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Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies

Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters, nebulae ...

Visual Methodology in Migration Studies New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions

This book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical ...

Visualization in Science Education

This book addresses key issues concerning visualization in the teaching and learning of science at any level in educational ...

Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education

External representations (pictures, diagrams, graphs, concrete models) have always been valuable tools for the science teacher. ...

Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles

Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...

Vocationalisation of Secondary Education Revisited

The book is a cutting-edge contribution to the debate which has occurred for some time on the pros and cons of secondary ...

Volume 9: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy (International Institute of Philosophy). As with ...

Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations ...

WIDENING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AS SOCIAL JUSTICE

Universal access to education, a gage of social justice, is much more than a right—it is an open door to freedom: the freedom ...

Water and the Search for Life on Mars

This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted ...

Weak Links

How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform? ...

Wellbeing Economics

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human ...

Whiteness and Class in Education

This book consider the practices of whiteness and how practitioners might consider critical whiteness studies in anti-racist ...

Who Owns the Moon? : Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial ...

Why Context Matters : Applications of Social Network Analysis

Many elements of our society are embedded in network structures in which actors depend on each other as well as the structural ...

Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which ...

Why care for Nature?

this book, resulting from a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental ...

Wicked Problems in Public Policy : Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, ...

Women and the Mafia

The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for ...

Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict

The debate about the role of women in war, violent conflict and the military is not only a long and ongoing one; it is also ...

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