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Economy Studies : A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education
"The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit, enabling them to collectively understand and help tackle the issues the world faces today. This is a …
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- 9789048552801
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- 468p. ; ill.
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- 330.071 SAM e
Balancing the tides : marine practices in American Sāmoa
"Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Samoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how U.S. federal fishing programs in the post–World War II period encoura…
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- 9780824879686
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- 256p. ; ill.
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- 338.3727099613 JOA b
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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- 509 TUR t
Touch
Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch th…
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- 9781912656356
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- 279 p.
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- 344.095 NIR t
Doing human service ethnography
"EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing toget…
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- 9781447355809
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- 242p. ; ill.
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- 305.8 KAT d
Engagement in medical research discourse: a multisemiotic approach to dialogi…
This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as language but as multisemiosis. The volume begins by outlining the engagement framework and offering a …
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- 9781003041146
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- xi, 206 p. : ill.
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- Routledge Studies in Multimodality
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- 610.141 FRY e
Decolonising the Human : Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression
"Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within it…
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- 9781776146529
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- 264p. ; ill.
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- 306.0967 MEL d
Scientific writing and publishing in medicine and health sciences : a quick g…
Writing and publishing scientific papers is the core business of researchers, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. This book provides clear and concise key information on 12 major aspects of the process, from how to get started to dealing with reviewers’ comments. We describe each aspect structured into background information (‘‘What you should know’’), concrete advi…
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- 9783110721621
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- 83 p. : ill.
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- 610.72 KOT s
Migration, workers, and fundamental freedoms : pandemic vulnerabilities and s…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which u…
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- 9781003145509
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- ix, 127 p. : ill.
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- 331.5440954 HAN m
Annotations in scholarly editions and research : functions, differentiation, …
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication reflects on different practices and associated concepts of annotation, puts them in relation to each other and attempts to systematize their commonalities and divergences in a…
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- 9783110689112
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- viii, 399 p. : ill.
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- 801.9590285 NAN a
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