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Inside asylum appeals :access, participation, and procedure in Europe
Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as…
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Comics and videogames : from hybrid medialities to transmedia expansions
Buku ini menawarkan studi komprehensif pertama tentang banyak antarmuka yang membentuk hubungan antara komik dan videogame. Ini menggabungkan refleksi konseptual yang mendalam dengan pilihan studi kasus paradigmatik yang kaya dari budaya media kontemporer. Para editor telah mengumpulkan sekelompok cendekiawan internasional terkemuka yang bekerja di persimpangan studi komik dan studi permainan u…
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- 9781003035466
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- 1 online resource (278 pages)
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- 794.8 RAU c
Revisualising Intersectionality
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is…
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- XI, 132
Technology Assessment in a Globalized World
This open access book explores the relevance of the concept of technology assessment (TA) on an international and global level. Technologies play a key role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, population aging, digitization, and health. At the same time, their use increases the need for coordinated action and governance at the global level in the field of science, technology…
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- XIII, 271
State of the young child in India
Laporan ini merupakan salah satu studi komprehensif pertama tentang anak-anak di India. Laporan ini berfokus pada anak-anak di bawah usia 6 tahun dan menyajikan aspek-aspek utama kesejahteraan dan perkembangan mereka. Dengan jumlah kematian neonatal, bayi, dan balita tertinggi di dunia, ada kebutuhan mendesak untuk mengatasi berbagai masalah yang terus memengaruhi anak-anak di India. Volume ini…
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GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING CHALLENGES TO MEET CURRENT AND EMERGING NEEDS OF SOC…
‘Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society’ includes the papers presented at the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Lisbon, Portugal, August 26 to 30th, 2024). The papers aim to contribute to a better understanding of problems and solutions of geotechnical nature, as well as to a more adequate management of natur…
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THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE BERLIN WALLgerman unification and transformation.
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research. Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are s…
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Return to China One Day
This open access book is intended for common readers who are interested in the life story of Qian Xuesen (also know as Tsien Hsue-Shen). Based on a large number of original archives and historical materials, this book focuses on Qian Xuesen’s years of seeking knowledge from his birth in 1911 to his return to China in 1955 and describes how he grows into a world-known scientist from the aspect…
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- XII, 190
UNCERTAINTY IN GLOBAL POLITICS
This book engages in a constructive, practical debate on the nature and effects of uncertainty in global politics. International contributors explore the processes associated with different forms of uncertainty in the context of environmental issues, diplomacy and international negotiations, and conflict and security. From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the 1997 and 2008 financial crises t…
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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importan…
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- VIII, 269
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