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The Springs Of Democracy : National and Transnational Debates on Constitution…
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, rest…
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- -
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- 9789522229281
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- 590 p.
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- -
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- 940.5 SPR P
Entrepreneurial responses to chronic adversity : the bright, the dark, and th…
This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within …
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- 1
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- 9783031048845
- Collation
- xi; 213p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.421 ENT D
Deciding about design quality : value judgements and decision making in the s…
In the past few years the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Clients often allow legal requirements to overrule th…
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- edision 12
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- 9789088900532
- Collation
- xi. ;342 p. :ill.
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- -
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- 343.49207872. DEC l
Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-centu…
In , Abbé Jacques Suchet arrived in the Algerian city of Constantine, an important North African crossroads and citadel dating back to the days of the Roman Empire. The city, perched on a rock and surrounded by cliffs on three sides, had been conquered with much bloodshed only two years before, in colo-nial France’s first successful foray into the Algerian interior. Suchet …
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- 2
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- 9780197605295
- Collation
- xi, 304p.
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- -
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- 266.20965 SAC p
Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
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- 10
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- 9780429324529
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- ix, 326p.
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- -
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- 338 SOC n
Museum object lessons for the digital age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of colle…
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- -
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- 9781787352810
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- XV, 141 p.
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- -
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- 069.5 GEI m
Digital constitutionalism in Europe : reframing rights and powers in the algo…
This book is about rights and powers in the digital age. It is an attempt to reframe the role of constitutional democracies in the algorithmic society. By focusing on the European constitutional framework as a lodestar, this book examines the rise and consolidation of digital constitutionalism as a reaction to digital capitalism. The primary goal is to examine how European digital constitutiona…
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- -
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- 9781009071215
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- xv, 355p.
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- -
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- 342.4085 DEG d
Feminist IR in Europe : knowledge production in academic institutions
The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of location and the international political economy of feminist knowledge production. Who are some of the central feminist scholars located in Europe…
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- -
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- 9783030919993
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- ix, 174 p.
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- -
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- 327.0704 STE f
Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- -
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- 9781906924386
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- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- -
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- 813.4 TRE h
Hyperion : or, the hermit in Greece
Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters…
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- -
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- 9781783746576
- Collation
- 212p.
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- -
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- 833.6 GAS h
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