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Cities in Asia by and for the people
edited by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi.
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- 9789048536252
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- 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- Asian cities ; 7
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- 307.76095 CAB c
How we write : thirteen ways of looking at a blank page
The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presen…
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- 9780692519332
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- 182 p.
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- Call Number
- 808.02 CON h
Civil society and transitional justice in Asia and the Pacific
edited by Lia Kent, Joanne Wallis and Claire Cronin.
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- 9781760463281
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- x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Pacific series
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- 320 LIA c
How we read : tales, fury, nothing, sound
"What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to rev…
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- 9781950192328
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- XXVII, 155 p.
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- 028.9 HOW h
Interdisciplinary approaches to multilingualism
This research topic stems from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism" conference, which was hosted by the Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary. It was the first conference of its kind, which brought together the work of researchers, educators, and policy makers in the areas of first and second language acquisition from psycholinguistic and pedagogical perspective…
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- 9782889195183
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- 89 p.; 23 cm.
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- 401.43 CUR i
Culture-Theory-Disability
Which theoretical approaches of contemporary cultural criticism can Disability Studies employ? At the same time, what can Cultural Studies gain by incorporating disability more fully as a framework for critical analysis? This international collection of essays enriches the thriving discourse of Cultural Disability Studies by offering stimulating dialogues between British, Czech, German and US-A…
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- 9783839425336
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- 269p.,
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- 305.908 WAL c
A Matter of trust: building integrity into data, statistics and records to su…
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative has the potential to set the direction for a future world that works for everyone. Approved by 193 United Nations member countries in September 2016 to help guide global and national development policies in the period to 2030, the 17 goals build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, but also include new priority areas,…
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- 9781912250349
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- xviii, 270p.: ill.
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- 338.90091724 AMA a
The science of citizen science
This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientist…
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- 9783030582784
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- vii, 529p. : ill.
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- 303.483 SCI s
Agroecology now! : transformations towards more just and sustainable food sys…
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Develo…
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- 9783030613150
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- xiv, 199p. : ill.
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- 630.277 AGR a
Higher education landscape 2030 : a trend analysis based on the AHEAD Interna…
This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project “(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)―International Horizon Scanning / Trend Analysis on Digital Higher Education.” It examines the latest developments in learning theory, didactics, and digital-education technology in con…
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- 9783030448974
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- xxi, 59p. : ill.
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- 378 HIG h
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