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Green economy in the transport sector : a case study of Limpopo Province, Sou…
This open access book is interdisciplinary and provides cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration of sustainable development and transportation in South Africa. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book contributes not only to academia but also seeks to inform urban and regional policy with the view of contributing to the national aspirations of South Africa as espoused in the…
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- 9783030861780
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- xiii, 119 p. : color, ill.
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- 388.096825 ODI g
Pesticides, organic contaminants, and pathogens in air : chemodynamics, healt…
The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book summarizes and places in perspective the potential transport, transformation, and health implications of pesticides and contaminants in air, including the air we breathe. It delves i…
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- 9781003217602
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- xxix, 230. : ill.
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- 363.73922 JAM p
Adult language education and migration : challenging agendas in policy and pr…
Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, b…
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- 9781315718361
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- xvii, 225 p.
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- 306.449 SIM a
Gallucci's commentary on dürer's 'four books on human proportion': renaissan…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- 9781783748617
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- xi. ; 205 p.
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- 704.942 JAM g
Entertaining the idea : shakespeare, performance, and philosophy
To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s …
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- 9781487536237
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- ix, 237 p.
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- 822.33 GAL e
Gallucci's commentary on Dürer’s 'four books on human proportion': renaiss…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- 9781783748891
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- xiii, 208 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24cm
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- 704.942 HUT g
Ethnicity, race and inequality in the UK : state of the nation
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal …
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- 9781447351252
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- xv, 300 p.; ill
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- 305.800941 ETH e
Stand out of our light : freedom and resistance in the attention economy
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we …
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- 9781108453004
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- xv, 134p. : ill.
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- 153.733 WIL s
Bulk collection: systematic government access to private-sector data
In June 2013, Edward Snowden revealed a secret US government program that collected records on every phone call made in the country. Further disclosures followed, detailing mass surveillance by the UK as well. Journalists and policymakers soon began discussing large-scale programs in other countries. Over two years before the Snowden leaks began, Cate and Dempsey had started researching systema…
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- 9780190685515
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- xxxiv, 471 p.: ill
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- 342.0858 BUL b
Expressions of Austronesian thought and emotions
This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions.
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- 9781760461911
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- 210 p.; 22 cm.
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- 499.2 EXP e
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