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Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination
The book questions the classic idea of self-determination – the right to self-determination is a right of peoples, not of minorities – by examining the content of the right to self-determination and the content of minority rights. Self-determination has four dimensions: the political, the economic, the social and the cultural dimensions. Minorities have minority rights that touch on most as…
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- 978-3-319-08875-4
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- XIII, 295
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Mergers in Higher Education
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at sheddin…
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- 978-3-319-21917-2
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- XII, 236
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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Medical Management of the Pregnant Patient
This protocol-based book uses algorithms to discuss preconception care, care during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the link between postpartum and ongoing primary care. The need for an educated provider community to care for pregnant patients is enormous, and Medical Management of the Pregnant Patient provides a practical handbook that addresses all aspects of this topic. A brief overview o…
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- 978-1-4614-1243-4
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- XI, 351
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Methods and Modalities of Effective School Inspections
This book provides an overview and discussion of the evidence base of effective school inspections; reflecting on issues of validity and reliability of school inspections in relation to school effectiveness research, unintended consequences and emergent roles and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education. Chapters include findings from systematic literature reviews and primary research whi…
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- 978-3-319-31001-5
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- IX, 179
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- Accountability and Educational Improvement
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The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy
This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism. By relying on conceptualizations of media memory and "othering" through news coverage that enhances socio-conservative positions on issues such as immigration, the book positions this moment in a time of con…
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- 9781351392020
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- 070.449304 TRU t
The Data Journalism Handbook Towards A Critical Data Practice
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emergin…
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- 9789048542079
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Utopia and Modernity in China : Contradictions in Transition
The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods being sold in the west attests to China’s industrial revolution, but this capitalist vision of 'utopia' sits uneasily with traditional Chinese values. It is also in conflict with the socialism that has been the bedrock of Chinese society since the foundation of the Peopleâ€â€¦
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- 9781786808349
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Feminist Solutions for Ending War
‘War is a man’s game,’ or so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly one of the driving forces behind war in the modern era. So can we end war with feminism? This book argues that this is possible, and is in fact already happening. Each chapter provides a solution to war using innovative examples of how feminist and queer theory and practice infor…
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- 9780745342900
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Order and Security in Southeast Asia
Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations.
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- 9780203014813
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- T 327.59Â’009Â’045 CHI o c
Obama and Kenya; Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly.
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- 9780896804920, 9780896802995
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- T 327.7306762 CAR n c
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