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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro = Cosmologies of War and The Far-Right
This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city’s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as interna…
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- 9783031490279
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- XXI, 330 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0 = Automation, A…
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manuf…
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- 9783030461034
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- XXVIII, 266 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Policing in the Pacific Islands
This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pa…
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- 9783031106354
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- XV, 197 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Prevent Duty in Education = Impact, Enactment and Implications
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the…
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- 9783030455590
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- X, 176 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020 = Computational Human Models Presented at …
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. Readers working on any application that may expose human subjects to electromagnetic radiation will benefit from this book’s coverage of the latest models and te…
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- 9783030456238
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- XI, 407 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Tourismus und Klimawandel
Diese Open-Access-Publikation beleuchtet die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Tourismus und Klimawandel für die Tourismusdestination Österreich und basiert auf einer umfassenden Erhebung, Zusammenfassung und Bewertung des aktuellen Standes der Forschung zu diesem Thema. Für diesen Bericht haben 40 Wissenschaftler*innen führender Forschungseinrichtungen, unterstützt durch ein internationales …
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- 9783662615225
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- XIV, 258 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity = T…
Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly damaged by human activities and pressures, including pollution, contamination, invasive species, overfishing and climate change. Such pressures threaten the sustainability of the…
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- 9783030458430
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- VIII, 580 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the new challenges and threats posed to adult education as a potential way out of the economic crisis and social change. It explores the role of adult education in relation to the continuity and discontinuity of the learning careers and identities of adults in a range of adult educat…
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- 978-90-04-37545-1
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Volume: 6
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Continuity and Change in Ancient Umbrian Cult Places
What difference did the Roman expansion make in the transformation of ancient Italy? With its conservative nature and abundance of material evidence, the religious sphere represents a unique lens through which we can study this process over time and across different sites. Tapping into the transformation of Italy as a result of Rome’s expansion, this book problematizes the issue of Romanizati…
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- 978-90-04-54516-8
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, Volume: 485
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X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy; Proceedings of the Sympos…
Volume akses terbuka ini berisi prosiding dari Simposium X Hotine-Marussi tentang Geodesi Matematis yang diadakan dari 13 hingga 17 Juni 2022 di Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italia. Sejak 2006, serangkaian Simposium Hotine-Marussi telah berada di bawah tanggung jawab Komite Antarkomisi tentang Teori (ICCT) dalam Persatuan Geodesi Internasional (IAG). ICCT mengorganisir lima Simposium Hotine-Ma…
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- 978-3-031-55360-8
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- online resource ( X, 200 Pages)
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- Simposium Asosiasi Geodesi Internasional (IAG SYMPOSIA)
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- 526.1 FRE x
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