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Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
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- 978-3-030-82072-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Public Sector Organizations
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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, une…
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- 978-3-030-49659-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer dep…
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- 978-1-137-55833-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Services: Return on Investment (VR-RO…
This open book presents the latest advances in models and data for evaluating the efficacy of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services provided to individuals with disabilities. For the first time, the VR-ROI (return on investment) model is used to simultaneously compare short- and long-term labor market outcomes across multiple state agencies and four distinct disability groups. For each disab…
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- 978-3-031-86942-6
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- XIII, 198
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De garoeda en de ooievaar
Deze nieuwe beschrijving van het wordingsproces van de Indonesische staat gaat ervan uit, dat die staat zijn ontstaan niet alleen dankt aan de nationale vrijheidsbeweging maar ook aan de Nederlandse heerschappij waar die beweging zich tegen keerde. Daarom gaat het boek uitdrukkelijk in op voornaamste ontwikkelingen van het door Nederland in de kolonie Nederlands-Indië gevoerde beleid. Hier slu…
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- 978-90-04-25374-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 266
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Enhancing Water and Food Security Through Improved Agricultural Water Product…
This open-access edited book provides a synthesis of knowledge on Water Productivity (WP) and its role in addressing global challenges related to water and food insecurity, as well as climate change. It explores how increasing WP can contribute to achieving several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the global South, with a focus on SDG 2, 6, and 12. The volume connects WP with emerging…
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- 978-981-96-1848-4
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- XXI, 391
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Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
The European Council announced a ban on the Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik in March 2022, just weeks after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The invasion has cost many thousands of lives, created millions of Ukrainian refugees, and caused enormous material damage, but also increased the disinformation activities of Russia in Ukraine and the rest of Europe. The two Russi…
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- 9783031587474
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- XIX, 293
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Sector-Based Action Against Corruption
This chapter outlines the aims of the book, explains the reform concept that underpins our thinking and provides an overview of the Sector Focus Remediation Action (SFRA) approach. It also explains how we came to write the book and sets out its structure.
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- 9783031593369
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- XXI, 182
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Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Criteria
For rock engineering projects, the cutting and fragmenting of rocks has attracted much attention. Exploring the fracture characteristics of rocks is helpful in achieving efficient and sustainable excavation for mining and tunneling engineering. The fracture toughness of rocks is a crucial mechanical indicator that weighs the initiation and extension of cracks during the breaking process.…
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- 9789819758227
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- X, 112
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