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Environmental valuation with discrete choice experiments : guidance on design…
This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the book promotes discrete choice analysis in environmental valuation through a more solid scientific basis …
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- 9783030626693
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- xiii, 129p. : ill.
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- 333.7 ENV e
New approaches to the study of esotericism
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its r…
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- 9789004446458
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- VIII, 255 p.
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- Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 17
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- 130 NEW n
Using ostraca in the ancient world : new discoveries and methodologies
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspect…
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- 9783110712902
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- VI, 245 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen, 32
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- 930 USI u
Preparing for life in a digital world IEA : international computer and inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
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- 9783030387815
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- XXII, 297 p.
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- 302.209 PRE p
Co-creating digital public services for an ageing society : evidence for user…
This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons i…
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- 9783030528737
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- xviii, 228p. : ill.
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- 352.3802854678 JAR c
Taxation and the Financial Crisis
The financial crisis has opened up a global debate on the taxation of the financial sector. A number of international policy initiatives, most notably by the G20, have called for major changes in the tax treatment of financial institutions and transactions as well as individuals working in the financial sector. This book examines how tax policies contributed to the financial crisis and whether …
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- 9780199698165
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- xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 336.2 ALW t
The structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier : historical ass…
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved…
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- 9789048537846
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- 354 p.
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- 791.43019 STR s
Interdisciplinary mathematics education: the state of the art and beyond
This open access book is the first major publication on the topic of “Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education” and arose from the work of the first International Topic Study Group of the same name at the ICME-13 conference in Hamburg in 2016. It offers extensive theoretical insights, empirical research, and practitioner accounts of interdisciplinary mathematics work in STEM and beyond (e.g.…
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9783030110666
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- 1 online resource (VII, 302 pages 56 illustrations, 41 illustrations in color.)
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- 510.71 BOR i
Pharmacovigilance in the European Union : practical implementation across mem…
The book presents the results of an in-depth comparative study assessing the implementation of the EU Pharmacovigilance Directive in six EU Member States. By going beyond legal transposition and instead focusing on practical implementation, this study aims to close a gap in EU compliance research. Based on qualitative interviews with relevant actors in Germany, Poland, Portugal, France, Finland…
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- 9783658172763
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- xiv, 124p. : ill.
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- 615.7042 KAE p
The Importance of art in children’s writing education
“We have a huge vested interest in education because it is education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp” (Robinson, 2006). This statement made by Sir Ken Robinson points to what should be a universal concern to make education our most important societal coping strategy. He highlights especially the need for arts education if we are to nurture the creative and c…
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- 9789463510479
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- 371.102 BRE i
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