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Open Science: the Very Idea
This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book …
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- 9789402421156
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- xxiii, 247 p.
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- 501 OPE F
Remains of the Soviet past in Estonia : an anthropology of forgetting, repair…
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a numb…
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- 9781787353534
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- xix, 255 p. ill;
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- 974.98 REM F
The politics and poetics of authenticity : a cultural genealogy of Sinhala na…
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. I…
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- 9781787351288
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- xi, 161 p. ill;
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- 305.8914805493 POL H
Gender And Sport; Changes And Challenges
This volume covers current issues, cutting-edge debates and new knowledge on women and sport. The range of topics extends from female coaches and women in sport to sexual harassment, from snowboarders to schoolgirls, and from physical education to football. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the current debates on gender and sport from a women’s perspective, to share new knowle…
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Ruptures : anthropologies of discontinuity in times of turmoil
Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of ‘rupture’. Understood as radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the heart of some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of populist politics, the corollary impulse towards prot…
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- 9781787356184
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- xi, 250 p. ill;
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- 303.4 RUP M
Exit and voice : the paradox of cross-border politics in mexico
Exit and Voice is a compelling account of how Mexican migrants with strong ties to their home communities impact the economic and political welfare of those they leave behind. In many decentralized democracies like Mexico, migrants step in to supply public goods when local or state government cannot. Though migrants’ cross-border investments often improve citizens’ access to these goods and…
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- edision 13
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- 9780520974203
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- 304.80972. EXI l
Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought togethe…
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- 12
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- 9783030807672
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- xxiii; 574p; ill.
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- 634.9 CLI R
Computational Physiology : Simula Summer School 2021 − Student Reports
This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2021 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. Interested readers will find herein a number of modern approaches to modeling excitable tissue. This should provide a framework for tools available to model subcellular and tissue-level physiology across scales and scientific questions. In June through August of 2021, Simula held th…
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- 9783031051647
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- xi, 109 p.
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- 571.0285 COM K
"Völkisch" Writers And National Socialism
This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and Rudolf Binding – it examines the continuities in völkisch-…
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- 9783039119585
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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What is Europe?
This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of s…
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- 9781003278375
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- 278 p.
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- 940.56 WHA A
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