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The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned earlier. It argues that the centrality of the canal—geo-strategically and otherwise—requires a shift in scholarly focus to study the various aspects from an interdisciplin…
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- Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security
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- XXXI, 264
Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format…
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- Framing Film Festivals
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- XIX, 342
When Children Draw Gods
This open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our understanding of this concept, its origins, and its development. This intercultural work bring…
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- New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
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- VIII, 569
Return to China One Day
This open access book is intended for common readers who are interested in the life story of Qian Xuesen (also know as Tsien Hsue-Shen). Based on a large number of original archives and historical materials, this book focuses on Qian Xuesen’s years of seeking knowledge from his birth in 1911 to his return to China in 1955 and describes how he grows into a world-known scientist from the aspect…
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- XII, 190
Flexible Dienstleistungsarbeit gesundheitsförderlich gestalten
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Im Zentrum des Bands steht die gesundheitsförderliche Gestaltung flexibler Dienstleistungsarbeit. Am Beispiel von technischen, d. h. agilen IT-Services und sozialen, d. h. ambulanten hauswirtschaftlichen Diensten werden Belastungskonstellationen und Gesundheitsressourcen von Beschäftigten im Umgang mit Flexibilitätsanforderungen analysiert. Zugleich werden betri…
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- X, 266
Gender-Competent Legal Education
Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of…
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- Springer Textbooks in Law
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- XIII, 709
The literary history of the Igbo novel : African literature in African languages
Buku ini membahas tren dalam pengembangan novel Igbo dari pendahulunya dalam pertunjukan lisan, melalui kemunculan novel pertama yang diterbitkan, Omenuko, pada tahun 1933 oleh Pita Nwana, hingga novel Igbo kontemporer. Dengan mendefinisikan "sastra Igbo" sebagai sastra dalam bahasa Igbo, dan "novel Igbo" sebagai novel yang ditulis dalam bahasa Igbo, penulis berpendapat bahwa sastra lisan dan t…
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- 9781003017455
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- 1 online resource (x, 160 pages).
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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importan…
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- VIII, 269
Machine Learning and Its Application to Reacting Flows
This open access book introduces and explains machine learning (ML) algorithms and techniques developed for statistical inferences on a complex process or system and their applications to simulations of chemically reacting turbulent flows. These two fields, ML and turbulent combustion, have large body of work and knowledge on their own, and this book brings them together and explain the comp…
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- Lecture Notes in Energy
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- XI, 346
Gender equality and nation branding in the Nordic region
Buku ini mengeksplorasi bagaimana kesetaraan gender, bagian utama dari imajinasi Nordik, digunakan dalam komunikasi politik negara-negara Nordik. Analisis yang disajikan bergerak melampaui citra dan wacana konvensional tentang keramahan gender dan perempuan Nordik dengan menyelidiki secara kritis bagaimana dan sejauh mana kesetaraan gender melayani pencitraan bangsa di wilayah Nordik. Pencitraa…
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- 9781003017134
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- 1 online resource. (Pages 232)
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- 155.33 LAR g
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