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Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1 (1991)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is the first publication primarily dedicated to international law as seen from an Asian perspective. It provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law written by experts from the region, and also other articles relating to Asian topics. Its aim is twofold: to promote the dissemination of knowledge of international law i…
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- Volume: 1
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- 978-90-04-40060-3
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General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Bus…
The volume is divided into five parts. The first one—Why and How Risk is Shared—starts with Maria Fusaro’s introduction and analytical description of the concept of General Average [GA] at large, highlighting some of its peculiarities and importance regarding both its historical development and future policy. This is followed by essays by Ron Harris and Giovanni Ceccarelli that, from t…
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- 9783031041181
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- XXVI, 499
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Failures in Cultural Participation
This open access book examines how and why the UK's approach towards increasing cultural participation has largely failed to address inequality and inequity in the subsidised cultural sector despite long-standing international policy discourse on this issue. It further examines why meaningful change in cultural policy has not been more forthcoming in the face of this apparent failure. This work…
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- 1
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- 9783031161162
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- XV, 162 ill; lamp
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Arts, Religion, and the Environment: Exploring Nature's Texture
Humans have been described as “meaning-making animals.” At the threshold of the Anthropocene, how might humans artistically envision their place in the world? Do humans possess cultural tools, which will allow us to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings are under siege? Exploring Nature’s Texture looks at the ima…
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- Volume: 6
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- 978-90-04-35898-0
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Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education = A Compar…
This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes wit…
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- 1
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- 9783030117382
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- XX, 326 ill; lamp
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Artistic Disobedience: Music and Confession in Switzerland, 1648–1762
In Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspectiv…
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- 978-90-04-33075-7
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How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia
n this book we explain the need for, and then propose a practical solution to the growing problem of false election information in Australia as well as other authentic democracies. Our aim is to help clean up the ‘preference formation’ stage of elections by developing a best practice regime to manage the problem of authorised political disinformation. This, of course, excludes the v…
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- 9789811921230
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- XIII, 170
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Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al…
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the tra…
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- Volume: 156
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- 978-90-04-46920-4
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Ray Tracing Gems = High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems provides key building blocks for develope…
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- 9781484244272
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- XLIV, 607 ill; lamp
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Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
his chapter provides a brief overview of the overall structure by the Chief Editors of the Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) published in Springer’s Major Reference Series. The handbook is organized along the lines of the 3M-Framework covering all important issues related to ODDE at the macro- (ODDE systems, theories, and methods), meso- (ODDE educational managemen…
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- 9789811920806
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- XXVI, 1437
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