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Improving Schools Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and th…
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvem…
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- 978-981-287-929-5
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- XXII, 135
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- 371 RAW i
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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- 978-3-319-12080-5
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- XXI, 68
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- 551 NAS i
Visually Provoking: Dissertations in Art Education
Visually Provoking - a dynamic collection of visually oriented research about current doctoral studies from international art educators in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States of America. Together we are thinking about, with and through the visual, focusing attention on practices that are reshaping our understandings of intellectual e…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789523109360
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- 248
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- -
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- 001.42 VIS v
Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture: Convivial Tools for Res…
Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781787354807, 9781787354791
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- 214
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- -
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- 304.82 STU s
New hope for the poor: A perspective on the church in informal settlements in…
Empowering the poor remains an essential part of the Christian Gospel. The way in which the absolute poor in informal settlements in Africa can be empowered by the message of the Bible, needs to be researched. During research completed in informal settlements near Bloemfontein, Free State Province, South Africa, it has been established that the churches present in the situation are best equippe…
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 146
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- 208 VER n
Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes toward an Inventory
With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these “pandemic media” reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which the…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783957960092, 9783957960085
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- 380
- Series Title
- Configurations of Film
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- 302.03 PAN p
Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This volume investigates the process of learning how to live with individual and group differences in the twenty-first century and examines the ambivalences of contemporary cosmopolitanism. Engaging with the concept of ‘critical cartography’, it emphasizes the structural impact of localities on the experiences of those living with difference, while trying to develop an account of the counte…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783035397000; 9783034318594
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- 240
- Series Title
- New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
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- 306.07 CAR c
Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers: A Vi…
The use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform services that are traditionally associated with the state presents a challenge to regulatory and oversight frameworks. Analyzing developments leading to the International Code of Conduct for Security Providers (ICOC) and the ICOC Association, this paper argues that a multistakeholder approach to develop standards adapted for the private se…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529392
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- 61
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- SSR Papers, 12
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- 320 BUZ t
Media Effects
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781138590182, 9781138590229
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- -
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- 306.4 MED m
Mystifying the Monarch: Studies on Discourse, Power, and History
The history of kings and queens has always appealed to popular imagery. Monarchy is also a central theme to classic surveys of political history. The present volume approaches the relation between imagery and authority of the monarchy from a cultural historical angle. The authors focus on the different discourses produced since the Middle Ages aiming at the symbolic construction of royal power …
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- Ed. 1
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- -
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- 296
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- 900 MYS s
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