Filter by
Victim Healing and Truth Commissions Transforming Pain Through Voice in Solo…
This book intends to contribute to the growing body of transitional justice literature by providing insight into how truth commissions may be beneficial to victims of mass violence, based on data collected in Timor-Leste and on the Solomon Islands. Drawing on literature in the fields of victim psychology, procedural justice, and transitional justice, this study is guided by the puzzle of why…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12487-2
- Collation
- IX, 184
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Vehicular Air Pollution and Urban Sustainability An Assessment from Central …
This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability. Air pollution (from vehicular traffic) has been monitored at three locations in central Oxford on the High Street, St Aldates and St Ebbes (background monitoring station). There is a further monitoring site s…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20657-8
- Collation
- VII, 68
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Value Economics The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking
The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about how we value economic enterprises. With the close link between the creation of value and business…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-54187-1
- Collation
- XV, 281
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns Changing the Rules of D…
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries and regions. The issue of slums is a huge challenge in the process of global urbanization. The po…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-43905-0
- Collation
- 2 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Against All Odds: An Empirical Study about the Situative Pedagogical Ethos of…
It is nearly impossible to overestimate the significance of a professional ethos in pedagogical situations. Most theories of education understand ethos and ethical acting as belonging to the core of the pedagogical profession. Despite this evidence, remarkably few empirical studies exist on ethos. This book has three main aims: 1) to conceptualize the pedagogical ethos at the theoretical level,…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6209-941-8
- Collation
- XVIII, 330
- Series Title
- Moral Development and Citizenship Education
- Call Number
- 658 FOR a
Unmasking School Leadership A Longitudinal Life History of School Leaders
This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of primary school principals in Ireland. It provides a unique opportunity to peer inside the realities of leading schools in changing times. In a system that until recently did not prepare principals for the onerous roles and responsibilities, a small system with limited mobility, inter-personal relationships emerge as critical, fre…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9433-6
- Collation
- 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
University of the World A Case for a World University System
In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative model, "a university of the world". Contents: · Three concepts of the universit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13455-0
- Collation
- V, 52
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Universities, Rankings and the Dynamics of Global Higher Education Perspecti…
Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league tables, a key element of globalized higher education that can be deplored but hardly ignored. Case studies from Asia, Europe and North America are…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-46999-1
- Collation
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Drivers of bank lending : new evidence from the crisis
After the recent financial crisis has hooked the banking system to its very foundations, Hartmut Brinkmeyer contributes to the question of how bank characteristics influence bank loan supply during crisis periods by developing a well-founded theoretical framework. The econometrical design deploys a number of remarkably innovative ideas such as the implementation of a bank-specific, self-chosen …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783658071745
- Collation
- 247 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 332.49
Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective
Many countries have implemented policies to increase the number and quality of scientific researchers as a means to foster innovation and spur economic development and progress. To that end, grounded in a view of women as a rich, yet underutilized knowledge and labor resource, a great deal of recent attention has focused on encouraging women to pursue education and careers in science — even i…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08629-3
- Collation
- XVI, 344
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302 ADV a
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography