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In Search of the Two-Handed Economist Ideology, Methodology and Marketing in…
For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that dare not speak its name'. This volume brings these issues out of the closet and examines what effect, if any, these factors have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The way in which economists face policy issues is in part driven, even if only subconsciously, by unacknow…
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- 978-1-137-58973-6
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- XX, 418
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- 330 FRE i
In Search of a Canon European History and the Imperialist State
Harnessing Paulo Freire’s critical analysis of education and society, In Search of a Canon explores Africa and Asia, and their relationship to Europe, and Europe’s connection to the rest of the western world. As such, this book is situated in the tradition of critical scholars as it explores the relationship between historical processes and the development of a canon, or literature that is …
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- 978-94-6209-920-3
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- XVI, 92
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- 330 WIG i
In Defense of Deflation
This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread belief that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the widespread deflation phobia that serves to justify expansionary monetary policy, i.e., inflation are i…
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- 978-3-319-13427-7
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- XVII, 215
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- 330 BAG i
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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- 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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- 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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- 9781925261660
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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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- 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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- 9781911529392
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- 61
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- SSR Papers, 12
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- 320 BUZ t
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