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Chapter 4 Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction
This chapter addresses the entanglement of mobility and labour in the global era, and suggests potential ways to study these issues in contemporary African diasporic fiction.
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Manhua Modernity: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn
From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of th…
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Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation of Argument
It is our hope that the successful student who completes a class using all or some of this text will have improved skills with application inside the discipline of philosophy, but also with application to work in other disciplines within academia. Our ultimate goal, however, is to help people develop techniques which support curiosity, open-mindedness, and an ability to collaborate successfully…
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Bild und Schrift auf 'magischen' Artefakten
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center’s main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.
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Bairisch-österreichische Dialektliteratur vor 1800 Eine andere Literaturges…
Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen, Arbeiten und Autoren, kontextualisieren die bislang überwiegend nicht edierten Werke aus einer Vielzahl an Arc…
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Ars Edendi Lecture Series, vol. IV
"The Ars Edendi Lectures have been organized by the research programme at Stockholm University funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond during the years 2008-2015, with a focus on editorial methods for dynamic textual traditions of medieval Greek and Latin texts. This fourth volume gathers contributions both on the fundamentals of editing, as in Glenn Most ‘What is a critical edition?’, and look…
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Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following: Understand the logical connections between ideas. Identify, construct, and evaluate arguments. Detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasonin…
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Accelerators in Silicon Valley : Building Successful Startups
This book describes how accelerators, the 'schools of startup entrepreneurship', help startups to become successful companies in Silicon Valley, the world's most successful innovation region.
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7 Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders
This chapter argues that the discussion of urban sustainability is in urgent need of new understanding of how ecosystem services are generated in places where human and non-human stakeholders interact within the urban landscape. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and the rate of urbanisation is estimated to increase rapidly in the next three decades ( Uni…
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5 ans de réponse aux catastrophes
En présentant diverses expériences vécues en situation de crises ou de catastrophes, ce volume s'adresse à toute personne qui de près ou de loin joue un rôle dans la réponse aux grandes urgences : les responsables des services d'incendie, de police, de communication, de sécurité civile, les médecins, infirmières, psychologues, ambulanciers, militaires, les dirigeants d'entreprise à …
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