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Higher education in 2040
The university is one of the oldest institutions in the world. After eight hundred years, it is still going strong where many other institutions have foundered. The university even appears to be flourishing: in the Netherlands for instance, as elsewhere, student numbers continue to rise, the research enjoys a good reputation and Dutch universities’ results are impressive – certainly if one …
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- 378.4 VAN h
Across anthropology: troubling colonial legacies, museums and the curatorial
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies…
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- 9789461663177
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- 434p.: ill.
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- 301 ACR a
People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. This coll…
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- 9781909646568
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- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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- 940.146 PEO p
The ecological scarcity method for the European Union : a Volkswagen research…
This report transfers the Ecological Scarcity Method (ESM) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published by environmental authorities, specifically the European Environment Agency. ESM assesses environmental impacts of manufacturing sites and production processes. De…
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- 9783658195069
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- xiv, 93p. : ill.
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- 333.714094 AHB e
The economy as a complex spatial system : macro, meso and micro perspectives
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within la…
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- 9783319656274
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- xii, 220p. : ill.
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- 330.9 ECO e
The EU and China in African authoritarian regimes : domestic politics and gov…
This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficu…
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- 9783319635910
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- xvi, 261p. : ill.
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- 341.2422096 HAC e
Architecture and the novel under the Italian fascist regime
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force …
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- 9783030194284
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- xviii, 229p. : ill.
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- 853.9109 BIL a
People passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence on…
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- 9781909254121
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 303.48241047
Comparative media policy, regulation and governance in Europe
Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe - Unpacking the Policy Cycle represents the continuation and further development of a long tradition of media policy books, focusing on the development of media structures and media policy within Europe. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of more or less disruptive transformation. It maps t…
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- 9781783208869
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- 001.5 COM c
History and drama: the Pan-European tradition
Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a f…
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- 9783110604276
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- viii, 202p.: ill. ; 24 cm
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- 809.2 HIS h
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