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Protect, Serve, and Deport : The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified …
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- 9780520296305
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- 330 ARM p
Body, Personhood and Privacy : Perspectives On The Cultural Other and Human E…
This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulati…
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- 9789949774593
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- 344 halaman
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- Approaches to Culture Theory, 7
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- 306 TAS b
The Role of the Patent System in Stimulating Innovation and Technology Transf…
The world increasingly faces the adverse impact of climate change. What role can intellectual property play to stimulate the necessary innovation and technology transfer? Providing an inventory of patent law, policy and information, including certain private initiatives, this thesis discusses issues at the crossroads of intellectual property and climate change, such as: compulsory licensing for…
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- 9783845234472
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- 90 halaman
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- 340 KIM r
Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults : Status and Chall…
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these young people are – mostly for the fi rst time in their lives – responsible for autonomously managin…
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- Eveline Wuttke, Jürgen Seifried, Stephan Schumann
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- 9783847402831
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- 235 halaman
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- Research in Vocational Education volume 3
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- 330 WUT e
Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences : Strengthening the Prohibition of …
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a vari…
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- 9781921666391
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- Practical Ethics and Public Policy
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- 370 RAP e
Bodies that bleed : Metamorphosis in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales
This work aims to develop new readings of the poetics and the politics of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) in the light of the bodily metamorphoses represented in the fairy tales. Metamorphic processes can be said to inform the stories of the collection both in a thematic and a stylistic perspective and address the need to rethink human experience altogether, especi…
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- 9788867055425
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- 137 halaman
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- 800 BOD
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's. Hawkins' work suffered badly in the resulting competition between the two, partly because of his difficult personality, partly because of the scholarly style of the writing contrasting with Burn…
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- 9780511997518
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Sir John Hawkins (1719–1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's. Hawkins' work suffered badly in the resulting competition between the two, partly because of his difficult personality, partly because of the scholarly style of the writing contrasting with Burn…
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- 9780511997556
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- -
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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Enforcement of FRAND Commitments under Article 102 TFEU : The Nature of FRAND…
Defining the true meaning of the acronym FRAND reminds of the parable of two political parties arguing before the elections: who is right and who is wrong, although they both know that there is no such thing as one truth and most utterly it depends on the individual perspective. Given the very substantial legal and business concerns involved within the telecommunication standardization environm…
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- 1
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- 9783845229843
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- 82 halaman
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- 340 VAI e
Environmental law and policy in Cameroon : Towards making Africa the tree of …
Kamerun - die am Golf von Guinea gelegene ehemals deutsche Kolonie - ist ein geostrategisch relevantes, zentralafrikanisches Land reich an natürlichen Ressourcen. Das kamerunische Recht ist ein Faszinosum aus unterschiedlichen Rechtsquellen. Die Einflüsse aus dem englischen und französischen Recht, gepaart mit den Gewohnheitsrechten der zahlreichen ethnischen Bevölkerungsgruppen, sind auch …
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- 1
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- 9783845294360
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- 961 halaman
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- 340 RUP e
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