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Public Health in Asia During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO’s role in Asia as a global health organization is coming under increasing pressure. As its credibility is slowly being eroded by public displays of incompetence and negligence, it has also become an arena of contestatio…
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- 9789048555246
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- Public health & preventive medicine
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects essays on Pannekoek and his contemporaries at the cr…
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- 9789048535002
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- 323 p ; ill
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- 520.92 ANT
Napoleonic Governance In The Netherlands And Northwest Germany
“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, focusing on the heterogeneous community of prefects and subprefects as ‘tools of incorporation’, binding the regions to the central state. His rich comparative analysis…
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- 9783030666583
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Japan's book donation to the University of Louvain : Japanese cultural identi…
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023 With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese book donation to the University of Leuven/Louvain constitutes an invaluable time capsule of Japan’s pre-modern culture in all its diversity and richness. A century on, th…
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- 9789462702288
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- 296p.; ill.
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- 950 JAP s
Feminist Methodologies : Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections
This open access book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice. By foregrounding the experiential and embodied nature of doing feminist research, this book offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis. Emerging from a rich collective learning process, the collection offers in-depth reflections on how feminists shape research questions, understand p…
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- 9783030826543
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- xix, 296 p.
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- 305.42072 FEM W
The Kobane Generation : Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France
A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political …
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- 3
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- 9789523690431
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- ix, 294p.
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- 305.89159704 KOB t
Crime and safety in the rural : lessons from research
Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime a…
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- 9783030982904
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- xix; 123p;
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- 364.91734 CRI V
Marxisms in the 21st century : crisis, critique & struggle
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the …
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- 13
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- 9781776147052
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- vi, 304p.
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- 307.14 BON m
Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern E…
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers. It contributes to the understanding of the meaning of this concept in general, in the EU, as well as more specifically with regard to its Eastern ne…
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- 9783030526894
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- xi; 261p;
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- 325.24 CIR Z
Digital constitutionalism in Europe : reframing rights and powers in the algo…
This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European constitutional framework as a lodestar, this book examines the rise and consolidation of digital constitutionalism as a reaction to digital capitalism. The primary goal is to examine how European digital constitutiona…
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- 9781009071215
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- xv, 355p.
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- 342.4085 DEG d
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