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Assessing China's Naval Power: Technological Innovation, Economic Constraints…
This book analyzes the rise of China’s naval power and its possible strategic consequences from a wide variety of perspectives – technological, economic, and geostrategic – while employing a historical-comparative approach throughout. Since naval development requires huge financial resources and mostly takes place within the context of transnational industrial partnerships, this study als…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-47127-2
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- XX, 318
- Series Title
- Global Power Shift
- Call Number
- 337 KIR a
Assembling and Governing the Higher Education Institution: Democracy, Social …
This book emphasizes the inherently democratic nature of education; from those who practice in higher education institutions and are involved in decision-making, to those questioning the methods of reform processes in those institutions. As they are faced with increasing pressures to restructure and change their organizations in line with global institutional demands the foundations upon which …
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- 978-1-137-52261-0
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- XVII, 450
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
- Call Number
- 378 ASS a
Aspects of Language and Learning
This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning. In subsequent…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-47821-9
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- VII, 149
- Series Title
- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
- Call Number
- 372.6 HOL a
Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Mod…
In this important book, Nicholas Hartlep and Daniel Scott’s detailed analyses on both visual and historical representations of Asian Americans in textbooks and teacher manuals used in our elementary and secondary schools poignantly tell us that generations of children are growing up being fed this single story about Asian Americans. As Hartlep and Scott write. Asian Americans have once aga…
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- 978-94-6300-639-2
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- XIV, 100
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- -
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- 370 HAR a
Asian Megatrends
Asian Megatrends assesses the key drivers impacting Asia over the next two decades. The rise of China is transforming the Asia-Pacific, as China’s economic and military might increasingly reverberates throughout the region. India and Indonesia are also rising Asian powers that are changing the shape of the Asian economic landscape. The rapid growth of emerging Asian consumer markets is becomi…
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- 978-1-137-44189-8
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- XI, 245
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- -
- Call Number
- 337 BIS a
Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy
In this book the editors have been able to provide a snapshot of current research being undertaken in the Asia-Pacific region in regards to teacher self-efficacy beliefs. This includes specific focuses on inclusive teaching, professionalism, subject domains, collective efficacy as well as specific contexts of early childhood education and care, primary schools education, special needs schools a…
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- 978-94-6300-521-0
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- XXII, 132
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- -
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- 370 ASI a
Asia Pacific Graduate Education: Comparative Policies and Regional Developments
This volume examines the changes taking place within graduate education in the Asia Pacific Region. A collection of essays by distinguished scholars from eight Asia Pacific nations links profound changes occurring in the economies and societies of the region to the many changes taking place within higher education. Focusing on how the dynamics of a changing global economy are affecting the ways…
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- 978-1-137-54783-5
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- XVIII, 231
- Series Title
- International and Development Education
- Call Number
- 370 ASI a
As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum,…
This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world observes the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point, as the generations that witnessed and survived the Shoah are slowly passing on. Governments are charged with ensuring that th…
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- 978-3-319-15419-0
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- XV, 512
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- -
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- 370.19 WIT w
Arts, Sciences, and Economics: A Historical Safari
This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property r…
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- 978-3-662-44130-5
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- XXIV, 189
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- -
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- 330 PUU a
Arts, Research, Innovation and Society
This book explores – at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies – theories, policies and practices about the contributions of artistic research and innovations towards defining new forms of knowledge, knowledge production, as well as knowledge diffusion, absorption and use. Artistic research, artistic innovations and arts-based innovation…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-09909-5
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- X, 297
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- Arts, Research, Innovation and Society
- Call Number
- 337 ART a
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