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The future European energy system
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, tertiary and transport sector as well as the heating and electricity sector – the analysis assesses flexibility requirements in a cross-sectoral energy system with hig…
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- 9783030609146
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- 309p
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- 333.79 MOS t
Measuring Professional Competence for the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling …
This open access book presents a structural model and an associated test instrument designed to provide a detailed analysis of professional competences for teaching mathematical modelling. The conceptualisation is based on the COACTIV model, which describes aspects, areas and facets of professional competences of teachers. The manual provides an overview of the essential teaching skills in appl…
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- 9783030780715
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- viiii, 129 p. : ill.
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- 511.807 WES m
Contentious minds : how talk and ties sustain activism
Why does the mind matter for joint action? Contentious Minds is a comparative study of how cognitive and relational processes allow activists to sustain their commitment. With survey data and narratives of activists engaged in three commitment communities, the minds of activists involved in contentious politics are compared with those devoted to institutional and volunteering action. The book…
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- 9780190078010
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- xii, 366 p. : ill.
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- 303.484 PAS c
Negotiating the religious in contemporary everyday life in the "Islamic world"
The contributions to the present volume show that the countries that are often presented in the literature as forming part of a stereotypical and seemingly monolithic “Islamic world” in fact represent considerable diversity. From Iran to Senegal, we encounter a vast array of social and religious structures, historical trajectories, political regimes and relative positions of societies and i…
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- 9783863954932
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- 260 p.
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- 390 LOI n
Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer. From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the lim…
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- 9781487539269
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- vii, 374 p. : ill.
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- 030.9 DON t
The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784393
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- xvii, 342 p. : ill.
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- 809.382 EFF t
Construction supply chain economics
This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the economic structural and behavioural characteristics of sectors integral to the construction indust…
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- 9780203962480
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- vi. ;481 p.
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- 690.0687 KER c
World literature and dissent
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. A…
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- 9
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- 9780203710302
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- viii, 204 p. : ill.
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- 809.933581 BUR w
Opportunities and challenges for new and peripheral political science communi…
This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based…
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- 9783030790547
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- xiv, 288 p. ; ill
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- 320 ILO o
Democracy in a pandemic: participation in response to crisis
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation…
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- 9781914386183
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- vii, 200 p. ; ill
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- 323.042 SMI d
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