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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education: International Practice and Emergin…
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319131351
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- 378.101 CUR m
Early childhood policies and systems in eight countries: findings from IEA's …
Educational policy; Early childhood systems; Aims of early childhood education; Education reform
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- 9783319398471
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- 372.21 BER e
The restless compendium : interdisciplinary investigations of rest and Its op…
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Neve…
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- 9783319452647
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- xvii, 205p. : ill.
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- 306.48 RES r
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new an…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
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- 9783319424248
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- viii. 232p. : ill.
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- 330.01 NON n
Feeling gender : a generational and psychosocial approach
This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores…
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- 9781349950829
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- xiii, 336p. : ill.
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Mobilities of knowledge
This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first…
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- 9783319446530
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- x, 303p. : ill.
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- 304.2 MOB m
Childlessness in Europe : contexts, causes, and consequences
This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region. The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Ki…
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- 9783319446677
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- xi, 370p. : ill.
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- 306.85094 CHI c
History without chronology
Although numerous disciplines recognize multiple ways of conceptualizing time, Stefan Tanaka argues that scholars still overwhelmingly operate on chronological and linear Newtonian or classical time that emerged during the Enlightenment. This short, approachable book implores the humanities and humanistic social sciences to actively embrace the richness of different times that are evident in no…
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- 9781643150048
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- XIV, 202 p.
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- 115 TAN h
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patter…
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- 9789400715455
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- 304.82 WIN a
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: between entanglement and…
This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book argues that all three countries have reached a new era of post high-growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxietie…
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- 9789048551613
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- 300 CHI c
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