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Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
This handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological key debates and issues that develop and add an understanding of childhood and youth research discipline from a broader perspective. The Handbook…
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- 1
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- 978-981-4451-14-7
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- XXI, 927
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- 150 HAN
Handbook of Community Sentiment
This volume is the most comprehensive reference book on community sentiment available. The classic book about community sentiment is Norm Finkel’s “Commonsense Justice: Jurors’ Notions of the Law” (1995). A similarly influential book called “Justice, Liability, and Blame” was published at the same time, examining lay sentiment about a variety of criminal issues and suggesting way…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-1898-0
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- XIV, 291
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- -
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- 150 HAN
Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Bo…
The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a versio…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9379-7
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- XIII, 330
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
- Call Number
- 111.8 AES a
Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by large myelinated afferents and the coding properties and functional organization of unmyelinated C…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-6418-5
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- XIII, 430
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- 150 AFF a
Pogrom Cries – Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939–1946 2nd Revised Ed…
This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated. The results comprise the anthropological interviews with the members of the generation of Holo…
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Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky : Science, Religion, Philosophy
Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary …
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- -
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- 9781618115263
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- 424 halaman
- Series Title
- Ars Rossica
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- 100 EVD d
Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness
This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of “cultural self-awareness,” summarized in the axiom “each appreciates his own best, appreciates the best of others, all appreci…
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- -
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- 978-3-662-46647-6
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- XV, 268
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- -
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- 371 FEI g
A Guide to the Extrapyramidal Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Antipsychotic drugs have revolutionised the management of major psychiatric disorders and the outcomes of those who suffer from them. They are, however, possessed of a range of adverse effects, amongst the most frequent and distressing of which are those resulting in disturbance of voluntary motor function. Extrapyramidal side effects - or E.P.S. - are still poorly recognised and not infrequent…
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- 9780511544163
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- -
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Open : The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Sc…
Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories, motives, insights, and practical tips from global leaders in the open movement.
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- -
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- 9781911529019
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- 304 halaman
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- -
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- 370 JHA o
One world, many knowledges : Regional experiences and cross-regional links in…
Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Embedded in these scholarly networks is the question of whether a ‘global template’ for the management of both higher education and national researc…
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- -
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- 9780620557887
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- 312 halaman
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- -
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- 370 ONE
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