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"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated – and shared – when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers? In Metagestures, presented in a playful tête-…
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- 1st edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781950192267
- Collation
- x, 221p.:
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- -
- Call Number
- 813.6 NAP m
Time for mapping: cartographic temporalities
"The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This co…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526122520
- Collation
- 140p: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 526 HIN t
Turn on the light on science: a research-based guide to break down popular st…
"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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911529057
- Collation
- xvi, 104p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 530.092 TIN t
Family communication at the end of life
Scholars contributing to this special issue on “Family Communication at the End of Life” have provided evidence that communication is vital for terminally ill individuals, family members, and healthcare/palliative care specialists. Overall, the fifteen articles in this special issue focus on five questions: First, what are the trends regarding different approaches for beginning the conversa…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783038425199
- Collation
- x, 156 p.; 22 cm.
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- -
- Call Number
- 302 FAM f
Medical humanity and inhumanity in the German-speaking world
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787357716
- Collation
- XI, 126 p
- Series Title
- Fringe
- Call Number
- 400 MED m
The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum : from narrative, mem…
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America – including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum o…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110664416
- Collation
- XIV, 354 p.
- Series Title
- Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 26
- Call Number
- 943 JAE s
Chapter 25 Teacher agency in plurilingual learning contexts (Book chapter)
"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Education will present the state of the art of the place and role of translation in educational contexts worldwide. It lays a sound foundation for the future interdisciplinary cooperation between Translation Studies and Educational Linguistics. By adopting a transdisciplinary perspective, the handbook will bring together the various fields of scholarly…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780815368434
- Collation
- 18 p.; 22 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 418.02 EST c
Testing the margins of leisure : case studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia
This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number of crucial issues such as the role of leisure as a transcultural contact zone. The volume engages with a field that has been rapidly growing due to the heightened role of leisur…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783947732753
- Collation
- VI, 310 p.
- Series Title
- Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 6
- Call Number
- 306 TES t
Normed children: effects of gender and sex related normativity on childhood …
Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations. After its favorable reception in German-speaking countries from 2014 onwards, this title is now available in English…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839430200
- Collation
- 370 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 155.43 NOR n
Diversity in leadership: Australian women, past and present
Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present provides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925021707
- Collation
- 339 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 361.61 DIV d
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