Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

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Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and associ…

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Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents: Cambrid…

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Global Domestic Workers

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-Based Approaches

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020,…

Problems in the Theory of Modular Forms

* Memperkenalkan dunia bentuk modular yang menakjubkan melalui pendekatan pemecahan masalah. Membahas topik tentang seri-q, grup modular, bidang setengah atas, fungsi-t Ramanujan, produk dalam Petersson, operator Hecke, dan seri Dirichlet. * Ditulis oleh pemenang Penghargaan Coxeter-James, Penghargaan Jeffery-Williams, Persekutuan E. W. R. Steacie, dan Persekutuan Killam. ;;; Teori Bentuk Modu…

National Language Planning and Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities

Controversies and problems with regard to language policy and language education still exist in Malaysia. Despite the attempts of language policy makers to promote multilingualism, the implementation has been marred by political and religious affiliations. Malaysia is a melting pot of many different cultures and ethnicities, the three largest being Malay, Chinese and Indian. Therefore, an analy…