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Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature Towards Wisdom
This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work. Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of educati…
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- 978-3-319-29026-3
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- VIII, 117
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- 371 EAS i
Improving Schools Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and th…
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvem…
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- 978-981-287-929-5
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- XXII, 135
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- 371 RAW i
Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture: Convivial Tools for Res…
Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781787354807, 9781787354791
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- 214
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- 304.82 STU s
Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes toward an Inventory
With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these “pandemic media” reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which the…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783957960092, 9783957960085
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- 380
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- Configurations of Film
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- 302.03 PAN p
Global wine markets, 1860 to 2016: a statistical compendium
Until recently, most grape-based wine was consumed close to where it was produced, and mostly that was in Europe. Now more than two-fifths of all wine consumed globally is produced in another country, including in the Southern Hemisphere, the USA and Asia. This latest edition of global wine statistics not only updates data to 2016 but also adds another century of data. The motivation to assembl…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781925261660
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- -
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- 382 AND g
Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counte…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783035397000; 9783034318594
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- 240
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- New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
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- 306.07 CAR c
Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers: A Vi…
The use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform services that are traditionally associated with the state presents a challenge to regulatory and oversight frameworks. Analyzing developments leading to the International Code of Conduct for Security Providers (ICOC) and the ICOC Association, this paper argues that a multistakeholder approach to develop standards adapted for the private se…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529392
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- 61
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- SSR Papers, 12
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- 320 BUZ t
Media Effects
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781138590182, 9781138590229
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- -
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- 306.4 MED m
Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
This is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural reso…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780816548439
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- -
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- -
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- 307 GEN g
Disciplinary Struggles in Education
This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational p…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 262
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- 374 HEI d
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