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States-in-waiting: a counter narrative of global decolonization
States-in-Waiting narrates how postcolonial statehood did not fulfill the aspirations of many nationalist claimants demanding independence. Foregrounding little-known regions and the networks connecting them to global politics, Lydia Walker illuminates the un-endings of decolonization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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- 9781009305815
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- xvi, 283 pages; illustration
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- Global and international history
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- 320.9 WAL s
Extimate technology : self-formation in a technological world
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who and what we are and influencing who we ought to be. How should we adequately understand, evaluate an…
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- 9781003139409
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- xii + 343 p
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- 303.48301 AYD e
Visual and camera sensors
This book includes 13 papers published in Special Issue ("Visual and Camera Sensors") of the journal Sensors. The goal of this Special Issue was to invite high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers dealing with challenging issues in visual and camera sensors.
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- 9783036515830
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- ix, 281p.; ill.
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- 338.47004095 VIS v
Self-directed learning : an imperative for education in a complex society
This book on self-directed learning (SDL) is devoted to original academic scholarship within the field of education, and is the 6th volume in the North-West University (NWU) SDL book series. In this book the authors explore how self-directed learning can be considered an imperative for education in a complex modern society. Although each chapter represents independent research in the field of s…
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- 9781776341603
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- xxxv, 312p.; ill.
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- 374 SEL s
Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recogniti…
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- 9781911576877
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- xiii, 332 p. ill;
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- 338.47690809411 SEL M
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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- 306.43 GAI c
Craftpeople and designer makers in the contemporary creative economy
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers…
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- 9783030449797
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- xv, 259p.: ill.
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- 338.642 CRA c
Projection-based clustering through self-organization and swarm intelligence …
It covers aspects of unsupervised machine learning used for knowledge discovery in data science and introduces a data-driven approach to cluster analysis, the Databionic swarm(DBS). DBS consists of the 3D landscape visualization and clustering of data. The 3D landscape enables 3D printing of high-dimensional data structures.The clustering and number of clusters or an absence of cluster structur…
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- 9783658205409
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- xx, 201p. : ill.
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- 006.3824 THR p
Craftspeople and designer makers in the contemporary creative economy
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers…
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- 9783030449797
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- xv, 259p.: ill.
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- 650.1 LUC c
Religious individualisation : historical dimensions and comparative perspectives
This volume brings together key findings of the research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in Asia, the Mediterrane…
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- 9783110580853
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- XIV, 1416 p.
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- 204.4 REL r
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