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Economy Studies : A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education
"The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit, enabling them to collectively understand and help tackle the issues the world faces today. This is a …
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- 9789048552801
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- 468p. ; ill.
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- 330.071 SAM e
The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemp…
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 9783030744434
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- xxii, 555 p. : ill.
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- 809.933561 FUL t
Xiipúktan (first of all): three views of the origins of the Quechan people
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation myth forms the backdrop against which much of the tr…
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- 9781909254411
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- 210 p. ; 24 cm
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- 973.0497 BRY x
Tales of darkness and light: Soso Tham's the old days of the Khasis
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader…
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- 9781783744701
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- 83 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 895.93 THA t
Ethnographica moralia: experiments in interpretive anthropology
Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertz’s anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their d…
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- 9780823228874
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- 291 p.
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- 301.01 PAN e
Balancing the tides : marine practices in American Sāmoa
"Balancing the Tides highlights the influence of marine practices and policies in the unincorporated territory of American Samoa on the local indigenous group, the American fishing industry, international seafood consumption, U.S. environmental programs, as well as global ecological and native concerns. Poblete explains how U.S. federal fishing programs in the post–World War II period encoura…
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- 9780824879686
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- 256p. ; ill.
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- 338.3727099613 JOA b
Turn on the light on science : a research-based guide to break down popular s…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- 9781911529057
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- xvi, 103p.
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- 509 TUR t
Touch
Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch th…
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- 9781912656356
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- 279 p.
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- 344.095 NIR t
Literasi keagamaan generasi milenial Indonesia: tantangan masa depan bangsa
Literasi keagamaan merupakan unsur sangat penting dalam kehidupan sosial-keagamaan masyarakat khususnya, dan kehidupan bermasyarakat, berbangsa dan bernegara umumnya. Studi-studi sosologi agama dan pembangunan tentang hubungan literasi keagamaan dengan efektivitas pembangunan di berbagai negara multireligi dan multikultural memperlihatkan bahwa literasi keagamaan merupakan faktor pendorong (…
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- 9786024962869
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- xi, 56p.
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- 306.6 LIT y
Pendidikan toleransi beragama, sebuah kajian sosiologi tentang peran sekolah …
Buku ini memaparkan secara kritis dan seimbang terhadap fenomena intoleransi keagamaan. Oleh karena itu, buku ini bukan-lah sebuah karya keagamaan ataupun karya yang ingin menyudutkan sebuah kepercayaan yang dimiliki oleh suatu kelompok keyakinan. Dalam buku ini, selain mengkaji mengenai masalah intoleransi di Indonesia, juga mengulik tentang perkembangan pendidikan di Indonesia, toleransi bera…
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- 9786024962593
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- xxii, 113p.
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- 207.5 PEN k
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