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Gender and Migration : IMISCOE Short Reader
This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides…
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- 9783030919719
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- vi, 123 p.
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- 304.82 GEN A
The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are t…
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- David Atkinson
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- xv, 207p. ; ill.
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- 821.04 ATK t
A climate of justice: An ethical eoundation for environmentalism
This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for ch…
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- 9783030773632
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- xix, 185p ; ill
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- 179.1 BRO a
Dangerous science : science policy and risk analysis for scientists and engin…
The public is generally enthusiastic about the latest science and technology, but sometimes research threatens the physical safety or ethical norms of society. When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. In the absence of convincing evidence, technological optimists and skeptics struggle to build consensus. In thes…
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- 9781911529880
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- ix. ;162 p.
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- 501.51. DAN d
Animal death
Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is – accompanied by the concept of 'life' – the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, on…
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- 9781743325247
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- xv. :ill. ;351 p.
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- 179.3. JAY a
Curriculum and learning for climate action : toward an SDG 4.7 roadmap for sy…
Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action offers researchers, practitioners, donors, and decisionmakers insights into entry points for education systems change needed to reorient human society’s relationship with our planetary systems.; Readership: All interested in Sustainability, International Education, Environmental Education will find this book useful. This includes researchers, student…
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- Vol.5
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- 9789004471818
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- xxxi, 368 p.
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- IBE on Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment, 5
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- 333.7071 IYE c
Healthcare as a universal human right : sustainability in global health
This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their citizens’ fundamental right to basic healthcare. Ground in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity, the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy makers a basis for health policies based o…
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- 9781003241065
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- vii, 188 p. : ill.
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- 362.1 NUN h
Ethics for A-level
What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically, with a vivid writing…
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- 9781783743902
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- 245 p. : ill.. ; 24 cm
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- 170.71 DIM e
Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical rese…
In this discipline-redefining book, Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains, inside the secretive culture of modern British medical research after WWII as the bodies of the deceased were harvested as bio-commons. Often the human stories behind these bodies were dissected, discarded, or destroyed in death. Hidden Histories of the Dead recovers …
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- 9781108633154
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- xvii, 322 p. ; ill
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- 174.20941 HUR h
Handbook the global history of work
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work - a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
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- 9783110424584
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- vii, 604p.
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- 174 HOF h
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