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Migration, Education and Employment
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration.…
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- 978-3-031-41919-5
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- VIII, 203
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Using Social Theory in Higher Education
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In a structure that creates a space for relational dialogue, each chapter is…
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- 978-3-031-39817-9
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- XIV, 284
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Cannabinoids and the brain
A review of the scientific evidence on the effects of cannabinoids on brain and behavioral functioning, with an emphasis on potential therapeutic use."The cannabis plant has been used for recreational and medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years, but the scientific investigation into its effects has only recently yielded useful results. In this book, Linda Parker offers a review of the scie…
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- 9780262338448
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- 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) :illustrations.
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Cryopolitics :frozen life in a melting world
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338691
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- 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) :illustrations
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Disclosing the world :on the phenomenology of language
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language--what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological one, centering on the need to a…
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- 9780262333955
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- 1 online resource
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Photo forensics
The first comprehensive and detailed presentation of techniques for authenticating digital images. Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have manipulated photos for short-term political gain. Altering photographs in the predigital era required time-consuming darkroom work. Today, powerful and lo…
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- 9780262355452
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Reading Heidegger's "Black notebooks 1931--1941"
Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334631
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages)
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The materiality of interaction :notes on the materials of interaction design
A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction. Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analogue materials in design. Interaction with these new hybrid forms is increasingly mediated through physical materials, and therefore interacti…
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- 9780262344692
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- 1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) :illustrations
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Between preservation and exploitation :transnational advocacy networks and co…
"In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities -- bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucat?an Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy…
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- 9780262333924
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- 1 online resource (xl, 301 pages).
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Translational neuroscience :toward new therapies
Today, translational neuroscience faces significant challenges. Available therapies to treat brain and nervous system disorders are extremely limited and dated, and further development has effectively ceased. Disinvestment by the private sector occurred just as promising new technologies in genomics, stem cell biology, and neuroscience emerged to offer new possibilities. In this volume, experts…
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- 9780262329859
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