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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academicsâ€â€¦
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
- Series Title
- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
- Call Number
- 378 ACA a
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policie…
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-49324-8
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- XVI, 252
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 ACA a
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-51479-0
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- VI, 217
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 WIL a
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 OSU a
Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disast…
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens. This book develo…
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- 978-3-319-40694-7
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 333.7
Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education
Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education invites readers to experience autoethnography as a challenging, complex, and creative research methodology that can produce personally, professionally, and socially useful understandings of teaching and researching in higher education. The peer-reviewed chapters offer innovative and perspicacious explorations of interrelationships …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-399-5
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- XII, 200
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 ACA a
Real-time Speech and Music Classification by Large Audio Feature Space Extrac…
This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis and classification of speech and music. It defines several standard acoustic parameter sets and describes their implementation in a novel, open-source, audio analysis framework called openSMILE, which has been accepted and intensively used worldwide. The book offers extensi…
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- 978-3-319-27299-3
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 005.437
Abiotic Stress Physiology of Horticultural Crops
This book brings together recent advances in the area of abiotic stress tolerance in various vegetables, fruit crops, plantation crops and tuber crops. The main challenges to improving the productivity of horticultural crops are the different types of abiotic stresses generally caused by climate change at the regional and global level. Heat, drought, cold and salinity are the major abiotic stre…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-81-322-2725-0
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- XIV, 368
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 581 ABI a
Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants
The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants. This book is unique in that it concerns the basic aspect of abiotic stress biology and research progress at the molecular level in model plants or major field crops, as it focuses mainly on the abiotic stress response in existing hor…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-4-431-55251-2
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- VIII, 220
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- -
- Call Number
- 581 ABI a
Music as Labour : Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding s…
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- -
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- 9781000615760
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- -
- Call Number
- 650
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