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Radically legal:Berlin constitutes the future
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover a forgotten clause that allows them to reclaim their homes from multi-billion corporations. Kusiak argues that to save our cities from the housing crisis we need a revolution powered by the law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009516914
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- xii, 188 pages; illustration
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- 344.43 KUS r
Foreign in two homelands:racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history
Between 1961 and 1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands
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- 9781009486682
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- xvi, 358 pages; illustration
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- 305.894 KAH f
Querying childhood:feminist reframings
This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on…
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- 9781003465256
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- xiii, 323 pages; illustration
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- 305.23 SCH q
Planning and analyzing teaching:using the variation theory of learning
Using illustrative teaching case studies, this book demonstrates how teaching informed by a learning theory, specifically variation theory, can equip teachers to facilitate possibilities for students' learning in effective and powerful ways. For a long period of time teaching has been "black-boxed", in favour of other explanations of why students learn or not, such as motivation and social inte…
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- 9781003194903
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- xiii, 103 pages; illustration
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- 371.102 KUL p
The borders of violence:temporary migration and domestic and family violence
This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration system both sustain and enable violence against women. In doing so this book demonstrates how str…
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- 9781003416159
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- xvii, 204 pages; illustration
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- 362.82 SEG t
Power of the periphery:how Norway became an environmental pioneer for the world
Where does Norwegian self-confident environmental well-wishing come from? Spanning thirty years of Norwegian history, this book begins with the translation of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and ends with Norwegians attending the Earth Summit in 1992. It tells a story of how scientists considered outdoor life and environmental research to be superior. The Power of the Periphery was that o…
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- 9781108763851
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- xiii, 288 pages; illustration
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- 363.7009481 ANK p
Larisnya lapak kakak
Dunia berubah. Semua serba cepat. Jika dulu hasil kebun petani harus melalui pengepul atau tengkulak dengan harga yang ditentukan pengepul atau tengkulak, kini sudah berubah. itu semua berkat Kak Marlita. Ya, melalui lapak Kak Marlita hasil kebun dan hasil peternakan bisa langsung dipasarkan. Petani dan peternak gembira karena bisa menjual dengan harga yang baik dan cepat. Lapak digital kakak d…
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- 9786023220427
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- iv, 48 p.: ill.; 23 cm
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- 339.13 TRIS
Communicative figurations:transforming communications in times of deep mediat…
media communication; culture and society; media transformations; technical communication; media social relations and roles; social fields and institutional dynamics; identities and collectives; public debate; political decision-making; media logic; mediatization
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- 9783319655840
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- 302.2 HEP c
Responsive open learning environments outcomes of research from the ROLE proj…
This book presents the outcomes of four years of educational research in the EU-supported project called ROLE (Responsive Online Learning Environments). ROLE technology is centered around the concept of self-regulated learning that creates responsible learners, who are capable of critical thinking and able to plan their own learning processes. ROLE allows learners to independently search for a…
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- 9783319023991
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- xxvi, 252 pages; illustration
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- 371.33 KRO r
Sisters in Peace :The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in…
Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915, during the First Wor…
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- 9781760466008
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- xi, 252 p.
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- 303.6 LAI s
Trade policy and gender equality
With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses recent trade negotiations and agreements through a gender lens. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009363716
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- xxvii, 402 pages
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- 343.08 BAH t
Blockchain and crypt currency :building a high quality marketplace for crypt …
This open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transac…
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- 9789811533761
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- xiii, 141p. : ill.
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Global voices in higher education
Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the voices of higher education are presented in a way only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand. The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. In Global Voices in Higher Education, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describin…
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- 9789535132301
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- 218 p
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- 378 GLO g
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
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
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