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Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…
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- 978-3-031-03938-6
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Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter
Dieser Open-Access-Band bietet eine Übersicht disziplinärer Zugänge und aktueller empirischer Befunde zum Wohlbefinden und gesundheitsrelevanten Verhalten von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. Internationale Perspektiven renommierter Experten sowie Beiträge von Akteuren aus verschiedenen Praxisfeldern in Luxemburg ergänzen die Sammlung. Sie machen diesen Band zu einem unverzichtbaren We…
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- 978-3-658-35744-3
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- XVIII, 729
Herwig Schopper
This open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witness to 100 years of European history. His career has taken him from research to management to diplomacy, with a major part devoted to, and inspired by, CERN. Herwig enjoyed a rich childhood, spending his summers at his grandparent’s hotel on …
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- 978-3-031-51042-7
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Pflege-Report 2022
Der Pflege-Report, der jährlich in Buchform und als Open-Access-Publikation erscheint, rückt im Schwerpunkt 2022 jene Pflegebedürftigen in den Mittelpunkt, die nicht wie im „Normalfall“ aus altersassoziierten Gründen Unterstützungsbedarf aufweisen: Fast ein Fünftel der Pflegebedürftigen ist noch keine 60 Jahre alt. Neben Kindern und Jugendlichen zählen hierzu auch Erwachsene im erwe…
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- 978-3-662-65204-6
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- XVI, 313
How Data Quality Affects our Understanding of the Earnings Distribution
This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book begins by profiling the post-Apartheid period in South Africa's history when the sampling frame and survey methodology for household surveys was undergoing periodic changes due to…
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- 978-981-19-3639-5
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- XX, 114
Future of sustainable agriculture in saline environments
Produksi pangan di tanah salin saat ini dan masa depan patut mendapat perhatian dunia, khususnya karena ketahanan pangan merupakan isu yang mendesak, jutaan hektar tanah terdegradasi tersedia di seluruh dunia, air tawar semakin langka, dan kenaikan permukaan laut global mengancam produksi pangan di dataran rendah pesisir yang subur. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments bertu…
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- 9781003112327
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- 1 online resource (541 Pages)
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- 338.19 NEG f
Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
Buku ini menawarkan eksplorasi interdisipliner yang sesungguhnya tentang pola keterlibatan kita dengan politik, berita, dan informasi dalam lingkungan informasi pilihan tinggi saat ini. Dengan mengemukakan gagasan bahwa lingkungan informasi pilihan tinggi dapat berkontribusi pada peningkatan mispersepsi dan penolakan pengetahuan daripada pengetahuan publik yang lebih besar, buku ini menawarkan …
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- 9781003111474
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- 1 online resource. (308 Pages)
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- 306.42 STR k
The ethics of national security intelligence institutions : theory and applic…
Buku ini membahas etika lembaga intelijen keamanan nasional yang beroperasi dalam demokrasi liberal kontemporer. Pengumpulan intelijen oleh badan-badan seperti CIA, MI6, dan Mossad melibatkan praktik-praktik yang tampaknya tidak konsisten dengan prinsip-prinsip moralitas biasa – praktik-praktik seperti berbohong, memata-matai, memanipulasi, dan tindakan rahasia. Namun, dalam upaya mempertahan…
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- 9781003106449
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- 1 online resource. (288 Pages)
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The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing
There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying tre…
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- 9780415550970
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- 200.19 PRA p
Wandering the wards : an ethnography of hospital care and its consequences fo…
Wandering the Wards memberikan pemeriksaan etnografis yang terperinci dan tak tergoyahkan tentang kehidupan di rumah sakit kontemporer. Buku ini mengungkap budaya institusional dan bangsal yang menginformasikan organisasi dan pemberian perawatan sehari-hari untuk salah satu populasi terbesar di dalamnya: orang yang hidup dengan demensia yang memerlukan perawatan rumah sakit yang tidak terjadwal…
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- 9781003087335
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- 1 online resource. (188 Pages )
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