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Rural quality of life
The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundru…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781526161642, 9781526161642
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- 505
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- Call Number
- 301.298 RUR r
Money Matters: Addressing the Financial Sustainability of Security Sector Reform
Although the financial sustainability of United Nations (UN) support to institutional capacity building in post-conflict contexts may be the least analysed topic on the peacebuilding agenda, understanding the costs of rebuilding and maintaining the security sector should be one of the most important priorities for security sector reform (SSR) practitioners today. Through innovative partnerships…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529385
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- 35
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- SSR Papers, 11
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- 320 KEA m
Animal Death
Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is – accompanied by the concept of 'life' – the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, on…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781743325247
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- -
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- Animal Publics
- Call Number
- 571.81 ANI a
Framing Global Mathematics: The International Mathematical Union between Theo…
This open access book is about the shaping of international relations in mathematics over the last two hundred years. It focusses on institutions and organizations that were created to frame the international dimension of mathematical research. Today, striking evidence of globalized mathematics is provided by countless international meetings and the worldwide repository ArXiv. The text follows …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030956837, 9783030956837
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- 20
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- 370.9 SCH f
Hard Reading : Learning from Science Fiction
The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a “high-informationâ€_x009d_ genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, “the right wordâ€_x009d_, preferring le mot imprévisible, “the unp…
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- 9781781382615
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- -
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- Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
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- 800 SHI h
Greenwor(l)ds : Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry
Greenwor(l)ds rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective through a series of essays that examine the lives and work of nine women poets. Using insights from fields of knowledge as disparate as history and biology, physics and philosophy, psychoanalysis and communications studies, these essays reflect the transdisciplinary character of women’s studies genera…
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- 9781552386651
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- -
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- 800 REL g
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present : Spanish Imperialism in the Fiction of B…
Ghosts of Colonies Past and Present is the first comprehensive examination of how the literary production of Benito Pérez Galdós, widely considered Spain’s greatest nineteenth-century novelist, addresses the impact of imperial loss on the citizens of Spain. Well before the events that would lead inexorably toward 1898, Galdós’s texts question the nature of Spanish imperialism and the eff…
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- 9781789622133
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- -
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- 800 COF g
Greening the Maple : Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of the most timely and provocative developments in literary and cultural stu…
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- 9781552385487
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- -
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- 800 SOP g
The gothic novel in Ireland : c. 1760–1829
The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Obviously an important text in the evolution of the gothic mode, the ostensibly pioneering Castle of Otran…
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- 9780719099175
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- 800 MOR g
The Great Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát
The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet ‘Umar Khayyæm (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyæm as an atheist and materialist philosopher who questions God’s creation and the promise of reward or punishment in the hereafter, secularist intellectuals see in him an exa…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789087281571
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- 288 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 SEY g
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