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Cyborg Mind
Should people hardwire computers into their brains, enabling their minds to directly access cyberspace? What advantages and risks would this represent? Would this create a new humanity? These questions have been considered and discussed in science fiction for decades, but technology is beginning to make such developments seem remarkably plausible. This book examines what is currently taking pla…
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- -
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- 9781789200140
- Collation
- vii, 251 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 612. 80285 CAL c
NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The notion of community empowerment, in which the…
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- -
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- 9780203842720
- Collation
- 148p
- Series Title
- Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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- 338.954 KIL
The Palgrave Handbook of International Energy Economics
This open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, renewables and corporate energy structures, alongside global energy trends, regional case studies and emerging areas such as the digitalization of energy and energy transiti…
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- 9783030868840
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- LXVI, 770p. ill.
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- -
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- 333.79 MAN t
Reframing the urban challenge in Africa : knowledge co-production from the South
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidenc…
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- 16
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- 9781003008385
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- -
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- -
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- 307.76096 NTO r
Revolutionary worlds. Local perspectives and dynamics of the Indonesian Indep…
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile per…
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- 1
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- 9789463727587
- Collation
- 538p
- Series Title
- Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950,
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- 950 REV b
Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
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- 9783030111113
- Collation
- XVII, 295p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 232.91 ALL m
Managing risk and information security : protect to enable
Given that security breaches and intrusions continue to be reported daily across organizations of every size, is information security really effective? Given the rapid evolution of new technologies and uses, does the information security group even need to exist? Obviously, this is a somewhat rhetorical question. I cannot imagine that any sizeable organization would operate well without an…
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- 9781430251149
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- xvii, 152 p
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- -
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- 005.8 MAL m
Musicality of a Literary Work
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fugh…
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- Volume 57
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- 9783653047769
- Collation
- 244p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 780.08 AND m
Diseases of edible oilseed crops
Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. Written by internationally recognized researchers, this book covers and integrates worldwide literature in the field up to 2014, setting it apart from other books that ar…
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- 9
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- 9781466595651
- Collation
- 486 p
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- -
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- 633.85 CHI d
Museums and sites of persuasion : politics, memory and human rights
March 31, 2017 marked the centenary of the transfer of the Danish colony—the Danish West Indies (today’s US Virgin Islands)—to the US. During the 100 years that had passed, the history had only occasionally been revisited in Danish public debate and history books—often shaped as a postcolonial nostalgic longing for what was perceived as a paradise lost. Even less often had the history o…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138567818
- Collation
- xi, 232 p, ill
- Series Title
- -
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- 323.075 JOY m
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