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Youthquake 2017 : the rise of young cosmopolitans in Britain
This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party – from both a comparative and a theoretical perspective. It compares youth turnout and party allegiance over time and traces changes in youth political participation in the UK s…
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- 9783319974699
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- xiii, 129p. : ill.
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- 323.04208350941 SLO y
Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture
"Anglo-Saxon ‘things’ could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Exeter Book Riddles, telling us how they were made or how they behave. The Franks Casket is a box of bone that alludes to its former fate as a whale that swam aground onto the shingle, and the Ruthwell monument is a stone column that speaks as if it were living wood, or a wounded body. In this book, James Paz uncovers the v…
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- 9781526115997
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- X, 236 p.
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- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
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- 829.09 PAZ n
Environment and narrative : new essays in econarratology
Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical and narrative scholars as well as environmental humanities scholars interested in narrative. Erin James and Eric Morel’s volume Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology explores the complexity of pairing material environments and their representations w…
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- 9780814277546
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- 801.95 ENV e
Intel trusted execution technology for server platforms : a guide to more sec…
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) is a new security technology that started appearing on Intel server platforms in 2010. This book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, its purpose, application, advantages, and limitations. This book guides the server administrator / datacenter manager in enabling the technology as well as establishing a launch control policy t…
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- 9781430261490
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- xvii, 156p. : ill.
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- 005.8 FUT i
Student politics in Africa: representation and activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- 9781928331223
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- 257 p.
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- African Minds Higher Education Dynamics Series, Vol. 2
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- 306.44 STU
Student politics in Africa : representation and activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- 9781928331223
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- xii, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.96 STU s
Compositionality and concepts in linguistics and psychology
By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stim…
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- 9783319459752
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- 337 p.; 22 cm.
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- 401.9 COM c
Voices and practices in applied linguistics : diversifying a discipline
"Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics comprises a selection of original applied linguistics-based research on the theme of the diversity of Applied Linguistics and in Applied Linguistics. It is a unique collection of reflections and cutting-edge research relating to academic, policy and professional fields of Applied Linguistics, featuring chapters written by founders of the field, e…
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- 9781912482177
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- VI, 286 p.
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- 418 VOI v
Information—Consciousness—Reality : how a new understanding of the univer…
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discover…
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- 9783030036331
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- XXIV, 662 p.
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- 113 GLA i
Drones and support for the use of force
Drones and Support for the Use of Force utilizes experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of force. The authors develop expectations drawn from social science theory and then assess these conjectures using a series of survey experiments. Their findings—that drones have had important but nuanced effects on support for the use of forceâ…
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- 9780472901173
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- 244p. : ill.
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- 358.414 WAL d
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