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Women and the UN : a new history of women's international human rights
Buku ini memberikan sejarah kritis tentang wanita berpengaruh di Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa dan berupaya menginspirasi pemberdayaan dengan panutan dari masa lalu. Para wanita yang suaranya disajikan dalam buku ini membantu membentuk konvensi, deklarasi, dan kebijakan PBB yang relevan dengan hak asasi manusia internasional perempuan di seluruh dunia saat ini. Sejak berdirinya PBB hingga gerakan …
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- 9781003036708
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- 1 online resource (200 pages)
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- 362.84 ADA w
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…
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- AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
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- X, 360
Die österreichische Gesellschaft während der Corona-Pandemie
In diesem Buch untersuchen Soziolog*innen und Umfrageforscher*innen erstmals systematisch in zehn fundierten Beiträgen die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise in Österreich. Datengrundlage des Sammelbandes, dessen Beiträge frei zum Download zur Verfügung stehen, sind mehrere Umfrageprojekte, die teils in mehreren Erhebungswellen über die Krisenzeit durchgeführt haben. Die Bei…
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- VI, 359
Revisualising Intersectionality
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is…
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- XI, 132
Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised profe…
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- XVII, 229
Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so. Pawsey made a n…
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- Historical & Cultural Astronomy
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- L, 815
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
Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation
This Open Access book compiles the findings of the Scientific Group of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 and its research partners. The Scientific Group was an independent group of 28 food systems scientists from all over the world with a mandate from the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. The chapters provide science- and research-based, state-of-the-art, solution-ori…
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- XXII, 948
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