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Learning policy, doing policy : interactions between public policy theory, pr…
When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qualifications and/or through short courses in policy training. Learning Policy, Doing Policy explores how poli…
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- 9781760464219
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- XXI, 329 p.
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 374.934 LEA l
Brain development and the attention spectrum
Early-onset and enduring developmental deficits in attention, especially if combined with increased hyperactivity, and impulsivity, may result in constant impairments in multiple domains of personal life. The full spectrum of symptoms is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity, which is maladaptive and inconsistent with a comparable level of develop…
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- 9782889194827
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- 98p.: ill.
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- 618.928589 BRA b
The scholar as human : research and teaching for public impact
The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies—to focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place i…
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- 9781501750632
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- VI, 265 p.
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- 378.103 SCH s
The challenges of religious literacy : the case of Finland
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and cultural differences. It discusses freedom of religion, and the Christian revival movement. It examines religious literacy and religious diversity in multi-faith schools. It looks …
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- 9783030475765
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- xi, 84p. : ill.
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- 200.94897 CHA c
Surgery and selfhood in early modern England : altered bodies and contexts of…
Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching quest…
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- 9781108919395
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- vii, 201p. : ill.
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- 617.094 SKU s
Disasters and history : the vulnerability and resilience of past societies
Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these d…
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- 9781108569743
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- x, 231p. : ill.
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- 363.3409 DIS d
Across space and time: papers from the 41st Conference on Computer Applicatio…
This volume presents a selection of the best papers presented at the forty-first annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. The theme for the conference was "Across Space and Time", and the papers explore a multitude of topics related to that concept, including databases, the semantic Web, geographical information systems, data collection and management,…
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- 9789089647153
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- 515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
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- Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology
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- 930.1028 ACR a
Theory and description in African linguistics
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers i…
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- 9783961102068
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- Contemporary African Linguistics
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- 410 CLE t
Myth and mentality: studies in folklore and popular thought
"The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditi…
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- 9789522228499
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- 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Studia Fennica. 8
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- 398.094897 SII m
Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their a…
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- 9781760462796
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- xix, 529p. : ill.
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- 320.994 SUC s
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