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Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesThe inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify...
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When Medicine Goes Awry: Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and DeathMedical error is the third leading cause of death in hospitals, leading to disability, and in some cases, death. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the...
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Folklore and the SeaThis collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea a browser's...
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Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big TechWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these...
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In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United StatesHow evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion Why do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a...
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Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An IntroductionBuilding from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?Its chapters address...
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Teoría Polivagal Práctica Y TerapiaQué harías como terapeuta si supieras que muchos trastornos psicológicos y psiquiátricos se entienden y se explican por ciertas reacciones del sistema nervioso autónomo del cuerpo y que ya se sabe cómo regular esto con la teoría polivagal? Cómo cambiarías el diseño de tu...
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Crisis Management: Theory and PracticeCrisis management is an interdisciplinary subject field represented by theoretical problems, practical activity, people management and the art of crisis situation solving. Overall, the studies that this publication contains are to provide an overview of the state of the art mainly focused on crisis...
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Entrepreneurs and Smes in Rwanda: The Model Pupil ParadoxEntrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This thinking has profoundly influenced development policy in Rwanda, but has...
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Cancel Culture: Tales from the Front LinesWhat is "cancel culture." A new phrase in popular circulation for less than two years, it has provoked passionate denunciations from observers concerned with civil liberties, especially rights of free speech and expression, and apologetic defenses from opponents who advocate equity and accountability in...
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Inequality and Poverty in Ethiopia: Challenges and OpportunitiesTo tackle pervasive poverty in Ethiopia, the root cause must be removed first. Only then can the country hope for progress. Dr. Assefa Muluneh, formerly a senior economist at the Planning Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, explores the dimensions and prevalence of poverty in...
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Anacalypsis, Vol. 1: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis, or an Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and ReligioAnacalypsis is the title of a lengthy two-volume treatise written by religious historian Godfrey Higgins in 1833. The book is densely written, in language that in places appears cryptic. It has hidden layers of meaning, it searches for the universal beginnings of religion, and...
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Introduction to Electronic Media and BroadcastingThe media that use and electronic devices to access the content is known as electronic media. The most commonly used electronic media include audio and video recordings, multimedia presentations, CD-ROM, slide presentations and online content. Electronic media can be in analog electronic data or...
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The Continuing Storm: Learning from KatrinaMore than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history....
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Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to EarthHow we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces--from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways--are created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space, Mrill Ingram provides a call to action to claim and to cherish these neglected...
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Best Clinical Practices for Treating Families in Juvenile and Criminal Justice SystemsAddressing the critical intersection between mental health and the legal system, this book presents a competency-based approach to clinical practice with justice-involved couples and families. Author Corinne C. Datchi demonstrates that couple and family interventions are vital components of rehabilitation for both youth and...
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Folk-lore From the Cape Verde Islands ..; v.1This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Out of the Dark: Essays, Letters, and Addresses on Physical and Social VisionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Peat-fire Flame: Folk-tales and Traditions of the Highlands & IslandsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Studies in Social PowerThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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