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Actions of Their Own to Learn : Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…
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- 9789463512008
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- 284 p
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- 371.3 IRO A
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship
Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This boo…
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- 9781474415514
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- Knowladge Unlatched (KU)
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- 323.6095694 LAU t
Energy efficiency and indoor environment quality
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
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- 9783036525075
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- vii, 184p.: ill.
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- 690 LEZ
Open data and models for energy and environment
This Special Issue aims at providing recent advancements on open data and models. Energy and environment are the fields of application.For all the aforementioned reasons, we encourage researchers and professionals to share their original works. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:Open data and models for energy sustainability;Open data science and environment applications…
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- 9783036517551
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- vii, 237p.; ill.
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- 004.0973 OPE o
Building a Peace Economy? : Liberal peacebuilding and the development-securit…
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and transforming them into more peaceful economic and political relationships. Through this examination…
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- 9781526129376
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- 219p : ill
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- 303.66 JEN b
The covert life of hospital architecture
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space synt…
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- 9781800080881
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- xxi, 187 p. ill;
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- 725.51 COV J
Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk : E…
This open-access-book synthesizes a supportive developer checklist considering sustainable Team and agile Project Management in the challenge of Artificial Intelligence and limits of image recognition. The study bases on technical, ethical, and legal requirements with examples concerning autonomous vehicles. As the first of its kind, it analyzes all reported car accidents state wide (1.28 milli…
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- 9783658342937
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- xlii, 248 p.
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- 629.2 PRO T
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice How Societies Re…
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding rec…
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- 9781108919500
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- xvii, 310 p ; ill
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- 155.232 RES J
Napoleonic Governance In The Netherlands And Northwest Germany
“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, focusing on the heterogeneous community of prefects and subprefects as ‘tools of incorporation’, binding the regions to the central state. His rich comparative analysis…
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- 9783030666583
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London's urban landscape : another way of telling
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspec…
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- 9781787355583
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- xxi. ;ill. :458 p.
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- 307.760941. CHR l
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