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Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their a…
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- 9781760462796
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- xix, 529p. : ill.
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- 320.994 SUC s
Next generation supply chains : a roadmap for research and innovation
This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how they may impact on supply chain processe…
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- 9783030635053
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- xvi, 290p. : ill.
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- 658.5 NEX n
A Sensory education:
A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves through learning that is shaped by social and material relations. The chapters feature diverse sources of sensory education, including field manuals, mannequins, cookbooks and fla…
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- 9781003084341
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- xx, 184p.: ill.
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- 152.1 HAR s
Internal crowdsourcing in companies : theoretical foundations and practical a…
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, and offers guidelines for process-management and blueprints for the implementation of IC. Furthermore, it examines solutions for employee training and competence development…
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- 9783030528812
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- viii, 220p. : ill.
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- 658.4058028546 INT i
Digital techniques for documenting and preserving cultural heritage
This book presents interdisciplinary approaches to the examination and documentation of material cultural heritage, using non-invasive spatial and spectral optical technologies.
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- 9781942401353
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- xliv, 325p.: ill.
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- 025.8 DIG d
New cosmopolitanisms, race, and ethnicity : cultural perspectives
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “raceâ…
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- 9783110626209
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- X, 403 p.
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- 306 LUC n
Competing knowledges – wissen im widerstreit
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general knowledge and the sciences? Can there be science without universal truth claims? Questions like these are discussed in eleven essays from the perspective of Sociology, Law, …
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- 9783110659658
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- X, 220 p.
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- Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, 9
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- 121 COM c
New directions in the history of the Jews in the Polish lands
This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions—the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current sta…
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- 9788394914912
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- LXXX, 502 p.
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- 943.8004924 NEW n
Towards a multiversity? : universities between global trends and national tra…
All over the world new ideas and models emerge on how to organize the higher education sector and its institutions. The contributions in this volume identify the most influential transnational models and investigate their origins and mechanisms of dissemination as well as the resulting consequences for national systems. Will global trends in higher education lead to homogeneity or will they res…
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- 9783839404683
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- 264 p.
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- Science Studies
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- 378.101 TOW t
Updates in pediatric sleep and child psychiatry
Sleep-related symptoms are common in the majority of psychiatric diagnostic categories. The overlap of sleep and psychiatric disorders have been demonstrated in numerous studies. The understanding of sleep and child psychiatry has progressively evolved in the last decade and newer insights have developed regarding the complex interaction between sleep and psychopathology. This collection of art…
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- 9783038979395
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- 610 UPD u
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