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Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted in the assumption that, by virtue of their training and experience, intellectuals possess kno…
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- 9781771990349
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- VII, 208 p.
- Series Title
- Cultural Dialectics
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- 305.552 SPE s
governance of educational welfare markets
This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an …
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- 1st edition.
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- 9783034318990 (alk. paper)
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- 379.4 STA t
Adult and continuing education in France
"The English language volume offers a current stock-take of central areas in adult and vocational further education in France. The author Silke Schreiber-Barsch bases her work on various types of data and information. Beginning with historical developments, Schreiber-Barsch covers the topics of political, financial and institutional framework conditions, as well as offer, participation and teac…
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- 9783763956128
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- 370 SCH a
Knowledge and institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- 9783319753287
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- X, 310 p
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space
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- 304.2 GLU k
The European higher education area: between critical reflections and future p…
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319208770
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- 378.4 CUR t
Area-wide management of fruit fly pests
Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse sub…
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- 9780429355738
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- 634.049774 ARE a
Urban and regional technology planning : planning practice in the global know…
Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. Designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways of cities, technologies, and multiple form…
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- 9780203799437
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- xiv, 268p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 COR u
Indigenous knowledge production : navigating humanity within a western world
Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become interdisciplinary in its approach and move beyond its current label of ‘Indigenous Studies…
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- 9781315437811
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- viii, 188p. : ill.
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- -
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- 305.8 WAT i
Artificial societies : the computer simulation of social life
An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within comput…
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- 9780203993699
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- ix, 257p. : ill.
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- 300.113 ART a
Public participation, science and society : tools for dynamic and responsible…
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population. Promoting public participation means giving more weight to citizens and civil society actors in the definition of research needs and in the implementation of…
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- 9781351272964
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- xvii, 133p. : ill.
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- 659.295 PUB p
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