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“…With a focus on the role of academic books in shaping intellectual discourse, presents valuable insights into the transformation of scholarly communication across different eras. Combines bibliographic research and visual materials, including photographs, to provide a comprehensive overview of the significance of academic books throughout history…”

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“…Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. …”

“…Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time. …”

“…The papers analyze elite groups across social, religious, geographical, and professional boundaries. …”

“…This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)”. The book contains 14 chapters and constitutes a show-case of the main outcome of the Action in line with its scientific goals. …”

“…The twenty-four contributions in this book have broadly addressed topics across four major research areas: (1) Climate and land-use change impacts on hydrological processes, (2) hydrological trends and causality analysis faced in hydrology, (3) hydrological model simulations and predictions, and (4) reviews on water prices and climate extremes. …”

“…The challenges require integrated research that identifies systemic drivers across global arid regions. Measurement and monitoring, field investigation, remote sensing, and data analysis are effective tools to investigate natural dynamics. …”

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“…She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. …”

“…Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book addresses how the Indonesian economy should respond and how Indonesia should shape its trade and industrial policies in this new world trade environment. …”

“…The Indonesian military, with its tradition of secular nationalism, is one of the few institutions that cut across the divides of Indonesian society. As it continues to play a critical part in determining Indonesia?…”

“…Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

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“…With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decentralization in Jordan: Context and background -- Introduction -- Open Government as a key lever supporting decentralization in Jordan -- The Political Landscape in Jordan -- Contextualizing Decentralization - Key Economic, Social and Political factors shaping the Jordanian approach -- Addressing stagnant economic growth, high-income disparities and unemployment across Jordan -- Combatting growing perceptions of corruption -- Engaging a young and unevenly distributed population in Jordan -- Addressing population shifts: Refugees and emigration -- The Decentralization Reform in Jordan -- The 2015 Decentralization Laws -- The rollout of the Decentralization Reform in Jordan (2017 - 2020) -- Methodology of this report -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 2. …”