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Being a presence for students : teaching as a lived defense of liberal education
This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed on…
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- 9781643150086
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- VIII, 135 p.
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- 370.112 FRA b
Mosquitopia : the place of pests in a healthy world
This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them a…
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- 9781003056034
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- xxi, 290p.: ill.
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- 595.772 MOS m
Fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern C…
Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancien…
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- 9783110714333
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- VI, 338 p.
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- Volume 20 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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- 098.3 FAK f
Islamic ethics and the trusteeship paradigm : Taha Abderrahmane's philosophy …
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). The volume, with contributions in English and Arabic, examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of ethics and how it permeates various disciplines: ph…
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- 9789004438354
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- XVII, 364 p.
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- Studies in Islamic Ethics, 3
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- 297.5092 ISL i
Harnessing knowledge, innovation and competence in engineering of mission cri…
This book explores the critical role of acquisition, application, enhancement, and management of knowledge and human competence in the context of the largely digital and data/information dominated modern world. Whilst humanity owes much of its achievements to the distinct capability to learn from observation, analyse data, gain insights, and perceive beyond original realities, the systematic tr…
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- 9781789844672
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- XIII, 177 p.
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- 658.4038 HAR h
Mengenal koleksi tematik kebun raya eka karya bali dalam sebuah taman
Kebun Raya Eka Karya Bali merupakan salah satu kebun raya yang dikelola oleh Pusat Penelitian Konservasi Tumbuhan dan Kebun Raya, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (PPKTR-LIPI). Terletak di kawasan dataran tinggi Bedugul, kebun raya ini menjanjikan pemandangan alam yang sangat indah disertai dengan udara sejuk khas pegunungan. Koleksi tumbuhan dari dataran tinggi kering dan kawasan timur Indon…
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- 9786024961954
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- xix, 124 p, ; 21 cm
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- 580.73 DAR m
Education materialised : reconstructing teaching and learning contexts throug…
Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and e…
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- 9783110741124
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- XII, 495 p.
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- Volume 23. In the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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- 091 EDU e
Marketing management and communications in the public sector
This updated edition of Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector provides a thorough overview of the major concepts in public sector marketing and communications, two fields that have continued to grow in importance for modern public administrations. With extended coverage of topics such as social marketing and institutional communication, the authors skilfully build on the …
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- 9781315622309
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- X, 264 p.
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- Routledge Masters in Public Management
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- 352.748 PAS m
Robotics, AI, and humanity : science, ethics, and policy
This open access book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over their benefits and drawbacks for humanity. The emergent technologies have for instance implications within medicine and health care, employment, transport, manufacturing, agriculture, and armed conflict. While there has been considerable attention devoted to robot…
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- 9783030541736
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- 174.9629892 ROB r
Divination on stage : prophetic body signs in early modern theatre in Spain a…
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Bar…
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- 9783110695755
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- VIII, 252 p.
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- 862.309377 GER d
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