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Treasures in Trusted Hands :Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by private persons and other categories. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has …
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- 9789088904417
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- 290 p. : ill
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- 301 JOS t
Ethical issues in covert, security and surveillance research
The EU-funded PRO-RES Project aimed to produce a guidance framework that helps to deliver Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). PRO-RES is a Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the European Science Foundation (ESF), involving 14 different partners across Europe. As one of a series of open access products of the Project, Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research will be p…
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- 9781802624113
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- xxi, 218p : ill.
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- 363.232 ETH e
Building a Peace Economy? :Liberal peacebuilding and the development-security…
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and transforming them into more peaceful economic and political relationships. Through this examination…
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- 9781526129376
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- 219p : ill
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- 303.66 JEN b
Marx and digital machines :alienation, technology, capitalism
This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education …
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- 9781912656806
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- xiii, 172p
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- 004 MIK m
Explorations in Semantic Parallelism
Since 1965, when I frst began to record and attempt to understand the ritual poetry of the Rotenese, the study of semantic parallelism has been a major focus of my research. My chief concern has been with the semantics of canonical parallelism. In my view, the study of parallelism and particularly the study of canonical parallelism is no minor subject but is, in fact, a matter of central theore…
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- 9781925021066
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- xi, 433p. : ill
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- 401.43 JAM e
The EIB Circular Economy Guide
The EIB Circular Economy Guide aims to promote a common understanding of circular economy, and raise awareness about and promote circular solutions. The Guide provides information about EIB’s lending and advisory activities in this field, and communicates our vision of how the EIB can further support the transition to a circular economy. The Guide is a living document that will be updated in …
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- 9789286146718
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- 24p : ill
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- 330 EUR e
Archives, access and artificial intelligence
Digital archives are transforming the Humanities and the Sciences. Digitized collections of newspapers and books have pushed scholars to develop new, data-rich methods. Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. Digital Humanities have moved from the fringe to the center of academia. Yet, the path from the apprais…
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- 9783839455845
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- 221p : ill.
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- 000 ARC a
NL ARMS Netherlands annual review of military studies 2021
This is open access volume of the NL ARMS offers an interdisciplinary view on the domain of Compliance and Integrity in International Military Trade (CIIMT), integrating defence economics, international law, arms export control frameworks and policies, information management, organizational sciences and ethics. Although, in academia, and from an interdisciplinary perspective, CIIMT constitutes …
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- 9789462654716
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- xi; 309 PG; ill.
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- 382.456234 NLA n
The plaston concept :plastic deformation in structural materials
This open access book presents the novel concept of plaston, which accounts for the high ductility or large plastic deformation of emerging high-performance structural materials, including bulk nanostructured metals, hetero-nanostructured materials, metallic glasses, intermetallics, and ceramics. The book describes simulation results of the collective atomic motion associated with plaston, by c…
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- 9789811677151
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- viii; 278 PG; ill.
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Youth suicide prevention and intervention
This open access book focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. It addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk detection in school and medical settings, critical cultural considerations, and approaches to lethal means safety. This book offers cutting-edge research on emerging discoveries …
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- xvi; 169; ill.
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- 362.280835 YOU y
The impact challenge :reframing sustainability for businesses
This book explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments. By addressing the inevitable data challenges associated with the strategic integration of a sustainability mindset, it enables faster adoption of social, environmental and governance…
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- 9781003212225
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- xi; 162 pg.: ill.
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Social Enterprise in Latin America :Theory, Models and Practice
In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into accoun…
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- 9780429055164
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- 330p : ill
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- 658.408098 SOC s
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
In the autumn of 1950, a young man, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, enrolled in the economics program at the University of Chicago. Chicago’s department of economics was an unusual place in those days. Ever since the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory in 1936, Keynesian economics — with its stress on the use of state intervention to manage economic development —…
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- 192094298X
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- vii, 472p. : ill
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- 320.995 GLO g
Qualitative analysis and documentary method
You need to work with qualitative methods, especially the Documentary Method? This is your book: The first systematic introduction related to the application of the Documentary Method on group discussions, interviews, films and pictures. Since the book is based on a German- Brazilian cooperation, it also provides an overview of the state of the art in Germany and Brazil with regards to Educatio…
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- 9783866492363
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- 370.72 RAL q
Imagining unequals, imagining equals :concepts of equality in history and law
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various historical case studies, from visionary practices in revolutionary France and the collection of data on the poor in 19th-century Germany, to claims raised under the minorit…
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- 9783839458877
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- 254 pg; ill.
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- 305.09 ULR i
Austronesian Paths and Journeys
This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Micronesia. These diverse local expressions define common cultural conceptions found throughout the Austronesian-speaking world.
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- 9781760464332
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- xi, 366p. : ill
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The Merchant in German Literature of the Enlightenment
John Van Cleve analyzes the influence of the merchant class on what Leo Balet termed the 'Verburgerlichung' (the 'becoming middle-class') of German literature during the eighteenth century. He describes the origins and development of the class and examines its successive images in works by Haller, Schnabel, Borkenstein, Luise Gottsched, J. E. Schlegel, Gellert, and Lessing. Between the years 17…
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- 781469656878
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- xiii, 196p : ill
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- 830 JOH m
Globalization and Economic Diversification :Policy Challenges for Economies i…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. This volume brings together new contributions from renowned academic scholars, from experts on economies in transition and from the United Nations, the European Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as other international agencies. It ai…
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- 9781849665766
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- 264p : ill
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- 330.1260947 GLO g
Educational Jobs:Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow the supply and demand for young people to meet in the different types of social economy bodies. In particular, it concentrates on the problem of how to bring into line initial u…
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- 9788866558293
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- 218p : ill
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- 330 EDU e
Digital humanities and libraries and archives in religious studies :an introd…
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to c…
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- 9783110536539
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- 167 pg; ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
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