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Migration and Religion
This open access book introduces research on migration and religion with the focus on migration to western European countries from the 1950s and onwards. The book is an in-depth presentation of the main research trends as to methods, theories and empirical zones on migration and religion. In a unique way, the book brings together research about the topic aligning it with the experiences and urg…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031307669
- Collation
- XI, 122
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 201.72 NOR
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic integration strategies are also examined for their impact on East Asia and on Australia. The collectio…
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- 23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921313622
- Collation
- 293
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.52.PAN
Animating film theory
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822376811
- Collation
- x + 359 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.4334 BEC a
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
- Edition
- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Framing the global economic downturn: crisis rhetoric and the politics of r…
The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666056
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 352.3 HAR f
The power of economic ideas: the origins of Keynesian macroeconomic managemen…
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists’ thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666278
- Collation
- 326 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 994.042 MIL t
Local knowledge matters
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the critical role that local knowledge plays in public policy processes as well as its role in the co-production of policy relevant knowledge with the scientific and professional communities. The authors consider the mechanisms used by local organisations and the constraints and opportunities they face, exploring what the knowledg…
- Edition
- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447348085
- Collation
- III, 192 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.609598
Black eggs : poems
Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472127634
- Collation
- xx + 330 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 895.615 SAD b
Misinformation policy in Sub-Saharan Africa : from laws and regulations to me…
Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is a single volume containing two research reports by eight authors examining policy towards misinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume first examines the teaching of ‘media literacy’ in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of media and informa…
- Edition
- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781914386053
- Collation
- iii, 224 p
- Series Title
- CAMRI Policy Briefs and Reports, 8
- Call Number
- 302.230967 DIA
Education Policies in the 21st Century Comparative Perspectives
The nation-state has assumed its current form after having undergone significant transformations. In the developmental and transformational process of the nation-state, the definition and expected functions of education as well as the forms of educational intervention have also transformed. This transformation became much more saturated starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Thi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978981916045
- Collation
- XIV, 292p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379 EDU a
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