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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- XIX, 435 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Bruno Touschek 100 Years
This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia. It reviews the main developments in theoretical and accelerator physics in the second half of …
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- 978-3-031-23042-4
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- X, 307
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Magnetism and Accelerator-Based Light Sources: Proceedings of the 7th Interna…
This open access book collects the contributions of the seventh school on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation held in Mittelwihr, France, from 7 to 12 October 2018. It starts with an introduction to the physics of modern X-ray sources followed by a general overview of magnetism. Next, light / matter interaction in the X-ray range is covered with emphasis on different types of angular dependence…
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- 978-3-030-64623-3
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- XIX, 208
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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and …
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- 9783031141096
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- XXXVIII, 467 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Exploring Islamic Social Work : Between Community and the Common Good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 978-3-030-95880-0
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- XII, 284
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- Muslims in Global Societies Series (MGSS, volume 9)
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- 297 EXP
Professions and Proficiency
This open access book takes an original view on the social production of knowledge in and across space. It explores how people build and transfer proficiency within and beyond the bounds of social groups. Social groups, such as professions, epistemic communities, or academic disciplines, collectively organize to help individuals gain understanding of and knowledge about specific subjects of exp…
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- 978-3-031-24910-5
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- X, 270
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- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 18)
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- 334 PRO
Outdoor Learning and Play : Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural For…
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formati…
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- 978-3-030-72595-2
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- XV, 201
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 34)
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- 370 OUT
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of…
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- 978-3-030-36271-3
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- VIII, 187
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 29)
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- 370 CHI
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated…
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- 978-3-319-56068-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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- 307
Digital Healthcare and Expertise
This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, including: How do different stakeholders engage with online technologies to perform expertise about bipolar disorder? How does the use of the internet for processes of knowle…
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- 978-981-16-9178-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Health, Technology and Society
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- 307
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