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Understanding racism in a post-racial world : visible invisibilities
This book addresses the question: how can we talk about race in a world that is considered post-racial, a world where race doesn’t exist? Kamaloni engages with the tradition of everyday racism and traces the process of racialisation through the interaction of bodies in space. Exploring the embodied experience exposes the idea of post-racialism as a response to continued cultural anxieties abo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030109851
- Collation
- X, 221p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8 SUN u
Dimensione didattica, tecnologica e organizzativa. La costruzione del process…
Volume pertama dari proyek editorial dibagi menjadi dua karya: ini didedikasikan untuk hubungan antara dimensi metodologis-didaktik, teknologi dan organisasi dalam proses inovasi sekolah; yang kedua didedikasikan untuk guru pendidikan inklusif dan peran teknologi dalam layanan penilaian keterampilan dan bimbingan karir. Tujuan dari kedua karya tersebut sama: mengumpulkan refleksi dan mendukung …
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1030823026
- Collation
- 226 p
- Series Title
- Media e tecnologie per la didattica - Open Access, 1
- Call Number
- 370
Global warming and climate change: what Australia knew and buried...then fram…
1988: coming to grips with a terrifying global experiment The Toronto conference statement made it clear that climate change would affect everyone. It called greenhouse gas atmospheric pollution an ‘uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war’. World governments were urged to swiftly develop emission reduction targets (The …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925021912
- Collation
- 230 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.73874 TAY g
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783034339872
- Collation
- 358 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.8508691 FLO d
Animating Unpredictable Effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood's RetD Complex
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media indus…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030742270
- Collation
- xi + 206 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.4334 GOW a
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
- Edition
- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Local knowledge matters
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledg…
- Edition
- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447348085
- Collation
- III, 192 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.609598
The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technolo…
In the near future, the high volume of content together with new emerging and mission critical applications is expected to stress the Internet to such a degree that it will possibly not be able to respond adequately to its new role. This challenge has motivated many groups and research initiatives worldwide to search for structural modifications to the Internet architecture in order to be able …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783642208980
- Collation
- XVI, 465p
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 004.678 TFI m
Romano Del Nord. Teoria e prassi del progetto di architettura
Romano Del Nord has been a point of reference for Architectural Technology and a protagonist in academic research and the realization of building programs. Meditating on his work brings out the relationship between research, cultural and social commitment and realization skills that distinguished his mindset and his way of acting. The book offers a reasoned rereading of his writings, drawn from…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788855183192
- Collation
- 482 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720 ROB r
Invisible search and online search engines : the ubiquity of search in everyd…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structur…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138328617
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 025.0425 HAI
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