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English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
This open access book examines the teaching and learning of English for employability in Vietnamese higher education. Its content is framed within one country to better examine the research issues within the influence of contextual factors. This book investigates how English can contribute to the development of students' employability capitals, particularly in the aspects of human capital, soci…
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- 978-981-99-4337-1
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- XVIII, 380
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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this …
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- 978-3-031-32792-6
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- XIX, 222
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The Media Systems in Europe
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is a Professor of Media Organization and Policy at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the head of the faculty and member of the Board of the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute. Further, he is a Visiting Professor at City University, London, United Kingdom. Previou…
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- 978-3-031-32799-5
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Metallogenic Theory and Exploration Technology of Multi-Arc-Basin-Terrane Col…
This open access book presents a new structural model of “multi-arc-basin-terrane system” based on the in-depth research of the Nujiang-Lancangjiang-Jinshajiang region, especially several Paleo-Tethys ophiolitic mélange belts and sets of arc-basin systems, and a new orogenic model of “The Hengduan shan Mountains” based on penetrated research on spatial-temporal framework and orogenic m…
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- 978-981-99-3651-9
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- XV, 307
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Cultural Policy is Local
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, ra…
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- 978-3-031-32311-9
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- XIX, 267
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Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswese…
Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu F…
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- 978-3-658-35769-6
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- XI, 159
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Offshoring of American jobs: What response from U.S. economic policy?
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258579
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 141 pages) :illustrations.
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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255516
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- 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages)
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Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
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- 9780262258524
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- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
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Institutional Microeconomics of Development
"The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutions-or other factors altogether (geography, culture, or religion)-are central to development. In this volume, leading scholars in development economics view institutions from a microeconomic perspective, offering both theoretical overviews and empirical analyses spanning t…
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- 9780262289184
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- 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) :illustrations.
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