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Morals not knowledge : recasting the contemporary U.S. conflict between relig…
In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the “religion vs. science” debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work, John H. Evans reveals that, with a few limited exceptions, even the most conservative religious Americans a…
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- 9780520969780
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- vii, 240 p. : ill.
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- 645101.0 EVA m
Introduction to space syntax in urban studies
This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, …
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- 9783030591403
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- xix, 250p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 VAN i
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregati…
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- 9783030645694
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- ix, 523p. : ill.
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- 339.2 URB u
Collaborative learning and new media : new insights into an evolving field
This book is an essential resource for researchers in the field of applied linguistics as well as practising teachers and teacher trainees in secondary and higher education. It explores collaboration in the foreign language classroom through the use of new media. Combining theoretical, empirical and practical insights into this intricate area of research, the contributions take different approa…
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- 9783653059212
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- 401 p.
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- 407.85 COL c
The Roots of respect: a historic-philosophical itinerary
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem from a historical-philosophical perspective is conspicuously absent. The present collection of essays aims to contribute to the fulfillment of this gap by offering a reconstruct…
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- 9783110526288
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- xi, 232p.
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- 100 ROO r
Theatre and democracy : building democracy in post-war and post-democratic co…
Theatre and Democracy: Building Democracy in Post-war and Post-democratic Contexts is the outcome of a longstanding collaboration between two centers of applied theatre education and research in South-Africa and Norway, respectively (2017–2022). It presents knowledge, critical conversations and artistic work related to issues of democracy, both historical and contemporary. Within the global f…
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- 9788202711825
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- 285 p.
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- 792 THE t
Usada: traditional balinese medicinal plants
This book about Balinese traditional medicinal plants serves as an effort to disseminate information about various types of medicinal plants collected by Bali Botanical Gardens along with the information on their uses by the people of Bali. The Balinese people have created these recipes for generations and are a leading example for the rest of the world to follow. Written through collaboration …
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- 9786024961237
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- xiv, 136p, ; 21 cm
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- 615.321598 SUJ u
Social exclusion in later life : interdisciplinary and policy perspectives
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of …
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- 9783030514068
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- xxix, 450p. : ill.
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- 302.545 SOC s
Becoming a teacher : research on the work-integrated learning of student teac…
This book disseminates original research on learning in and from practice in pre-service teacher education. Authors such as Lederman and Lederman describe the student teaching practicum (or work-integrated learning [WIL]), which is an essential component of pre-service teacher education, as the ‘elephant in the room’. These authors note that 'the capstone experience in any teacher education…
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- 9781928523369
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- xxxviii, 432p.: ill.
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- NWU Self-Directed Learning Series vol. 4
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- 371.102 BEC b
Art markets and digital histories
This Special Issue of Arts investigates the use of digital methods in the study of art markets and their histories. As historical and contemporary data is rapidly becoming more available, and digital technologies are becoming integral to research in the humanities and social sciences, we sought to bring together contributions that reflect on the different strategies that art market scholars emp…
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- 9783039219711
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- IX, 144 p.
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- 700 RAS a
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