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The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution
First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt. The articles written included in this text suggest a number of ways in which the ‘imperial factor’ was of real importance in colonial life and show that there was dynamism on the British side as…
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„Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
Dieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die wissenschaft…
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- 978-3-658-36145-7
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- XIV, 287
Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2022, held in Paris, France, in June 2022. The 15 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover topics such as design, development, deployment, and evaluation of AI f…
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- 978-3-031-09593-1
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- XI, 312
Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education : A Changing Game
This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an urgent imperative to enable the potential of professional musicians in our contemporary societies to be more fully realised, recognising both intense challenges that are currently threatening some traditional music practic…
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- 9781003108337
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- 182 halaman
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- 370 EXP
Social Networks and Health Inequalities
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities…
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- VI, 343
The happiest days?: how pupils cope with school
This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities.
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Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
ABSTRACT This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two ty…
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Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning
This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges tha…
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- 978-3-030-98989-7
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- X, 270
Responsible Procurement
This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…
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- Management for Professionals
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- XXX, 193
Kinanthropometry IX: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the I…
ABSTRACT This is an edited collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Ninth International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry. Defined as the relationship between human body structure and function, kinanthropometry is an area of growing interest, and these proceedings will be of use to students, academics and professionals in the areas of ergonomics, spor…
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