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The performative power of vocality
The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Conventional treatment of voice in theatre and performance studies too often regards it as a subcategory of actor training, associated with the established methods that have shaped voice pedagogy within Western theatre schools,…
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- 9780429340338
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- 260 p
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- 302 MAG p
Criminal Futures : predictive policing and everyday police work.
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of ho…
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- 9780429328732
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- 242 p
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- 362 EGB c
Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations
Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors and CEOs in the United States, this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to provide a structured analysis of ethical healthcare governance. Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations begins by presenting a clear framework for ethical analysis, designed around basic features of ethics – wh…
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- 9780429328305
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- 226 p
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- 362 MAG g
Multilateral Banks and the Development Process: Vital Links in the Results Chain
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When the chain's links are strong and well-connected, the results are improved for the sector, country, and region. The role of multilateral banks is crucial; they inform the impac…
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- 9781315124865
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- 332.1
Cities and local governments in Central Asia: administrative, fiscal, and pol…
This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the rol…
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- 9780429298752
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- 146 p
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- 337 JUN c
Enabling the city : interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary encounters in res…
Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inte…
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- 9780429297649
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- 326 p
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- 337 ENA
World Population and World Food Supplies
Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less advanced countri…
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- 9780429296802
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- 528 p
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Projecting Russia in a mediatized world : recursive nationhood
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defi…
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- 9780429293061
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- 208 p
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- 320 HUT p
Sustainable development goals connectivity dilemma : land and geospatial info…
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, and between countries, affects sustainable development at local, national, and regional levels. To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global chal…
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- 9780429290626
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- 376 p
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- 337 SUS
Biostatistics in public health using STATA
Striking a balance between theory, application, and programming, Biostatistics in Public Health Using STATA is a user-friendly guide to applied statistical analysis in public health using STATA version 14. The book supplies public health practitioners and students with the opportunity to gain expertise in the application of statistics in epidemiolo
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- 9780429257858
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- 206 p
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- 362 SUA b
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