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Making work more equal : A new labour market segmentation approach
This book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Jill Rubery. Jill is a major figure in international debates on inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream theoretical approaches, whether in economics, management, industrial relations or comparative systems, and their attention to real-world empirical detail. Jil…
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- 9781526125972
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- 331.12 MAK
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement : A Global Assessment for Susta…
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resourc…
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- 978-3-319-19168-3
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- XVIII, 686 halaman
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- 333.731 5 ECO
Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation on renewable energy between Africa and Europe – in academia, as well as the private and public sectors. Addressing thematic areas such as • Grid-connected renewable energ…
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- 978-3-319-93438-9
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- Springer Proceedings in Energy
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- 330 MOE a
Morals Not Knowledge : Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict Between Relig…
In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the “religion vs. science” debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work, John H. Evans reveals that, with a few limited exceptions, even the most conservative religious Americans a…
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International Political Economy : An Introduction to Approaches, Regimes, and…
There are many books on international political economy, or IPE for short. Not surprisingly, each contains its own assumptions and views about the key concepts, issues, and concerns of IPE. Sometimes the authors of these various books hold the same assumptions and share the same, or at least very similar, views about how the world works. Sometimes they don’t. In fact, as we will see in a few …
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Design Ethnography : Epistemology and Methodology
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject…
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- 978-3-030-60396-0
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- IX, 93 halaman
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- Springer Briefs in Anthropology
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- 305 MUL d
Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance: ICASQF, Bogotá, Colombia, June …
Featuring contributions from industry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering a diverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance. Developed from the First International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, held at the U…
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- 978-3-319-18239-1
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- XI, 98
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- Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
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- 332 ACT a
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge scholars from a number of continents. Through in-depth case studies the authors highlight how Activity Theory is used in education and discuss the theoretical as well as pragmatic use of Activity Theory frameworks in a range of contemporary learning contexts. The first section of the book focuses on empirical resea…
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- 978-94-6300-387-2
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- XII, 198
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- 370 ACT a
Active Collaborative Education: A Journey towards Teaching
ACE (Active Collaborative Education) set out on its educational journey in October 2001. At the time, graduates of the college were enthusiastically accepted in the field, smoothly slipping into the school system and highly appreciated as ‘good teachers’. However, this situation did not please this book’s contributors. They wanted to see ACE graduates as different teachers, agents of chan…
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- 978-94-6300-402-2
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- XVIII, 184
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- 370 ACT a
Acting to Manage Conflict and Bullying Through Evidence-Based Strategies
This book offers a complete and detailed account of the evolution of an internationally successful, evidence-based program that has been the result of almost two decades of action research into conflict and bullying. It addresses one of the most serious problems encountered in schools and work places worldwide: that of bullying and inter-personal conflict. The book presents a comprehensive acco…
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- 978-3-319-17882-0
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- XII, 199
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- 364 ACT a
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