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Crude World
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the …
Teaching By Numbers
Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "e;standards"e; and "e;accountability"e; has …
Human By Nature
Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the …
Reconfiguring Knowledge in Higher Education
Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher …
Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects …
Silicon Valley, Planet Startup
For decades now, Silicon Valley has been the home of the future. It's the birthplace of the world's most successful high-tech companies-including Apple, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, …
German Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics
This book should illustrate the impact of collaborations between mathematics and industry. It is both an initiative of and coordinated by the German Committee for Mathematical …
Quality Work in Higher Education
This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education. …
University Dynamics and European Integration
This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration processes. It presents a framework for analyzing …
Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects …
Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans
Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans
Higher education in the Western Balkans is currently undergoing substantial changes as a result of European reform ideas, new domestic policy initiatives as well as universities …