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Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries: A Restorations Approach i…
This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the Austrian-American comparative historian Robert A. Kann. The author reworks Kann's theory to analyse post-communist transformations in the …
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- 9783031394966
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- XVI, 291
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Quantitative Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Devel…
This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an operative scheme for scientists to overcome their discipline barriers. Is interdisciplinarity an intrinsic research value or is it merely instrumental for handling the increasin…
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- 9783031393112
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- XVI, 187
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Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Small and Medium-Size…
This open access book examines the relationship between trade and women’s economic empowerment by focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in six countries: Cambodia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal and Vietnam. The authors make use of both survey data and qualitative analysis to understand why and how trade can create more jobs for women, and how the jobs created are contributing …
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- 9783031390395
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- XV, 162
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PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars
Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and transition processes. Through an interwoven narrative of personal stories that capture the complexity of real-time peace negotiation, Bell maps the fast-paced development…
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- 9783031388941
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- XV, 239
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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the America…
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages a…
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- 9783031387395
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- XV, 410
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Language Practices Among Children and Youth in Indonesia
This open access book presents studies of language use in Indonesia, focusing on children and youth. It reports on developments in the use of language for narrative production and within the realm of popular culture and traditional cultural practices in Indonesia. Through studies that include cohesion in narrative production, language in radio advertising, naming practices and formulaic prohibi…
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- 9789819947751
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- XIII, 198
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Proceedings of the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering: CIBI…
This open access book shows some of the highlights presented at the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering. The papers explore the forefront of Mechanical Engineering, containing research into fluid mechanics, energy systems, tribology, materials science, robotics, mechatronics, biomechanics, instrumentation, thermodynamics, and mechanical sustainability.
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- 9783031385636
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- XVI, 456
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Fortbildungen für KulturSchule: Wie Kulturelle Bildung in die Schule kommt
In diesem Open-Access-Buch gibt eine Evaluationsstudie Auskunft, wie teilnehmende Lehrkräfte Fortbildungen erleben, die auf die KulturSchul-Entwicklung zielen. Welche Perspektiven bauen diese auf? Und welche internen Unterstützungsmaßnahmen trifft die Schule, damit sich die Lernkultur ändern kann? Die Fortbildungsreihen im Landesprogramm «KulturSchule Hessen» legen die Grundlage dafÃ…
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- 9783658422219
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- XI, 243
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Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context: Society, Culture and Language
This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of language education, acquisition and assessment, contemporary political debate, modern and historical print media, and clinical language disorders, in the Indonesian context. In doing so, the authors provide a rich and diverse overview of current research in t…
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- 9789819723362
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- XV, 307
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Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia: Innovations, Scaling, and Policies for Envir…
This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers due to its sections on reducing carbon footprint, agricultural innovations, and lessons learned from a multi-country/multi-stages development project. The scope of the …
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- 9783031379475
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- XXVII, 259
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