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Organizational, motivational, and cultural contexts of volunteering The Euro…
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. The book is based on the authors' 15 years…
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- 1
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- 9783030928179
- Collation
- x, 65 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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A global history of execution and the criminal corpse
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.
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- -
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- 9781137443991
- Collation
- 313 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 364.6609 RIC a
Contentious minds : how talk and ties sustain activism
Why does the mind matter for joint action? Contentious Minds is a comparative study of how cognitive and relational processes allow activists to sustain their commitment. With survey data and narratives of activists engaged in three commitment communities, the minds of activists involved in contentious politics are compared with those devoted to institutional and volunteering action. The book…
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- -
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- 9780190078010
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- xii, 366 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 303.484 PAS c
Belonging and narrative : a theory of the American novel
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839446003
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- 182 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 813.0093552 BIE b
Reimagining the higher education student : constructing and contesting identi…
Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined. Topics vary from the ways that curriculum designers ‘imagine’ …
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- -
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- 9780367854171
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- xix, 249 p. : bnw, ill.
- Series Title
- Research into higher education
- Call Number
- 378.198 BRO r
Turn on the light on science : a research-based guide to break down popular s…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- 9781911529057
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- xvi, 103p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 509 TUR t
Body image in eating disorders : clinical diagnosis and integrative approach …
Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis, and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders. It presents a multifactorial model of indicators for diagnosis and treatment, considering psychological, sociocultural, and family indicators. Based on original empirical research with women and girls suffering from eating d…
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- -
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- 9781003251088
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- ix, 144p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.8526 IZY b
Makers at school, educational robotics and innovative learning environments :…
This open access book contains observations, outlines, and analyses of educational robotics methodologies and activities, and developments in the field of educational robotics emerging from the findings presented at FabLearn Italy 2019, the international conference that brought together researchers, teachers, educators and practitioners to discuss the principles of Making and educational roboti…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030770402
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- xvii, 376 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems volume 240
- Call Number
- 629.892071 SCA m
Trauma and resilience among displaced populations : a sociocultural exploration
This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030677121
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- x, 305p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.906914 TRA t
Psychosocial reality of digital travel: being in virtual places
This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature of the digital travel experience, at a time when more and more people are engaged in online social interaction, games, and other virtual experiences essentially involving online visits to other places. It examines whether these experiences can seem real to the virtual traveller and, if so, under what conditions and on what grounds. The book…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030912727
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- xi, 152 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 302.231 TJO p
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