a unique process for the analysis of needs and the determination of what type of building should be acquired for each set of circumstances, in the context of strategic master planning. It is an excellent tool for architects, engineers and project managers, as well as for those who commission, operate and manage laboratories at every level from schools to industry.

Laboratories.......2001-06-30

This book not only provides state-of-the-art technical information related to laboratory design such as layout, mechanical & electrical systems, air quality, instruments, special purpose labs, etc. but it also deals with information useful in the planning process for a new facility which should be valuable to lab users. I know of no other source for this type of information. This book virtually provides a step-by-step guide for providing a laboratory facility.

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Not Just for Oil Painters - a color reference for everyone

Color Mixing the Vanwyk Way: A Manual for Oil Painters
Helen Van Wyk
Manufacturer: Art Instruction Assoc
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0929552091

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Not Just for Oil Painters - a color reference for everyone.......1998-09-11

You will appreciate and use this book as a color reference, and as a philosophy explaining why we do paint and view things the way we do. The author Helen Van Wyk, in the introduction shares her invaluable experiences that she learned while studying with the Master M. A. Rasko in the 1940's. The articles he wrote are no longer in print and can't be found so she shares some of his fundamental approaches to painting here. A most important and valuable learning experience for me, was how the six colors of the spectrum and their admixtures, vary in three ways, in tone intensity and hue. In other words; brown, tan and orange are variants of yellow in regards to the tone, intensity and hue that you mix the colors. She uses the example of a Yellow Lemon on a table on a darker toned background, and you might describe the colors as brown,rust,tan or woody but it is actually a yellow lemon on a yellow table on a yellow background. Buy this Book if you want to enjoy the colorful world around you!

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Baldo is the 15-year-old title character in a hilarious new comic, the first nationally syndicated strip to depict a Latino family's lives.This refreshingly hip new collection captures the lifestyle and humor of the country's fastest-growing ethnic group through the adventures of a typical American teenager, who just happens to live a salsa-mix life of mainstream sensibilities and Latino culture. The result is a merry combination of silliness that rings true, whether Baldo and his buddies are dreaming of girls or building the sweetest low-rider car imaginable.

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I like it.......2002-07-26

I've been a fan of Baldo for a few months now and I really look forward to the morning comics so I can read this strip. Along with Get Fuzzy and Garfield, this is one of the best comics out there. I don't have the book yet, but having read this strip for a while, I think I am allowed to put in a comment right here.

Great reading!.......2002-02-12

I thought this was an excellent book! I would deffinately recommend it!

Funny, funny, funny........2002-02-06

This book is a hallarious compilation of previously published strips. I LOVE the Bermudez family, they are a great cast of characters with so much potential. There's just nothing else like it in syndication. I would reccomend this book to anyone who's interested in reading a funny, funny strip with a new perspective on everyday situations. Cantu and Castellanos do a wonderful job of bringing this family to life.The art is first rate, and among the best there is. I can't wait for the second book to be released.

Enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time.......2001-11-12

The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is the first collection of the Baldo syndicated comic strip by the collaborative efforts of writer Hector Cantu and illustrator Carlos Castellanos, and which appears in over 100 newspapers across the U.S.A. This hilarious anthology of the newspaper comic strip mixes Latino culture and the ridiculous foibles that haunt every teenager's life as it follows 15-year-old Baldo with his wild imagination, his yearning to date the prettiest girl in school, and his love of soccer and cars. The Lower You Ride, The Cooler You Are is enthusiastically recommended for an entertaining good time.

Great stuff.......2001-09-22

The writer of this comic series really captures the teenage spirit of a kid gowing up in today's America. Funny, and entertaining.

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On February 3, 1880 five members of the hated Donnelly family in Lucan, Ontario, were killed by a mob of drunken vigilantes.

The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys - James, Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving from Tipperary, Ireland in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous pioneer community near London, Ontario. For the next 30 years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the area. James was convicted of murder but escaped the gallows. The sons grew up to be handsome, reckless, enterprising in business and very dangerous in combat.

What is it about The Donnellys that still fascinates people? Were they really as evil as their enemies portrayed them? Why was no one ever convicted of their murders? What happened to the surviving Donnellys? And why do local people still feel strongly, taking sides for or against the family?

After 15 years of exhaustive research, lawyer Ray Fazakas has produced the definitive account of the famous feud and its tragic consequences. He has also collected an astonishing treasure trove of old photographs, period drawings, maps and documents, showing the Donnellys, their murderers and the sites and people involved.

This unique combination of narrative and illustration recreates an epic tragedy of frontier life.

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The fabulous Donnellys.......2007-03-23

This book is excellent. I came across it while looking for something entirely different but what a great thing.

I fell in love with this mishappen family as women are wont to do with "bad boys."

Couldn't put the book down!

If you want the truth,details and about everthing else about the Black Donnellys,this is the book........2006-01-30

The fighting,feuding,barn burning,animal mutilation and general mayhem around Lucan,Ontario,went on for about 35 years,and finally ended with 5 members of the Donnelly family being murdered in their homes by a vigilante committee on that awful night of February 4,1880.It was a national story that shocked the young nation of Canada.Canada had only recently become a country in 1867.These were often rough and ready times ,both in Canada as well as the US.This is the same period when,with the
American Civil War over in 1865,the west was opening up with range wars,cattle drives,gold strikes,train robberies,and outlaws like Jesse James and the shoot-out at the OK Corral with Wyatt Earp,Doc Holliday,and all.
The fighting and feuding in the Donnelly story had all together different origins.The source of trouble came from a whole different scene of problems that were brought ,mainly by settlers who came from the County Tipperary,Ireland.
The story of the massacre had just about disappeared from the radar scope when a pulp writer,Thomas P Kelly wrote a book,"The Black Donnellys"in 1954 and created a huge interest and sold millions of copies.Being a pulp writer he did only enough research to tell the essence of the story,filled in the details from his own imagination,including conversations as he saw them.It made for exciting reading but as time went on, readers and other authors spent a lot of time nit picking about what he wrote.
The author of this book heard about the story on the radio in
1962 got interested,read Kelley's book and spent years researching everything about the Donnellys and the history of the county;and finally in 1977 produced this book.He was a lawyer by profession and approached the whole story as would one preparing for a trial.He researched all the records,read everything ever written,talked to an endless stream of people,and,as as a result, produced a book that is totally factual and includes just about everything there is to know about what happened.The book is over 300 pages ,has pictures and/or illustrations of just about everyone and everything involved with the story.He has maps,documents,you name it,he's got it in the book.His writing style and overall organization is so good,the reading could not be easier.He not only researched the story,he has made it a lifelong hobby,interest,or or maybe even an obsession.Like I said,if there is anything you would want to know,you'll find it in this book,and you can count on it being as correct as one can make it.
There is no doubt that there is nobody who has researched the story as he has,and for such a long time,and he gives it all to us in this book.
If you have ever wanted to go into the real details of the story or plan to visit Lucan to see where it all took place and visit the church,graveyard,the Roman Line,the Swamp schoolhouse,the site of the Donnelly farm,the village of
Lucan and the many buildings that still exist;this is the bible and guide for you.He also gives a lot of information on the people involved and what happened during the years after the murders.

I have been following this story since my High School days of 1954 when Kelley's book first appeared and often talk to others about it.There are a lot of people who will tell you about someone knowing descendents of the Donnelly's.Well,let me tell you this.Mr Fazakas has researched that too.In 2001 he produced another super book "In Search of the Donnellys" of 300 pages. Again, he covers the whole history of the Donnellys ,all the way back to their roots in Ireland and the history of all the descendents.Another wonderful book and a great addition to the whole story.Like this "Album",it is filled with fabulous photos.I'll be doing a review of it shortly.
If you haven't found it yet ,there is an excellent website
"The Black Donnellys", where you can get lots of information and photos.
If you happen to visit Lucan some day,take a little side trip to Exeter,about 20 miles north of Lucan and see the rare White Squirrels.These are not albinos, but very rare and occur in a few isolated spots in North America,having been introduced many years ago from Hawaii.You can find more about them on the web under "White Squirrels of Exeter".

The Only Authentic Account.......2004-03-11

This is the only authentic account of this tragedy, and there is another sequel by this author that is just as informing.

Best writing on the Donnellys.......2002-12-08

This the best and most interesting of the Donnellys era. One of those books you hate to set down to finish later.

The Donnelly album: The complete and authentic account illustrated with photographs of Canada's famous feuding family

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I love reading about it and I learned a lot about my family

The Donnelly album: The complete and authentic account illustrated with photographs of Canada's famous feuding family
Ray Fazakas
Manufacturer: Macmillan of Canada
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0770514391

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I love reading about it and I learned a lot about my family.......1999-02-19

I learned soo much about my family history it even suprised my mother to find out about my families history.It also was wonderful to share with my children!If you are a Donnelly and are interested in your family history then this is the book you NEED.

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I wish this book was around when I was 13

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Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation

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Focusing on girls concerns about menstruation, and supplemented by clearly articulated health information, this unique collection of short stories will reassure and enlighten young women. Sweet Secrets is ideal for initiating discussions between parents and daughters about sexuality and growing up. Reader-friendly and supportive, Sweet Secrets dispels long-held myths with current and reasoned information that will empower young women to celebrate this rite of passage.

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I wish this book was around when I was 13.......2000-11-30

Sex education teachers O'Grady and Wansbrough have produced an ideal gift for young girls preparing to bloom into womanhood, a book that is as entertaining as it is informative.

Sweet Secrets is about menstruation. Your cycle, your period, your curse, your monthly visitor, your Aunt Flo...whatever phrase you use, you know what it is and unless with few medical exceptions, every girl is going to get it whether she likes it or not. Sweet Secrets could be considered a technical manual for a girl growing up: basic terminology is introduced, and behaviors such as PMS are explained.

What endeared me to this title, however, was the positive approach O'Grady and Wansbrough take to the monthly event that annoys me when it arrives and worries me when it doesn't. First menstruation is a "sweet secret" because it is a girl's own private advancement into adulthood, a rite of passage celebrated in many cultures. An accompanying mini-anthology of essays by women and teenagers emphasizes the poignancy of growing into womanhood while offering sympathy and encouragement.

If you have daughter fast approaching her teens and feel apphrensive about explaining to her the facts of life, let this book be a guide for the both of you, a "sweet secret" to share.

Excerpted from The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo.......1999-05-19

Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation is the brainchild of Canadians Kathleen O'Grady and Paula Wansbrough. Sweet Secrets laces facts with short stories by various authors about girls having their first periods. The facts are straightforward...Best of all, though, the short stories that form the bulk of Sweet Secrets give girls multiple perspectives on the event - from that of a girl who is flat on her back in a body cast when she gets her first period to that of a girl who has ten minutes between the national anthem and homeroom announcements to cope with her first period alone - so that *whatever* happens when the young reader gets hers, it falls within the spectrum of normal.

-excerpt, by Karen Houppert, reporter for the Village Voice and author of _The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation.

Reviewed in Woman Newsmagazine, Winter 1999:.......1999-01-01

Addressed to adolescent readers, Sweet Secrets is a charming anthology of personal and fictional stories of menarche (first menstruation) told by women aged 16 to 93, from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The authors present factual information on the physical and emotional changes of puberty in a candid, anecdotal style. This handsome, readable book also features observations on menstruation's cultural and religious significance in ancient and aboriginal societies....

These uplifting tales of women's celebrations, unusual in a puberty education piece, set a new standard for progressive and enlightened learning.

The unique and sensitive approach to menstruation offered in Sweet Secrets guarantees its place as a valuable resource for those seeking help in discussing menstruation with preteen girls.

--Besty Harvie

Reviewed in Canadian Book Review Annual, 1998:.......1998-12-30

Highly Recommended.

Sweet Secrets does not dispense with physiology, but it does bring an emotional and cultural perspective to bear on its subject. Contributions by women of various ages and cultures lead to a multifaceted profile of the experience of menstruation.

This lively, comprehensive and thoughtful book is an empowering resource for the young woman of the 1990s.

Highly Recommended.

-- Sheree Haughian

Reviewed in Reluctant Hero:.......1998-12-30

The book Sweet Secrets was in a word amazing.

The book is aimed at young girls anticipating their first period...

The first part of the book contains basic information (Aaghh what is going on in my body?), how to deal with it emotionally, and provides some ways different cultures celebrate/reject menstruation.

The second part of the book is an anthology of short stories dealing with girls getting their first period. The range of girls and experiences is quite vast....

Throughout the entire book there are sidebars which dispel a lot of the myths surrounding menstruation. There is also excellent health information....

The very best thing about this book is the feeling of empowerment that it will give girls.

--Michelle Teixeira

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How Americans Commemorate their History

Sacred Ground: AMERICANS AND THEIR BATTLEFIELDS
Edward Linenthal
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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How Americans Commemorate their History.......2005-06-16

For the most part, there are no sites in the United States which are religiously sacred to most Americans -- as are various sites in the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, or Buddhist traditions. But Americans have their own hallowed places which have a secular and a spiritual significance in inspiring reflection on our nation's history and values. Although some hallowed sites (such as Independence Hall or the Statue of Liberty) are not battlefields, many of them are. In this book, "Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields" Professor Edward Linenthal tells their story. Appropriately enough, Professor Linenthal is a professor of Religious Studies, (rather than, say, history), at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

Professor Linethal describes the history of five of our country's most revered battlefields: Lexington and Concord, which marks the opening of the Revolutionary War, the Alamo, part of the war for Texan independence, Gettysburg, a pivotal Civil War battle, Little Big Horn, the scene of "Custer's Last Stand", and Pearl Harbor, the scene of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack which brought the United States into WW II.

Professor Linenthal begins his consideration of each battlefield with a short -- I think too short -- summary of the facts of each battle. He then proceeds to discuss in detail the manner in which Americans have commemorated and remembered the events that occured and why they have viewed them as significant. Much of his study involves reflections on the nature of history as memory and history as it occurred -- a subject which has recently received a great deal of attention. He shows how many Americans have had a need to commemorate these battles for a set of reasons that may only be partial -- and that commemorative activities change and expand as people's perceptions change and become more inclusive.

Professor Linenthal points out, Gettysburg has been celebrated because of the valor of the combatants, North and South, and because of the role reunions and commemorations at Gettysburg played in effecting sectional reconciliation -- at the expense of realizing an important purpose of the Civil War in ending slavery and bringing African-Americans into full participation in American democracy. The Alamo has been celebrated as a symbol of American valor and love of freedom; yet the celebration has downplayed the important role played by Mexican Texans in the struggle as well as many questions that could be raised about the conduct of the United States in the wars with Mexico. The Little Big Horn Battlefield has been the site of protracted controversy over the United States's Indian policy, leading to sharp conflict between General Custer's admirers and his opponents and, ultimately, to a renaming of the battlefield. Pearl Harbor has had controversies regarding the factors which lead to the surprise attack, the Hiroshima bombing, and the attitude of people in the United States towards the Japanese. Lexington and Concord have been appropriated by some Americans as symbols of dissent from current American policies (as the minutement rebelled against the British) rather than as celebrations of the willingness of Americans to fight and die for freedom.

The story is told well and thoughtfully with good, if sometimes overwhelming detail. Professor Linenthal gives a great deal of attention to the role of the National Park Service (which is responsible for all the sites discussed in his study with the exception of the Alamo) in balancing the competing needs for site preservation, historical interpretation, and contemplation in administering the battlefields. I found the discussion of Little Big Horn particularly fascinating and complex. The reader needs to know more, however, about the Little Big Horn and about Custer to fully understand the discussion. Interestingly, Custer is the only person to figure prominently in two of the battles Linenthal discusses: Gettysburg and Little Big Horn, and the book should have brought this out.

This book initially appeared in 1989 with a second edition that takes the story through 1993 -- time enough to include the 50-year anniversary of Pearl Harbor in which Professor Linenthal participated. The story could be brought up to date. This book is still a valuable study of the meaning, and of the changes in meaning, that Americans invest in their sacred spaces.

Sacred Ground Americans and Their Battlefields

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Sacred Ground Americans and Their Battlefields
Edward Tabor (Robert M. Utley, Foreword) Linenthal
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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In this dynamic portrait of the human community as it enters the twenty-first century, Hugh De Santis argues that in a world of dwindling resources, economic inequality, and unremitting violence, the belief in endless progress can no longer be sustained.

Explaining that we have arrived at a great historic divide, De Santis asserts that the old modern order is giving way to an age of "mutualism." He draws on world history and the study of international relations to explore the emerging future, in which new forms of social and political identity and regional associations and alignments will be needed to solve global problems. Demonstrating that mutualism will require a dramatic change in the way states, international institutions, corporations, and local communities interact, De Santis argues that this transformation will be especially difficult for the United States, which will have to abandon its exceptionalist identity and rejoin a world it can no longer escape.

Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Utopian Studies

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Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Utopian Studies
Arthur O. Lewis
Manufacturer: Society for Utopian Studies
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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 5013 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Arthur O. Lewis
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
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Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future

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Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future
Hugh De Santis
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OOQW2C

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Classification is the essential first step in science. The study of science, as well as the practice of science, will thus benefit from a detailed classification of different types of science.

In this book, science - defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities - is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied, the data used, the theories employed, the methods applied, and the practices of scientists. These five elements are then classified in turn. Notably, the classifications of both theory types and methods allow the key strengths and weaknesses of different theories and methods to be readily discerned and compared. Connections across classifications are explored: should certain theories or phenomena be investigated only with certain methods? What is the proper function and form of scientific paradigms? Are certain common errors and biases in scientific practice associated with particular phenomena, data, theories, or methods? The classifications point to several ways of improving both specialized and interdisciplinary research and teaching, and especially of enhancing communication across communities of scholars. The classifications also support a superior system of document classification that would allow searches by theory and method used as well as causal links investigated.

Classifying Science : Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice (Information Science & Knowledge Management)

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Classifying Science : Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Rick Szostak
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Binding: Hardcover
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