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The Economy of Communist China, 1949–1969
Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. In the first half of this period, a series of massive transformations of social and economic institutions was accompanied by a drafted industrialization program; the result was…
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- 338.951 CHE e
Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet ther…
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- 978-0-262-01336-9
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- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series in Digital Media and Learning
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- 302.23 ITO h
Hands on media history : a new methodology in the humanities and social science
Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound.Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perce…
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- 9781351247412
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- 302.23 HAN
Hacking Gender and Technology in Journalism
Hacking Gender and Technology in Journalism addresses the question of whether journalism’s new digital spaces suffer from the same gendered structures as traditional media organisations, or whether they go beyond such bias. This book offers insights into the challenges that women journalists face in relation to technological innovation, as well as the potential for developing strategies for e…
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Growth, StructuralTransformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam : A Rising Dra…
Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of agriculture and modern industrial and service sectors. Broad structural transformation and wid…
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- 978–0–19–879696–1
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Grey matters : a guide to collaborative research with seniors
This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. Grey Matters is the result of a pilot project developed to study the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors. Because the pro…
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- 978-1-55238-536-4
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Grave Goods : Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they …
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Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela : The Revolutionary Petro-State
Caracas, Venezuela, April 2011: Today I am meeting up with Miriam1again, the community worker from the state institution Fundacomunal. As I approach the curve connecting the neighborhoods of Casalta 2 and Casalta 3, I can see her sitting in a jeep from the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Energía y Petróleo (Ministry of Popular Power for Energy and Petro…
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- 978-3-319-59507-8
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- 320.51 STR g
Governing the dead : Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
This book looks at sovereignty as a particular form of power and politics. It shows that the fate of bodies in the transition from life to death can provide a key to understanding fundamental ways in which sovereignty is claimed and performed. The contributions analyse (post-)conflict as well as non-conflict contexts, which too often are studied in isolation from one another. Focusing on contem…
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Governing Gaza : Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967
Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing site for a study of government. Ilana Feldman proves otherwise. She demonstrates that a focus on the Gaza Strip uncovers a great deal about how government actually works, not onl…
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