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New social mobility: second generation pioneers in Europe
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…
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- -
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- 9783031055669
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- v, 171p.: ill.
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- -
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- 309.17445 NEW n
Cultural-historical perspectives on collective intelligence : patterns in pro…
In the era of digital communication, collective problem solving is increasingly important. Large groups can now resolve issues together in completely different ways, which has transformed the arts, sciences, business, education, technology, and medicine. Collective intelligence is something we share with animals and is different from machine learning and artificial intelligence. To design and u…
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- 8
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- 9781108981361
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- xviii, 448p, ill.
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- 006.3824 CUL R
Architecture and fire : a psychoanalytic approach to conservation
Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Follo…
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- 16
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- 9781787353701
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- xiv, 210p.; ill.
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- -
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- 720.288 ARC z
Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought togethe…
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- 12
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- 9783030807672
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- xxiii; 574p; ill.
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- -
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- 634.9 CLI R
The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation
The first ever interdisciplinary handbook in the field, this vital resource offers wide-ranging analysis of health research regulation. The chapters confront gaps between documented law and research in practice, and draw on legal, ethical and social theories about what counts as robust research regulation to make recommendations for future directions. The Handbook provides an account and analys…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108620024
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- xix, 444 p ; ill
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- -
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- 344.04196 CAM G
Beyond the silk roads : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia
Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus M…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108974387
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- xiii, 289.; ill.
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- -
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- 382.095 MAR b
Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution : collective action in the Afri…
The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to su…
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- Edisi 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009256148
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- xiii, 355p.: ill.
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- -
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- 305.89607294 EDD r
Pandemic Kinship : Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Ti…
Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009150200
- Collation
- xiii, 328p, : ill
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- -
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- 306.85096883 KOR
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
This book provides the first in-depth empirical study of the European Parliament's powers of scrutiny of the executive in the European Union (EU) political system, focusing on the politically salient field of the Economic and Monetary Union. The expansion of executive decision-making during the euro crisis was accompanied by an empowerment of the European Parliament through legislative oversigh…
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- first edition
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- 9781108614306
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- x, 396p,:ill,
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- -
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- 782.120943097471 DER g
Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Collective Intelligence
In the era of digital communication, collective problem solving is increasingly important. Large groups can now resolve issues together in completely different ways, which has transformed the arts, sciences, business, education, technology, and medicine. Collective intelligence is something we share with animals and is different from machine learning and artificial intelligence. To design and u…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108981361
- Collation
- xiii, 448p,: ill,
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.3824 ROL c
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