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Changing Governance in Universities : Italian Higher Education in Comparative…
“This book is one of the very few analyses to carry out a comparison between the evolution of the Italian higher education system and other European systems. … this monograph analyzes with great accuracy and from an original viewpoint the basic weaknesses of a not so atypical case, which might suggest useful reflections for other HE systems at a general level.” (Roberto Moscati, European …
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Chapter 7 Wooden Shoes and Wellington Boots the Politics of footwear in Georg…
This chapter therefore makes a case for a political history of shoes, by bringing together these two rich fields. It will begin by thinking about the nature of political culture in the eighteenth century, where political virtue was evaluated in highly moral and gendered terms, and where shoes became the focus of debates about masculinity and citizenship. It will then turn its attention to c…
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Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has achieved incredible popularity in his native country and world-wide as well as rising critical acclaim. Murakami, in addition to receiving most of the major literary awards in Japan, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. Yet, his relationship with the Japanese literary community proper (known as the Bundan) has not been a particularly friendly…
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- 978-94-6300-462-6
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- 370 HAN
Strategic Nonviolent Power The Science of Satyagraha
History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the “insistence on truth.” As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak; rather, such action is an exercise of power. Despite the success of Gandhi’s “Quit India…
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- 328 pages
Leadership as masterpiece creation :what business leaders can learn from the …
"An attempt to use the ancient wisdom of the humanities to argue for a moral and aesthetic vision of business leadership"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Notebooks of a wandering Monk
"Originally published as Carnets d'un moine errant. Allary ?Editions, 2021.""The memoirs of Matthieu Ricard, one of the the world's most famous Buddhist monks who has captured the minds and hearts of people around the globe"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Age of auto electric :environment, energy, and the quest for the sustainable …
"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material practices of innovation"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Programming your GPU with OpenMP :performance portability for GPUs
"OpenMP is a widely used language for programming the nodes in a parallel computer. Those nodes are now heterogeneous, including a GPU alongside the traditional CPU"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The left hand of data :designing education data for justice
"A critique of how data is used in educational settings, and a demonstration of how data can play a more just role in research and practice when approached through a broader spectrum of anonymity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Sculptor and destroyer :tales of glutamate -- the brain's most important neur…
The fascinating story of glutamate, the neurotransmitter that controls the structure and function of the brain in health and neurological disorders. Sculptor and Destroyer tells the story of a simple, little-known molecule that became a master architect and commander of the human brain: glutamate. Upward of 90 percent of the neurons in the human brain deploy glutamate as their neurotransmitter.…
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