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Doing family on the move : highly-skilled migrants in Switzerland and Germany
This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The ma…
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- 9783034339872
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- 358 p
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- -
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- 306.8508691 FLO d
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: integration and implementation sciences for…
This book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global climate change, organised crime, and escalating health care costs. The three core domains are Synthesising disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, Understanding and managing diverse unknowns, and Providing integrated research support for poli…
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- 9781922144287
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- 496 p
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- 300.72 BAM d
Gendering the field : towards sustainable livelihoods for mining communities
The chapters in this book offer concrete examples from all over the world to show how community livelihoods in mineral-rich tracts can be more sustainable by fully integrating gender concerns into all aspects of the relationship between mining practices and mine affected communities. By looking at the mining industry and the mine-affected communities through a gender lens, the authors indicate …
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- 9781921862175
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- xv, 230p.
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- Asia-Pacific environment monographs
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- 338.2082
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies : New Possibilities, Theoretical Impl…
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby…
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- 10
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- 9783030676087
- Collation
- XXV, 355p. ; ill.
- Series Title
- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.8072 NIK v
Environmental arsenic in a changing world : proceedings of the 7th Internatio…
The Congress ""Arsenic in the Environment"" offers an international, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion platform for research and innovation aimed towards a holistic solution to the problem posed by the environmental toxin arsenic, with significant societal impact. The Congress has focused on cutting edge and breakthrough research in physical, chemical, toxicological, medical, agricultural…
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- 9
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- 9781138486096
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- 363.73849 ZHU e
China's race to global technology leadership
Last December the Chief Financial Officer of the leading Chinese telecommunication company Huawei was travelling from Hong Kong to Mexico when she was arrested while changing flights at Vancouver Airport by the Canadian authorities acting on an extradition request from the United States. Meng’s arrest and detention are a significant development in China-US relations, marking a dramatic ch…
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- 8
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- 9788867059928
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- ii, 199 p
- Series Title
- Pubblicazioni ISPI,
- Call Number
- 338.926
Information systems foundations: the role of design science
This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2–3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in this workshop was on the movement known as ‘Design Science’ and its impo…
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- 9781921666353
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- 318 p
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- 658.4038 HAR i
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 13
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- 9781922144850
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.9009953.MAC
Speaking for the social : A catalog of Methods
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design and engineering projects. The book departs from fa…
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- 9781685710538
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- 334p
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- 301 SPE s
Complex science for a complex world: exploring human ecosystems with agents
It is well known that human activities are endangering the stability and sustainability of many fragile ecosystems to such an extent that their future is in doubt. At the same time, these ecosystems are inherently challenging to manage successfully because of the complexity and uncertainty associated with their ongoing evolution. Much of this complexity and uncertainty may be attributed to the …
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- 9781920942397
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- 352 p
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- -
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- 304.2 PER c
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