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Africa and the North
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of ke…
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- 9780415333917; 9780415498869
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- New International Relations
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- 327 AFR a
Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants?
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly raised serious concerns. The book explores whether microplastics represent emerging contaminants in freshwater systems, an area that remains underrepresented to date. Given…
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- 9783319616148, 9783319616155
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- 303
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- The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 58
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- 363.73 FRE f
Menneskelige(re) møter: om samhandling, fellesskap og empati mellom beboere …
"Humanizing Encounters is about the sense of community that exists between persons with dementia. This book is the outcome of a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the specialized dementia care units of two different long-term nursing facilities. Through participatory observation in these units, the author discerned the various ways residents interacted, collaborated and expressed care for each o…
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- 9788202727826, 9788202731533
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- 237
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- 362.29 HIL m
Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders
This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borde…
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- 9783653982565; 9783631653777
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- 264
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- 306.44 LIN l
Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats: Allocating Blame in the Criminal …
We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of crimi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781447305002
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 364.4 DIN b
Class, Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in S…
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the …
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- 9783933127518
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- 204
- Series Title
- Kultur und soziale Praxis
- Call Number
- 306.07 HOR c
When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confronted, even at the risk of war? The book proposes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine its intentions, to determine whether that rising power poses a revolutionary threat to the system, or whether it can be incorporated into the existing international order. In…
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- 9781501730313; 9781501730320
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- 320 STA w
Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics: The Decline of the Political Offence Ex…
Recent atrocities have insured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those perpetrating crimes of a political character over several decades. It most centrally deals with the political offence exception and how it has com…
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- 9780429583414, 9780367189044
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- 341 JAN t
Peace and Democratic Society
Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781906924393
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- 155
- Series Title
- Open Reports Series
- Call Number
- 303.6 PEA p
Critical Theories of Crises in Europe: From Weimar to the Euro
What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent emergence of crises in European societies. It asks how previous crises can inform our understanding of the present crisis. The particular perspective advanced is that these …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781783487455
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- 251
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- -
- Call Number
- 320 CRI c
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