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Ethnic identity, social mobility and the role of soulmates
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews with these ‘minority climbers’, the study details the contextual and temporal nature of identification. The result…
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- 9783319995960
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- xv, 202p. : ill.
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- 304.8 SLO e
Engineering a better future : interplay between engineering, social sciences,…
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social sciences and Humanities …
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- 9783319911342
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- xxix, 200p. : ill.
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- 607.11 ENG e
Losing control: freedom of the press in Asia
A free press is not a luxury. A free press is at the absolute core of equitable development' according to World Bank President James Wolfensohn. A free press is also the key to transparency and good governance and is an indispensable feature of a democracy. So how does Asia rate? In Losing Control, leading journalists analyse the state of play in all the countries of North Asia and Southeast As…
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- 9781925021431
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- 282 p.; 22 cm.
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- 323.445095 WIl l
Media freedom and right to information in Africa
This e-book is the result of a panel organized in the Fifth European Congress of African Studies (ECAS 5) that took place in Lisbon in June 2013. We thought of organizing this panel on “Press Freedom and Right to Information in Africa” since the question of freedom, especially press freedom, is presently extremely important in all African countries. However, it is not yet well known, both i…
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- 9789897325793
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- 136 p.; 22 cm.
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- 350 BAR m
Media, erotics, and transnational Asia
Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers. The essays in this volume cover a wide geographic and thematic range…
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- 9780822345596
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- 392 p.; 22 cm.
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- 302.23095 MED m
Martial arts and well-being: connecting communities and promoting health
This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these imp…
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- 9781315448084
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- xiv, 116p.: ill.
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- 796.8 FUL m
African linguistics across the disciplines
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its graduates on the faculties of many other universities. Research on African linguistics at IU has covered some of the major language groups s…
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- 9783961102136
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- 338 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 AFR a
Designing sustainable energy for all : sustainable product-service system des…
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts.Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity.Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and pro…
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- 9783319702230
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- xxxii, 208p. : ill.
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- 621.042 DES d
Understanding developmental dyslexia: linking perceptual and cognitive defici…
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for developmental dyslexia (DD) is a key challenge for researchers. A large literature, mostly concerned with learning to read in opaque orthographies, emphasizes phono-logical interpretations of the disturbance. Other approaches focused on the visual-per-ceptual aspects of orthographic coding. Recently, this perspective was supported by imaging data sho…
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- 9782889198641
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- 309 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 517 UND u
Becoming citizens in a changing world : IEA International Civic and Citizensh…
This open access book presents the results from the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). Using data from 24 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, the study investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. It also responds to th…
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- 9783319739632
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- xxi, 243p. : ill.
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- 371.26 BEC b
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