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Decolonising the University
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonization of the world's universities. Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In thi…
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- 9781786803153
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- vi, 259p.: ill.
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- 378 DEC d
Translating Chinese tradition and teaching Tangut culture : manuscripts and p…
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three pro…
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- 9783110453959
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- VIII, 318 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 6
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- 895.4 GAL t
Soundscapes of the urban past: staged sound as mediated cultural heritage
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such a…
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- 9783837621792
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- 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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- Sound studies ; v. 5
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- 781 SOU s
Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
Aims and Scope Growing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation…
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- 9783110601558
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- X, 218 p.
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- 712 BEL l
Optimalisasi peran sains dan teknologi untuk mewujudkan smart city
Smart city (kota cerdas) adalah kota yang masyarakatnya mampu mengelola sumber daya dengan efisien, dalam arti “mampu memaksimalkan investasi sumberdaya manusia, transportasi, dan infrastruktur teknologi informasi untuk meningkatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi dan kenyamanan hidup” (Caragliu, Del, & Nijkamp, 2009). Smart city memiliki enam karakteristik, yaitu smart economy, smart mobility, smart e…
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- 9786023921584
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- xii, 393p. : ill.
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- 600 OPT o
Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas : linkages…
This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas. Emphasis is given to the potential of nature-based approaches to create multiple-benefits for society. The expert contributions present recommendations for creating synergies between ongoing…
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- 9783319560915
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- xi, 342p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 NAT n
Ethnic identity, social mobility and the role of soulmates
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open interviews with these ‘minority climbers’, the study details the contextual and temporal nature of identification. The result…
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- 9783319995960
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- xv, 202p. : ill.
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- 304.8 SLO e
Creating ethnicities & identities in the Roman world
Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered …
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- 9781905670796
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- XIII, 278 p.
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- BICS Supplements, 120
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- 305.800937 CRE c
Disability human rights law 2018
Disability human rights law is a rapidly growing field. It merges critical disability studies, disability rights, and human rights to inform, identify, analyse, and create solutions to help protect the human rights of people with disabilities. This is the second volume of the Disability Human Rights Law edited collection. This volume delves deeper into this emerging field and begins to explore …
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- 9783038972518
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- ix, 217p.
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- 346.41013 DIS d
CyberParks : the interface between people, places and technology : new approa…
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outco…
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- 9783030134174
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- xv, 321p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 CYB c
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