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Globalization and Economic Diversification : Policy Challenges for Economies …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. This volume brings together new contributions from renowned academic scholars, from experts on economies in transition and from the United Nations, the European Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as other international agencies. It ai…
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- 9781849665766
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- 264p : ill
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- 330.1260947 GLO g
Marginal people in deviant places: ethnography, diffference, and the challeng…
Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the U…
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- 9780472055388
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- 348 p. : ill
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- 305.568 JAN m
After 9/11 : leading political thinkers about the world, the U.S. and themsel…
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society – and the mounting challenges they face today. The conversations illustrate the hopes and expectations, the anger and f…
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- Edition 11
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- 9783866496859
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- 219 p.
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- 327.73 END a
Science policy under Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close…
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- 9781787353411
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- viii, 304p.; ill.
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- 509.42 SCI a
Macroeconomic Modelling of R&D and Innovation Policies
This open access book encompasses a collection of in-depth analyses showcasing the challenges and ways forward for macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies. Based upon the proceedings of the EC-DG JRC-IEA workshop held in Brussels in 2017, it presents cutting-edge contributions from a number of leading economists in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current ac…
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- 9783030714574
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- XIX, 212 p ; ill
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- 338.926 MAC U
Agricultural Value Chains in India Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusiveness, …
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farme…
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- 9789813342682
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- XXXV, 298 p ; ill
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- 338.10954 AGR A
Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The proj…
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- 9783030944964
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- VIII, 274 p ; ill
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- 378.498 HIG A
Uprooting Bias in the Academy : Lessons from the Field
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It first describes what the barriers to inclusion are and how they function within the broader society, focusing on concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, and the importance of training organizational members to recognize and challenge it. It then di…
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- 9783030856687
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- 255 p ; ill
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- 379.26 UPR L
Carceral Logics : Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity
Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans. We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make society safer. We hope that more convictions and policing for animal crimes will keep animals safe and elevate their social status. The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the interest non…
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- 9781108919210
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- xiii, 450 p ; ill
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- 344.049 CAR L
The responsibility of intellectuals : reflections by Noam Chomsky and others …
With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal. The essay has been described as ‘the single most influential p…
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- 9781787355514
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- x, 138 p. ill;
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- 973.91 RES N
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