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Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication = Writing for Target Readers …
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving these problems in transdisciplinary collaboration benefits theory, practice, and society at large. Drawing on 25 years of ethnographic research, roughly 2100 text products,…
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- 9783031291159
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- XII, 274 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Digital Transformations in Nordic Higher Education
This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, mediations, and type of effects – for unpacking empirical manifestations. The publicly funded higher education systems in Nordic countries provide solid empirical insig…
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- 978-3-031-27758-0
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- XIX, 278
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Gender Equality in the Mirror : Reflecting on Power, Participation and Global…
By taking an innovative perspective, Gender Equality in the Mirror aims to advance the debate on gender equalities and to engage with the complexities of their practical implications in everyday life. Through the voice of women who are contributing with their life and work to the pursuit of the collective task of inclusion, the volume develops an original analysis of the socio-economic and poli…
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- 978-90-04-46768-2
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- xviii, 227
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- World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, Volume: 10
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Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context : A Tal…
This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production…
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- 978-90-04-38330-2
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- vi + 296 pp
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- Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 52
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Frontiers in the Roman World : Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the Inter…
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network ‘Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some thirty European, North American and Australian universities. This volume focuses on different ways in which the Roman Empire…
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- 978-90-04-21503-0
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 13
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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs : Changing Concepts of xin 信 from T…
What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?
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- 978-90-04-53300-4
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- Religion in Chinese Societies, Volume: 19
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Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia: User-led Research and Untold Stories
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the brain, body, and lived experience, including experience of Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Semantic Dementia…
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- 9783031272233, 9783031272226
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- 146
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- 611.8 CHA c
Advances in Crowdfunding = Research and Practice
This open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety of geographies and sectors, and explores the perspectives of fundraisers, backers, platforms, and regulators. Gathering insights from a wide range of influential researchers …
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- 9783030463090
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- XXVI, 531 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Policing in the Pacific Islands
This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pa…
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- 9783031106354
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- XV, 197 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the new challenges and threats posed to adult education as a potential way out of the economic crisis and social change. It explores the role of adult education in relation to the continuity and discontinuity of the learning careers and identities of adults in a range of adult educat…
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- 978-90-04-37545-1
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Volume: 6
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