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Transnationalizing radio research : new approaches to an old medium
Transnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple »global ages«, from its earliest years through its recent digital transformations. It offers radio scholars theoretical tools and concrete case studies for moving beyond national research frames. It gives radio practitioners inspiration for production and archiving, and offers scho…
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- 783839439135
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- 314 p.; 22 cm.
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- Edition Medienwissenschaft, 42
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- 302.23 TRA t
All Culture is local : good practice in regional cultural mapping and plannin…
This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state and federal agencies sought to develop knowledge that would enable better informed planning for arts and cultural development in rural and regional …
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- 9781863654333
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- 120 p.; 22 cm.
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- 720 ALL a
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
Criticaltheory and authoritarian populism
After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, much public discussion has intensely focused on populism and authoritarianism. In the middle of the twentieth century, members of the early Frankfurt School prolifically studied and theorized fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany and the United States. In this volume, leading European and American …
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- 9781912656059
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- 298 p.; 22 cm.
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- 321.8 CRI c
Palestinian Chicago: identity in exile
"Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these cha…
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- 9780520974401
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- xv, 265p.
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- 305.89274077311 LYB p
The linguistic worldview : ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture
the book is concerned with the linguistic worldview broadly understood, but it focuses on one particular variant of the idea, its sources, extensions, its critical assessment, and inspirations for related research. This approach is the ethnolinguistic linguistic worldview (LWV) program pursued in Lublin, Poland, and initiated and headed by Jerzy Bartminski. In its basic design, the volume emerg…
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- 9788376560748
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- 492 p.
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- 306.44 GLA l
Why be moral?
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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- 9783110366396
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- VIII, 278 p.
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- 170 WHY w
Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the eng…
This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international lin…
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- 9781349581511
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- xxv, 346p. : ill.
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- 338.9 FIR f
A time for metabolism and hormones
Recent years have seen spectacular advances in the field of circadian biology. These have attracted the interest of researchers in many fields, including endocrinology, neurosciences, cancer, and behavior. By integrating a circadian view within the fields of endocrinology and metabolism, researchers will be able to reveal many, yet-unsuspected aspects of how organisms cope with changes in the e…
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- 9783319270692
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- xiii, 132p. : ill.
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- 612.022 TIM t
Microwave Indices from Active and PassivesSensors forr remotes sensing applic…
Past research has comprehensively assessed the capabilities of satellite sensors operating at microwave frequencies, both active (SAR, scatterometers) and passive (radiometers), for the remote sensing of Earth’s surface. Besides brightness temperature and backscattering coefficient, microwave indices, defined as a combination of data collected at different frequencies and polarizations, revea…
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- 9783038978213
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- 507 SAN m
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