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Doing family on the move : highly-skilled migrants in Switzerland and Germany
This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The ma…
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- 9783034339872
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- 358 p
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- 306.8508691 FLO d
Greening Europe
The third installment of the ‘European Public Investment Outlook’ series is an important and timely publication that draws together recent analyses to recommend significant increases in public investment in green ventures. Compelling data from key economists affiliated with international organizations like the International Monetary Fund, European Investment Bank and the European Commission…
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- 9781800649071
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- xxvi; 218 pg; ill.
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- 363.70094 GRE g
Public Health in Asia During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization is coming under increasing pressure. As its credibility is slowly being eroded by public displays of incompetence and negligence, it has also become an arena of contestatio…
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- 9789048555246
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- Public health & preventive medicine
Academia in transformation : scholars facing the Arab uprisings
Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have had a deep impact, not only on the societies and political structures in the respective countries there, but also on different academic disciplines. The events that started in 2010 in Tunisia have altered academic terminology, contributed to a shift in study focus and sometimes challenged dominant theoretical approaches. The book…
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- 9783845274348
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- 223 p.
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- 378.56 KOH a
Consumer data protection in Brazil, China and Germany
The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people’s everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for consumers, but it can also bear risks, such as the indiscriminate collection, storage and cross-border flow of personal data, illegal spying on Internet activities, disseminat…
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- 9783863952365
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- 222 p. ; 24 cm
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- 343.071 CON c
The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook
This timely and insightful collection of essays written by economists from a range of academic and policy institutes explores the subject of public investment through two avenues. The first examines public investment trends and needs in Europe, addressing the initiatives taken by European governments to tackle the COVID-19 recession and to rebuild their economies. The second identifies key doma…
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- 9781800643529
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- xxvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 17.8 cm.
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- 332.64 CER t
Design science and its importance in the German mathematics educational discu…
This ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, it presents two examples of current design science projects that focus on substantial learning environments including a student and a teacher perspective. Subsequently, the book elaborates on how empirical research can be conceptualised within design science. Lastly, it exp…
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- 9783319435428
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- vii, 43p. : ill.
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- 510.71 DES d
A European public investment outlook
"This outlook provides a focused assessment of the state of public capital in the major European countries and identifies areas where public investment could contribute more to stable and sustainable growth. A European Public Investment Outlook brings together contributions from a range of international authors from diverse intellectual and professional backgrounds, providing a valuable resourc…
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- 9781800640139
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- XXII, 198 p.
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- Open Reports Series
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- 658 CER e
One hundred years of chemical warfare: research, deployment, consequences
On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The …
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- 9783319516646
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- xi, 408p. : ill.
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- 355 ONE o
Family therapy - new intervention programs and researches
This book is a collection of chapters written by a number of scientists from all over the world, who provide their insights not only into family therapy but also into new interesting interventions, programs, and research. The book adopts a perspective that respects the complexity of human beings and their family relationships. It devotes a space to the deepening of both psychological and social…
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- 9781789843019
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- 164 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306.8 FAM f
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