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Inorganic Constituents in Soil
This open access book is a must-read for students of and beginners in soil science. In a well-organized and easy-to-follow manner, it provides basic outlines of soil minerals, new methods and recent developments in the field, with a special focus on visual aids. The chapters on primary minerals, secondary minerals, non-crystalline inorganic constituents and inorganic constituents sensitive t…
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- 9789811312144
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- xi, 181 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Writing Manuals for the Masses
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
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- 978-3-030-53614-5
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- New Directions in Book History
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- XXII, 412
Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemis…
This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public librarie…
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- 978-3-030-20426-6
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- New Directions in Book History
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- XVII, 159
NGOs Mediating Peace
This book explores the role of nongovernmental mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The influx of NGO mediators directly engaging with the negotiating parties and promoting the inclusivity norm coupled with the salience of discourse around “all-inclusiveness” at the end of the NCA…
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- 978-3-031-42174-7
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXI, 218
Adaptive Peacebuilding
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs …
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- 978-3-031-18219-8
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXVII, 321
Actors and the Art of Performance
Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university …
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- 978-1-137-59634-5
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XI, 120
Performing Citizenship
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- 978-3-319-97502-3
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XII, 318
Negotiating Non-Motherhood
This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing au…
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- 978-3-031-66697-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XVII, 251
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- 978-3-030-28408-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXX, 269
European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …
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- 978-3-031-24797-2
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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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- XXI, 402
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