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Public Leadership: Perspectives and practices
‘Leadership’ is routinely admired, vilified, ridiculed, invoked, trivialised, explained and speculated about in the media and in everyday conversation. Despite all this talk, there is surprisingly little consensus about how to answer basic questions about the nature, place, role and impact of leadership in contemporary society. This book brings together academics from a broad array of socia…
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Diachrony of differential argument marking
While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various propertie…
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Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Afghanistan’s Islam ; From Conversion to the Taliban
This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghani…
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally, war is the transfor…
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally, war is the transfor…
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Bioethics Across the Globe ; Rebirthing Bioethics
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides whe…
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Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th…
This volume is based on the research papers presented in the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference. The volume Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications presents new approaches and methods to real-world problems, and in particular, exploratory research that describes novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence. Particular emphasis is laid on modern trends in select…
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- 978-3-319-18476-0
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- XIV, 364
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century ; An In…
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Is…
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- 9780429330636
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A Handbook of Wisdom Psychological Perspectives
A topic ignored in mainstream scientific inquiry for decades, wisdom is beginning to return to the place of reverence that it held in ancient schools of intellectual study. A Handbook of Wisdom, first published in 2005, explores wisdom's promise for helping scholars and lay people to understand the apex of human thought and behavior. At a time when poor choices are being made by notably intelli…
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- Cambridge Handbooks of Psychology
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