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Trajectories of Memory: Excavating the Past in Indonesia
This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The sec…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789819919956, 9789819919949
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- 316
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- 907.2 TRA t
The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq
This book is a study of the cultural and political history of Christian Iraq, the Church of the East, the so–called ‘Nestorians’. This history is seen through the Chronicle of Seert, a medieval Arabic Chronicle that reuses sources written several centuries earlier. This monograph aims to isolate different layers of composition and looks for trends in the choice of material and the agenda …
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- 2013
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Improving Infrared-Based Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms Using Multi-Spect…
This thesis transforms satellite precipitation estimation through the integration of a multi-sensor, multi-channel approach to current precipitation estimation algorithms, and provides more accurate readings of precipitation data from space. Using satellite data to estimate precipitation from space overcomes the limitation of ground-based observations in terms of availability over remote are…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-12080-5
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- XXI, 68
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- 551 NAS i
Redesigning Life: Eugenics Biopolitics and the Challenge of the Techno-Human …
The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783035265446
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- -
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- 100 VAN r
Disciplinary Struggles in Education
This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational p…
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- Ed. 1
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- 262
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- 374 HEI d
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 269
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- 320 VAL c
Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension
This book presents up-to-date information on how to assess early preclinical alterations in the heart, the small and large arteries and the kidney using the most sensitive, specific and cost-effective techniques. A wide variety of techniques are discussed, with careful attention to the latest developments. For each organ, evidence is documented regarding the prevalence of organ damage in the ge…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-15603-3
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- VIII, 218
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.12 ASS a
Regulating Transitions from School to Work : An Institutional Ethnography of …
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing …
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- 9783839457061
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- 100 DAH r
Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India A …
This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state of Arunachal Pradesh is located in the northeastern part of India, surrounded by the borders of Assam, Bhutan, and Tibet (Ch…
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- 978-4-431-55491-2
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- XIV, 196
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- 910
Molecular Photochemistry - Various Aspects
There have been various comprehensive and stand-alone text books on the introduction to Molecular Photochemistry which provide crystal clear concepts on fundamental issues. This book entitled "Molecular Photochemistry - Various Aspects" presents various advanced topics that inherently utilizes those core concepts/techniques to various advanced fields of photochemistry and are generally not avai…
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- 9789535104469
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