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Discover the skills required in the 21st century workplace and learn how to train and hire for these skills so you can succeed as technology, nature, and society evolves. This groundbreaking book reveals the trends that will dramatically change colleges and workplaces across the world in the coming decade.

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This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecologically sensitive, glacier-rich areas of Argentina.

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This book explores the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards peacetime and public health work.

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Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.

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This edited volume provides extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states, and the deep ocean. The volume features interdisciplinary contributions on topics relating to the science, environment, technology, politics, and law and governance of underwater mining.

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This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.

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Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings.

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Through the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, this book approaches their daily struggles by analyzing the theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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Trading Women's Rights in Transitions is about how women's rights are traded away by diplomatic actors directly in exchange for immediate political or other settlements, and indirectly in terms of being left off the international agenda with long-term consequences.

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This book investigates how pre-nationalist ties between Mediterranean cultures have been inherited, repurposed and rejected by nationalist movements from 1815 until the present day. The book uses five case studies of regional nation-states to explore this theme of 'transnational nationalism': Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Libya.

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This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualisesUkraine's 2014 EU-IMF aid deal and provides up to date empirical information and analysis through the lens of a socially connected global elite network. It contributes to theunderstanding of how power operates in international politics.

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Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. Framing the discussion with narratives that immerse the reader in spaces overshadowed by conflict, Undisciplined posits an unorthodox form of architectural production engaged with the contingent elaboration of new and increasingly necessary spatial narratives.

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This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competing and irreconcilable cultures of rural darkness.

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War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (18951977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. It reveals him as a creative figure in his own right who produced an intriguing body of artistic and literary work.

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The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (17441817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.

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This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.

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This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent's contributions to fashion, art and culture.