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Security in an interconnected world : a strategic vision for defence policy
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU …
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- 9783030376062
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- x, 183p. : ill.
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- 355.033 SEC s
Politics of (dis) integration
This open access book explores how contemporary integration policies and practices are not just about migrants and minority groups becoming part of society but often also reflect deliberate attempts to undermine their inclusion or participation. This affects individual lives as well as social cohesion. The book highlights the variety of ways in which integration and disintegration are related t…
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- 9783030250898
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- xiv, 217p. : ill.
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- 305.8 POL p
Indigenous cultures and sustainable development in Latin America
This open access book outlines development theory and practice overtime as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and th…
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- 9783030370237
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- ix, 253p. : ill.
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- 306.098 MAC i
New direction in strategic thinking 2.0
"The Australian National University’s Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is Australia’s premier university-based strategic studies think tank. Fifty years after the Centre was founded in 1966, SDSC celebrated its continued research, publications, teaching and government advisory role with a two-day conference entitled ‘New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2.0’. The event saw the …
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- 9781760462222
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- xxv, 237p.: ill.
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- 355.343 NEW n
Enabling things to talk : designing IoT solutions with the IoT architectural …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to auto…
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- 9783642404030
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- x, 349p. : ill.
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- 004.678 ENA e
The mythology in our language
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s “Golden Bough.". At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by an anthropologist, …
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- 9780990505068
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- IX, 250 p.
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- 201.3 WIT m
Cultures in Collision and Conversation : Essays in the Intellectual History o…
In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible; and Messianic visions, movements, and d…
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- 9781618117915
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- XIII, 367 p.
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- Judaism and Jewish Life
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- 296.39 BER c
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and T…
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- 9780520966291
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- XI, 300 p.
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- 294.509548 FIS h
Nuaulu Religious Practices : The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a M…
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in perform…
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- 9789004253452
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- xxviii, 356 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 283
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- 299.9222 ELL n
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs : a new look at the reli…
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields an outstanding contribution to the uniqueness of Majapahit culture.
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- 9789004258655
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- XVII, 397 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 280
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- 294.550959828 KIE f
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