Education, Learning, Training

Education: Fundamental human right or strategic tool in support of economic growth? How does commodity-dependence influence education policy and practice? What is the role of vocational training vis-à-vis university education in developing countries? Are MOOCs and Chinese cooperation a game changer for higher education in Africa? And how does student migration sit vis-à-vis the globalisation …

PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars

Mengapa kita mau percaya bahwa teknologi bisa membawa perang... tetapi tidak perdamaian?. PeaceTech: Transformasi Digital untuk Mengakhiri Perang adalah buku pertama di dunia yang membahas penggunaan inovasi teknologi untuk mendukung proses perdamaian dan transisi. Melalui narasi yang saling terkait dari kisah-kisah pribadi yang menangkap kompleksitas negosiasi perdamaian secara real-time, Bell…

Living with Nature, Cherishing Language; Indigenous Knowledges in the America…

Buku akses terbuka ini mengeksplorasi hubungan mendalam antara lingkungan, bahasa, dan integritas budaya, dengan fokus pada masyarakat Adat dari zaman modern awal hingga saat ini. Ini menggambarkan integrasi erat antara alam dan budaya melalui proses sejarah perubahan lingkungan di Amerika Utara, Tengah, dan Selatan serta pemeliharaan pengetahuan lokal melalui bahasa leluhur dan tradisi lisan. …

Disability and Aid An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in…

*The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation*

Dionysos in Archaic Greece An Understanding through Images

For the Greek, Dionysos was a very important god: for individuals as well as for the community as a whole. As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the ancient viewer. This book explores the earliest images followed by those on small vases for private use, o…

The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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9789004537798

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200 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 143

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The 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations i…

This open access book provides the latest fundamental and practical advances in reducing the built environment’s carbon footprint based on a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices, held June 19-21, 2024, in Oslo, Norway. The volume presents research investigations and c…

The Architecture of “Society 5.0: Six Key Factors for a People-Centric and …

This open access book introduces H-UTokyo Lab’s ideas about the architecture for Society 5.0, including the process and organizational infrastructure for building smart cities that embody the Society 5.0 vision. It introduces six factors critical to the success of efforts to build people-centric sustainable smart cities. Each factor represents something needed to enable a local government to …

Disrupted Development and the Future of Inequality in the Age of Automation

This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrial…

Everyday Welfare in Modern British History : Experience, Expertise and Activism

This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who…