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Total Books: 1041 - 1060 /1078
978-0-387-74508-4
Violence in Europe

Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street crime to ...

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978-1-4020-5895-0
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

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978-1-4020-6422-7
Virtues and Passions in Literature / Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. It shows ...

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978-3-540-28971-5
Visa Policy within the European Union Structure

The book focuses on the common visa policy as a case study on the constitutional structure of the European Union. After introducing ...

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978-1-84628-149-5
Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies

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

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978-1-4020-3613-2
Visualization in Science Education

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

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978-1-4020-5267-5
Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education

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

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978-88-470-0640-9
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 ...

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978-1-4020-3034-5
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 ...

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978-1-4020-5069-5
Volume 9: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

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

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978-3-8350-5573-5
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 ...

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978-1-4020-4324-6
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 ...

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978-0-387-29372-1
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 ...

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978-3-540-31157-7
Weak Links

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

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978-1-4020-6108-0
Whiteness and Class in Education

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

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978-1-4020-9135-3
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 ...

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978-3-531-91184-7
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 ...

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978-1-4020-5003-9
Why care for Nature?

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

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978-0-387-36542-8
Women and the Mafia

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

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978-3-531-90935-6
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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