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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio's works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the...

This book provides a highly accessible overview of public education policy. It organizes knowledge about 21st century education policy around two main topics: the policy process, and the discourse ...

This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 Sept...

This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students. It addresses disproportionality as an indicator of biased practices a...

Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity

During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery...

In recent years, instruments and institutions for dispute settlement have multiplied. They now cover almost all areas of international law ranging from international economic law and international ...

Liberal Ideals, Persistent Inequality, and the Constructive Uses of Critique

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and speci...

This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global 'robot reserve arm...

This book offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which children, youth and adults may find their paths to mathematics. The chapters of the volume offer and analyse promising new...

Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy...

Distinktion und Deutungsmacht. Zur Transformation des Kommunikationsmanagements -- und zu diesem Band.- I: Grundlegung.- Legitimationsprobleme in der Verhandlungsgesellschaft -- Das gesellschaftlic...

Do Rules Make the Difference?