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Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes
Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formation of a new rulin…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-09510-9
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- XII, 148
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- Studien zur Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
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An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals Program Design, Implementa…
Their program design is grounded in the theoretical and research foundations of online, adult, and doctoral education, curriculum design and community-building, implementation and evaluation. The authors, who draw on their experience of implementing a similar program at the University of Florida, not only share data collected from students and faculty members but also reflect on lessons learned…
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- 9781771992077.01
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 6 x 9, 225 pages
An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals Program Design, Implementa…
Their program design is grounded in the theoretical and research foundations of online, adult, and doctoral education, curriculum design and community-building, implementation and evaluation. The authors, who draw on their experience of implementing a similar program at the University of Florida, not only share data collected from students and faculty members but also reflect on lessons learned…
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- 9781771992077.01
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 6 x 9, 225
Online Distance Education Towards a Research Agenda
Online Distance Education provides a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research. In each chapter an international expert or team of experts provides an overview of one relevant issue in online distance education, discussing theoretical insights that guide the research, summarizing major research on the topic, posing questions and…
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- -
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- 9781927356623.01
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- -
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 520
Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today.
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- 9781108921855
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- 091 LEV h
Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.
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- 9781108914895
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- 325.3 LEE h
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
It is widely agreed that Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. But how did he manage this seminal accomplishment? In this book,Benjamin Folit-Weinberg finally provides an answer.
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- 9781009047562
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- -
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- 880 WEI h
Multimodal Computational Attention for Scene Understanding and Robotics
This book presents state-of-the-art computational attention models that have been successfully tested in diverse application areas and can build the foundation for artificial systems to efficiently explore, analyze, and understand natural scenes. It gives a comprehensive overview of the most recent computational attention models for processing visual and acoustic input. It covers the biological…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-33794-4
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- XXIV, 203
- Series Title
- Cognitive Systems Monographs
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Multiphase Flow Dynamics 5:Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
This Volume 5 of the successful book package "Multiphase Flow Dynamics" is devoted to nuclear thermal hydraulics which is a substantial part of nuclear reactor safety. It provides knowledge and mathematical tools for adequate description of the process of transferring the fission heat released in materials due to nuclear reactions into its environment. It step by step introduces into the heat r…
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- 3
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- 978-3-319-37449-9
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- XL
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- -
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