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Digital Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Global South

by Richard Duncombe, Stefano Bocchi, Fritz Brugger, Amanda Caine, Amit Chakravarty, Chris Clarke, Graham Clarkson, Andrew Dearden, Peter Dorward, Gordon Gow0, Charlotte Jordan1, Linus Kendall2, Stan Karanasios3, Sumanth Kumar4, Luis Emilio Lastra-Gil5, Alberto Lubatti6, Mukund Patil7, Andrea Porro8, Simone Sala9, Worlali Senyo0, Mira Slavova1, Luka Wanjohi2 ...

This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around ... Read more

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This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around
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Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics

Cases and Experiences

by Fernando Ferri, Ned Dwyer, Saša Raicevich, Patrizia Grifoni, Husne Altiok, Hans Thor Andersen, Yiannis Laouris, Cecilia Silvestri, Paola De Castro, Cristina Agresti, Elena Ambrosini, Maria Cristina Barbaro, Roberta De Simone, Eugenio Sorrentino, Sandra Salinetti, Adriana Valente, Valentina Tudisca, Pietro Demurtas, Petru Sandu, Catalin Ovidiu Baba, Ermelinda Durmishi, Andrea Vargiu, Susana Bautista, Jelena Mazaj, Marlon Cárdenas, Claudia Pennacchiotti, Zacharoula Smyrnaiou, Konstantina Kotsari, Irene Monsonís-Payá, Jordi Garcés, Barbara Branchini, Fabrizio L. Ricci, Céline LIRET, Amira Buz Khallouf, Jef Ausloos, Rob Heyman, Natalie Bertels, Jo Pierson, Peggy Valcke, Valentina Possenti, Barbara De Mei, Paola Scardetta, Anna Kurchatova, Manfred Green, Kåre Harald Drager, John Haukeland, Eva Benelli, Alberto d’ Onofrio, Agoritsa Baka, Mitra Saadatian, Vanessa Maria Moore, Kjersti Brattekas, Ariel Beresniak, Mircea Ioan Popa, Donato Greco, Alberto Perra, Lorenza Perini, Silvana Badaloni, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Thomas B. Long, Vincent Blok, Steven Dorrestijn, Francesco Niglia, Angelo Corallo ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good practices for Responsible Research and Innovation and how to promote them among citizens, industry ... Read more

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This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good practices for Responsible Research and Innovation and how to promote them among citizens, industry
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Foundations of EU Food Law and Policy

Ten Years of the European Food Safety Authority

by Alberto Alemanno, Simone Gabbi ...

This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies. Its broader purpose, however, is to discuss the future role played by EFSA within the rapidly-evolving area of EU food law and policy. By revisiting and discussing the milestones ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies. Its broader purpose, however, is to discuss the future role played by EFSA within the rapidly-evolving area of EU food law and policy. By revisiting and discussing the milestones
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Three Loves for Three Oranges

Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev

by Caryl Emerson, Alberto Beniscelli, Giulietta Bazoli, Domenico Pietropaolo, Ted Emery, Natalya Baldyga, Raissa Raskina, Vadim Shcherbakov, Laurence Senelick, Julia Galanina, Inna Naroditskaya, Natalia Savkina, Simon A. Morrison, John E. Bowlt ...

Series series East European Music Studies
In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges**—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte*****–***infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we ... Read more

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In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges**—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte*****–***infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we
... Read more
The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative

Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road

by Ratchada Arpornsilp, Orlando Woods, Caixia Mao, Patrick Bond, Simone Veglio, Evelina Gambino, Xiaofeng Liu, Hannes Langguth, Ksenija Hanacek, Bowen Gu, Alberto Valz Gris, Kanchana Ruwanpura, Loritta Chan, Barnabas Mah, Francesca Governa, Leonardo Ramondetti, Astrid Safina, Angelo Sampieri ...

EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this ... Read more

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EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this
... Read more

Apollo's Angels

A History of Ballet

by Jennifer Homans ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFor more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history
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Theories and Practices of Development

by Katie Willis ...

Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Read more

$54.99 USD

The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social,
... Read more
Opera 101

A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

by Fred Plotkin ...

A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house.If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.Opera 101 is recognized as the ... Read more

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A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house.If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.Opera 101 is recognized as the
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Asian Geopolitics and the US–China Rivalry

Edited by Felix Heiduk ...

Series series Routledge Studies on Think Asia
This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific.The book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s BRI and presents a new perspective by examining how great power politics ... Read more

$54.99 USD

This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific.The book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s BRI and presents a new perspective by examining how great power politics
... Read more
Kandinsky

by Mikhaïl Guerman ...

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works ... Read more

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works
... Read more
Introduction to Human Geography, An

by Peter Daniels, Michael Bradshaw, Denis Shaw, James Sidaway, Tim Hall ...

The full text downloaded to your computerWith eBooks you can:search for key concepts, words and phrasesmake highlights and notes as you studyshare your notes with friendseBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps.Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to t... ... Read more

$39.59 USD

The full text downloaded to your computerWith eBooks you can:search for key concepts, words and phrasesmake highlights and notes as you studyshare your notes with friendseBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps.Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to t...
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Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

From the Margins to the Centre

by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui ...

Series series Africa Now
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... Read more

$30.99 USD

In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic
... Read more

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