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Chance Encounters
Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that matter the most. Emma is a small town girl with big dreams. After years of working hard, she thought she finally had it all: a beach house in Malibu, a fiancé who is a well-known surgeon, and a climbing career in the newspaper world. Except, when Emma finds Matt in bed with another woman only weeks before their wedding, she takes a giant leap …
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Champagne and Meatballs
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written not long be…
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Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of q…
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- 9781040794340
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Challenging the Status Quo to Shape Food Systems Transformation from a Nutrit…
The present reprint aimed to present original research articles and reviews concerning the following:Access: affordability, allocation, and preference of food;Availability: the production, distribution, and exchange of food;Circularity in food systems at local, regional, or global levels;The development, impact, and ethics of novel and data-driven technologies in food systems;Food security and …
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- 978-3-0365-7618-3
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Governing the Automated Exchange and Processing of Business Information
What is digital business reporting? Why do we need it? And how can we improve it? This book aims to address these questions by illustrating the rise of system-to-system information exchange and the opportunities for improving transparency and accountability. Governments around the world are looking for ways to strengthen transparency and accountability without introducing more red tape, which i…
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Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity
In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term multiculturalism and now express scepticism, critique and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the 11 European co…
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Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic A…
Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia, (Hardcover)
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Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which…
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Challenges in Education – Policies, Practice and Research
This book contains ten state-of-the-art articles about current challenges in education. They go back to the international conference "Teacher Education for Promoting Well-Being in Schools" (S'tefan cel Mare University of Suceava / Romania, July 2020), organized by the Association for Teacher Education in Europe. The articles are concerned with the following: diversity in special education; rese…
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Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy - the European Research Landscape
Cybersecurity and Privacy issues are becoming an important barrier for a trusted and dependable global digital society development. Cyber-criminals are continuously shifting their cyber-attacks specially against cyber-physical systems and IoT, since they present additional vulnerabilities due to their constrained capabilities, their unattended nature and the usage of potential untrustworthiness…
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