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In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our "petroleum economy." Hall...

This book reports on research and practice on computational thinking and the effect it is having on education worldwide, both inside and outside of formal schooling. With coding becoming a required...

The authors of this book focus on transcultural entanglements in Manchuria during the first half of the twentieth century. Manchuria, as Western historiography commonly designates the three northea...

Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-S...

This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st cent...

With the late twentieth-century reform of the labour market in China, jobs ceased to be guaranteed by the government, and higher education became more and more a requirement for even low-level posi...

For nearly a century, the energy industry had a profound impact on the Mississippi Delta, including both the natural and socio-economic systems. The purpose of this book is to describe the delta, h...

This volume examines the ways different countries around the world have responded to rising numbers of mobile citizens. Complete with detailed case studies, it provides a groundbreaking and global ...

Schöne neue Arbeitswelt 2.0?.- Der Enterprise 2.0-Readiness Check, ein Konferenz-Hashtag und ,,Von Worten zu Wolken".- Enterprise 2.0: How Business is transforming in the 21st Century.- Was macht u...

Novel Ecologies

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) ist ein Magier des Aquarells. Aufgrund seiner Virtuosität in der diffizilen Technik gehört er zu den bedeutendsten Aquarellisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Radikalität im Kolo...

Ausgehend von Marx' Theorie der entfremdeten Arbeit, der Ideologiekritik der Frankfurter Schule, Sartres Konzept der mauvaise-foi sowie aktuellen Studien fragt Cora Rok nach alten und neuen Formen ...

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique ste...

Frontmatter -- Zweiter Auftritt -- Dritter Auftritt -- Vierter Auftritt -- Fünfter Auftritt -- Sechster Auftritt -- Siebenter Auftritt -- Achter Auftritt -- Zweiter Aufzug -- Dritter Aufzug -- Vier...

This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrat...