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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind = From the Per…
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…
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- 9789811530364
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- X, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Society 5.0 = A People-centric Super-smart Society
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for a technology-based, human-centered society, emerging from the fourth industrial revolution. The respective chapters summarize the findings and suggestions of joint resear…
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- 9789811529894
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- XX, 177 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures
This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extend…
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- 978-90-04-69371-5
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- World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, Volume: 16
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Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. They must be addressed through global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require intercultural dialog that goes beyond fashionable slogans and can lead to a truly equal …
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- 978-90-04-54564-9
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- East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, Volume: 13
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Trade Union Cooperation in Europe = Patterns, Conditions, Issues
This open access book discusses transnational trade union cooperation in Europe – its forms, focuses, conditions, and obstacles. It provides an overview of existing trade union cooperation and includes detailed analyses of two specific questions: the debates on statutory minimum wages and the Posting of Workers Directive. Drawing on empirical research, the authors take a comparative approach,…
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- 9783030387709
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- XIV, 157 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Conditional Freedom
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experienc…
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- 978-90-04-69364-7
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- Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 14
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It’s My Party = Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Musi…
This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural stu…
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- 9789819967100
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- XXIV, 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile entrepreneurs and radical republican theorists during the apex of Dutch primacy in world trad…
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- 978-90-04-22139-0
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- Studies in the History of Political Thought, Volume: 7
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Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies u…
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- Volume: 59
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- 978-90-04-30580-9
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Evidence Based Global Health Manual for Preterm Birth Risk Assessment
ommon global risk factors for neonatal deaths include preterm births, birth complications, and infections such as tetanus, sepsis, and pneumonia, all of which disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These risk factors can be minimised or prevented through the delivery of high-quality antenatal care (ANC) [1]. ANC encompasses health promotion, education, disease…
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- 9783031044625
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- XI, 62
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