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Reframing the urban challenge in Africa : knowledge co-production from the South
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidenc…
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- 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003008385
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76096 NTO r
Revolutionary worlds. Local perspectives and dynamics of the Indonesian Indep…
Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile per…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463727587
- Collation
- 538p
- Series Title
- Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950,
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- 950 REV b
Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
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- -
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- 9783030111113
- Collation
- XVII, 295p. : ill.
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- -
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- 232.91 ALL m
Musicality of a Literary Work
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fugh…
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- Volume 57
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783653047769
- Collation
- 244p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 780.08 AND m
Museums and sites of persuasion : politics, memory and human rights
March 31, 2017 marked the centenary of the transfer of the Danish colony—the Danish West Indies (today’s US Virgin Islands)—to the US. During the 100 years that had passed, the history had only occasionally been revisited in Danish public debate and history books—often shaped as a postcolonial nostalgic longing for what was perceived as a paradise lost. Even less often had the history o…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138567818
- Collation
- xi, 232 p, ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 323.075 JOY m
Sport Policy in Canada
The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776621265
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 796.069 ULT S
Governing delinquency through freedom : control, rehabilitation and desistance
"This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics of power, control, and inequality produced by such institutional settings. The book’s analysis i…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429466175
- Collation
- 270p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 364.360981 BUG
Australian travellers in the South Seas
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464158
- Collation
- 396 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 820.935894 HAL a
Placing the public in public health in post-war Britain, 1948–2012
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health s…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030186852
- Collation
- viii, 141 p: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 362.109 ALE p
Musical Gentrification : Popular Music, Distincion and Social Mobility
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429325076
- Collation
- x, 185p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780 MUS m
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