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Integrating Immigrants in Europe
Europe has become a continent of immigration in the course of the last half century, and European societies have experienced growing ethnic and cultural diversity. Governmental actors have often made great efforts to collect and develop the knowledge and expertise to understand integration processes and to control and steer these. Major differences, however, exist between European countries in …
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- 9783319162560
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- VIII, 343p
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 304.8 EDU s
Public Policy and Research in Africa
This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodology, institutions…
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- 9783030997243
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- vi, 278 p
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- 636.9 AIY
Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability : Recent Tre…
This monograph identifies the ways that ‘politics’ enters into the creation of performance measurement systems, the selection of the official and unofficial aims of such systems, the selection of performance criteria and measures, the interpretation of findings, the responses to such findings and the implications of performance reporting for the accountability of both politicians and public…
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- 9781920942793
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- 658.3125.THO
Extimate technology : self-formation in a technological world
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who and what we are and influencing who we ought to be. How should we adequately understand, evaluate an…
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- 9781003139409
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- xii + 343 p
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- 303.48301 AYD e
Public systems modeling : methods for identifying and evaluating alternative …
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization …
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- 9783030939861
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- X, 328 p
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- 351 DAN p
Health promotion in health care - vital theories and research
Monica Eriksson is Associate Professor in social policy (health promotion) at Åbo Akademi university Vasa, Finland. Current position as Senior Professor in public health and health promotion at University West, Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. Former Head of the Center on Salutogenesis, University West. Member of the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis 20…
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- 9783030631352
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- XVI, 380 p
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- 613 GOR h
What is online research? : Using the internet for social science research
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The massive expansion of the internet into every aspect of our lives creates a challenge for social researchers: can they simply transfer their traditional methods and techniques online or do they need to reinvent research methods for the new environment? As onli…
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- 9781849665551
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- ix, 176p
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- 300.72 HOO w
Digital technology and the practices of humanities research
This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …
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- 9781783748419
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- xi, 267p. : ill.
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- 001.3072 DIG d
Misery to mirth : recovery from illness in early modern England
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows tha…
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- 9780198779025
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- xiii ; 272p. : ill.
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- 610.942
International perspectives on school settings, education policy and digital s…
An exchange on education ideas has shaped the transatlantic discourse in education for a long time. Over the past two decades education science has increasingly become networked internationally. Since 2015, the Office for International Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has organized international sessions on education research at the …
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- 9783847416609
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- 390p
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- 379 INT i
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