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Animal rights activism: a moral sociological perspective on social movements
We’re in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Kerstin Jacobsson and Jonas Lindblom use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phen…
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- 9789089647641
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- 145p.: ill.
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- 303.484 JAC a
Regional Governance and lifelong learning policies
his document constitutes the Comparative Study of the Precoll project – Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi / University of Florence-Department of Educational Sciences and Cultural and Training Processes, in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya (S…
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- 9788884536730
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- 96p.: ill
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- 374.1102 FRA r
The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies
In The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies, leading American Studies scholar John Carlos Rowe responds to two urgent questions for intellectuals. First, how did neoliberal ideology use the issues of feminism, gay rights, multiculturalism, transnationalism and globalization, class mobility, religious freedom, and freedom of speech and cultural expression to justify a new -American Exce…
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- 9781607852421
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- 236p.: ill.
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- 320.973 ROW c
Ethnic diversity and the control of natural resources in Southeast Asia
The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutio…
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- 9780472902309
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- XII, 229 p.
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- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 32
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- 305.895 ETH e
The demography of disasters : impacts for population and place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change)…
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- 9783030499204
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- xvii, 268p. : ill.
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- 363.34 DEM d
The economics of water : rules and institutions
This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay …
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- 9783030484859
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- xvii, 301p. : ill.
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- 333.91 MER e
Words, objects and events in economics : the making of economic theory
This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first vol…
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- 9783030526733
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- xvi, 226p. : ill.
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- 330.1 WOR w
Inclusion, education and translanguaging : how to promote social justice in (…
This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical contributions focusing on various actors within educational institutions, from early childhood to secondary education and teacher training, while offering insights into multipl…
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- 9783658281281
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- 241 p.; 22 cm
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- Inklusion und Bildung in Migrationsgesellschaften,
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- 370.711 INC i
Design science and its importance in the German mathematics educational discu…
This ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, it presents two examples of current design science projects that focus on substantial learning environments including a student and a teacher perspective. Subsequently, the book elaborates on how empirical research can be conceptualised within design science. Lastly, it exp…
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- 9783319435428
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- vii, 43p. : ill.
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- 510.71 DES d
Orthogeriatrics : the management of older patients with fragility fractures
This new open access edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this expertise is sorely needed. It has been extensively revised and updated by the experts of this network to provide a unique and reliable content in one single volume. Throughout …
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- 9783030481261
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- viii, 357p. : ill.
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- 617.30846 ORT o
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