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Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers…
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national security grounds even when it originates from within their own security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers of domestic companies is on the rise, and many observers find it surprising that states engage in such behavior not only against their strategic and military competitors, but also against their closest …
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- 9781316855430
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- 382.53 LEN b
Are Books Still 'Different'?: Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digita…
The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the United Kingdom, “Books are different,” is still the reasoning behind many cultural policies around the world, building on long-standing assumptions surrounding “the book.”
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- 9781108982450
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- 379.24 KOE a
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
Anti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue durée of racial formation so that they can implement anti-racist pedagogical strategies and interventions in their classrooms.
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- 9781009004633
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- 320.569 DAD a
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies
Life in an ageing society is a truly novel experience. For most of our species’ history, a large majority of people were young and life much beyond 60 seemingly a rarity (Thane, 2005). Now, populations around the world are ageing. It might be happening in countries at different speeds and to varying extents, but it is an almost universal phenomenon.
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- 9781108973236
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- 362.1084 GRE a
After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity
Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends – Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society – are manifestations of this phenomenon.
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- 9781108610018
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- 394.34 WER a
Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
Population ageing, which has been described as one of the four global demographic “megatrends”,1 is quickly becoming a concern for many countries around the world. The growth in the size and proportion of the elderly has many implications, including the fact that there has been, and will continue to be, a significant growth in the number of individuals who are living longer, and because of …
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- 9781009152631
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- 344.03
Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Ea…
On 15 January 1934, at around 2.13 p.m. an earthquake struck north India and Nepal.1 In the chronicles of states, popular writers and scientists, the earthquake would be known as ‘the Indian earthquake’,2 ‘the great Indian earthquake’,3 ‘the Bihar–Nepal earthquake’,4 ‘the Bihar earthquake’5 and in Nepal as ‘the Great Earthquake’.6
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- 9781108937160
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- 363.34 MAR a
Academic Brands
The first comprehensive analysis of the emergence of academic brands, this book explores how the modern university is being transformed as it competes in an increasingly global economy of higher education where luxury is replacing access.
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- 9781108881920
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German-Sino Business Networks
In this book, Alexander Häntzschel presents the benefits of organized networks and provides a first-ever overview of German-Sino business networks. Based on more than 20 expert interviews and research of 30 different cases, the analysis covers the different forms of organization, their target groups and members, services and activities, and accessibility and membership fees. Complementary to t…
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- 978-3-319-17857-8
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- XIX, 105
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German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institu…
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- 978-1-137-51859-0
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