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Compliance and resistance within neoliberal academia : biographical stories, …
This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stori…
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- 8
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- 9783030663186
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- 134 p.
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- -
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- 306.43 GAI c
Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation
In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuance…
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- -
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- 9781108886932
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- vi, 159 p. : ill
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- 828.9208 ZAI b
Traumatic stress in South Africa
Taking both a historical and contemporary perspective, the book covers the extent of and manner in which traumatic stress manifests, including the way in which exposure to such extremely threatening events impacts on people’s meaning and belief systems. Therapeutic and community strategies for addressing and healing the effects of trauma exposure are comprehensively covered, as well as the pa…
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- -
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- 9781868146826
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- x, 222p.
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- 616.852106 KAM t
Divorce in Europe : new insights in trends, causes and consequences of relati…
This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contains new insights o…
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- -
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- 9783030258382
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- xiii, 370p. : ill.
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- 304.6 MOR d
Warlike and peaceful societies : the interaction of genes and culture
Read Agner Fog's introductory post on our blog [...] it presents a valuable overview of the extensive literature on the societal correlates of modern warfare and makes a convincing, and timely, case for the deceptive use of the threat of war by populists or budding dictators. — Carel P. van Schaik, University of Zurich, Adaptive Behaviour (May 2018) https://doi.org/10.1177/105971231877197…
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- -
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- 9781783744053
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- 364p.: colour, ill.
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- -
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- 303.4 WAR f
Animal emotions : how they drive human behavior
Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior gives a concise overview of ancient mammalian emotions deeply rooted in the human brain. Jaak Panksepp, a world-renowned neuroscientist, dedicated his life career to the study of mammalian emotions and he carved out seven distinct emotional systems he called seeking, lust, care, and play (positive emotions), and fear, anger, and sadness (negative e…
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- -
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- 9781950192915
- Collation
- 157p. : ill
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- -
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- 150 MON a
The palgrave handbook of positive education
This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It demonstrates how positive education offers an approach to understanding learning that blends academic study with life skills such as self-awareness, emotion regulation, health…
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- -
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- 9783030645373
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- xxviii, 777 p.; ill
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- -
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- 150.1988 THE t
Social exclusion in later life : interdisciplinary and policy perspectives
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030514068
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- xxix, 450p. : ill.
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- -
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- 302.545 SOC s
Social work, sociometry, and psychodrama : experiential approaches for group …
This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social wo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789813363427
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- xxxiii, 435p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.891523 GIA s
International perspectives in values-based mental health practice : case stud…
This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective o…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030478520
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- xviii, 436p. : ill.
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- -
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- 616.89 INT i
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