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Migration and pandemics: spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses seve…
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- 9783030812102
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- xxii, 248 p. : ill.
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 614.592414 TRI m
The classic short story, 1870-1925: theory of a genre
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular—the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This ex…
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- 9781909254770
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- 222 p. ; ill
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- 801.95 GOY t
The popular and the sacred in music
Music, as the form of art whose name derives from ancient myths, is often thought of as pure symbolic expression and associated with transcendence. Music is also a universal phenomenon and thus a profound marker of humanity. These features make music a sphere of activity where sacred and popular qualities intersect and amalgamate. In an era characterised by postsecular and postcolonial processe…
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- 9781003183648
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- XII, 198 p.
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- 781.64112 KAR p
Is behavioral economics doomed?: the ordinary versus the extraordinary
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics — an effort to incorporate psychological ideas into economics — has become all the rage. This bo…
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- 9781906924942
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- vii, 154 p. ; ill
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- 330.019 LEV i
Essays on Paula Rego: smile when you think about hell
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking …
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- 9781783747580
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- xv, 492 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 759.421 LIS e
Digital media and textuality: from creation to archiving
Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions ar…
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- 9783839440919
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- 284 p. : ill.
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- 006.7 MAD d
The political economy of bank regulation in developing countries : risk and r…
Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards, while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial system. Drawing on in-depth analysis of eleven countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it sho…
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- 9780198841999
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- xvii, 386 p. : ill.
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- 332.1091724 JON t
Labour and value : rethinking Marx's theory of exploitation
In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. …
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- 9781783747818
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- 144 p. : ill.
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- 179.8 SCR l
Models in microeconomic theory
There are many adjectives that one could reasonably use to describe the new open-access textbook, 'Models in Microeconomic Theory' by Martin Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein—terse, rigorous, deep and technically demanding, among them. But to me, the word that best describes their effort is ‘honest’. — Rajiv Sethi, Barnard College, Columbia University, Studies in Microeconomics 9(1) 128â…
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- 9781783748945
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- xv, 341 p. ; ill
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- 338.5 OSB m
International symposium on mathematics, quantum theory, and cryptography : pr…
This open access book presents selected papers from International Symposium on Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Cryptography (MQC), which was held on September 25-27, 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan. The international symposium MQC addresses the mathematics and quantum theory underlying secure modeling of the post quantum cryptography including e.g. mathematical study of the light-matter interaction mod…
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- 9789811551918
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- xii, 274p. : ill.
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- 003.54 INT i
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