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The big reset : war on gold and the financial endgame
A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been planning for a monetary reset. According to Willem Middelkoop, this reset will be designed to keep the US in the driver's seat, allowing the new monet…
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- 9789462980273
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- 330p. : ill.
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- 332.4222 MID b
Competence training for pharmacy
The educational system leading up to the pharmacy degree, student training, and the continuing personal development of pharmacists are being more and more mapped to the competences pharmacists require to provide the relevant safe and efficient pharmaceutical services to meet the health needs of patients. This book draws on the experience of experts involved in the develoment of competence train…
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- 9783038424819
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- vii, 153p.: ill.
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- 615 COM c
Digital scholarly editing: theories and practices
"This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress o…
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- 9781783742400
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- 290 p.; 23 cm.
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- Digital Humanities Series, vol. 4
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- 001 DIG d
Digital Samaritans : rhetorical delivery and engagement in the digital humani…
Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Base…
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- 9780472072804
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- xx, 164p. : ill
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- 296.817072 RID d
The Ottoman administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringi…
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- 9780203332467
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- xi, 242p. : ill.
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- 320.956709034 CET o
Managing consultants : a practical guide for busy public sector managers
Public service cutbacks have increased reliance on consultants. But new legislation and rules governing the procurement of services from consultants are scattered over different legislative instruments. The first edition of this book attracted a record number of online hits. Busy public sector managers now have available to them an updated version that integrates an easy-to-follow, step-by-step…
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- 9781760460471
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- xvi, 100p. : ill.
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- 352.3730994 DOB m
New insights in the history of interpreting
Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Bringing together papers from an international symposium held at Rikkyo University in 2014 along with two select pieces, this volume pursues such questions i…
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- 9789027258670
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- xvi, 278p. : ill.
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Language planning as nation building : ideology, policy and implementation in…
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one …
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- 9789027262769
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- x, 312p. : ill.
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- 306.449492 RUT l
Language MOOCs : providing learning, transcending boundaries
Language MOOCs (or LMOOCs) are dedicated Web-based online courses for second languages with unrestricted access and potentially unlimited participation. They are generating interest and expectation in the contexts of university education, lifelong learning and online training in general. This pioneering book presents an initial analysis of the theoretical and methodological issues underlying LM…
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- 9783110422504
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- x, 175p. : ill.
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- 371.3344678 LAN l
Garden learning : a study on European botanic gardens' collaborative learning…
"From 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside the classroom—all over Europe. This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural Hi…
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- 9781909188662
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- vi, 185p. : ill.
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- 370 KAP g
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