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The Law in the Information and Risk Society
The information and risk society poses a new challenge for the law in all its fragments. Modern media communication and technologies increase people’s prosperity while stating new risks with not uncommonly devastating crisis-potential: The banking crisis, the safety net for the euro zone and the nuclear incident in Fukushima are only the latest forms of those specific modern common dangers wh…
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- 9783863950125
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- xi, 170p: ill.
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- 349.43 LAW l
Ethnic diversity and the control of natural resources in Southeast Asia
The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutio…
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- 9780472902309
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- XII, 229 p.
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- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 32
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- 305.895 ETH e
The Prevent duty in education : impact, enactment and implications
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the…
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- 9783030455590
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- 176 p.; 23 cm.
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- 370.1 PRE p
Extreme values and financial risk
Since the 2008 financial crisis, modeling of the extreme values of financial risk has become important. Postgraduate programs and PhD research programs in mathematical finance are cropping up in nearly every university. Additionally, many conferences are being held annually on the topic of extreme financial risk. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a collection of papers from leading ex…
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- 9783038974406
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- 657.7
The Gender-sensitive university : a contradiction in terms?
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemp…
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- 9780367431174
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- 378.1982 GEN g
Interventions in digital cultures : technology, the political, methods
How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt and change situations—often with artistic means. This volume maps methods of interventions under the specific conditions of the digital. How are interventions shaped by these …
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- 9783957961112
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- 148 p.; 23 cm.
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- 300 INT i
Arabic and its alternatives : religious minorities and their languages in the…
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War, taking its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities of the region. Readership: All those interested in the modern and contemporary history of the Middle East, in religious and linguistic minoriti…
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- 9789004423220
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- 334 p.; 22 cm.
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- Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 5
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- 306.440956 ARA a
Risk Measures with Applications in Finance and Economics
Risk measures play a vital role in many subfields of economics and finance. It has been proposed that risk measures could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk measures may help inform effective monetary and fiscal policies and, therefore, the further development of pricing models for financial assets such as equities…
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- 9783038974444
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- 658.57 RIS r
The civilising offensive : social and educational reform in 19th-century Belgium
"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in…
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- 9783110581546
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- VI, 238 p.
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- New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought, 1
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- 306.09493 CIV c
Non-knowledge and digital cultures
Making available massive amounts of data that are generated, distributed, and modeled, digital media provide us with the possibility of abundant information and knowledge. This possibility has been attracting various scenarios in which technology either eliminates non-knowledge or plants it deep within contemporary cultures through the universal power and opacity of algorithms. This volume comp…
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- 9783957961266
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- 160 p.
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- Digital Cultures
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- 302.231 NON n
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