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Teacher education for sustainable development and global citizenship : critic…
This book examines how educators internationally can better understand the role of education as a public good designed to nurture peace, tolerance, sustainable livelihoods and human fulfilment. Bringing together empirical and theoretical perspectives, this insightful text develops new understandings of education for sustainable development and global citizenship (ESD/GC) and illustrates how the…
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- -
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- 9780429427053
- Collation
- xxvii, 258 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Critical Global Citizenship Education
- Call Number
- 338.927071 BAM t
History of concepts : comparative perspectives
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. C…
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- -
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- 9053563067
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- ix, 293 p. : ill
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- -
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- 907.2 VAN h
Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the…
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- 13
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- 9780472128563
- Collation
- xiii, 270 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 322.4209593 SIN o
Do-gooders at the end of aid : scandinavian humanitarianism in the twenty-fir…
Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Scandinavia is indeed characterized by the idea of doing good on the world stage, but then shows how this 'Scandinavian humanitarian brand' is an asset that policymakers and others can capitalize …
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- 9781108772129
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- xix, 296 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 361.260948 PUY d
Commitment and beyond : reflections on/of the political in arabic literature …
This book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing…
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- -
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- 9783954906130
- Collation
- 358 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 892.709 YVO c
No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
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- 9783030835828
- Collation
- xxxii, 306 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 ELA n
Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed cas…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781139381628
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- xiv, 248 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 322.30947 SCH n
The right-wing critique of Europe : nationalist, souverainist and right-wing …
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat to the sovereignty of individual member states, has led to an intensification of Eurosceptic sentim…
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- 2
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- 9781003226123
- Collation
- x, 290 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 341.2422 SON t
The DARPA model for transformative technologies: perspectives on the U.S. def…
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Inte…
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- 9781783747931
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- xix, 485 p. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
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- 338.064 DAR d
Gallucci's commentary on dürer's 'four books on human proportion': renaissan…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783748617
- Collation
- xi. ; 205 p.
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- -
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- 704.942 JAM g
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