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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- XIX, 435 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Alternatives to Animal Testing
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments – replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from acro…
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- 9789811324475
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- VI, 130 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Exploring Islamic Social Work : Between Community and the Common Good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 978-3-030-95880-0
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- XII, 284
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- Muslims in Global Societies Series (MGSS, volume 9)
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- 297 EXP
Urban Planning Against Poverty : How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Glo…
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, all…
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- 978-3-030-28419-0
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- VIII, 214
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- Future City (FUCI, volume 14)
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- 307 BOL u
Robotic Surgery of Colon and Rectum
This is an open access book. Colorectal surgery is one of the most performed procedures in dedicated colorectal and general surgery units worldwide. In the last two decades, the minimally invasive laparoscopic approach has become very popular worldwide, attracting great interest among patients (lower risk of infection, less pain, and faster recovery) and demonstrating excellent oncological resu…
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- 978-3-031-33020-9
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- XI, 206
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- Updates in Surgery (UPDATESSURG)
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- 610 ROB
The Nation Form in the Global Age
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nat…
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- 978-3-030-85580-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Global Diversities
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- 306
How Generations Remember
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and â€â€¦
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- 978-1-137-45063-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Global Diversities
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- 306
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated…
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- 978-3-319-56068-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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- 307
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging fi…
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- 978-3-031-33227-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Crime Files
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- 379
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digit…
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- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 320
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