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Engaging urban research in policy making: Towards equitable economic growth. …
Cities are considered “engines of economic growth,” yet many cities in the global South struggle to increase productivity and provide significant economic opportunities for their growing populations. There is a need to deepen the knowledge on the links between public goods and services and equitable economic growth and how to support such processes, in policy and strategic terms, locally an…
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- 9783798332270, 9783798332270
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- 338.9 ENG e
COVID-19 in the Global South: Impacts and Responses
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic. Situating the worldwide health crisis within broader processes of globalisation, the book investigates implications for development and gender, as well as the effects …
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- 338.9 COV c
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is …
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- 9780719064746
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- 300 SCH w
Children after a Natural disaster: Materials for educators and tearchers. (Ve…
"Catastrophes and natural disasters lead to numerous problems in the education of children and teenagers, who present as the most vulnerable subjects in the communities affected. Often, in these circumstances, adults (educators, teachers, parents) do not know how to respond to their needs, reactions and feelings. What do we need to know about childhood trauma? What answers should we give to chi…
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- I territori dell'educazione - Open Access, 2
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- 300 VAC c
Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture
At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper.…
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- 9781847883476
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- 224
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- Dress, Body, Culture,
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- 300 ROA s
Surveillance | Society | Culture
What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American compa…
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- 9783631802366, 9783631802373
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- 246
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- Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS), 3
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- 320 SUR s
Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on…
Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed …
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- 9783830973751
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- 326 HUM h
The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics
Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching
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- 9783319328089
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- 41
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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- 370 SAF t
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis
Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing the global agricultural system today. This was most vividly illustrated during the global food crisis of 2007–9 when price spikes occurred for key staple food commodities—such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans. Given the variety of reactions by governments of countries experiencing similar food price shocks, the 2007–9 crisis o…
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- 9780198718574
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- WIDER Studies in Development Economics
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- 338.9 FOO f
Constructing Muslims in France - Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics…
The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separations, exclusions, and hierarchies it claims to deplore as Muslims face discrimination in education, housing, and employment. In Constructing Muslims in France, Jennifer Fredette provides a deft empi…
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- 9781439910290;9781439910306
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- 232
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- 320 FRE c
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