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Becoming citizens in a changing world : IEA International Civic and Citizensh…
This open access book presents the results from the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). Using data from 24 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, the study investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. It also responds to th…
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- 9783319739632
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- xxi, 243p. : ill.
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- 371.26 BEC b
The Future of television - convergence of content and technology
This book presents a collection of chapters that focus on the convergence of television today, approached using an interdisciplinary perspective. Clearly, the importance of technological advances describes only one aspect of this evolutionary process. In this book, convergence is also examined from other equally important perspectives, which include a historical case study on convergence and cu…
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- 9781789857535
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- 90 p.; 23 cm.
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- 384.55 FUT f
Languages of science in thee eighteenth century
The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters explore the forming of scientific communities, the emergence of new languages of science, the spread of scientific ideas, and the development of sci…
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- 9783110255058
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- 365 p.; 22 cm.
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- 415.09 LAN l
The Limits of neuroplasticity induced by adult language acquisition
Most adults attempt to learn a second or even third language at some point in their life. Since language exposure is one of the most intense cognitive training regimes one can encounter, it is not surprising that previous research has shown that multilingualism can induce profound change in the brain or ‘neuroplasticity’.What remains unclear is the scope of such adult language learning indu…
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- 9782889456406
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- 157 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 306.446 PAB l
Creating ethnicities & identities in the Roman world
Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered …
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- 9781905670796
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- XIII, 278 p.
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- BICS Supplements, 120
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- 305.800937 CRE c
Tweets and the streets
Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspa…
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- 9781849648004
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- vii, 195p.: ill.
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- 302.231 GER t
Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: widening the scope of socia…
An important amount of research effort in psychology and neuroscience over the past decades has focused on the problem of social cognition. This problem is understood as how we figure out other minds, relying only on indirect manifestations of other people's intentional states, which are assumed to be hidden, private and internal. Research on this question has mostly investigated how individual…
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- 9782889195299
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- 413 p.; 22 cm.
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- 824.18 PAO t
Contested childhoods: growing up in migrancy
This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves ar…
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- 9783319446080
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- 193 p.; 22 cm.
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.808 COn c
Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p. : ill.
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- 171.7 SCH r
From Laṅkā eastwards : the rāmāyaṇa in the literature
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs o…
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- 9789067183840
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- XIV, 259 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 294.5922 CRE l
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