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Women's Rights? : The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan
This volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the …
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- 9789053567937
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- 342 halaman
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- IIAS Publications Series
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- 300 KAT w
Whose Book Is it Anyway? : A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and…
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether. The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from t…
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- 9781783746507
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- 458 halaman
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- 808.84 JEF w
Memories of My Town : The Identities of Town Dwellers and Their Places in Thr…
Memories of My Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settings can be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it is…
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- 9789518580198
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- 249 halaman
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- Studia Fennica Ethnologica, 8
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- 800 MEM
The Narratology of Comic Art
By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in …
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- 9781315410128
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- 324 halaman
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- 700 MIK n
Technologies and trust
What is trust and how new technologies are changing or affecting the concept of trust? This publication offers insights from researchers working in educational technology and distance education, collected in the frame of the European FP-7 Marie-Curie People project “Stimulators and inhibitors of a culture of trust in educational interactions assisted by modern information and communication te…
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- volome 4.0
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- 9788891754554
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- Media e tecnologie per la didattica - Open Access, 4
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- 370 GIA t
Labyrinths of Deceit : Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, …
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- 9780853238492
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- 320 halaman
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- Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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- 900 WAL l
Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945
ABSTRACT This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology.
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- 9780203993668
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Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity
A multidisciplinary examination of alternative framings of environmental problems, with using examples from forest, water, energy, and urban sectors. Does being an environmentalist mean caring about wild nature? Or is environmentalism synonymous with concern for future human well-being, or about a fair apportionment of access to the earth's resources and a fair sharing of pollution burdens? …
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- 9780262349925
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- 300 RET
Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters
A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future. Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosoph…
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- 9780262339100
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- 300 CUR l
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3): A Focus on N…
This third and last open access volume in the series takes the perspective of non-EU countries on immigrant social protection. By focusing on 12 of the largest sending countries to the EU, the book tackles the issue of the multiple areas of sending state intervention towards migrant populations. Two “mirroring” chapters are dedicated to each of the 12 non-EU states analysed (Argentina, Chin…
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- 300 LAF m
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