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Australia’s Fertility Transition : A study of 19th-century Tasmania
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries in Europe and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a fertility transition, where fertility fell from high levels to relatively low levels. England and the other English-speaking countries experienced this from the 1870s, while fertility in Australia began to fall in the 1880s. This book investigates the fertility tran…
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- 13
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- 9781760463373
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- 318
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.6309946.MOY
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464974
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- -
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- -
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- 952.044092.HAT
The power of economic ideas: the origins of Keynesian macroeconomic managemen…
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists’ thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and p…
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- -
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- 9781921666278
- Collation
- 326 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 994.042 MIL t
Corporate memory : records and information management in the knowledge age
Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it to function effectively. This book is aimed at records managers and archivists, who are responsible for maintaining and managing information within an organization. It describe…
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- 32
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- 9783598440113
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- xi, 156 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.4038 KEN c
Violence against women's health in international law
Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on sex-based discrimination; however, in investigations of violence, one aspect has been overlooked: violence may severely affect women's health and access to reproductive health, …
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- 9781526124975
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The origin and the evolution of firms : information as a driving force
The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's theory of evolution clearly demonstrated that evolution involved increasing organization. As we began to explore the molecular basis of life and its evolution, it became equally …
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- 18
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- 9781607509578
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- viii, 232 p
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- -
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- 330.1 ROE t
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII: 18th International Symposium on …
Missing data is a common occurrence in the time series domain, for instance due to faulty sensors, server downtime or patients not attending their scheduled appointments. One of the best methods to impute these missing values is Multiple Imputations by Chained Equations (MICE) which has the drawback that it can only model linear relationships among the variables in a multivariate time series. T…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030445843
- Collation
- XIV, 588p
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 005.74 AID r
Information security governance simplified : from the boardroom to the keyboard
Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these regulations in simple terms and explains how to use control frameworks to build an air-tight information security (IS) program and governance structure. Defining the leadershi…
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- -
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- 9781439811634
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- xxvii, 433 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 005.8
The Routledge companion to actor-network theory
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a…
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- -
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- 9781138084728
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- xx, 458 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 303.01 AND
Inhuman Nature
Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently to us. Enamored by fictions of environmental sovereignty, we too often imagine “human” to be a solitary category of being. This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymme…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780692299302
- Collation
- i, 166 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.2 COH
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