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  • "Demokratie Version 1.0"

    Eine Meinung

    by Bürger Autor ...
    Wir leben in einer globalisierten Welt, die sich in einem permanenten Wandel befindet. Aber wir wählen wie vor 60 Jahren! Dieser Text enthält eine Meinung des Autors hierzu. ... Read more

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  • La silver economy e le sue conseguenze nella società post Covid-19

    Il primo Rapporto dell’Osservatorio Censis-Tendercapital sulla “silver economy”, dal titolo La silver economy e le sue conseguenze nella società post Covid-19 evidenzia quali sono le conseguenze della pandemia anche per i più longevi, over 65 anni, se si è creato un divario tra giovani e anziani e come questi ultimi hanno reagito durante l’emergenza sociale, economica e sanitaria.Tra gli obiettivi ... Read more

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  • Rick Steves Hunger and Hope

    by Rick Steves ...
    In this FREE companion ebook to the public television special, Rick Steves' Hunger and Hope, travel expert Rick Steves ventures beyond Europe to learn about the key realities of extreme poverty.Inside this companion e-book, you'll uncover Rick's firsthand insights on:How ending world hunger in our lifetime is an attainable goalThe importance of water access, education, women's empowerment, and ... Read more

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  • Le financement participatif culturel

    Inspirés des fondamentaux marketing, les dix chapitres de cet ebook vous donneront les outils pour construire votre campagne de crowdfunding. Ils sont enrichis de témoignages d’experts, de cas concrets et de points juridiques. Ouvrage de référence sur le financement participatif culturel, il a été téléchargé par plus de 3000 professionnels et passionnés (novembre 2016). Prenant appui sur les ... Read more

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  • Ma petite sœur est une guerrière

    Zélie, trois ans, devient une grande sœur, mais le bébé est atteint d’une malformation cardiaque. Ce livre évoque le difficile parcours de ce bébé, mais surtout de cette grande sœur, mise à l’écart et en même temps très présente. Zélie est éprouvée dans la position fraternelle et espère, en silence des adultes, sortir de cette vie à l’hôpital. Les explications sont simples pour les enfants, car c ... Read more

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  • Patriotism: The Most Odious Prejudice

    by Peter Rodman ...
    Sure I love my country. After all, I was born here. Or I emigrated here and became a citizen. Or I invaded your country because my country's needs are more important than any rights you think you have. Why wouldn't I love my country?I display my flag, cheer for my country in the Olympics and in wars, and sometimes I vote. But even if I don't vote, I can (and will) tell you what's best for my ... Read more

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  • Women and Reproductive Technologies

    The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World

    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.A sociological and historical study of the development of reproductive technologies, this book focuses on key technological developments through a biomedicalization lens with special attention to gender. Using in vitro ... Read more

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  • Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained, there was also considerable inter-Asian competition between Asian producers for these Asian ... Read more

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  • Economía popular y solidaria

    ¿realidad o utopía?. Caracterización de las entidades de fomento

    Ecuador es un escenario en el que se desarrollan múltiples experiencias relacionadas con la Economía Popular y Solidaria —EPS—, es un laboratorio vivo que aún en contextos complejos genera redes y tejidos desde la reciprocidad, el don y la gratuidad. Comprender este entramado precisa de aportes que inviten a la reflexión y a la construcción de renovadas políticas públicas e instituciones. Este ... Read more

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  • Creation of History

    Human action opens history

    History has been formed over enormous time of destructions and re-creations, being affected each time by coincidence. Each moment is a turning point for history to go toward any directions. Therefore, history could lead its course into various ways, and it is defined by an action taken at the point. It is the action that opens history. A sudden, radical change of history is often caused by a free, ... Read more

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  • Instinct

    by Billy Oxkidd ...
    How is it possible, appearing to exist within various life forms, such life form’s possessing environmental knowledge apparently having never been taught, learned or practiced. This knowledge appearing transferred at birth and separately not that genetic knowledge required for biological successful life form functioning, but a distinctly separate category of knowledge, untaught and unlearned ... Read more

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  • The 2013 Ohio Values Survey

    The 2013 Ohio Values Survey, a follow-up survey to the 2012 Ohio Values Survey, was designed to gauge Ohio voters’ opinions on three important issue areas as they begin to look toward the 2014 mid-term elections. These issues—same-sex marriage, workplace issues such as discrimination protections for gay and lesbian workers and collective bargaining rights, and immigration reform—are important in ... Read more

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  • The Ten-Year-Old Judgment

    Find out what happens to an insurance agent turned burglar after he is charged with a murder, ten years later. ... Read more

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  • Transformations agricoles et agroalimentaires

    Entre écologie et capitalisme

    Series series Synthèses
    À l’heure des robots et du numérique, la terre (habitat, agriculture, paysage, planète) et la nourriture (du corps et de l’âme) sont parmi les préoccupations majeures dans les espaces médiatiques et politiques. Le pétrole et l’abondance qui l’a accompagné nous avaient fait oublier qu’elles sont au fondement des sociétés humaines. La « crise alimentaire » de 2008, qui a secoué plusieurs continents, ... Read more

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  • Pratiques prometteuses

    Pour remédier à la sous-représentation des femmes dans les domaines des sciences, de l’ingénierie et de la médecine

    Series Book 2 - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    Les femmes sont sous-représentées dans les carrières en sciences, technologie, ingénierie, mathématiques et médecine (STEMM) et de nombreuses histoires personnelles témoignent des effets néfastes des préjugés, du harcèlement et de la discrimination dans le milieu scientifique. Malgré des progrès, il reste encore beaucoup à faire pour améliorer le recrutement, la pérennité et l’avancement des ... Read more

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  • Apple for President

    What about having the Apple management team run the business operations of our country? Although the title Apple for President is, I hope, somewhat provocative, the subject matter is serious. As citizens, we can no longer stand around passively hoping that a new economic platform will somehow spontaneously take shape and raise us out of our economic difficulties. Our government’s unapologetic ... Read more

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  • Nosotros amábamos tanto el acceso abierto

    El Programa SciELO fue creado a finales de la década de 1990, cuando la idea de acceso gratuito a contenidos académicos comenzó a ganar impulso, incluso antes de que se acuñara el término "acceso abierto". En aquel momento, el acceso a las publicaciones académicas era limitado y costoso, restringido a las bibliotecas universitarias y a las colecciones a las que estaban suscritas. Con la aparición ... Read more

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  • El estado de los mercados de productos básicos agrícolas 2018: El comercio agrícola, el cambio climático y la seguridad alimentaria

    las economías emergentes y los países en desarrollo desempeñan un papel mayor en los mercados internacionales y el comercio agrícola Sur-Sur ha crecido considerablemente. Se espera que el cambio climático afecte a la agricultura, la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en forma desigual entre países y regiones. Los cambios en términos de ventaja comparativa en la agricultura que tengan lugar en ... Read more

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  • なぜなぜ仏教教室No.118「正信偈」浄土真宗親鸞会

    Series Book 118 - なぜなぜ仏教教室
    今回のなぜなぜ仏教教室では「正信偈」について学べます。仏教に関心を持つきっかけは様々です。こころの安らぎを求めて競争社会に疲れた。勝ち負け以外に価値を見い出したい尊敬している人が勧めてくれたからいちおう仏教徒だし、そろそろ仏教も学ばないとと思って海外留学したとき、仏教について尋ねられ全く答えられなかったから知人の死を通して、仏教を知りたいと思い始めた生きる意味を知りたい幸せとは何か、仏教にヒントがあるのではと思ってなどなど。中でも、悩みの解決を仏教に求めている人が多くあるようです。現代は不安の時代といわれ、多くの人が、物には恵まれていますが、仕事や結婚、家庭や職場での人間関係、老後のことなど、先行きの暗い心を抱えてみな生きています。また天災や人災など、日々様々な災害を耳にし、いつ何が起きるか分からない不安な世の中は深さを増していると多くの識者が指摘するとおりです。... ... Read more

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  • Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society

    Reclaiming the Future

    Series series Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
    This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system.It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. It ... Read more

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  • Critical Ancient World Studies

    The Case for Forgetting Classics

    This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West.CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches ... Read more

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  • Cambiare tutto

    L'Europa, l'Italia e l'Immigrazione

    by AA.VV. ...
    Sull’immigrazione è arrivato il momento di cambiare tutto.Davanti alla ricerca di un destino migliore da parte di tante persone spinte dalla guerra, dalle disuguaglianze e dai cambiamenti climatici, la risposta non può essere l’esternalizzazione delle frontiere e la negazione dei principi di solidarietà su cui si fonda l’Europa.In questo libro bianco, nella speranza che possa diventare strumento ... Read more

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  • Cyborgs in Latin America

    by J. Brown ...
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. ... Read more

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  • Risky Futures

    Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

    Series Book 6 - Studies in the Circumpolar North
    The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors ... Read more

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