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The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1064

The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies

This handbook is the first collection of comprehensive teaching materials for teachers and students of Central Asian Studies (CAS) with a strong pedagogic dimension. It presents 22 chapters, clustered around five themes, with contributions from more than 19 scholars, all leading experts in the field of CAS and Eurasian Studies. This collection is not only a reference work for scholars branching out to different disciplines of CAS but also for scholars from other disciplines broadening their scope to CAS. It addresses post-colonial frameworks and also untangles topics from their ‘Soviet’ reference frame. It aims to de-exoticize the region and draws parallels to European or to historically...

Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies

This handbook explores the significance of the Indo-Pacific in world politics. It shows how the re-emergence of the Indo-Pacific in international relations has fundamentally changed the approach to politics, economics and security. The volume: explores the themes related to trade, politics and security for better understanding of the Indo-Pacific and the repercussions of the region's emergence studies different security and political issues in the region: military competition, maritime governance, strategic alliances and rivalries, and international conflicts analyses various socio-economic dimensions of the Indo-Pacific, such as political systems, cultural and religious contexts, and trade and financial systems examines the strategies of various states, such as the United States, Japan, India and China, and their approaches towards the Indo-Pacific covers the role of middle powers and small states in detail Interdisciplinary in approach and with essays from authors from around the world, this volume will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students in the fields of international relations, politics and Asian studies.

Public Address
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Public Address

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-28
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

We are in the presence of a magnificent woman, Rita, we share some thoughts we hold dear together, we see that some just cannot hold that down.. and reject .. and connect (ag.)

Party Autonomy in International Property Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Party Autonomy in International Property Law

  • Categories: Law

Party autonomy is a subject that is traditionally rejected in the field of property law. Legal systems throughout Europe and most parts of the world still found their property law on the lex situs. This point of view, however, is challenged more and more. The immense intensification of worldwide trade may have turned boundaries between countries into barriers in a world that needs flexibility. This book deals with important questions concerning this problem, including: What happens to property rights related to movables and claims when borders are crossed? Do we recognize a German retention of title or an American security right? Which law will apply: the law of the country of origin, the lex situs or the law of the country of destination? How does legislation concerning financial instruments relate to the problem, and what is it all worth in insolvency situations?

G.A.M.E. Games Autonomy Motivation & Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

G.A.M.E. Games Autonomy Motivation & Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-03
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

This thesis reviews and utilizes concepts from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology and game design to bring forth a number of design principles for educational games that may improve students' motivation to learn. Its main contribution is a novel approach to serious game design, namely envisioning play and learning as a restructuring practice. This change of perspective, from a formal game design approach (focused on rules and regulations) towards a more activity-centered approach (focused on process and style), may help designers to leverage the motivational potential of games, in order to make education more engaging to students.

1000 dingen doen in Nederland
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 322

1000 dingen doen in Nederland

Survivallen boven de koeien, overnachten in een vogelhuisje of de code kraken van een onderwater escaperoom. 1000 dingen doen in Nederland wijst je de weg naar de meest unieke uitjes. Met '1000 dingen doen in Nederland' ontdek je ons land op z’n leukst! Dit heerlijke inspiratieboek van Jeroen van der Spek staat barstensvol originele uitjes in eigen land – van museumbezoek tot avontuurlijke activiteiten en van funshoppen tot coole uitstapjes met kids. Overzichtelijk gerangschikt per provincie en afgewisseld met top 10-lijstjes van filmlocaties, natuurgebieden en de mooiste terrassen... Een must-have voor iedereen die er graag op uitgaat.

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods with the aim to investigate the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern.

The New Goliaths
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The New Goliaths

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge “Bessen is a master of unpacking the nuances of a complex array of interrelated trends to build a coherent story of how the promise of the democratized Internet ended up under the control of just a few. Read The New Goliaths to see how the forest came to have only room for a few tall trees with the rest of us in the undergrowth.”—Joshua Gans, coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence Historically, competition has powered progress under capitalism. Companies with productive new products rise to...

Research Handbook on Authoritarianism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Research Handbook on Authoritarianism

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on authoritarian regimes. Combining quantitative research and in-depth case studies, it not only provides novel insight into past and current dictatorships, but also forecasts potential new developments in authoritarian politics.

Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions. Based on multiple case studies from Sub Saharan Africa, the author maps and predicts regime transitions, presenting examples of how states can avoid such vicious circles of conflict and tyranny. By integrating decades of specialist literature from various subfields of political science, the book models personalist behavior, its impact on the states they govern, and their future transitions. By systematizing regime behavior (coup-proofing, gatekeeping, repression and hoarding), the model identifies the mechanics on how pe...