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Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture = Invisible Republics
This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the suppressed, and the unconformity of artistic and political undercurrents. Avant-g…
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- 9783031695148
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- XXVI, 300 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues = Heritage Reconstruction in Theory …
This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley”. With the condition that most surface of the original fragments o…
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- 1
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- 9783030513160
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- XXV, 364 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and …
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- 9783030421489
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- XI, 251 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Faith, Finance, and Economy = Beliefs and Economic Well-Being
This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress by drawing on research across economics, finance, history, philosophy, ethics, theology, public policy, law, and other disciplines. Chapters in this edited volume examine themes as consequential as economic opportunities, real world outcomes and fait…
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- 9783030387846
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- XI, 239 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Failures in Cultural Participation
This open access book examines how and why the UK's approach towards increasing cultural participation has largely failed to address inequality and inequity in the subsidised cultural sector despite long-standing international policy discourse on this issue. It further examines why meaningful change in cultural policy has not been more forthcoming in the face of this apparent failure. This work…
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- 9783031161162
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- XV, 162 ill; lamp
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White gold : the commercialisation of rice farming in the lower mekong basin
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their…
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- 1
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- 9789811509988
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- XXVIII, 456 p. ; ill.
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- 633.18
An Interdependent Approach to Happiness and Well-Being
This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential pathways towards happiness and well-being globally, and answers calls - voiced in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - for more socially and environmentally sustaina…
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- 9783031262609
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- XV, 172
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Actions of Their Own to Learn: Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective…
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- Volume: 124
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- 9789463512008
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The Potato Crop : Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Hu…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of cons…
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- 9783030286835
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- XVII, 518 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers…
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- 9783030449797
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- XV, 259 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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