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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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This book comprehensively covers diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the context of daily surgical practice. Through real-life illustrative case scenarios and experiences, this book explores DEI and its impact on academic surgery, career development, and clinical practice. …

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Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Accused Persons in Criminal Proceedings: Good Practices Throughout the European Union

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Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings. It is the result of a collaboration between scholars a…

VA

Victims and Plea Negotiations: Overlooked and Unimpressed

by Flynn, Asher, Freiberg, Arie

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"This comprehensive and meticulously documented book fills a serious gap in available research on victim participation in plea bargaining. It provides a wide-ranging review and analysis including stakeholders' perspectives and related laws from Australia, New Zealand, the US and…

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Communicating Science and Technology in Society: Issues of Public Accountability and Engagement

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This volume addresses the engagement between science and society from multiple viewpoints. At a time when trust in experts is being questioned, misinformation is rife and scientific and technological development show growing social impact, the volume examines the challenges in i…

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Climate Engineering as an Instance of Politicization: Talking Tomorrow's Technology-Framing Political C…

by Kreuter, Judith

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This book examines the academic discussion on climate engineering as an instance of politicization - as a subject of deliberation and decision-making. It traces legitimizing and delegitimizing frames applied to discuss both Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management a…

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Academic Tourism: Perspectives on International Mobility in Europe

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This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher ed…

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Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions

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This edited book explicitly deals with the energy humanities, summarising existing knowledge in the area and outlining possible future directions for the nascent field. Assuming a variety of disciplinary stances and using a plethora of methodologies to address a number of pressi…

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Philosophy in Reality: A New Book of Changes

by Brenner, Joseph E., Igamberdiev, Abir U.

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Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world. This logical system is based on the work of the Franco-Romanian thinker Stéphane L…

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Quantum Computing for the Quantum Curious

by Hughes, Ciaran, Isaacson, Joshua, Perry, Anastasia, Sun, Ranbel F., Turner, Jessica

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This open access book makes quantum computing more accessible than ever before. A fast-growing field at the intersection of physics and computer science, quantum computing promises to have revolutionary capabilities far surpassing "classical" computation. Getting a grip on the s…

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Immobility and Medicine: Exploring Stillness, Waiting and the In-Between

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Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness, things th…

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Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in…

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This book brings together history educators from Australia and around the world to tell their own personal stories and how they approach teaching history in the context of contemporary tensions in the classroom. It encourages historians to think actively about how history in the…

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Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

by Hardon, Anita

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This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people's use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables…

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University engagement with socially excluded communities

by Benneworth, Paul, Excellence in Engagement: Policies and Practices for University-Communication Engagement, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

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This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledg…

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Nation-Building and History Education in a Global Culture

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This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture, and regards them in the l…

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Managing good governance in higher education

by Shattock, Michael

fromManaging universities and colleges: Guides to good practice

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Michal Shattock, former registrar of Warwick, can lay claim to having invented the serious study of university governance in Britain. - Public . How has university governance changed and developed over the last quarter of a century? How can people actively engaged in university …