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A political science manifesto for the age of populism : challenging growth, m…
Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…
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- 9781108785440
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- x, 245p. : ill.
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- 320.473 RIC p
Ethnicity, race, religion : identities and ideologies in early jewish and chr…
Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of identity that have become increasingly contested. The modern discipline of biblical studies developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume deal both with historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, in particular in relation to the identities of Jew…
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- 9780567677310
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- IX, 241 p.
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- 270.1089 ETH e
Rangeland systems: process, management and challenges
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresse…
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- 9783319467092
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- xv, 661p.: ill.
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- 577.4 RAN r
Tracking rural change: community, policy and technology in Australia, New Zea…
A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has…
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- 9781921536533
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- v, 187 p. : ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
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- 307.72 MER t
Open access in theory and practice: the theory-practice relationship and open…
"Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes “theory”, and how th…
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- 9780429276842
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- xii, 244p.: ill.
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- 286.063 PIN o
Making institutional repositories work
Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of perceived value and use by scholars, fear of copyright infringement, and the like tended to dampen excitement and adoption.This collection of essays, arranged in five thematic …
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- 9781612494227
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- XXVI, 360 p.
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- Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
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- 025.04 CAL m
Global water : issues and insights
This book brings together some of the world’s leading water researchers with an especially written collection of chapters on: water economics; transboundary water; water and development; water and energy; and water concepts.
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- 9781925021677
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- 239p. : ill.
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- 333.9100994 GLO g
New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neo…
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- 9781760460952
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- xx, 384p. : ill.
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- Terra australis 45
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- 959.01 NEW n
Ancient worlds in digital culture
Abstract The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the “Biblical Studies” in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century.
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- 9789004325234
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- 318 p.; 23 cm.
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- 220.0285
The archaeology of Sulawesi: current research on the pleistocene to the histo…
The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from Indonesia and Australia come together to present their research findi…
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- 9781760462574
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- xx, 357 p. : illus ; 29 cm
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- Terra australis 48
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- 930.1 THE t
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