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City, Climate, and Architecture : a theory of collective practice
The publication rethinks climate control through the lens of city climate phenomena. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities.While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication’s second part considers examples from all over the …
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- -
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- 9783035624168
- Collation
- 276 hlm
- Series Title
- Klima Polis, 1
- Call Number
- 720.47
Iberian world empires and the globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor impor…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811308338
- Collation
- xxvi, 520p; ill
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
- Call Number
- BAR i
Between peace and conflict in the East and the West: studies on transformatio…
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and scholars working in the field of human dimension, security, transformation and development in Europe and Asia, particularly in post-soviet and co…
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- 1
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- 9783030774899
- Collation
- x, 297p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 341.7 BET b
Understanding Energy Innovation : Learning from Smart Grid Experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- 9789811662539
- Collation
- 101p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 621.31 LOV
A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji
‘Dr Lal’s book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji’s outstanding leaders. It is a timely reminder that the process of constitutional change hangs in the balance, as it did at the time of Mr Patel’s death. I hope his example will inspire future generations in Fiji to realise the vision articulated by a brilliant and courageous advocate of democracy, …
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- 23
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- 9781921666599
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- 308
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.099611.LAL
Microhistories of technology : making the world
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
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- 9783031228131
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- xx, 290p
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Call Number
- 907.2 MIK m
A memory of ice: the Antarctic voyage of the glomar challenger
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early ex…
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- 9781760462956
- Collation
- 246 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 551.4608 TRU a
Empire’s violent end : comparing Dutch, British, and French wars of decolo…
In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherl…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501764165
- Collation
- 246p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 325.309405 EMP b
Morality and nationalism
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has tended towards the construction of dichotomies – arguing, for example, that there are political and c…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415378994
- Collation
- 224 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.5401
Actions of Their Own to Learn : Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463512008
- Collation
- 284 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 371.3 IRO A
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