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Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This open access book provides an analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on diverse education systems, and of the results of the policies adopted to sustain educational opportunities. Through a series of diverse national case studies, the book examines the preexisting fragilities and vulnerabilities in educational structures which shaped the nature of the varied responses, around the …
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- 978-3-031-42670-4
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- VI, 262
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(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education an…
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood educati…
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- 9783031387623
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- XXI, 203
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Nuclear Risks and Arms Control - Problems and Progresses in the Time of Pande…
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists and researchers from 13 countries, including, besides Europe, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Japan, Russian Federation and the USA. In an international scenario shaken b…
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- 978-3-031-29707-6
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259057
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations
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Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
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- 9780262258524
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- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
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Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272209
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages) : illustrations
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- Cairoli Lectures
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- 332 EIC g
The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Models: A Review
Robert E. Baldwin presents a review of the theoretical twists and turns in the development of the Heckscher-Ohlin model and an empirical assessment of the basic model and three related theorems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267656
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- 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) :illustrations.
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Global trade and conflicting national interests
Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…
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- 9780262274050
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) :illustrations.
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- Lionel Robbins Lectures
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- 380 GOM g
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255509
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- 1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) :illustrations.
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Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade
Feenstra considers the consumer benefits from having access to new import varieties of differentiated products, and examines a recent method to estimate the elasticity of substitution (the extent of differentiation across products) and to use that information to construct the gains from import variety.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289375
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- 1 online resource (133 pages) :illustrations
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