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Engaged Humanities; Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life
What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society.
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- 9789048550401
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- T 300.9 SWI e
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts.
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- 9780203967843
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- T 338.95 CON e
Entre Démocratisation Et Professionnalisation; Le Parlement Suisse Et Ses Me…
This book provides a detailed historical analysis of the Swiss Parliament.
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- 9782883510777
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- T 321.8 PIL e
The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterra…
Agriculture; Food Science; Environmental Science and Engineering
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- 9789400779594
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- 330 VAS s
Pragmatic Philanthropy: Asian Charity Explained
Asian Philanthropy and Charitable Organizations; Social Investment in Asia; Social Delivery Organizations; Relationships and Philanthropy in Asia; Ultra-high Net-worth Individuals in Asia; How Social Investment Works in Asia; Impact of Charitable Giving in Asia; Relationship with Elites and Social Investment in Asia
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- 9789811071188
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- 950 SHA p
Hidden Attractions of Administration : The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and …
This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations—those formally working for clients, patients, or students—to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints and laments abo…
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- 978-1-003-10843-6
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Her Own Worth : Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Fema…
"In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how changes in these aspects of life influenced the ways in which she saw her own worth at the time of the interviews and how she constructed her subject…
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- 978-952-222-753-9
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- Studia Fennica Ethnologica 16
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Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state Institutional Mechanisms for t…
Democratization has become an important concept in the last ten years. With the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the extension of economic regulatory regimes, democratization has come to be seen as important to securing long-term political stability. Much has been written about democratization and gender in works on human rights, citizenship, women's movements and challenge…
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- 9781526137494
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World
Cultural Heritage; Cultural Economics; Cultural Studies; Archaeology; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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- 9783319295428
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- 301 BOR c
Beyond observation A history of authorship in ethnographic film
Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the 'ethnographicness' of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exotic culture - the popular view - nor because it has apparently not been authored - a long-standing academic view - but rather because it adheres to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, the book covers a large number of…
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