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Educating mind, body and spirit : the legacy of quintin hogg and the polytech…
"The story of the Polytechnic and of the legacy of Quintin Hogg is the third publication exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. A fitting tribute to the life and legacy of Hogg, his holistic approach to education and the institute he created. This book is richly illustrated with images from the University's Archive. A print paperback can be purchased direct from the…
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- 9781911534174
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- 378.42132 GLE e
An education in sport : competition, communities and identities at the Univer…
"The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage. A print paperback can be purchased direct from th…
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- 9781911534143
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- 378.4213209034 CLA a
Finding voice : a visual arts approach to engaging social change
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and backgrounds can contribute to economic stability by developing new skills, as well as enhancing pu…
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- 9780472073665
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- ix, 225p. : ill.
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- 701.03 BER f
Early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China : kaleidoscopic…
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a…
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- 9780472073726
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- ix, 354p. : ill.
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- 791.430951 YEH e
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
Higher education reforms in Romania
Romania is an active player in various international higher education areas, while undergoing a series of higher education reforms within its national framework. The Higher Education Evidence Based Policy Making: a necessary premise for progress in Romania project was implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) in the timefra…
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- 9783319080536
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- 370 CUR h
Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age
This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully selected from 36 submissions. …
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- 9783319737065
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- XIII, 310 p.
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- 006.35 LAN l
A world of fiction : digital collections and the future of literary history
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided Australian readers with access to stories from around the world—from Britain, America an…
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- 9780472130856
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- viii, 252p. : ill.
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- 809.3034 BOD a
Programming languages and systems
This volume contains the papers presented at the 28th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2019) held April 8–11, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. ESOP is one of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). It is devoted to fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems. The 28 papers in t…
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- 9783030171841
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- XV, 816 p.
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- 005.1 PRO p
Online hate speech in the European Union : a discourse-analytic perspective
Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal and policy documents, there is no universally accepted definition, which in itself warrants research into how hatred is both expressed and perceived. The research project synthesises discourse analytic and corpus linguistics techniques, and presents its key findings here. The focus is especially on online comments posted in reaction to n…
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- 9783319726045
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- VIII, 90 p.
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- SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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- 323.443094 ASS o
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