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Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing How Important is Economic Growth?
Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines a selection of Castles’ important work with contemporary research from a range of contributors. The material is in four parts: 1. The role of economics in defining and pr…
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- 9781925021325
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Healthcare, Frugal innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa
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- 9783658049157
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- 650
Environnement et inégalités sociales
Since its inception, environmental protection has been based on the natural sciences and technology and, more recently, has interacted with the economy, but its relations with social aspects have been the subject of less attention. 'Warning.
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- 9782800413969
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- T 307.3 COR e
Engaged Humanities; Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life
What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society.
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- 9789048550401
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- T 300.9 SWI e
Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history. The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression are used i…
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- 9781646420025
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- 305.8 HIS
Higher Education Pathways : South African Undergraduate Education and the Pub…
"In what ways does access to undergraduate education have a transformative impact on people and societies? What conditions are required for this impact to occur? What are the pathways from an undergraduate education to the public good, including inclusive economic development? These questions have particular resonance in the South African higher education context, which is attempting to tackle …
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- 978-1-928331-91-9
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Aryan and Non-Aryan in India
The history and mechanisms of the convergence of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan cultures has been a subject of continuing fascination in many fields of Indology. The contributions to Aryan and Non-Aryan in India are the fruit of a conference on that topic held in December 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The expr…
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- 9780472901685
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Migration in The Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory To Globalized Natio…
Migration; History, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Demography
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- 9783319137186
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- 351.81 BOE m
Housing Estates in Europe
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metro…
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- 9783319928135
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Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their coverage is li…
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