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Paths and rivers ; Sa’dan Toraja society in transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and th…
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- 9789067183079
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- xxxii, 510 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 305.89922 WAT p
Youthquake 2017 : the rise of young cosmopolitans in Britain
This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party – from both a comparative and a theoretical perspective. It compares youth turnout and party allegiance over time and traces changes in youth political participation in the UK s…
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- 9783319974699
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- xiii, 129p. : ill.
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- 323.04208350941 SLO y
Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice o…
The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan liveli…
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- 9789004252479
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- XIV, 332 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 959.847 DEJ m
Politics of security: British and West German protest movements and the early…
The Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World Wa…
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- First edition.
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- 9780199681228
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- xiv, 342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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- Oxford historical monographs
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- 322.4094109045 NEH p
The Impact of losing your job
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, fami…
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- 9789089648051
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- 264 p.; 22 cm.
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- Changing Welfare States
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- 331.25 EHL i
Digital video concepts, methods, and metrics : quality, compression, performa…
Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient understanding to choose and tune coding parameters for optimum …
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- 9781430267133
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- xvii, 368p. : ill.
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- 006.696 AKR d
A practical guide to TPM 2.0 : using the Trusted Platform Module in the new a…
A Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security is a straight-forward primer for developers. It shows security and TPM concepts, demonstrating their use in real applications that the reader can try out. Simply put, this book is designed to empower and excite the programming community to go out and do cool things with the TPM. The approach is to ramp t…
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- 9781430265849
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- xxvii, 392p. : ill.
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- 005.82 ART p
Aging and self-realization
Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of thought about self-realization and explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the p…
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- 9783839444221
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- Aging Studies
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- 649.8 LAC a
Mental imagery in clinical disorders
Mental imagery refers to the mental simulation or recreation of perceptual experience across different sensory modalities. The exploration of mental imagery represents a new and important area within clinical psychology, but arguably one still in its infancy. While mental imagery has featured prominently in recent theoretical accounts of disorders as diverse as post-traumatic stress disorder, p…
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- 9782889452620
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- 106 p.; 22 cm.
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- 362.2 PEA m
Faith-based organizations in development discourses and practice
Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development. Examining the engagement of FBOs with contemporary politics of development, the contributions stress the agency of FBOs in diverse con…
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- 9780429351211
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- ix, 168p. : ill.
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- 361.75091724 FAI f
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