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Christianity, Islam, and nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to…
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- 9780203007556
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- xxi, 233p. : ill.
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- 305.899120951 FAR c
Responsible Innovation : Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementa…
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a…
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- 9789402417203
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- 630 JAR r
Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam: a rising dra…
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of agriculture and modern industrial and service sectors. Broad structural transformation and wid…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198796961
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- xxviii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Studies in development economics
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- 330 TAR g
Formational units in sign languages
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. This book examines the effects of these and other differences on sign language phonology and phonetics using observation, experimentation and theory. Languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, Eur…
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- 9781614510680
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- 414 FOR f
Professional competence and higher education : the ASSET programme
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9780203973165
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- xii, 207p. : ill.
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- 378.0130941 WIN p
Environmental education in Indonesia : creating responsible citizens in the g…
Indonesia’s wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to develop environmental awareness and avert vast environmental destruction, not only in Indonesia, but also in the Global South more generally. B…
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- 9780429397981
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- x, 270p. : ill.
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- 363.700710598 PAR e
Critical perspectives on educational leadership
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9780203977927
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- vii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.2 CRI c
Economic and social transformation in China : challenges and opportunities
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in Eng, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges and opportunities for Chinese development and the government’s thinking on economic and social …
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- 9780203970096
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- xvii, 276p. : ill.
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- 330.951 HU e
Heterogeneity, high performance computing, self-organization and the cloud
This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture based on the principles of self-or…
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- 9783319760384
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- XXI, 165 p.
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- 658.4038 LYN h
Sites of translation : what multilinguals can teach us about digital writing …
Winner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Sites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their communities. Blending ethnographic and empirical methods from multiple disciplines, Laura Gonzales provides methodological examples of how linguistic diversity can be studied in pra…
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- 9780472124343
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- XVI, 135 p.
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- 418.02 GON s
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