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Communicative Figurations Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization /

Table of Contents: “…Hamburg and Leipzig between the local and the global; Yvonne Robel & Inge Marszolek.- 8. Networked media collectivities. …”
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History Education and Conflict Transformation Social Psychological Theories, History Teaching and Reconciliation /

Table of Contents: “…Conflict Transformation and History Teaching: Social Psychological Theory and Its Contributions; Charis Psaltis, Mario Carretero & Sabina Čehajić-Clancy -- PART I: Global and Regional Perspectives on Textbook Writing, Civil Society Organizations and Social Representations -- Chapter 2. …”
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History of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan by Kikkawa, Takeo

Table of Contents: “…Conditions that Enabled the First Successful Industrialization Case among Late Developers -- Overview 3: World War I to the 1980s -- Case 8: Ichizo Kobayashi: A Leader in Urbanization Creates a New Industry -- Case 9: Yasuzaemon Matsunaga: Electrification Leader Establishes Private Sector-Led Public Utility Operations -- Case 10: Saburosuke Suzuki II : Commercialization of Exceptional Breakthrough Innovation -- Case 11: Kiichiro Toyoda: From Breakthrough to Incremental Innovations -- Case 12: Shitagau Noguchi and Yoshisuke Aikawa: Emergence of New Konzerns and Foray into the Continent -- Case 13: Sazo Idemitsu: From "Oil Merchant of the Continent" to "Hero of Native Oil Companies" -- Case 14: Yataro Nishiyama: Leader of Capital Investment Drives High Economic Growth -- Case 15: Konosuke Matsushita: Initiator of "Consumer Revolution" Drives High Economic Growth -- Case 16: Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda, and Takeo Fujisawa: The Groundbreaking Nature of Sony and Honda Becoming Global Companies -- Case 17: Toshio Doko: The Sense of Crisis Harbored by the "Fine Physician of the Business World" and "Mr. …”
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Writing in Knowledge Societies by Starke-Meyerring, Doreen, Paré, Anthony, Artemeva, Natasha, Horne, Miriam, Yousoubova, Larissa

Table of Contents: “…Schryer -- "Curious Gentlemen": The Hudson's Bay Company and the Royal Society, Business and Science in the Eighteenth Century, Janet Giltrow -- Electrons Are Cheap; Society Is Dear, Charles Bazerman -- Writing as Knowledge Work in Public and Professional Settings -- Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication: The Rhetorical Challenge of Public Dialogue, Philippa Spoel and Chantal Barriault -- The Evolution of an Environmentalist Group Toward Public Participation: Civic Knowledge Construction and Transgressive Identities, Diana Wegner -- Making Legal Knowledge in Global Digital Environments: The Judicial Opinion as Remix, Martine Courant Rife -- Understanding and Supporting Knowledge Work in Schools, Workplaces, and Public Life, William Hart-Davidson and Jeffrey T. …”
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Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum /

Table of Contents: “…King, Linda Cooper and Duncan Reavey -- Real world learning and the internationalisation of higher education: approaches to making learning real for global communities -- Md Golam Jamil, Nazmul Alam, Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Mohammad Aminul Islam, A.K.M. …”
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The Future European Energy System Renewable Energy, Flexibility Options and Technological Progress /

Table of Contents: “…(Ulrich Reiter and Martin Jakob) -- Chapter 9 - A Techno-Economic Comparison of Demand Side Management with Other Flexibility Options (Theresa Ladwig) -- Part IV: Flexibility Options in the Electricity and Heating Sector -- Chapter 10 - Optimal Energy Portfolios in the Electricity Sector: Trade-offs and Interplay between Different Flexibility Options ( Steffi Schreiber, Christoph Zöphel and Dominik Möst ) -- Chapter 11 - Impact of Electricity Market Designs on Investments in Flexibility Options ( Christoph Fraunholz, Dogan Keles and Wolf Fichtner ) -- Chapter 12 - Optimal Energy Portfolios in the Heating Sector and the Flexibility Potential of Combined-Heat-Power Plants and District Heating Systems ( Maciej Raczyński, Artur Wyrwa, Marcin Pluta and Wojciech Suwała ) -- Part V : Analysis of the Environmental and Socio-Impacts beyond the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets -- Chapter 13 - Unintended Environmental Impacts at Local and Global Scale - Trade-offs of a Low-carbon Electricity System (Maryegli Fuss and Lei Xu).…”
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Environmental Governance in Indonesia

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: emerging concepts and perspectives -- Chapter 2 Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia -- Chapter 3 Earth System Governance in Indonesia: An Initial Investigation -- Chapter 4 Post-politicizing the Environment: Local Government Performance Assessments in Indonesia -- PART II: Wetlands -- Chapter 5 Gender and Climate Change Vulnerability: A Case Study of a Coastal Community in Pramuka Island, The Seribu Islands -- Chapter 6 Coastal Forest Re-Grabbing: A Case from Langkat, North Sumatera, Indonesia -- Chapter 7 Towards Sustainable Lake Ecosystem-Based Management- Lessons Learned from Interdisciplinary Research of Cage Aquaculture Management in Lake Maninjau -- Chapter 8 Community-Based Fire Management and Peatland Restoration in Indonesia -- Chapter 9 Assessing the Governance Modes of Indonesia's Forest Management Unit -- Chapter 10 Biofuels Development and Indirect Deforestation -- Chapter 11 The Dynamics of the Green Policies in Papua Land: A Political Economy Study -- Chapter 12 Environmental Governance as Knowledge Co-Production: the Emergence of Permaculture Movements in Indonesia -- Chapter 13 Aggregation and Representation in Knowledge Coproduction: Lesson Learned from the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Scheme -- Part IV: Urban -- Chapter 14 The Conceptual Models of Dynamic Governance Toward Sustainable Urban Water Management in Metropolitan Area -- Chapter 15 Governance by Accident:The Role of Civil Society in Shaping Urban Environmental Governance -- Chapter 16 Water Resources Governance in Indonesia Towards Environmental Sustainability Along with Social and Economic Development -- Chapter 17 Coordination Challenges Facing Effective Flood Governance in the Ciliwung River Basin -- Chapter 18 Transformative Solutions in the Global South: Addressing Solid Waste Management Challenges in Jakarta through Participation by Civil Society Organizations? …”
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Sago Palm Multiple Contributions to Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction of Sago Resources- Chapter 1: Status and Outlook of Global Food Security and the Role of Under-Utilized Food Resource: Sago Palm (Hiroyuki Konuma) -- Chapter 2: Growing Area of Sago Palm and Its Environment (M. …”
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Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects /

Table of Contents: “…Mindtree's Experience in Global Learning Center -- Part 6: Technology Platforms for Bridging the Skills Gap and for Career Counselling and Guidance -- 26. …”
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Precarious employment and occupational injuries in the digital age ‒ where should we go from here? by Helen Marucci-Wellman

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Assessment of the quality in e-learning processes: a proposal with new dimensions by João Paulo Vagarinho, Martín Llamas-Nistal

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Public health and evidence-informed policy-making: The case of a commonly used herbicide by Harri Vainio

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Biological Invasions in South Africa

Table of Contents: “…Transferring research results to managers of biological invasions in South Africa -- Chapter 29: Biological invasions as a component of South Africa's global change research effort -- Chapter 30: South Africa's Centre for Invasion Biology: An experiment in invasion science for society -- PART 7: THE WAY FORWARD -- Chapter 31:Potential futures of biological invasions in South Africa.…”
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Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals Voices of YouthMappers on Community Engaged Scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South -- Chapter3. Leveraging Spatial Technology for Agricultural Intensification to Address Hunger in Ghana -- Chapter4. …”
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Public Health in Pharmacy Practice A Casebook by Covvey, Jordan R, Arya, Vibhuti, Mager, Natalie A. DiPietro

Table of Contents: “…Ethical decision-making in global health: when cultures clash -- 8. Safe opioid use in the community setting: reverse the curse? …”
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The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier /

Table of Contents: “…(Jordi Roca and Emilio Padilla) -- Chapter 29. Contribution of global cities to climate-change mitigation overrated (Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh) -- Chapter 30. …”
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The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract

Table of Contents: “…Utilising Recognition Justice to Bridge Climate and Energy Financing Gaps in the Global South (Susan Nakanwagi) -- Chapter 24. Australian Petroleum and Coal Resources: Taxation, Emissions and Energy Justice (Diane Kraal) -- Chapter 25. …”
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Infusing an international online learning experience into the curriculum: a united states and Mexico collaboration by Flavia Iuspa

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New Indicators of Myocardial Work in Healthy Individuals by V. E. Oleynikov, A. V. Babina, V. A. Galimskaya, A. V. Golubeva, K. N. Makarova, N. A. Donetskaya

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The impact of Asean free trade area (AFTA) on the information technology (IT) industry in Malaysia / Irzan Ismail by Ismail, Irzan

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