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  • Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Translation Studies

    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    With the rapid growth of corpus-based translations studies (CBTS) over recent years, this book offers a timely overview of the field today. It features cutting-edge studies from leading experts in the area, focused on both professional and student translations, and covers the latest theoretical developments such as the constrained communication framework, with a strong focus on methodology, ... Read more

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  • Remembering Nyerere in Tanzania

    History, Memory, Legacy

    Edited by Marie-Aude Fouéré ...
    Series series Africae Studies
    This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into what Nyerere means and stands for today, it provides insight into the media, the political arena, poetry, the education sector, or ... Read more

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  • Kenya’s Past as Prologue

    Voters, Violence and the 2013 General Election

    Series series Africae Studies
    During the run-up to Kenya’s 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised. Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and voting? How would politicians, electoral bodies such as the IEBC, the Kenyan civil society, and the ... Read more

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  • Welcome to Mitchell’s Plain

    Under the apartheid regime, South Africa’s Mitchell’s Plain, situated close to Cape Town, was devised as a “model township.” A cutting-edge urban planning scheme would provide middle-class Coloured people—evacuated from their homes by racialised rehousing programmes—with exemplary living conditions. This flagship for the regime was inaugurated with fanfare in 1976, and heavily publicised not just ... Read more

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  • Postphenomenological Investigations

    Essays on Human–Technology Relations

    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to ... Read more

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  • Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

    From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel

    The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are ... Read more

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  • Uncharted Waters

    The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces - burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how ... Read more

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  • Uncharted Waters

    The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces - burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas across the globe. And with climate change, rainfall will become more fickle, with longer and deeper periods of droughts and deluges. This report presents new evidence to advance understanding on how ... Read more

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  • Instant Insights: Carbon monitoring and management in forests

    Series Book 105 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on carbon monitoring and management in forests.The first chapter summarises the effects of different forest management practices on soil organic carbon storage and discusses whether and how they can be optimised under climate change.The second chapter considers the potential of agroforestry systems to respond to multiple challenges related to soil ... Read more

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  • Instant Insights: Ecosystem services delivered by forests

    Series Book 78 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This collection features five peer-reviewed reviews on ecosystem services delivered by forests.The first chapter summarises the current state of knowledge on the interactions between forest ecosystems and the climate system and the way in which forests influence the water cycle.The second chapter reviews the wealth of research on the range of species, functional groups and ecological processes ... Read more

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