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Educational resource management : an international perspective
The management of resources is a central duty for school and college leaders, but one for which they are often under-prepared. Good, contextual information and guidance are vital, especially as increased marketisation, international comparison and decentralised governance put additional pressure on leaders to manage their resources astutely. This second edition of Educational Resource Managemen…
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- 9781787358386
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- x, 185p. : ill.
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- 371.206 GLO e
Indigenous peoples, natural resources and governance : agencies and interactions
This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples’ relations in the mining industry, renewable resour…
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- 9781003131274
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- xiv, 216 p. : ill.
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- 333.2 TEN i
Universities and regional engagement : from the exceptional to the everyday
The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision which embraces its underlying complexity, and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agen…
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- 9781003150299
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- xiv, 246 p. : ill.
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- 378.103 IAK u
Articulating bodies : the narrative form of disability and illness in victori…
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …
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- 9781789624953
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- ix. ;232 p.
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- 823.8093561. KYL a
Body and spirit in the Middle Ages : literature, philosophy, medicine
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, memory and passions, in order to shed new…
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- 9783110615937
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- vi, 290. : ill.
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- 128.20902 GUB b
London's urban landscape : another way of telling
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspec…
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- 9781787355583
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- xxi. ;ill. :458 p.
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- 307.760941. CHR l
Global political demography : the politics of population change
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population change as they play out differently in each major world region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA regio…
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- 9783030730659
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- x, 459. : ill.
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- 304.6 GOE g
Healthcare Biotechnology : A Practical Guide
Foreseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has been a dearth of resources for this aspect of the field.
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- 9781439894125
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- 689p.
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- 615.19 DIM h
Post-Truth Imaginations : New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Te…
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against…
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- 9780429053061
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- 238p.
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- History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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- 177.3 KJE p
Digital towns : accelerating and measuring the digital transformation of rura…
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban and global markets, and population trends, rural communities present lesser access and use of digital technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than their urb…
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- 9783030912475
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- xxv, 213 p. : ill.
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- 307.1412 LYN d
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