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South Asian Atlantic literature, 1970-2010
The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of key cinematic works. She explores the formal and…
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- 9780748641888
- Collation
- viii, 256p.
- Series Title
- Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
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- 820.900914 MAX s
The demography of disasters : impacts for population and place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change)…
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- 9783030499204
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- xvii, 268p. : ill.
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- 363.34 DEM d
Elicitive curricular development: a manual for scholar-practitioners developm…
The Elicitive Curricular Development Manual (ECDM) is a systematic collection of experiences and lessons identified in academic contexts around the world in Austria, Cambodia, Colombia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Iraq. The ECDM reflects core elicitive principles such as the importance of a focus on relationships, looking beyond the episode of conflict, collaboration, communication and local knowledge…
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- 9783903187795
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- 60p.: ill.
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- 378 ALV e
Healthy minds in the twentieth century : in and beyond the asylum
This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional wal…
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- 9783030272753
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- xiii, 274p. : ill.
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- 362.1 HEA h
DevOps for Digital Leaders : Reignite Business with a Modern DevOps-Enabled S…
Learn to design, implement, measure, and improve DevOps programs that are tailored to your organization. This concise guide assists leaders who are accountable for the rapid development of high-quality software applications. In DevOps for Digital Leaders, deep collective experience on both sides of the dev–ops divide informs the global thought leadership and penetrating insights of the aut…
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- 9781484218426
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- xv, 173p. : ill.
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- 005.1 RAV d
Touring Pacific cultures
edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.
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- 9781921862441
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- xix, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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- 155 ALE t
Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and culture attention shifts to the tropics, to Indonesia, in colonial times as well as in the present. Subjects ran…
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- 9789067183758
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- xii, 204 p.
- Series Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 958.9 CLE c
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