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Biological invasions in South Africa
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented in attempts to control invasions and to reduce their ecological, economic and social effects. It covers a broad range of themes, including history, policy development and …
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- 9783030323943
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- xxiv, 975p. : ill.
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- 577.18 BIO b
Museums in a Digital Culture
The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural …
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- 9789089646613
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- 143p.: ill.
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- 069.0285 VAN m
The social dynamics of open data
The Social Dynamics of Open Data is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 2nd Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS) held in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2016. Research is critical to developing a more rigorous and fine-combed analysis not only of why open data is valuable, but how it is valuable and under what specific conditions. The objective of the Open Data Research Symposium a…
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- 9781928331575
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- viii, 210 p.
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- 352.88
The Palgrave handbook of family policy
This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, s…
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- 9783030546182
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- xx, 721p. : ill.
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- 300 PAL p
How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery
Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves tha…
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- 9789048529933
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- x, 173p.: ill.
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- 938 OYE h
Data privacy and trust in cloud computing : building trust in the cloud throu…
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has never been seen before in human history. However, this brave new world comes with problems. Several high-profile cases o…
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- 9783030546601
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- xxi, 149p. : ill.
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- 005.8 DAT d
The Boy from Boort
Hank Nelson was an academic, film-maker, teacher, graduate supervisor and university administrator. His career at The Australian National University (ANU) spanned almost 40 years of notable accomplishment in expanding and deepening our understanding of the history and politics of Papua New Guinea, the experience of Australian soldiers at war, bush schools and much else. This book is a highly re…
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- 9781925021646
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- x, 224p.: ill.
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- 994.007202 DAV b
The state and illegality in Indonesia
The popular 1998 reformasi movement that brought down President Suharto’s regime demanded an end to illegal practices by state officials, from human rights abuse to nepotistic investments. Yet today, such practices have proven more resistant to reform than people had hoped. Many have said corruption in Indonesia is “entrenched”. We argue it is precisely this entrenched character that requ…
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- 9789067183710
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- xii, 328p.: ill.
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- 364.132309598 ASP s
In Search of Middle Indonesia : middle classes in provincial towns
The middle classes of Indonesia’s provincial towns are not particularly rich yet nationally influential. This book examines them ethnographically. Rather than a market-friendly, liberal middle class, it finds a conservative petty bourgeoisie just out of poverty and skilled at politics. Please note that Sylvia Tidey's article (pp. 89-110) will only be available in the print edition of this book
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- 9789004263437
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- xiii, 239 p.; 22 cm.
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- (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, ISSN 1572-1892 ; volume 292) (Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 4)
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- 305.5’509598 INS i
The Gender-sensitive university : a contradiction in terms?
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemp…
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- 9780367431174
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- 378.1982 GEN g
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