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Civil Society Elites : Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, …
This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in the complexities of power and influence within contemporary civil societies. Through a series of unique empirical studies, the authors offer a comprehensive examination of the individuals occupying the upper echelons of influ…
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- 1
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- 9783031401503
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- XXII, 332 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Resourceful Civil Society : Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Civil Socie…
This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume’s contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations’ capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they neg…
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- 1
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- 9783030990077
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- XIX, 366 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformatio…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 1
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- 9783030329884
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- XVII, 169 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : The Authors…
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities a…
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- 1
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- 9783030308339
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- XV, 396 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Post-digitales Management Arbeit an den Schnittstellen einer Produktionsorga…
Diese Open-Access-Publikation handelt von Digitalisierungsprojekten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeobachtungen in Beiträgen, Interviews und Handouts von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern präsentiert.
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-40707-0
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- XII, 300
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education: Old P…
This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, …
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- 9783031263934
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- XXIX, 439
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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa t…
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- Volume: 56/5
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- 9789004726970
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The Vision Zero Handbook : Theory, Technology and Management for a Zero Casua…
This handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as well as cri…
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- 9783030231767
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- XX, 1240: ill; lamp
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A Love Letter to the Many: Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in Sout…
South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, the SACP, and one of the most militant labour union federations in the world, COSATU. Yet, South Africa is at a crossroads and many are deeply concerned about its future. This …
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- Volume: 278
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- 9789004692268
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Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabe…
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- 978-3-031-44731-0
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- XII, 142
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