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Architecture as a way of seeing and learning : the built environment as an ad…
At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask.…
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- 9781800080119
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- xvii, 189 p. ill;
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- 720.10309676 ARC N
Resisting postmodern architecture : critical regionalism before globalisation
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are …
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- 9781800081338
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- xxiii, 394 p. ill;
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- 724.6 RES S
The tenacity of the couple-norm : intimate citizenship regimes in a changing …
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal. By investigating how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has changed over time, and how it varies between places and social groups, this boo…
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- 13
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- 9781787358898
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- ix, 307p.; ill.
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- 306.7094 TEN r
Repurposing the green belt in the 21st century
The green belt has been one of the UK’s most consistent and successful planning policies. Over the past century, it has limited urban sprawl and preserved the countryside around our cities, but is it still fit for purpose in a world of unprecedented urban growth and potentially catastrophic climate change? Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century examines the history of the green bel…
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- 11
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- 9781787358843
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- xiv, 185p.; ill.
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- 307.120941 REP b
Content Embedded Literacy in The Workplace
The topic of embedded literacy, closely connected to embedded learning on one hand, and training in the workplace on the other, is a central theme for reflection on adult education in Europe and around the world. The Council of Europe indicates knowledge as a pivotal element for the economic and social development of the EU countries and the workplace is an important place for the learning and …
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- 9788864530871
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Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple…
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- 10
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- 9783030888022
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- xxxix; 195p; ill.
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- 338.1 SOC C
Lifelines : the traffic of trauma
Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
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- 2
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- 9781478092728
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- xi, 305p.; ill.
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- 363.125650954792 LIF s
Games of history : games and gaming as historical sources
Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history. From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and me…
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- 10
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- 9780367358914
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- ix, 200p.; ill.
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- 371.397 GAM s
The things that really matter: : philosophical conversations on the cornersto…
While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It feature…
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- 9781800082175
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- ix, 290 p.
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- 128 THI M
Empire Under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imaginati…
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…
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- 9783030847173
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- xiii, 294 p.
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- 823.8093561 EMP E
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