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Images of Canadianness: Images of Canadianness
Author D'Haenens, Leen Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting pattern…
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- 9780776616124
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- International Canadian Studies Series
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- 301 DHA i
Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968: An Annotated Bibliogr…
This bibliography includes publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings now in Chinese public or private collections. The great majority of these publications were produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Japan. Each publication included in the bibliography has been provided with a detailed physical description of the publication itself: the amounts…
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Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation
Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities in the United States, China, Europe, Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism.
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- 9781478025122, 9781478020141
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- 301 MAH p
Critical Studies in Indian Grammarians I: The Theory of Homogeneity (Savar?ya)
In the historical study of the Indian grammarian tradition, a line of demarcation can often be drawn between the conformity of a system with the well-known grammar of Pa?ini and the explanatory effectiveness of that system. One element of Pa?ini’s grammar that scholars have sometimes struggled to bring across this line of demarcation is the theory of homogeneity, or savar?ya, which concerns t…
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- University of Michigan Press
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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections
Lisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable.
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- 9781478093589, 9781478016120
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- 320 MIT h
Rare Earth Frontiers From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the min…
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- 9781501714603
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Changing South-Pacific Identities and Transformations
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of c…
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Documenting Death Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
"Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global developme…
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Twin Studies: Research in Genes, Teeth and Faces
This volume is about an ongoing long-term research initiative led by researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of Adelaide. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the studies of the teeth and faces of Australian twins and their families that have extended over more than thirty years.
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- 9781925261158
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Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalisations in Swiss…
Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities …
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- 9789089640345
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- IMISCoe Dissertations
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- 325.1 HEL p
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