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Latino, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+ Identified Student Leaders in Medicine
This book explores the rich history and current state of the Latina, Latino, Latinx, Latine, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+ (LHS+) community’s representation, activism, and leadership within American medicine. It meets the demand for a reference that highlights both the underrepresentation and growth of the LHS+ community in medicine, especially as the LHS+ population now represents the larg…
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- 9783031350207
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Blue Planet Law
Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean sustainability (SDG 14). This open access book focuses on means of overcoming global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation and biodiversity loss and the…
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- 9783031248887
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Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains
This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home…
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- 9783031157738
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Actions of Their Own to Learn: Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective…
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- Volume: 124
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- 9789463512008
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Academia in Crisis: The Rise and Risk of Neoliberal Education in Europe
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starti…
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- Volume: 335
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- 9789004402034
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A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the se…
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- Volume: 240
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- 9789004254015
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A South Indian Digest of Commentaries on the Nyāyasūtra: Gambhīravaṃś…
The Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises of this tradition—the Nyāyabhāṣya and Nyāyavārttika—Gambhīravaṃśaja created a comprehensive yet concise digest. The present work contains not only a critic…
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- Volume: 55
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A Short History of Christianity beyond the West: Asia, Africa, and Latin Amer…
Today, the majority of the world's Christian population lives in the Global South. Knowledge of their history is therefore indispensable. This textbook offers a compact and vivid overview of the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1450, focussing on diversity and interdependence, local actors and global effects. Maps, illustrations and numerous photos as well as cont…
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- 9789004699830
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Midwifery and Sexuality
This first open-access book on midwifery and sexuality integrates sexual health into the care for the pregnant and postpartum couple. It addresses sexuality and intimacy from an education and prevention perspective instead of just focusing on treating problems, aiming to foster the development of sexual well-being and happy couplehood. Sexuality and intimacy are essential elements in the bon…
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- 9783031184321
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Integrität im Managementalltag
Geschenke und Gefälligkeiten, Entlassungen, Mobbing, Billiglohnproduktion oder Einsatz von Cookies oder Persönlichkeitsprofilen – Das Spektrum an möglichen Spannungsfeldern im Unternehmensalltag ist groß. Mit der Digitalisierung sind die ethischen Herausforderungen noch größer. Dieses Open Access Buch führt Führungskräfte in die Erfassung und Lösung ethischer Dilemmas im Unternehmen…
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