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The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…
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- 978-3-030-85817-9
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Recovering Civility during COVID-19
This Open Access book examines many of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic through the distinctive lens of civility. The idea of civility appears often in both public and academic debates, and a polarized political climate frequently leads to allegations of uncivil speech and behaviour. Norms of civility are always contested, even more so in moments of crisis such as a global pandemic…
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- 978-981-33-6706-7
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Revisualising Intersectionality
lahe Haschemi Yekani is Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Haschemi Yekani is the author of Familial Feeling and The Privilege of Crisis. Magdalena Nowicka is a sociologist and Professor of Migration and Transnationalism at the Institute of Social S…
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- 978-3-030-93209-1
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Wissenschaft kommuniziert
René Wilke ist als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in dem DFG-geförderten Forschungsprojekt aviDa am Fachgebiet Allgemeine Soziologie der Technischen Universität Berlin beschäftigt. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen verstehende Soziologie, wissenssoziologische Gattungsanalyse, Videographie und Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen
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- 978-3-658-36704-6
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Gender and Migration
Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology, member of the Social Policy Research Centre and founding member of the FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University, London, UK. Anastasia has engaged in multi-sited, multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the United States, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland and recently in Switzerland. Anastasi…
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Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments: A Global Perspective
This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes.
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- 978-981-15-7499-3
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China and the World in a Changing Context
Dr. Wang Huiyao is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG). He has been appointed as Counselor to China’s State Council and is a thought leader on globalization and global governance. He is also the Dean of Development Studies, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China. Dr. Wang pursued hisPhD studies in international business and global manageme…
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- 978-981-16-8086-1
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Tales of the West
Tales of the West is a collection of short stories written by Bret Harte and published in 1902. The book features a series of tales set in the American West during the mid-19th century. The stories explore the lives of people living in the frontier towns and mining camps of California, Nevada, and other western states. The characters in the stories are a mix of cowboys, miners, gamblers, and ot…
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- 279 p., [1] leaf of plates : 16 cm,Title within ornamental border,Tales of the West -- Condensed nov
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Wicked Problems in Public Policy
This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention
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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of developme…
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- 978-3-030-57940-1
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