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Football in fiction:a history
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, c…
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- 9780429344053
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- ix, 184 p
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- 809.393579
Sociology in Germany :a history
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 9783030718664
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- 301.0943 MOE s
Contemporary narratives of ageing, illness, care
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre per…
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- 9781003058618
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- viii + 208 p
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- 362.6
Learning to diagnose with simulations :examples from teacher education and me…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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- 9783030891473
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- vi; 157p;
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- 616.075 LEA F
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms :Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
Targeted' Experiences Of Racism In NSW After September 11, 2001
Targeted researches experiences of racism in New South Wales after September 11, 2001. The monograph analyses data collected by the anti-racism hotline established by the Community Relations Commission For a Multicultural NSW (CRC). It details a significant increase in racially motivated violence and verbal abuse in NSW in the months following the US 2001 September 11 attacks and finds these in…
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Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion :culture, economy …
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several su…
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- 9783030834036
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- xvi; 272p;
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- 361.61 NET M
Big Digital Humanities:Imagining a Meeting Place For The Humanities And The D…
Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn’t “count” as Digital Humanities work. Svensson’s articles provided a w…
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- 9780472053063
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Beyond The State; The Colonial Medical Service In British Africa
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally…
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The Lumumba Generation
How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of a bourgeois African elite, the book deals with the social identity and cultural self-representations, the daily life and political activism …
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- 9783110709308
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Educational perspectives on mediality and subjectivation :discourse, power an…
This open access book examines the complex relationship between education, media and power. Exploring the entanglement of education media and power structures, the contributions use various examples and case studies to demonstrate how subjectivation processes and digital structures interact with one another. The book asks which modes of subjectivation can be identified with current media cultur…
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- 9783030843434
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- xiii; 136p;
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- 371.33 EDU P
Digital platform regulation :global perspectives on internet governance
“When it comes to the governance of digital platforms, the question of who is regulating whom is now serious enough that scholars have begun to refer to governments as platforms, too. This volume provides a valuable sampling of how this problem looks from the side of government […]” — Sandra Braman, author of Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power; Texas A&M University …
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- 9783030952204
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- xvii; 319p;
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- 384.334 DIG T
Learning to diagnose with simulations :examples from teacher education and me…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030891473
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- vi; 157p;
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 616.075 LEA F
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms :Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009235211
- Collation
- xi, 332 p ; ill
- Series Title
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- 370.9481 POL
Targeted' Experiences Of Racism In NSW After September 11, 2001
Targeted researches experiences of racism in New South Wales after September 11, 2001. The monograph analyses data collected by the anti-racism hotline established by the Community Relations Commission For a Multicultural NSW (CRC). It details a significant increase in racially motivated violence and verbal abuse in NSW in the months following the US 2001 September 11 attacks and finds these in…
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Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion :culture, economy …
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several su…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030834036
- Collation
- xvi; 272p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 361.61 NET M
Big Digital Humanities:Imagining a Meeting Place For The Humanities And The D…
Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn’t “count” as Digital Humanities work. Svensson’s articles provided a w…
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- 9780472053063
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Collective bargaining and the gig economy :a traditional tool for new busines…
This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries, either at company or at branch level. Offline workers such as riders, food deliverers, drivers or providers of cleaning services are slowly…
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- 9781509956210
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- xvi, 320p.
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- 344.40189 COL m
The Pathway to Publishing:A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curr…
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- 9783030981754
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- XIII; 186p;
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- 808.06661 PAT S
Economic diversification in Nigeria :the politics of building a post-oil economy
Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the ‘curse’ of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria’s major development challenge is not the ‘oil curse’, but rather one of achieving economic diversification be…
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- 9781786993977
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- xiii, 313p.
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- 338.9669 ECO u
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