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Museum activism
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical…
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- 13
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- 9781351251044
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- xxix, 406 p. : ill.
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- 069 JAN m
Ageing and health : the politics of better policies
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, …
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- 9781108973236
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- xvii, 188 p. ; ill
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- 362.10846 GEE a
Vulnerable : the law, policy and ethics of COVID-19
Vulnerable examines the vulnerabilities and interconnections brought to light by the pandemic, as well as the legal, ethical and public policy responses. This book exposes the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, governance and legal structures, in several countries and worldwide.
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- 9780776636429
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- xiii, 630 p. : ill
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- 362.1962414 FLO a
Jane austen: reflections of a reader
This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen – distilling the author’s deep understanding and appreciation of Austen’s works across a lifetime. The volume is both intra- and inter-textual in focus, ranging from perceptive analysis of individual scenes to the exploration of motifs across Austen’s fiction. Full of astute connections, these liv…
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- 9781783749775
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- 252 p. : color, Illustrations
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- 823.7 NOR j
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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- 338.6425 LUC c
Narratives of low countries history and culture
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – the uses of myth and history, the past as illumination of cultural context, and historiography in focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the imp…
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- 9781910634998
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- 250 p.; 22 cm.
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- 900 NAR n
Child welfare in developing countries
What factors affect child welfare? How can policy improve child welfare? In developing countries, there has been relatively little empirical work on the analysis and measurement of child poverty. Further, poverty has many dimensions, including mortality, morbidity, hunger, illiteracy, lack of fixed housing, and lack of resources, and cannot be assessed with a single measurement method. Based…
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- 9781552504888
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- x, 298 p.
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- 362.7091724 CHI c
Language, cognition and gender
Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research shows that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Gender-related information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical category of gender, through gender-related connotations of role names (e.g., manager, secretary), and through …
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- 9782889198924
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- 188 p.; 23 cm.
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- 410.15195 GAR l
Learning to Read Talmud : what It looks like and How It Happens
Finalist, 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity "Learning to Read Talmud" is the first book-length study of how teachers teach and how students learn to read Talmud. Through a series of studies conducted by scholars of Talmud in classrooms that range from seminaries to secular universities and with students from novice to advanced, this book elucidates a broad range …
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- 9781618115775
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- 372 KAN l
Knowledge graphs and big data processing
This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. Nowadays it is used in many industries to allow organizations and companies to make better decisions as well as to verify or disprove existing theories or models. The term…
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- 9783030531997
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- vi, 207p. : ill.
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- 005.7 KNO k
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