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Difficult folk?: a political history of social anthropology
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly wor…
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- 9781785336638
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- x, 222p.
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- 306.20941 MIL d
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space : working memories
Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space. Deindustrializing communities have increasingly turned to cultural projects to commemorate industrial heritage while simultaneously generating surplus value and jobs in a changing economy. Through analysis of French street theatre companies working out of …
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- 9781526147288
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- X, 205 p.
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- 792.0220944 CAL s
Civil Society and International Governance: the Role of Non-State Actors in t…
Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. Many issues, including the environment, health, crime, drugs, migration and terrorism, can no longer be contained within national boundaries. As a result, it is not always …
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- 9780203840054
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- 341.24 BEL c
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- 9781760461614
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- XXVI, 499 p.
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- 919.429 ARC a
New publication cultures in the humanities : exploring the paradigm shift
The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike - represent the most dramatic paradigm shift in scholarly communications in centuries. This volume brings together leading scholars from across the humanities to explore that transformation and consider t…
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- 9789089645647
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- 211 p.
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- 070.5797 NEW n
Self-directed learning for the 21st century : implications for higher education
This book is devoted to scholarship in the field of self-directed learning in the 21st century, with specific reference to higher education. The target audience of the book includes scholars in the field of self-directed learning and higher education. The book contributes to the discourse on the quality of education in the 21st century and adds to the body of scholarship in terms of self-direct…
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- 9781928396888
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- XXXIII, 436 p.
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- NWU Self-directed Learning Series, 1
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- 374 SEL s
Industry 4.0 and regional transformations
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore opportunities and challenges that Industry 4.0 is likely to pose for regions, firms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization, new innovation models for local production systems, and the increase in reshoring.This volume brings together expert contributors to explore oppor…
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- 9780429057984
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- XVIIII, 257 p.
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- 338.064094 IND i
Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change
The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA,…
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- 9783319611945
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- xviii, 630p. : ill.
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- 338.1 CLI c
People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. This coll…
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- 9781909646568
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- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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- 940.146 PEO p
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer islands, together with rapid industrialisation in the densely populated inner island of Java. Whilst the emergence of environmental disputes has sometimes attracted political re…
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- 9789067183260
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- xvii, 334p.
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- 344.598046 NIC e
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