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Evidence and innovation in housing law and policy
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silos that fail to connect to policy on the ground. This pathbreaking book, which features leading scholars from a range of academic fields, cuts across disciplines to forge new connections in the discourse. In accessible prose filled with c…
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- 9781316691335
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- xiii, 342p. : ill.
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- 344.063635 EVI e
Responsibility and language practices in place
his volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they speak or write in relation to a place—whether it is one they have long resided in, recently moved to, or left a long time ago.;The contributors to the…
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- 9789518582109
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- 225 p.
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- Studia Fennica Anthropologica, 4
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- 306.44 RES r
Culinary turn: aesthetic practice of cookery
Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice – in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultur…
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- 9783839430316
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- 324 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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- Aesthetic practice ; volume 1
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- 641.013 CUL c
The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics acr…
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- 9789811506147
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- l, 1037p. : ill.
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- 612.662 PAL p
How we read : tales, fury, Nothing, sound
What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the…
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- 9781950192311
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- 186 p.; 22cm.
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- 028.9 HEL h
Observing the volcano world : volcano crisis communication
This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices. Consequently the book brings together authors from all over the globe who work w…
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- 9783319440972
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- xv, 771p. : ill.
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- 551.21 OBS o
Being a young citizen in Estonia: an exploration of young people's civic and …
The book gives an intriguing insight into how young people in Estonia, twenty years after the establishment of democracy, perceive their own role as citizens. It does so in a theoretical framework that stresses the embeddedness of the civic experiences in a media-dominated environment, thus closely linking civic and media experiences. Based on the analysis of both qualitative interview data and…
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- 9789949322749
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- 132 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm.
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- Politics and society in the Baltic Sea Region, 1
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- 799.2 KAU b
The EIB COVID-19 economic vulnerability index : an analysis of countries outs…
Which countries are most vulnerable to a virus such as COVID-19? Which countries should take the most stringent precautions to prevent the spread of such a virus? The EIB COVID-19 Economic Vulnerability Index covers countries outside the European Union and helps give us an idea of regions that need the most help. The comprehensive index takes into account risk factors such as the quality of hea…
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- 9789286147135
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- 16 p.
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- 330.9 EIB e
A bibliography of sign languages
This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on Sign language over the past 10 years. The introduction is by Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven & Stellenbosch University) and Anna…
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- 9789004376632
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- xxxviii, 148p.
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- 410 BIB b
The third sector as a renewable resource for Europe : concepts, impacts, chal…
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic devel…
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- 9783319714738
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- xv, 196 p.
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- 361.61 ENJ t
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