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The new politics of numbers : utopia, evidence and democracy
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
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- 9783030782016
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- XXVII, 497 p
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- 320.0723 AND t
Sport, psychology and Christianity : welfare, performance and consultancy
The majority of sport psychology research to date has been underpinned and driven by a secular perspective. There is an urgent need for sport psychologists to better understand the relevance of Christian faith in athletes’ sporting experiences and day-to-day lives in order to improve their performance and well-being. Sport, Psychology and Christianity is the first book to consider the relatio…
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- 9781351165488
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- xiii, 212 p
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- 796.019 BRI s
Target suitability and the crime drop
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved sec…
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- 9781137525024
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- ii; 22 PG; ill.
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- 500 TAR t
Television Scales
How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content to its most massive industrial coordinates and beyond? In Television Scales, Nick Salvato demonstrates how the problem of scale in the field of television may be turned into …
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- 9781950192427
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- ScholarLed
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Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- 9781906924386
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- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- 813.4 TRE h
Points of contact : the shared intellectual history of vocalisation in Syriac…
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the i…
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- 9781800642980
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- xii, 370 p.
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- 492 POS p
Mind, state and society : social history of psychiatry and mental health in B…
Mind, State and Society examines the reforms in psychiatry and mental health services in Britain during 1960–2010, when de-institutionalisation and community care coincided with the increasing dominance of ideologies of social liberalism, identity politics and neoliberal economics. Featuring contributions from leading academics, policymakers, mental health clinicians, service users and carers…
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- 9781911623793
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- xxvii, 436 p. ; ill
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- 362.20941 IKK m
Terrestrial mammal conservation : global evidence for the effects of interven…
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synopses). Actions are organized into categories based on the International Union for Conservation of …
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- 9781800640856
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- xxiv, 1096p.
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- 333.95416 TER l
Indonesia emas berkelanjutan 2045: kumpulan pemikiran pelajar Indonesia sedun…
Seri Hukum, HAM, dan Pemerintahan mengulas isu tentang hukum, hak asasi manusia, dan pemerintahan, serta rekomendasi untuk mencapai tujuan Indonesia Emas 2045. Bunga rampai ini membahas poin ke-16 SDGs, yaitu perdamaian, keadilan, dan kelembagaan yang tangguh. Secara umum, target dalam SDGs ke-16 dapat direalisasikan melalui pembentukan hukum dan sistem yang baik terhadap beberapa aspek, yaitu …
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- 9786024962241
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- xx, 211 p, 21 cm
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- 340 IND i
Locating imagination in popular culture : place, tourism and belonging
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are beco…
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- 9781000223835
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- XIV, 319 p.
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- Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies,
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- 306 LOC l
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