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The environmental rule of law for oceans:designing legal solutions
Our oceans need a strong and effective environmental rule of law to protect them against increased pressures and demands, including climate change, pollution, fisheries, shipping and more. The environmental rule of law for oceans requires the existence of a set of rules and policies at multiple governance levels that appropriately regulate human activities at sea and ensure that pressures on th…
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- 9781009253741
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- xxxiii, 380 pages; illustration
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- 341.4 POZ t
Schooling the nation:education and everyday politics in Egypt
Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, sh…
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- 9781108956031
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- xii, 270 pages; illustration
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- 370.962 RAM s
Innovation-development detours for latecomers:managing global-local interface…
Drawing on extensive empirical studies of firms and industries around the world, this book presents a rich menu of development pathways, including a new role by a Schumpeterian state to initiate detours and leapfrogging in not only manufacturing but also resource or IT- service sectors
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- 9781009456234
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- xix, 284 pages; illustration
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- 338.9009172 LEE i
The individual in the economic and monetary union:a study of legal accountabi…
The European Union's response to the financial crisis was designed in a way that prevented EU citizens from holding decision-makers accountable. This book reimagines legal accountability by focusing on the citizen, who should be at the centre of the common interest in the EU, with solidarity and equality as guiding principles.
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- 9781009207942
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- xxv, 220 pages
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- 346.402 BOB t
International courts versus non-compliance mechanisms:comparative advantages …
The effective implementation of treaties is essential. This book examines the advantages of non-compliance mechanisms (NCMs) versus that of international courts and tribunals to support treaty fulfilment. It brings together globally-recognised names in international law, human rights law, environmental and climate change law, and trade law.
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- 9781009373913
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- xx, 508 pages; illustration
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- 341.5 VOI i
Out of place:fieldwork and positionality in law and society
This volume is a call to embrace the power of positionality, telling a new history of law and society through the experiences of successful scholars from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Experts record their positionalities across their research and document what they learned about the law in the process.
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- 9781009338219
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- xv, 224 pages; illustration
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- 340.115 CHU o
Gods of the sea:whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country
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- 9781009305532
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- ix, 224 pages; illustration
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- 639.2 HOL g
Media and society after technological disruption
This interdisciplinary collection studies the Internet's effects on traditional media. Part 1 deals with the breakdown of trust in the media; Part 2 outlines the changing law of defamation and privacy; Part 3 analyzes the challenge of online content moderation; and Part 4 considers the financial challenges facing journalistic enterprises
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- 9781009174411
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- xiii, 293 pages
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- 302.23 LAN m
Religious dissimulation and early modern drama:the limits of toleration
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
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- 9781009226295
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- xi, 274 pages
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- 822.309382 SCH r
Open access and the library
Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution.The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the…
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- 9783038977407
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- vii, 131p. : ill.
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- 026.3 OPE o
Implementing open access mandates in Europe - OpenAIRE study on the developme…
The implementation of open access policies in Europe is a socio-technical undertaking whereby a wide range of stakeholders work together to bring out the benefits of open access for European and global research. This work provides a unique overview of national awareness of open access in 32 European countries involving all EU member states and in addition, Norway, Iceland, Croatia, Switzerland …
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- 9783863950958
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- 175p. : ill.
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- 070.57973094 SCH i
Safe to be open :study on the protection of research data and recommendations…
This study addresses the most important legal issues when implementing an open access e-infrastructure for research data. It examines the legal requirements for different kinds of usage of research data in an open access infrastructure, such as OpenAIREplus, which links them to publications. The existing legal framework regarding potentially relevant intellectual property (IP) rights is analyse…
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- 9783863951474
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- 165p. : ill.
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- 025.52 SAF s
Critical perspectives on cultural memory and heritage
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural h…
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- 9781787354845
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- XVIII, 315 p.
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- 949.601 APA c
Open access and the humanities :contexts, controversies and the future
If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversie…
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- 9781107484016
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- xv, 209p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 EVE o
The deliverance of open access books :examining usage and dissemination
In many scholarly disciplines, books - not articles - are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented. The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open …
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- 9789085551201
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- 234p. : ill.
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- 002.09 SNI d
Interpretive social research :an introduction
This volume is a clear introduction to methods of data collection and analysis in the social sciences, with a special focus on interpretive methods based on a logic of discovering hypotheses and grounded theories. The chief methods presented are participant observation, open interviews and biographical case reconstruction. The special advantages of interpretive methods, as against other qualita…
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- 9783863953744
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- 246p. : ill.
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- 301 ROS i
Research integration using dialogue methods
Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires expert knowledge from a range of disciplines, as well as from stakeholders affected by the problem and those in a position to do something about it. This book charts new territory in taking a systematic approach to research integ…
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- 9781921536755
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- ix, 165p. : ill.
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- 001.4 MCD r
Equitable research partnerships :a global code of conduct to counter ethics d…
This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework predicated on fairness, respect, care and honesty, both codes target ethics dumping – the export of unethical research practices from a high-income setting to a lower- o…
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- 9783030157456
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- xix, 122p : ill,
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- 174.9 SCH e
Humanities Research Centre :a history of the first 30 years of the HRC at the…
Humanities; Research; History
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- 9789751229830
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- xiii, 400p. : ill.
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- 001.307119471 BAR h
Chapter 4 preschool education
"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Education will present the state of the art of the place and role of translation in educational contexts worldwide. It lays a sound foundation for the future interdisciplinary cooperation between Translation Studies and Educational Linguistics. By adopting a transdisciplinary perspective, the handbook will bring together the various fields of schol…
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- 9780367854850
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- 64-80p.: ill.
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- 418.02 COR c
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