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Challenging Global Development
This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can be challenged through teaching, research, and engagement in policy and practice, and the sorts of po…
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- 978-3-031-30308-1
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- XIII, 260
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Photo forensics
The first comprehensive and detailed presentation of techniques for authenticating digital images. Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have manipulated photos for short-term political gain. Altering photographs in the predigital era required time-consuming darkroom work. Today, powerful and lo…
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- 9780262355452
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Reading Heidegger's "Black notebooks 1931--1941"
Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334631
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages)
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Translational neuroscience :toward new therapies
Today, translational neuroscience faces significant challenges. Available therapies to treat brain and nervous system disorders are extremely limited and dated, and further development has effectively ceased. Disinvestment by the private sector occurred just as promising new technologies in genomics, stem cell biology, and neuroscience emerged to offer new possibilities. In this volume, experts…
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- 9780262329859
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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The long arm of Moore's law :microelectronics and American science
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short…
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- 9780262341400
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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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Becoming fluent :how cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language
"Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights f…
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- 9780262330466
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Scaffolded minds :integration and disintegration
A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353830
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Die Prämedikationsambulanz Analyse der Prozessqualität, Patientenzufrieden…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch beschäftigt sich der Universitätsmediziner, Manager und Gesundheitswissenschaftler Sandro Lorenz mit der Zufriedenheit von Patientinnen und Patienten in der Prämedikationsambulanz einer großen deutschen Universitätsklinik. Ein zusätzlicher Fokus liegt auf der präoperativen Angst im Vorfeld einer Narkose bzw. Operation. Der Autor plädiert dafür, dass diese zun…
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- 978-3-658-39259-8
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- Social Science and Law
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- XXIV, 257
Organisiertes Misstrauen und ausdifferenzierte Kontrolle
Martin Weißmann legt in diesem Open-Access-Buch theoretische Synthesen zu zentralen Themen der interdisziplinären Polizeiforschung vor und leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Integration dieser ansonsten oft empiristischen Forschung in die stärker theorieorientierte Soziologie. Er schlägt vor, (Kriminal-)Polizeien als Fall misstrauischer Sozialsysteme zu analysieren. Wie beispielsweise auch Geh…
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- 978-3-658-39227-7
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- Organisationssoziologie
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- XI, 436
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