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Making Sense of "Bad English" : An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ide…
Why is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent or refined, whereas others are deemed uneducated, coarse, or inappropriate? Making Sense of "Bad English" is an accessible introduction to attitudes and ideologies towards the use of English in different settings around the world. Outlining …
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- 9780429328343
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- 190 p
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Genetics in human reproduction
ABSTRACT Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the current and possible future technological progress in genetic technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six sections medical a…
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- 9780429456619
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- 336 p
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Policing Rape: The Way Forward
ABSTRACT The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the rape justice gap. Three decades of research, policy, and legal changes have tweaked rape…
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- 9780429444869
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- 196 p
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Management, Social Work and Change
This title was first published in 2000: This text focuses on developments in social work and its management. In doing so, it is of necessity multi-disciplinary: research and literature from the fields of management, organization and social policy, as well as social work, are drawn upon. The major theme of the book is change, which, paradoxically, appears to be the major constant. Change is eve…
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Making Mental Health : A Critical History
ABSTRACT Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the cours…
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- 9780429351464
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Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Sociological Perspective
This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society. Student protests against apartheid drove transformative change in South Africa, and the subsequent new constitution promised positive change for the nation’s youth across a range of sectors. Adopting a …
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- 9781003468288
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Digital disruption in teaching and testing : assessments, big data, and the t…
Buku ini memberikan kontribusi signifikan terhadap meningkatnya perbincangan mengenai tempat big data dalam pendidikan. Menawarkan pendekatan multidisiplin dengan beragam perspektif dari para akademisi internasional dan pakar industri, para penulis bab terlibat dalam diskusi dan analisis yang diinformasikan oleh penelitian dan industri mengenai tempat big data dalam pendidikan, khususnya yang b…
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- 9781003045793
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 248 pages)
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Leading transformative change collectively : a practitioner guide to realizin…
Buku ini secara langsung membantu para pengambil keputusan dan agen perubahan di perusahaan, LSM, dan badan pemerintah menjadi lebih ahli dalam perubahan kolaboratif yang transformatif dalam mewujudkan SDG. Buku pegangan praktisi ini menerjemahkan pendekatan kolaborasi yang sistemik dan menyegarkan ke dalam pekerjaan dan manajemen sehari-hari. Buku ini menghubungkan praktik kolaborasi multi-pem…
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- 9781003033561
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Patterns of Inclusion: How Gender Matters for Automation, Artificial Intelli…
It is widely presumed that digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) shape the future of work; yet, gender is rarely considered in those debates. This ground-breaking book, written by a leading thinker on gender, inclusion and organisations, is based on in-depth research to show which patterns of gender and digitalisation emerge. By weaving these different patterns together, i…
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Nachhaltiges Personalmanagement als Schlüsselfaktor für erfolgreiches Wirts…
Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch liefert Elisabeth Geursen erstmals Erkenntnisse zum Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff im Personalmanagement, auf den mit „Human Capital“ oder „Human Ressource“ referiert wird, mithilfe primär linguistischer Methoden. Der Nachhaltigkeitsidee wird im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Kontext gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz zugewiesen. Geursen präsentiert im Bereich…
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