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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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- 1
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- 978-3-031-27758-0
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- XIX, 278
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Gender, Ritual and Social Formation in West Papua : A Configurational Analysi…
This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, Indonesia. The comparison, showing substantial differences as well as striking similarities, contributes to a deeper understanding of both cultures. Part I looks at Kamoro society…
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- -
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- 978-90-04-25372-8
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- xii, 300
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 258
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Gender in Peacebuilding : Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria
Gender, age, class, ethnicity, religion, and political ideologies all matter in peacebuilding. Adopting a feminist approach, the 13th volume of International Development Policy analyses such intersecting differences in local contexts to develop a better understanding of how intersectionally gendered dynamics shape and are shaped by peacebuilding. In this volume, findings are presented from a si…
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- -
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- 978-90-04-49847-1
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- 204 pp
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- International Development Policy, Volume: 13
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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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Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945) : …
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangel…
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- 978-90-04-39487-2
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- -
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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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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- -
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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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Funding International Development Organizations : AIIB Yearbook of Internatio…
Financing development requires access to financial resources. The AIIB Yearbook of International Law Volume 4 explores the role of international organizations in the development of local capital markets, their legal status under public international law and selected domestic jurisdictions, as well as innovations in resource mobilization and organizational structures. The volume collects insight…
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- -
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- 978-90-04-46001-0
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- x, 362
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- AIIB Yearbook of International Law, Volume: 4
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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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- -
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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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- -
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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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- Ed. 1
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- 9783031272233, 9783031272226
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- 146
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- -
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- 611.8 CHA c
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