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The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum
Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA an…
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- five edition
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- 9781108886611
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- xiii, 254p,: ill,
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- 341.242 AKB t
The future of financial systems in the digital age
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of “big data”, are impacting financial systems worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and performance o…
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- 9789811678301
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- xxiv, 190p ; ill
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- 332.1094 HEC t
Capability brown, royal gardener : the business of place-making in northern e…
Lancelot “Capability” Brown was one of the most influential landscape designers of the eighteenth-century at a time when Britain was changing radically from an agrarian to an industrial and colonial nation, whilst Europe was periodically convulsed by war and revolution. The extent and nature of his influence are, however, fiercely debated. Brown worked at hundreds of important sites across …
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- edision 23
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- 9781912482252
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- vii. :ill. ;215 p.
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- -
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- 712.092. JON
Medical histories of Belgium : new narratives on health, care and citizenship…
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of medicine in national overviews, which have focused mostly on stateprofession interactions. Instead, the chapters bring more complex histories of health, care and citizenship. Th…
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- -
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- 9781526151087
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- xiv, 400 p. : ill.
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- 610.9493 VAN m
Cultures in conflict : religion, history and gender in Northern Europe c. 180…
This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious h…
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- 9783631847312
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- 222 p.
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- 274 ALE c
Framing immigrant integration : Dutch research-policy dialogues in comparativ…
Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis is fed by multiculturalism, something for which Dutch society has long been seen as exemplary. Still, the incorporation of migrants remains one of the country's most pressing…
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- -
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- 9789048513604
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- 320 p.
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- 325.492 SCH f
Contextualizing practical knowledge in early modern Europe
The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical…
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- -
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- 9783631788912
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- 317 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 809.024 LEE c
Regional economic development compared : eu-europe and the american south
"Comparing economic development in a regional context both in the South of the United States and in the European Union today raises many fascinating questions. How much money in the form of tax credits and subsidies should communities and states invest to attract foreign investors in the U.S.? Should individual states and communities in the U.S. commit public funds in the form of tax money and …
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- 9783902936424
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- ill. ;104 p.
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- 338.94. GUN r
Ages and abilities : the stages of childhood and their social recognition in …
Ages and Abilities explores social responses to childhood stages from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean and includes cross-cultural comparison to expand the theoretical and methodological framework. By comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are arc…
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- -
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- 9781789697698
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- xi. ;ill. :265 p.
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- -
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- 305.2310936 SAL a
Neighbourhoods in transition : brownfield regeneration in European metropolit…
This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metropolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with a…
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- -
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- 9783030822088
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- xxi, 248p. : ill.
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- -
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- 307.3416094 REY n
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