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Literature, science and public policy from Darwin to genomics
Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature and literary study can help shape public policy concerning controversial scientific issues such as genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more. Literature brings unique insights to these issues, dramatizing their full complexity. Its value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples in chapters that take …
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- 9781009263504
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- xviii, 244 pages; illustration
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- 823.009 CLA l
Generational tensions and solidarity within advanced welfare states
This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states. Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations…
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- 9781003129592
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- xii, 216 pages : illustrations
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- Social welfare around the world
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- 305.209722 FAL g
Making sense of politics, media and law: rhetorical performance as invention,…
From Trump’s ‘make America great again’ to Johnson’s ‘build back better’, performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law ‘makers’ do it too: A courtroom trial is a ‘truth factory’ in which facts are not found but forged. The ‘court of popular opinion’ is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its product…
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- 9781009336413
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- xii, 284 pages; illustration
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- Law in context
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- 340.115 WAT m
Education for social justice: the meaning of justice and current research
Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice. Drawing on research, this book explains what social justice is, presents the argument that democracy requires a commitment to social justice, and shows what action steps need to be taken to ensure social justice is achieved within education and society more broadly. The text presents research an…
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- 9781032420301
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- xviii, 195 pages; illustration
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- 370.117 MIC e
Framing social theory: reassembling the lexicon of contemporary social sciences
This book explores the current forms of social science theorization starting from some federative themes: Agency, Anthropocene, Coloniality, Intersectionality, Othering, Singularization, Technoscience and Uncertainty. The book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory starting from some thematic issues rather than starting from authors or schools of thought. It emphasizes the usef…
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- 9781003203308
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- x, 160 pages : illustrations
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- Routledge advances in sociology
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- 300.1 REB f
Indigenous knowledges and the sustainable development agenda
"This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader indigenous struggle for rights and recognition has led to more understanding of indigenous knowledges,…
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- 9780367853785
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- xiv, 236 pages : illustrations
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- Routledge studies in indigenous peoples and policy
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- 338.9 BRE i
Environmental liberation education: diversity, mindfulness, and sustainabilit…
Environmental Liberation Education offers an easy-to-use, culturally responsive, and student-centered teaching approach to academic engagement and systemic change. It explains social-emotional tools and inquiry practices to discuss, reflect, and act for superdiverse student success, happiness, and global citizenship in a challenging, biodiverse world. The book presents three Transformative T…
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- 9781003364757
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- 370 RUB e
Community development and schools: conflict, power and promise
"This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy. It recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on tax …
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- 9781003463412
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- xvi, 160 pages : illustrations
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- Community development research and practice
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- 307.1 WAR c
Higher education institutions and digital transformation: building university…
"The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of…
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- 9781003363132
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- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge open business and economics
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- 378.1 LIS h
Managing the digital university: paradigms, leadership, and organization
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, giv…
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- 9781003366409
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- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge studies in organizational change & development
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- 378.1 SUL m
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