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The Exhibitor as Producer; Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-1926
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan …
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- 978-3-031-71781-9
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- XVII, 199
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The First-Person Authority of Children
This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in establishing their thoughts, desires, and feelings than if another person were to report those mental states for them. B…
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- 978-3-031-83999-3
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- XI, 57
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The Foundations of Multi-channel Neighborhood Governance
recent rapid growth of the ICT sector. It focuses on the local scale, in line with the notion that the neighborhood is the fundamental component of any urban area. Beginning with a critical overview of the urban governance paradigms, through a careful analysis of the multifaceted relationships between the Internet and the urban functions, followed by a description of selected approaches to loca…
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- 978-3-031-75124-0
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- XIII, 144
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Strengthening European Energy Policy
The European Union (EU) has set out ambitious targets to address European sustainability and environmental challenges. As part of this, policies and initiatives focusing on both energy supply and energy demand have been established. Yet, the complexity of enacting the required actions demonstrates the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to inform approaches
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- 9783031664816
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- XXIX, 191
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Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism
This study presents the results of a research addressing generation Z cohort’s barriers to practice entomophagy and also examines existing gender differences based on barriers to engage in entomophagy.
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- 9783031510380
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- XXIX, 1044
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Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions
We are grateful to all organizations and individuals who helped us to make this book possible. First, we thank the chapter authors for their important work and the great efforts they made to share their work in this volume
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- 9783031547904
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- XIV, 442
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Storying Contemporary Migration
Migration as a social and political phenomenon is a force that shapes and transforms societies. Historically, it goes back to the formation of diasporas of people fleeing persecution and genocide, and it continues in the present moment in a variety of contexts and for multiple reasons.
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- 9783031620034
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- V, 235
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Sustainability and the Insurance Market: Trends and Challenges
This open access book focuses on the regulatory framework for the sustainability of the insurance market. It analyzes its potential impact on insurance undertakings governance and product design. The book is structured into three parts. It firstly explores the general framework on the sustainability for the insurance market, focusing on the regulation at the European Union level. Secondly, it e…
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- 978-3-031-72186-1
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- VI, 261
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Study on the National Conditions of Modernization with Chinese Characteristics
This is an open access book. Based on the analysis of China’s basic national conditions and development trends, this book begins with a general introduction to the study of “modernization with Chinese characteristics,” and then discusses the comprehensive construction of a prosperous society in all respects, unprecedented changes, the new national system, green modernization, and technol…
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- 978-981-97-7447-0
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- XVI, 364
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Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics III: STUOD 2023 Workshop, Plouza…
This open-access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fourth Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2023 Workshop, held at IFREMER in Plouzané, France, September 25–28, 2023. The STUOD project is supported by an ERC Synergy Grant, and led by Imperial College London, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic…
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- 978-3-031-70660-8
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- XIV, 345
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