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Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study : Japanese and Ibero-American Theor…
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience of the Lesson Study in Japan. This approach to mathematics education dates back to the 1870s and reconciles the emphasis on problem solving with the treatment of the curricul…
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- 1
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- 9783030285616
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- XVIII, 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual movement. It presents a thorough description of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis illustrated with extensive examples. Attenti…
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- Volume: 77
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- 9789004281622
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A Global Radical Waterfront; The International Propaganda Committee of Transp…
This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as well as their agitation and propaganda centres, the International Harbour Bureaus and the Internatio…
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- Volume: 43
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- 9789004463288
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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions : Practices of legitimation and accou…
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world challenge of climate …
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- 9783030268916
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- XXI, 168hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Plight of Older Workers : Labor Market Experience after Plant Closure in …
This open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200 workers from Switzerland who lost their manufacturing jobs after the financial crisis of 2008, the author analyzes the determinants of reemployment, the sector of reemployment, and the change in wages over a two year…
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- 978-3-319-39754-2
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- XX, 195
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 5)
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Mnemonic Solidarity : Global Interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- 9783030576691
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- XI, 135 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspec…
“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such …
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- Volume: 29
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- 978-90-04-33546-2
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Waqf in Zaydī Yemen; Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
Islamic foundations ( waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understan…
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- Volume: 46
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- 978-90-04-37784-4
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Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity
This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues ( makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts ( faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts ( adab, taḥbīb, ʿuzla); disciplines ( ḥadīth transmission, gender ethics); and individual and key traditions (the ḥad…
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- Volume: 5
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- 978-90-04-52593-1
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Towards Gender Equality in Law
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individ…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-98072-6
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- XIX, 250
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