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The journal of Henry Kelsey (1691-1692) : the first white man to reach the Saskatchewan River from Hudson Bay, and the first to see buffalo and grizzly bear of the Canadian plains / by Charles Napier Bell

Winnipeg : Dawson Richardson Publications, [1928]




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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean

Amsterdam: N. Israel; New York: Da Capo Press, [1968]




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Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Airs This Sunday

March 27, 2020

MUSIC NEWS

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Gershwin Prize Concert: Garth Brooks

Watch Promo Clip Here

The concert will air this Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 9:00 ET, on PBS. Watch the performance of Garth Brooks here.

Early this month, The Library of Congress celebrated the 2020 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoring the mega country music star, Garth Brooks. Brooks is one of the significant changemakers in the history of country music. His music weaves the beauty of poetry, the universality of the human experience and the inclusiveness of other musical genres, making him one of the most influential performers in country music today. 


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Pico della Mirandola [electronic resource] : new essays / edited by M.V. Dougherty

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008




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Irigaray for architects [electronic resource] / Peg Rawes

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate International Women's Day With Us!

Celebrate International Women's Day today with us and explore how change-making women in American history appeared in the contemporary news using the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection. Our most recent post in Headlines and Heroes highlights fifteen amazing American women, including Clara Barton, Ida B. Wells, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, of course, investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Use the linked Recommended Topic guides to learn more about them and make your own discoveries. Read more about them and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! (May 15)

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have you made America’s favorite cookie recently? How about trying out this 1940 recipe from the Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)? Chop your own chocolate and read more about it! Follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate 15 Million Pages with Us! Find Out More and Join our Twitter #ChronAmParty Today (May 21)!

Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: CORRECTION: Next Monday!: Reading and Conversation with Portuguese Poet Ana Luisa Amaral

Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral will participate in a conversation and reading from her new book of poems What’s in a name? (New Directions, 2019) translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Amaral is one of Portugal’s most exciting poets whose work has been described as “small hypnotic miracles […] reminiscent of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson”. This event will include a display of special editions of authors that have shaped Amaral’s literary work and scholarship, like Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Sponsored by the Hispanic Division in collaboration with Instituto Camões and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. 

Date and time: Monday, April 8, 2019 / Book display (4:00-5:00 p.m.) / Reading and Conversation (5:00-6:00 p.m.)
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building (2nd floor), Library of Congress.

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-conversation-with-ana-luisa-amaral-tickets-58858781199

Click here for more information.




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: Art Showcase and Workshop With Chicano Artist Mario Torero -- May 3 @ 4:30 p.m.

Leading Chicano Movement artist/muralist Mario Torero will be talking about some of his artworks collected by the Library of Congress. A hands-on drawing workshop will follow.

Mario Torero is an important figure in the San Diego California Barrio Logan group of artists active in the Chicano civil rights movement. From 1988 to 1993 he was the Commissioner of the City of San Diego Commission of Arts and Culture, and taught at several San Diego colleges and schools. He is a co-founder of several local cultural organizations, including the Centro Cultural de la Raza, and the Chicano Park Murals Outdoor Museum. Torero's work has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Germany, and Japan. Some of his major murals are in San Diego, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Prague. He has writen articles for the San Diego Union, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and USA Today.

Date & Time: Friday, May 3, 2019 / 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor 

Library of Congress / 10 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20540.

Co-sponsored by the Hispanic and Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Please request ADA accommodations at least five days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Click here for more information.




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Sustainability in the anthropocene: philosophical essays on renewable technologies / edited by Róisín Lally

Hayden Library - GE196.S85 2019




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Water technology: an introduction for environmental scientists and engineers / Nick Gray

Online Resource




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Multiple roles of clays in radioactive waste confinement / edited by S. Norris, E.A.C. Neeft, and M. Van Geet

Dewey Library - TD898.2.M85 2019




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Water quality index prediction using multiple linear fuzzy regression model: case study in Perak River, Malaysia / Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim, Nur Fatonah Kamsani

Online Resource




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An underground guide to sewers, or, Down, through & out in Paris, London, New York, &c. / Stephen Halliday ; foreword by Sir Peter Bazalgette

Rotch Library - TD515.H35 2019




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The five-ton life: carbon, America, and the culture that may save us / Susan Subak

Dewey Library - TD885.5.C3 S83 2018




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Struggles for climate justice: uneven geographies and the politics of connection / Brandon Barclay Derman

Online Resource




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Changemakers: embracing hope, taking action, and transforming the world / Fay Weller and Mary Wilson

Hayden Library - GE196.W45 2018




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Mental health care services in community settings: discussions on NGO approaches in India / Gayathri Balagopal, Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee

Online Resource




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The convergence of infectious diseases and noncommunicable diseases: proceedings of a workshop / V. Ayanoo Ogawa, Cecilia Mundaca Shah, Yamrot Negussie, and Anna Nicholson, rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Health and Medic

Online Resource




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Transition to diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments for health: lessons from case studies / Caryn Bredenkamp, Sarah Bales, and Kristiina Kahur, editors

Online Resource




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Pathological realities: essays on disease, experiments, and history / Mirko D. Grmek ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot ; foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Hayden Library - R133.G76 2019




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Dr. Arthur Spohn: surgeon, inventor, and Texas medical pioneer / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with Charles W. Monday Jr. ; introduction by Kenneth L. Mattox

Hayden Library - R154.S66 M66 2018




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Code a Single-Page Sliding Website Layout With Fixed Navigation

When constructing a simple webpage, it can often make sense to fit the content into a single layout rather than multiple pages. These single-page websites are beneficial when you have a small project or portfolio which needs some online presence. If you split up content into neat sections, then visitors might use a small sliding […]




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7 Tips to Speed Up Your Website Today

Everyone loves a cool little loading animation, right? But if that divot lasts more than a second or two, it only brings attention to the fact that the website is loading slowly. And that’s a website killer. Users expect websites to load quickly and efficiently. It’s your job to ensure that the design is not […]




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The Hobbit Experience 2014: Adding WebRTC gameplay to the Hobbit Experience

Learn how North Kingdom built an immersive multimedia experience optimized for modern mobile browsers using Web RTC




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Everyday Information Architecture: Auditing for Structure

Just as we need to understand our content before we can recategorize it, we need to understand the system before we try to rebuild it.

Enter the structural audit: a review of the site focused solely on its menus, links, flows, and hierarchies. I know you thought we were done with audits back in Chapter 2, but hear me out! Structural audits have an important and singular purpose: to help us build a new sitemap.

This isn’t about recreating the intended sitemap—no, this is about experiencing the site the way users experience it. This audit is meant to track and record the structure of the site as it really works.

Setting up the template

First, we’re gonna need another spreadsheet. (Look, it is not my fault that spreadsheets are the perfect system for recording audit data. I don’t make the rules.)

Because this involves building a spreadsheet from scratch, I keep a “template” at the top of my audit files—rows that I can copy and paste into each new audit (Fig 4.1). It’s a color-coded outline key that helps me track my page hierarchy and my place in the auditing process. When auditing thousands of pages, it’s easy to get dizzyingly lost, particularly when coming back into the sheet after a break; the key helps me stay oriented, no matter how deep the rabbit hole.

Fig 4.1: I use a color-coded outline key to record page hierarchy as I move through the audit. Wait, how many circles did Dante write about?

Color-coding

Color is the easiest, quickest way to convey page depth at a glance. The repetition of black text, white cells, and gray lines can have a numbing effect—too many rows of sameness, and your eyes glaze over. My coloring may result in a spreadsheet that looks like a twee box of macarons, but at least I know, instantly, where I am.

The exact colors don’t really matter, but I find that the familiar mental model of a rainbow helps with recognition—the cooler the row color, the deeper into the site I know I must be.

The nested rainbow of pages is great when you’re auditing neatly nested pages—but most websites color outside the lines (pun extremely intended) with their structure. I leave my orderly rainbow behind to capture duplicate pages, circular links, external navigation, and other inconsistencies like:

  • On-page navigation. A bright text color denotes pages that are accessible via links within page content—not through the navigation. These pages are critical to site structure but are easily overlooked. Not every page needs to be displayed in the navigation menus, of course—news articles are a perfect example—but sometimes this indicates publishing errors.
  • External links. These are navigation links that go to pages outside the domain. They might be social media pages, or even sites held by the same company—but if the domain isn’t the one I’m auditing, I don’t need to follow it. I do need to note its existence in my spreadsheet, so I color the text as the red flag that it is. (As a general rule, I steer clients away from placing external links in navigation, in order to maintain a consistent experience. If there’s a need to send users offsite, I’ll suggest using a contextual, on-page link.)
  • Files. This mostly refers to PDFs, but can include Word files, slide decks, or anything else that requires downloading. As with external links, I want to capture anything that might disrupt the in-site browsing experience. (My audits usually filter out PDFs, but for organizations that overuse them, I’ll audit them separately to show how much “website” content is locked inside.)
  • Unknown hierarchy. Every once in a while, there’s a page that doesn’t seem to belong anywhere—maybe it’s missing from the menu, while its URL suggests it belongs in one section and its navigation scheme suggests another. These pages need to be discussed with their owners to determine whether the content needs to be considered in the new site.
  • Crosslinks. These are navigation links for pages that canonically live in a different section of the site—in other words, they’re duplicates. This often happens in footer navigation, which may repeat the main navigation or surface links to deeper-but-important pages (like a Contact page or a privacy policy). I don’t want to record the same information about the page twice, but I do need to know where the crosslink is, so I can track different paths to the content. I color these cells gray so they don’t draw my attention.

Note that coloring every row (and indenting, as you’ll see in a moment) can be a tedious process—unless you rely on Excel’s formatting brush. That tool applies all the right styles in just two quick clicks.

Outlines and page IDs

Color-coding is half of my template; the other half is the outline, which is how I keep track of the structure itself. (No big deal, just the entire point of the spreadsheet.)

Every page in the site gets assigned an ID. You are assigning this number; it doesn’t correspond to anything but your own perception of the navigation. This number does three things for you:

  1. It associates pages with their place in the site hierarchy. Decimals indicate levels, so the page ID can be decoded as the page’s place in the system.
  2. It gives each page a unique identifier, so you can easily refer to a particular page—saying “2.4.1” is much clearer than “you know that one page in the fourth product category?”
  3. You can keep using the ID in other contexts, like your sitemap. Then, later, when your team decides to wireframe pages 1.1.1 and 7.0, you’ll all be working from the same understanding.

Let me be completely honest: things might get goofy sometimes with the decimal outline. There will come a day when you’ll find yourself casually typing out “1.2.1.2.1.1.1,” and at that moment, a fellow auditor somewhere in the universe will ring a tiny gong for you.

In addition to the IDs, I indent each level, which reinforces both the numbers and the colors. Each level down—each digit in the ID, each change in color—gets one indentation.

I identify top-level pages with a single number: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc. The next page level in the first section would be 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and so on. I mark the homepage as 0.0, which is mildly controversial—the homepage is technically a level above—but, look: I’ve got a lot of numbers to write, and I don’t need those numbers to tell me they’re under the homepage, so this is my system. Feel free to use the numbering system that work best for you.

Criteria and columns

So we’ve got some secret codes for tracking hierarchy and depth, but what about other structural criteria? What are our spreadsheet columns (Fig 4.2)? In addition to a column for Page ID, here’s what I cover:

  • URL. I don’t consistently fill out this column, because I already collected this data back in my automated audit. I include it every twenty entries or so (and on crosslinks or pages with unknown hierarchy) as another way of tracking progress, and as a direct link into the site itself.
  • Menu label/link. I include this column only if I notice a lot of mismatches between links, labels, and page names. Perfect agreement isn’t required; but frequent, significant differences between the language that leads to a page and the language on the page itself may indicate inconsistencies in editorial approach or backend structures.
  • Name/headline. Think of this as “what does the page owner call it?” It may be the H1, or an H2; it may match the link that brought you here, or the page title in the browser, or it may not.
  • Page title. This is for the name of the page in the metadata. Again, I don’t use this in every audit—particularly if the site uses the same long, branded metadata title for every single page—but frequent mismatches can be useful to track.
  • Section. While the template can indicate your level, it can’t tell you which area of the site you’re in—unless you write it down. (This may differ from the section data you applied to your automated audit, taken from the URL structure; here, you’re noting the section where the page appears.)
  • Notes. Finally, I keep a column to note specific challenges, and to track patterns I’m seeing across multiple pages—things like “Different template, missing subnav” or “Only visible from previous page.” My only caution here is that if you’re planning to share this audit with another person, make sure your notes are—ahem—professional. Unless you enjoy anxiously combing through hundreds of entries to revise comments like “Wow haha nope” (not that I would know anything about that).
Fig 4.2: A semi-complete structural audit. This view shows a lot of second- and third-level pages, as well as pages accessed through on-page navigation.

Depending on your project needs, there may be other columns, too. If, in addition to using this spreadsheet for your new sitemap, you want to use it in migration planning or template mapping, you may want columns for new URLs, or template types. 

You can get your own copy of my template as a downloadable Excel file. Feel free to tweak it to suit your style and needs; I know I always do. As long as your spreadsheet helps you understand the hierarchy and structure of your website, you’re good to go.

Gathering data

Setting up the template is one thing—actually filling it out is, admittedly, another. So how do we go from a shiny, new, naive spreadsheet to a complete, jaded, seen-some-stuff spreadsheet? I always liked Erin Kissane’s description of the process, from The Elements of Content Strategy:

Big inventories involve a lot of black coffee, a few late nights, and a playlist of questionable but cheering music prominently featuring the soundtrack of object-collecting video game Katamari Damacy. It takes quite a while to exhaustively inventory a large site, but it’s the only way to really understand what you have to work with.

We’re not talking about the same kind of exhaustive inventory she was describing (though I am recommending Katamari music). But even our less intensive approach is going to require your butt in a seat, your eyes on a screen, and a certain amount of patience and focus. You’re about to walk, with your fingers, through most of a website.

Start on the homepage. (We know that not all users start there, but we’ve got to have some kind of order to this process or we’ll never get through it.) Explore the main navigation before moving on to secondary navigation structures. Move left to right, top to bottom (assuming that is your language direction) over each page, looking for the links. You want to record every page you can reasonably access on the site, noting navigational and structural considerations as you go.

My advice as you work:

  • Use two monitors. I struggle immensely without two screens in this process, which involves constantly switching between spreadsheet and browser in rapid, tennis-match-like succession. If you don’t have access to multiple monitors, find whatever way is easiest for you to quickly flip between applications.
  • Record what you see. I generally note all visible menu links at the same level, then exhaust one section at a time. Sometimes this means I have to adjust what I initially observed, or backtrack to pages I missed earlier. You might prefer to record all data across a level before going deeper, and that would work, too. Just be consistent to minimize missed links.
  • Be alert to inconsistencies. On-page links, external links, and crosslinks can tell you a lot about the structure of the site, but they’re easy to overlook. Missed on-page links mean missed content; missed crosslinks mean duplicate work. (Note: the further you get into the site, the more you’ll start seeing crosslinks, given all the pages you’ve already recorded.)
  • Stick to what’s structurally relevant. A single file that’s not part of a larger pattern of file use is not going to change your understanding of the structure. Neither is recording every single blog post, quarterly newsletter, or news story in the archive. For content that’s dynamic, repeatable, and plentiful, I use an x in the page ID to denote more of the same. For example, a news archive with a page ID of 2.8 might show just one entry beneath it as 2.8.x; I don’t need to record every page up to 2.8.791 to understand that there are 791 articles on the site (assuming I noted that fact in an earlier content review).
  • Save. Save frequently. I cannot even begin to speak of the unfathomable heartbreak that is Microsoft Excel burning an unsaved audit to the ground.  

Knowing which links to follow, which to record, and how best to untangle structural confusion—that improves with time and experience. Performing structural audits will not only teach you about your current site, but will help you develop fluency in systems thinking—a boon when it comes time to document the new site.




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Asian transformations: an inquiry into the development of nations / edited by Deepak Nayyar

Dewey Library - HC412.A85 2019




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How rich countries got rich ... and why poor countries stay poor / Erik S. Reinert

Dewey Library - HC21.R425 2019




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Demystifying economic markets and prices: understanding patterns and practices in everyday life / Gregory R. Woirol

Dewey Library - HB221.W64 2019




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Quantitative economics with R: A Data Science Approach / by Vikram Dayal

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Capitalisms and gay identities / Stephen Valocchi

Dewey Library - HB501.V324 2020




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The real economy: essays in ethnographic theory / edited by Federico Neiburg and Jane I. Guyer

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Organizational Mindset of Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Co-Creation Pathways of Structural Change and Innovation / edited by Veland Ramadani, Ramo Palalić, Léo-Paul Dana, Norris Krueger, Andrea Caputo

Online Resource




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Romantic anti-capitalism and nature: the enchanted garden / Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy

Dewey Library - HB501.S3196 2020




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Internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia: dynamics and interrelationships / Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma, Guanghua Wan, Edgar Wilson, editors

Online Resource




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The Oxford handbook of the Ethiopian economy / edited by Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer, and Arkebe Oqubay

Online Resource




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Hotels and highways: the construction of modernization theory in Cold War Turkey / Begüm Adalet

Dewey Library - HC492.A354 2018




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Population dynamics in contemporary South Asia: health, education and migration / Anuradha Banerjee, Narayan Chandra Jana, Vinod Kumar Mishra, editors

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Get things moving!: FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943 / Mordecai Lee

Dewey Library - HC106.4.L474 2018




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Resurgent Asia: diversity in development / Deepak Nayyar ; a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Dewey Library - HC412.N39 2019




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Sustainable energy and economics in an aging population: lessons from Japan / Kozo Torasan Mayumi

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The public infrastructure of work and play / edited by Michael A. Pagano

Dewey Library - HC79.C3 P83 2018




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Food-energy-water nexus resilience and sustainable development: decision-making methods, planning, and trade-off analysis / Somayeh Asadi, Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, editors

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Narayan Dutt Tiwari

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Dayamani Barla

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Somerset Greenways Chennai

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