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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination : Transcultural Movements
ABSTRACT Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and th…
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- 9780429325403
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- 222 p
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An elementary transition to abstract mathematics
ABSTRACT An Elementary Transition to Abstract Mathematics will help students move from introductory courses to those where rigor and proof play a much greater role. The text is organized into five basic parts: the first looks back on selected topics from pre-calculus and calculus, treating them more rigorously, and it covers various proof techniques; the second part covers induction, sets, …
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- 9780429324819
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- 292 p
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Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: theory, models and practice
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an …
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- 9780429324529
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- 326 p
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Deeper Learning, Dialogic Learning, and Critical Thinking : Research-Based St…
ABSTRACT Deeper learning, dialogic learning, and critical thinking are essential capabilities in the 21st-century environments we now operate. Apart from being important in themselves, they are also crucial in enabling the acquisition of many other 21st-century skills/capabilities such as problem solving, collaborative learning, innovation, information and media literacy, and so on. However, t…
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- 9780429323058
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- 386 p
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Mining goes digital: proceedings of the 39th International Symposium 'Applica…
ABSTRACT The conferences on ‘Applications for Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry’ (APCOM) initially focused on the optimization of geostatistics and resource estimation. Several standard methods used in these fields were presented in the early days of APCOM. While geostatistics remains an important part, information technology has emerged, and nowadays APCOM not …
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- 9780429320774
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- 779 p
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Digital Transformation and Public Services : Societal Impacts in Sweden and B…
ABSTRACT Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimately, this book seeks to understand if it is conceivable for digital advancement to result in the creation of private/non-governmental alt…
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- 9780429319297
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- 378 p
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The Digital Transformation of Labor : Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
ABSTRACT Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalizati…
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- 9780429317866
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- 366 p
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Motivation in Organisations : Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance
ABSTRACT Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant factor, amorality and non-spirituality) and explains why this approach to teaching business is…
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- 254 p
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Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia: Multilateralism and Natio…
ABSTRACT This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with Northeast Asia. There nationalist administrations have resisted multilateral commitments and are locked into rivalries instead of pursu…
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- 9780429317125
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- 236 p
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Creating Through Mind and Emotions
ABSTRACT The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanit…
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