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Global health collaboration : challenges and lessons
This stimulating open access volume details the innovative work of the Pan Institution Network for Global Health in creating collaborative research-based answers to large-scale health issues. Equitable partnerships among member universities representing North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe reverse standard cross-national dynamics to develop locally relevant responses to health challenges as …
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- 9783319776859
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- viii, 107p. : ill.
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- 362.1 GLO g
World literatures : exploring the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange
"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange. As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been i…
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- 9789176350768
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- 421 p.
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- Stockholm English Studies, 3
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- 800 WOR w
From Laṅkā eastwards : the rāmāyaṇa in the literature
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs o…
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- 9789067183840
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- XIV, 259 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 294.5922 CRE l
Trust in contemporary society
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. Readership: All interested in trust research in psychology, sociology…
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- 9789004390430
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- 284 p.; 22 cm.
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- International Comparative Social Studies; Volume 42
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- 301 TRU t
Montaigne and the origins of modern philosophy
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable—brought down from the heavens to t…
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- 9780810129658
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- xxi, 216 pages ; 23 cm
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- 844.3 HAR m
The Heritage of Arung Palakka: a history of South Sulawesi (Celebes) in the s…
A History of South Sulawesi in the seventeeth century
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- 9789004287228
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- ix, 353 p., [9] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 91
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- 959.84 AND t
The economy as a complex spatial system : macro, meso and micro perspectives
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within la…
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- 9783319656274
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- xii, 220p. : ill.
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- 330.9 ECO e
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
Responding to the west: essays on colonial domination and Asian agency
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the University of Newscastle, use a range of social science history methods to explore new paths to colonial history. How were individuals, groups, and social categories able to …
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- 9789048508204
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- 181 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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- ICAS publication series. 5
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- 325.3095 RES r
Creating standards. Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures
Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts inte…
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- 9783110639063
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- 336 p.; 22 cm
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures; Volume 16
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- 492.7 CRE c
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