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Drones and support for the use of force
Drones and Support for the Use of Force utilizes experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of force. The authors develop expectations drawn from social science theory and then assess these conjectures using a series of survey experiments. Their findings—that drones have had important but nuanced effects on support for the use of forceâ…
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- 9780472901173
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- 244p. : ill.
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- 358.414 WAL d
Digital scholarly editing: theories and practices
"This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress o…
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- 9781783742400
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- 290 p.; 23 cm.
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- Digital Humanities Series, vol. 4
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- 001 DIG d
Standardizing minority languages
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such …
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- 9781315647722
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- 250 p.; 23 cm.
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- 306.4409 STA s
Young people, ethics, and the new digital media : a synthesis from the GoodPl…
Social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading music and other content, uploading and sharing their own creative work: these activities made possible by the new digital media are rich with opportunities and risks for young people. This report, part of the GoodPlay Project, undertaken by researchers at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, investigat…
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- 9780262513630
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- XIV, 109 p.
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- 302.2310835 JAM y
Faith and secularisation in religious colleges and universities
This book is a detailed study of higher education institutions affiliated to particular religions. It considers the debates surrounding academic freedom, institutional governance, educational policy, mission and identity together with institutions’ relations with the state and their wider communities. A wide range of institutions are examined, including: Christian, Islamic and Jewish universi…
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- 9780203007440
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- xiv, 178p. : ill.
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- 378.07 ART f
Master poets, ritual masters : the art of oral composition among the Rotenese…
This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period of 50 years. Each of these poets offers his version of what is culturally considered to be the ‘same’ ritual chant. These compositions are examined in detail and their oral …
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- 9781760460068
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- xv, 444p. : ill
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- 398.2095987 FOX m
Collaborative production in the creative industries
"In recent years research into creative labour and cultural work has usually addressed the politics of production in these fields, but the sociotechnical and aesthetic dimensions of collaborative creative work have been somewhat overlooked. This book aims to address this gap. Through case studies that range from TV showrunning to independent publishing, from the film industry to social media pl…
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- 9781911534310
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- vii, 231p. : ill.
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- 338.477 COL c
Attitudes, beliefs, motivation and identity in mathematics education : an ove…
This book records the state of the art in research on mathematics-related affect. It discusses the concepts and theories of mathematics-related affect along the lines of three dimensions. The first dimension identifies three broad categories of affect: motivation, emotions, and beliefs. The book contains one chapter on motivation, including discussions on how emotions and beliefs relate to moti…
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- 9783319328102
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- vii, 35p. : ill.
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- 510.71 GOL a
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