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Qualitative freedom : autonomy in cosmopolitan responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the princ…
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- 9783030047238
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- x, 365p. : ill.
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- 123.5 DIE Q
Shipping and globalization in the post-war era : contexts, companies, connect…
This book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and pioneered, …
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- 9783030260026
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- xi, 290p. : ill.
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- 387.5 SHI s
United Nations peace operations in a changing global order
This open access volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state actors for greate…
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- 9783319991061
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- xxv, 334p. : ill.
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- 341.584 UNI u
Burials, texts and rituals : ethnoarchaeological investigations in north Bali…
The villages on Bali’s north-east coast have a long history. Archaeological finds have shown that the coastal settlements of Tejakula District enjoyed trading relations with India as long as 2000 years ago or more. Royal decrees dating from the 10th to the 12th century, inscribed on copper tablets and still preserved in the local villages as part of their religious heritage, bear witness to t…
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- 9783940344120
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- III, 298 p.
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- 306.095986 HAU b
Communicating, Networking : Interacting The International Year of Global Unde…
This book illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning economies in developing nations (Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea) and developed nations. Growing powers of e-citizenship can help build sustainable futures. This small volume provides a collection of examples and ideas from which the authors hope will help build a wid…
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- 9783319454719
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- XV, 77 p.
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- 302.23 COM c
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twen…
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century I Nyoman Darma Putra A literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese vi…
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- 9789067183703
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- xiv; 378 p.; 23 cm.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 899.261109 DAR l
Globalisation and poverty : channels and policy responses
The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors. The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons…
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- 9780203088333
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- xviii, 232p. : ill.
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- 339.46091724 GLO g
Culture and development in a globalizing world : geographies, actors, and par…
Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as: development for indigenous people natural resource management …
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- 9780203641019
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- xiv, 280p. : ill.
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- 306.3091724 CUL c
Educating students to improve the world
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensi…
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- 9789811538872
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- x, 131p. : ill.
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- 370.116 REI e
Bonded labour: global and comparative perpective (18th-21st century)
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migrati…
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- 9783839437339
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- 233p.: ill.
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- 331.1173 BON b
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