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The chapters span the discipline of human geography and cover contexts as diverse as veiling in Turkey, religious landscapes in rural Peru, and refugees and faith in South Africa. A number of prominent scholars and emerging researchers examine topical themes in each engaging chapter with significant foci being: religious transnationalism and religious landscapes; gendering of religious identities and contexts; fashion, faith and the body; identity, resistance and belief; immigrant identities, citizenship and spaces of belief; alternative spiritualities and places of retreat and enchantment. Together they make a series of important contributions that illuminate the central role of geography to the meaning and implications of lived religion, public piety and religious embodiment. 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 Free Download Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 1: Air, Sea and Precipitation and Water By Antonio Navarra (auth.), Antonio Navarra, Laurence Tubiana (eds.) 2013 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 9400757808 | PDF | 12 MB Volume 1 of a three-volume final report describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE - Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme. Conducted under the auspices of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Italy, CIRCE was designed to predict and to quantify the physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean, and to assess the most influential consequences for the region's population. This volume incorporates the first two parts of the report, reviewing current knowledge of observed climate variability and trends in the Mediterranean, and including descriptions of available temperature and precipitation station and gridded data sets.  Free Download Regelungstechnik für Ingenieure: Analyse, Simulation und Entwurf von Regelkreisen Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3658458968 | 533 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB Mit etablierten Verfahren zur Untersuchung dynamischer Systeme und zum Entwurf von Standardreglern, modell- und wissensbasierten Reglern, deckt das Buch fast alle Bereiche der Regelungstechnik ab und spannt einen Bogen von den klassischen Methoden bis hin zu den zukunftsorientierten Verfahren.
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