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Electronic democracy
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a tool for political mobilisation, internet Voting and Voting Advice Applications, and other phenomena, this volume critically engages with the hope for more transparency and po…
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- 9783847400189
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- 203 pages ; 21 cm.
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- The world of political science : the development of the discipline
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- 321.802854678 KER e
Communicative Figurations : Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Medi…
This open access volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media such as mobile phone and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability…
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- 9783319655840
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- XXIII, 444 p.
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- 302.23 COM c
Emerging bodies: the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography
The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance world…
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- 9783839415962
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- 264p.: ill.
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- 792.62 EME e
Women in business
[The role of women in entrepreneurship, management and corporate governance is regarded as central to the development and welfare of economies. Since the early 1980s, there has been increased interest in women managers and entrepreneurs, often from an interdisciplinary approach, combining, for example, sociology, psychology, management and organisational studies and economics. Nowadays, researc…
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- 9783039216383
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- 168 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.443 WOM w
Dance and politics: moving beyond boundaries
"Since ancient times and across cultures, dance has provided a powerful form of human expression. In this inspiring book, Dana Mills examines the political power of dance from a global perspective. Mills explores different dimensions of dance as a form of intervention into a politics more commonly articulated in words. She is interested in dance as a system of communication that allows its subj…
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- 9781526105172
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- xi, 132p.
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- 306.4846 MIL d
New direction in strategic thinking 2.0
"The Australian National University’s Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is Australia’s premier university-based strategic studies think tank. Fifty years after the Centre was founded in 1966, SDSC celebrated its continued research, publications, teaching and government advisory role with a two-day conference entitled ‘New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2.0’. The event saw the …
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- 9781760462222
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- xxv, 237p.: ill.
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- 355.343 NEW n
Enabling things to talk : designing IoT solutions with the IoT architectural …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging network superstructure that will connect physical resources and actual users. It will support an ecosystem of smart applications and services bringing hyper-connectivity to our society by using augmented and rich interfaces. Whereas in the beginning IoT referred to the advent of barcodes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), which helped to auto…
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- 9783642404030
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- x, 349p. : ill.
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- 004.678 ENA e
Environment and narrative : new essays in econarratology
Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical and narrative scholars as well as environmental humanities scholars interested in narrative. Erin James and Eric Morel’s volume Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology explores the complexity of pairing material environments and their representations w…
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- 9780814277546
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- 801.95 ENV e
Accountability in public policy partnerships
Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding of what accountability means for partnerships and which mechanisms can be used to strengthen it. Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships develops a new model of accountabi…
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- 9780230290617
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- xiii, 264p. : ill.
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- 352.34 STE a
Climate change and poverty
Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution.
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- 9781447300878
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- 304.25 FIT c
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