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Querying childhood: feminist reframings
This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, disability, religion, and nation, questions of age and its importance for feminism have been less well defined. Drawing on recent literature on…
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- 9781003465256
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- xiii, 323 pages; illustration
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- 305.23 SCH q
Human sustainability and cognitive overload at work: the psychological cost o…
This innovative book considers the cost of cognitive overload and psychological distress on human sustainability, and suggests ways to prevent employees from becoming a psychologically depleted workforce. Employee attentional processing capacity is maxed out, and psychological distress is at an all-time high. Alexander D. Stajkovic and Kayla S. Stajkovic explain how human cognitive ‘broadban…
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- 9781003399087
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- xi, 107 pages; illustration
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- 158.7 STA h
Foreign in two homelands: racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history
Between 1961 and 1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands
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- 9781009486682
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- xvi, 358 pages; illustration
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- Publications of the German Historical Institute
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- 305.894 KAH f
The borders of violence: temporary migration and domestic and family violence
This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration system both sustain and enable violence against women. In doing so this book demonstrates how str…
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- 9781003416159
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- xvii, 204 pages; illustration
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- 362.82 SEG t
Radically legal: Berlin constitutes the future
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discover a forgotten clause that allows them to reclaim their homes from multi-billion corporations. Kusiak argues that to save our cities from the housing crisis we need a revolution powered by the law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009516914
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- xii, 188 pages; illustration
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- 344.43 KUS r
Medicine and practical ethics in Galen
Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen's role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now
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- 9781009247795
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- xv, 300 pages
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- 610.938 XEN m
Governing privacy in knowledge commons
Privacy, in contrast with secrecy, is a relational concept, achieved when personal information is shared appropriately between actors. Viewed in this way, privacy is necessarily contextual and complex because norms about appropriate flows and use of personal information are socially negotiated and often contested. (Nissenbaum, 2009) Privacy is thus a problem of collective action. Moreover, pers…
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- 9781108749978
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- xi, 289 pages; illustration
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- Cambridge studies on governing knowledge commons
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- 342.08 SAN g
Harnessing public research for innovation in the 21st century: an internation…
Universities and public research institutes play a key role in the innovation ecosystem. Many countries have implemented national strategies to support the commercialization of knowledge produced by public institutions, to help take their innovations and scientific breakthroughs to market and ultimately boost economic growth. Research bodies themselves have also introduced practices to support …
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- 9781108842792
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- 544 p
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- Intellectual property, innovation and economic development
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- 607.2 ARU h
States-in-waiting: a counter narrative of global decolonization
States-in-Waiting narrates how postcolonial statehood did not fulfill the aspirations of many nationalist claimants demanding independence. Foregrounding little-known regions and the networks connecting them to global politics, Lydia Walker illuminates the un-endings of decolonization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009305815
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- xvi, 283 pages; illustration
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- Global and international history
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- 320.9 WAL s
Digital health care outside of traditional clinical settings: ethical, legal,…
A book like this is the result of the hard work of many. We thank our student line editors for their meticulous work.1 We are grateful to Laura Chong and Chloe Reichel for their administrative support in organizing the conference that gave rise to this book. We are also grateful for Laura Chong’s hard work shepherding all the many pieces of this manuscript. We thankfully acknowledge the …
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- 9781009373234
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- xvii, 196 p ; 24 cm
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- 610.285 COH d
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