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Tools for Policy Learning and Policy Transfer
Author: Paolo Federighi
Publisher: wbv Media GmbH & Company KG
Published: 2007-09-28
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 3763945490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Die fünf englischsprachigen Beiträge dokumentieren das empirische Material, die methodische Durchführung und die Präsentation des Support-Systems zur Unterstützung und Beschleunigung des Lern- und Innovationstransfers zwischen den europäischen Regionen, die von der EU im Rahmen von Prevalet geförderte wurde. Das in diesem Kontext entwickelte, web-basierte Support-Netzwerk Soft Open Method of Coordination (SMOC) soll die Kooperation zwischen regionalen Regierungen in Weiterbildungsfragen vereinfachen und steht allen an Weiterbildung interessierten Institutionen als Plattform für Information und Austausch zur Verfügung. Die für diese Zusammenarbeit entwickelten Konzepte stellt der Band "Learning among Regional Governments" (978-3-7639-3577-2) vor.
Africa
A Short Border Handbook
Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: Portobello Books
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1846275725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
The Way of Man
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780806500249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The End of Ancient Christianity
Author: R. A. Markus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521339490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.
Facing the Planetary
Author: William E. Connolly
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0822373254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution—he combines a critical understanding of capitalism with an appreciation of how such nonhuman systems periodically change on their own. Drawing upon scientists and intellectuals such as Lynn Margulis, Michael Benton, Alfred North Whitehead, Anna Tsing, Mahatma Gandhi, Wangari Maathai, Pope Francis, Bruno Latour, and Naomi Klein, Connolly focuses on the gap between those regions creating the most climate change and those suffering most from it. He addresses the creative potential of a "politics of swarming" by which people in different regions and social positions coalesce to reshape dominant priorities. He also explores how those displaying spiritual affinities across differences in creed can energize a militant assemblage that is already underway.
Origins and Evolution of the US Rebalance toward Asia
Author: H. Mejier
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1137440376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a multifaceted analysis of the so-called US 'rebalance' (or 'pivot') toward Asia by focusing on the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions of the American policy shift in the Asia Pacific region.
Resurrection of the Dead
Author: Athenagoras
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-12-06
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781519712561
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Athenagoras (circa 133 - 190) was a Father of the Church, a Proto-orthodox Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. In his writings he styles himself as "Athenagoras, the Athenian, Philosopher, and Christian". There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his conversion, but this is not certain. His writings bear witness to his erudition and culture, his power as a philosopher and rhetorician, his keen appreciation of the intellectual temper of his age, and his tact and delicacy in dealing with the powerful opponents of his religion. Thus his writings are credited by some later scholars as having had a more significant impact on their intended audience than the now better-known writings of his more polemical and religiously-grounded contemporaries. The treatise on the Resurrection of the Dead, the first complete exposition of the doctrine in Christian literature, was written later than the Apology, to which it may be considered as an appendix.
Oiling the Urban Economy
Author: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1317682769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists.
