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Oxford A-Z of English Usage - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford A-Z of English Usage - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Readers and writers of all levels will find the Oxford A-Z of English Usage essential. Based on Oxford''s world-leading dictionary research programmes and contemporary language monitoring, and giving examples of real usage, this book provides the essential information about usage and correct English that is needed in practical, everyday situations. Arranged in A-Z sequence, it contains over 680 entries on issues of spelling, grammar, meaning and PC language that confuse people (e.g. licence / license; learning difficulties / mental handicap; fewer / less). In addition, there are more than 20 special feature articles on specific topics such as hyphenation or the use of Latin plurals, as well as commonly confused terms like Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, England.With a fresh page design, the Oxford A-Z of English Usage gives the reader immediate and easy access to answers, by means of clear and coherent explanations and illustrations. It will prove the first port of call for any reader seeking clear, authoritative help with usage questions.

DKK 116.00
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What Do Dreams Do? - Sue (professor In Humanities Llewellyn - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

What Do Dreams Do? - Sue (professor In Humanities Llewellyn - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

We have puzzled over dreams for centuries. From ancient societies, believing dreams to be messages from the gods, Freud''s theory of dreams revealing our unconscious minds to modern day experiments in psychology and neuroscience, dreams continue to fascinate but also be a source of mystery. Are dreams just mental froth or do they have a purpose? This book argues that, originally, we dreamed to survive. Dreaming brains identify non-obvious associations, taking people, places, and events out of their waking-life context to uncover complex and, seemingly, unrelated connections. In our evolutionary past, survival depended on being able to detect these divergent, associative patterns to anticipate what predators and other humans might do, as we moved around to secure food and water and meet potential mates. Making associations drives many, if not all, brain functions. In the present day, dream associations may support memory, emotional stability, creativity, unconscious decision-making and prediction, while also contributing to mental illness. Written in a lively and accessible style, and showing the reader how to identify patterns in their own dreams, this book presents a highly original theory of dreaming and will be a compelling read for anyone interested in psychology, consciousness, and the arts, as well as those involved in dream research.

DKK 465.00
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Project X Origins: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 14: Behind the Scenes: How Do They Do That? - Charlotte Coleman Smith - Bog - Oxford University Press

Project X Origins: Grey Book Band, Oxford Level 14: Behind the Scenes: How Do They Do That? - Charlotte Coleman Smith - Bog - Oxford University Press

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Discover how sea rescues are conducted, who makes up a football team and how chocolate is made and much more in How Do They Do That?.Each book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading.

DKK 107.00
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Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Good spelling is fundamental to making the right impression with any type of writing; reports, homework, CVs, and letters all require correct spelling in order to get the message across in clear and straightforward English. Adaptable or adaptible? Definite or definate? Delirious or delireous? What is the difference between assent and ascent, dual and duel, or forbear and forebear? How do you make the plural of halo? Is it halos or haloes? Actually it''s both, but not so for potato, the plural of which is potatoes. Knowing the difference between easily confusable words, making plurals, and adding endings are just some of the aspects of spelling that confront us with endless pitfalls. This easy-to-use A-Z guide does what no spellchecker can do: it gives immediate access not only to individual word spellings but also to general rules that will help you develop good spelling. The book covers the topics in simple and helpful terms and also offers advice on how to use apostrophes and hyphens, and the differences between British and American spelling. The core of the book is a list of over 2,000 words laid out for quick and easy reference. Based on evidence of misspelling gathered from real situations, this guide is the most useful and comprehensive help on spelling available. This edition makes the benefits of the material explicit to the general reader: clear organization of the supplementary features, simple and transparent design, and clearly written rules.One of a mini-series of titles on spelling, grammar and punctuation, and usage.

DKK 116.00
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Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. His question is ''How are we to know what to do?'', and the answer he defends is ''By developing our moral imaginations''. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of roles in our practical and evaluative lives. There is no short-cut or formulaic way of knowing what to do; but the longer and more painstaking approach is more rewarding anyway. This approach involves developing our repertoire of natural human capacities for imagination, open deliberation, and contemplative attention to the world, the people, and the reality of value around us.

DKK 863.00
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Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is ''How are we to know what to do?'', and the answer she defends is ''By developing our moral imaginations''. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of roles in our practical and evaluative lives. There is no short-cut or formulaic way of knowing what to do; but the longer and more painstaking approach is more rewarding anyway. This approach involves developing our repertoire of natural human capacities for imagination, open deliberation, and contemplative attention to the world, the people, and the reality of value around us.

DKK 391.00
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An Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Formal System Specification, and Z - D. C. Ince - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

An Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Formal System Specification, and Z - D. C. Ince - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Formal specification is the name given to the use of discrete mathematics in computer science for describing the function of both hardware and software systems. Poor specification often gives rise to severe problems in software and hardware installation. This textbook is an introduction to both the theory and practice of formal specification, and this new edition includes two new chapters on Z, one giving a number of small examples in Z, the other covering design and Z. Prerequisites in this edition have been kept to a minimum since Professor Ince is at pains to develop the techniques of requirement analysis and discrete mathematics that are needed. Throughout the book are numerous worked examples and exercises which include many real examples of software and computer systems.

DKK 572.00
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A-Z of Plastic Surgery - Andrew Hodges - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A-Z of Plastic Surgery - Andrew Hodges - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The A-Z of Plastic Surgery is a quick reference guide to the ever expanding specialty of plastic surgery. The succinct bullet pointed entries will enable the reader to rapidly assimilate the essentials of each topic, cross referencing links enable them to research related entries. It will be particularly relevant to trainees in plastic surgery as a working reference book and as an invaluable resource during preparation for final exams.

DKK 946.00
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Memory from A to Z - Yadin Dudai - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Memory from A to Z - Yadin Dudai - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is an innovative, readable and engaging companion to the language of memory research. It consists of over 130t entries, bound within a coherent conceptual framework. Each entry starts with a definition, or a set of definitions,er followed by in-depth and provocative discussion of the origin, meaning, usage and applicability of ideas andand problems central to the neuroscience of memory ando scientific culture at large. The entries, linked by webs of associations, can be read and enjoyed, and provide ave versatile tool kit: a source for definitions, information and further reading; a trigger for contemplation, discussion and experimentation; and an aid to study, teaching andween debate in classes and seminars. The text is supported by an extensive reference listing and there is a comprehensivee subject index, incorporating a much wider range of terms relevant to the field. Memory from A to Z provides a unique, highly valuable introduction to the field of memory for students andthe researchers approaching the subject for the first time,g the while at the same time serving and stimulating the moreing experienced.g the morey, experienced. Yadin Dudai combines the ability to write withdai authority, with the skill of being able to do so in a unique readable style; the result is a book capable of informing,e; educating, and enthusing the reader.

DKK 728.00
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A-Z of Plastic Surgery - Andrew Hodges - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A-Z of Plastic Surgery - Andrew Hodges - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The A-Z of Plastic Surgery is a comprehensive and easily digestible manual to plastic surgery. Written in an encyclopaedic format, the concise style aims to provide a rapid and structured summary of each topic and allows for each to be grasped quickly and succinctly in either a clinical or exam revision setting. The new edition has been fully revised and updated by a team of experienced plastic surgeons and successful FRCS (Plast) candidates, to provide a quick reference guide to learning topics and concepts in the field of plastic surgery.Particularly relevant to plastic surgery trainees, it will also be of value to the specialist as a reference text and to health professionals in allied specialties.

DKK 423.00
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Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation - John Seely - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation - John Seely - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation offers accessible and coherent explanations across a broad range of topics, and is an excellent first port of call for any reader seeking clear, authoritative help with grammar and punctuation. Incorporating hundreds of examples of real usage taken from the Oxford English Corpus, this handy volume contains more than 300 alphabetically-arranged entries, including standard grammatical terms such as active voice, conjunction, pronoun, synonym, and transitive verb. It also discusses related questions of usage, including how to distinguish between ''may or might'', ''that or which'', and ''it''s or its''. Over 30 feature entries on major headwords like adverb, clause, and spelling include diagrams listing related terms.The A-Z has been fully revised and updated, and the structure and approach has been revisited to improve its accessibility, including clearer typographical conventions, and the reintroduction of the easy-to-use two-colour format found in early editions. Major headwords have been made (where possible) shorter and easier to navigate, and all sample sentences have been revised, replacing those that are out of date and adding new ones where needed. Readers of all levels will find this volume to be an essential tool for writing at home, in the office, at school, and at college.

DKK 116.00
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Objects - Daniel Z. Korman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Objects - Daniel Z. Korman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

One of the central questions of material-object metaphysics is which highly visible objects there are right before our eyes. Daniel Z. Korman defends a conservative view, according to which our ordinary, natural judgments about which objects there are are more or less correct. He begins with an overview of the arguments that have led people away from the conservative view, into revisionary views according to which there are far more objects than we ordinarily take there to be (permissivism) or far fewer (eliminativism). Korman criticizes a variety of compatibilist strategies, according to which these revisionary views are actually compatible with our ordinary beliefs, and responds to debunking arguments, according to which these beliefs are the products of arbitrary biological and cultural influences. He goes on to respond to objections that the conservative''s verdicts about which objects that are and aren''t are objectionably arbitrary, and to the argument from vagueness, which purports to show that the sort of restriction that conservatives want to impose on which composites there are is bound to give rise to vagueness about what exists, something that is ruled out by widely accepted theories of vagueness. Finally, Korman responds to the overdetermination argument, the argument from material constitution, and the problem of the many, all of which are meant to motivate eliminativism by showing that accepting ordinary objects commits one to one or another absurdity.

DKK 340.00
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Pug-a-Doodle-Do! - Sarah Mcintyre - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Pug-a-Doodle-Do! - Sarah Mcintyre - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A fantastically fun doodle and activity book, full of drawing and writing adventures inspired by the wacky world of Reeve and McIntyre.In this book you will learn how to draw characters such as a pug, a sea monkey, and Pilbeam the robot; take part in a comics jam; design your own pugs with combat skills; take on many amazing doodle challenges;read the secret diaries of Colin the Crab; see what happens when a supervillain has to do the washing up; and much, much more!Ideal for fans of Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre''s fantastic fiction titles Oliver and the Seawigs, Cakes in Space, Pugs of the Frozen North, andJinks and O''Hare Funfair Repair, and for anyone who wants inspiration for hours of creative fun!

DKK 117.00
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Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis - John Z. Sadler - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis - John Z. Sadler - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The public, mental health consumers, as well as mental health practitioners wonder about what kinds of values mental health professionals hold, and what kinds of values influence psychiatric diagnosis. Are mental disorders socio-political, practical, or scientific concepts? Is psychiatric diagnosis value-neutral? What role does the fundamental philosophical question "How should I live?" play in mental health care? In his carefully nuanced and exhaustively referenced monograph, psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry John Z. Sadler describes the manifold kinds of values and value judgements involved in psychiatric diagnosis and classification systems like the DSM. Professor Sadler takes the reader on a fascinating conceptual tour of the inner workings of psychiatric diagnosis, considering the role of science, culture, sexuality, politics, gender, technology, human nature, patienthood, and professions in building his vision of a more humane psychiatric diagnostic process.

DKK 842.00
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What Should I Do? - Elisa Mai - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

What Should I Do? - Elisa Mai - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one''s tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality relative?Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult, while others are relatively trivial and easily worked out; still others lodge themselves in our heads and bother us for years. We regularly encounter controversial issues (such as prostitution, abortion, or racial profiling), tricky conundrums (Would I be wrong to take advantage of my teacher''s forgetfulness? When should I allow my teenage daughter to have a boyfriend? Are we responsible for our emotions?), and classic problems (What is the relation between religion and morality? Is suicide wrong? Why should we be moral?)Philosophers have engaged with these questions for as long as there have been philosophers, but most people have had no exposure to the wide variety of arguments and positions that they have offered. The website AskPhilosophers.org has sought to fill this void, bringing together a panel of distinguished philosophers who use their knowledge of the history of philosophy, as well as their own skills and ingenuity, to respond to questions sent in from all over the world. What Should I Do? is a collection of some of the most interesting questions about ethics to have appeared on the website during its first five years. It is a delightfully fresh book that will encourage readers to think a bit more deeply about the moral questions they frequently encounter, and will provide them with the tools to do so.

DKK 156.00
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Your A to Z of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Made Simple - Barbara (buckinghamshire New University) Kingsley - Bog - Oxford University

Your A to Z of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Made Simple - Barbara (buckinghamshire New University) Kingsley - Bog - Oxford University

A friendly and accessible, one-of-a-kind guide to psychological research methods, Your A to Z of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology covers over 500 key terms and explores the concepts you need to navigate quantitative and qualitative methods in psychology with ease. From a priori comparisons to z scores, it forms the perfect companion to your core research methods and statistics textbook, and is an indispensable revision guide.Terms are clearly and engagingly defined, and the authors use a selection of helpful student tips, research examples, and eye-catching figures to enrich the text. You can also refer to a comprehensive decision chart to choose the most appropriate statistical test for your analysis, and consult a range of essential tables at the back of the text.

DKK 283.00
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How to Do Public Policy - Kai Wegrich - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Public Policy - Kai Wegrich - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured by two spheres of action - the ''engine room'' of specialists and experts in government agencies, NGOs, research organizations etc., on the one hand, and the political ''superstructure'' of politicians, key public stakeholders and the public, on the other hand. Understanding the different logics of the engine room and the superstructure is key for successful policy-making. The dual structure of policy-making provides a perspective on policy-analysis (interactive policy analysis) and policy-making (actor-centred policy-making) that moves from the focus on individual and specific measures, towards understanding and shaping the relation and interaction between policy interventions, the institutional context and the stakeholders involved or affected. Part I of the book presents the basic analytical concepts needed to understand the policy process and the structures and dynamics involved in it, as well as to understand how and why actors behave the way they do-and how to engage with different types of actors. Part II moves further into the nuts and bolts of policy-making, including policy design, implementation, and evaluation. Part III introduces and explores three key aspects of the capacity to make good policies: engagement with stakeholders, the process of policy coordination in a context of interdependence, and the role of institutions.

DKK 801.00
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Biotechnology from A to Z - William Bains - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Biotechnology from A to Z - William Bains - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a clear, practical and illuminating guide to the ideas and terminology of Biotechnology. Biotechnology is one of the fastest growing, most exciting, and most controversial areas of science and technology in the 21st Century, an industry worth billions and a political topic that has shaken governments. It has already produced scientific achievements, from cloning to sequencing the genome, which would have seemed miraculous 20 years ago, and an industry with thousands of companies spanning the world. But this is based on a set of scientific disciplines with their own jargon, ideas and limitations. This book describes those ideas and terms, and what they really mean for science, industry and society. In 300 entries from ADEPT through cloning, genomes, patents, and viruses to zoonosis, A to Z provides over 300 concise entries describing what the science is, what it does, and the reality of how it has been used, and could be applied. It can be read cover to cover, or dipped into for a quick understanding of a topic.

DKK 870.00
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How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation - Tom (lecturer In Research Methods Clark - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation - Tom (lecturer In Research Methods Clark - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real social science undergraduates from a range of institutions, the book includes their advice to help you through with what can be a daunting, but rewarding stage of your degree. From the look and feel of the book, to the development of the chapter content and the advice it provides, students have been involved at every stage of the book''s development to ensure it is focused on what''s important to you.Expert advice from real supervisors across the subject disciplines in the ''Working with your supervisor'' feature also helps you to make the most of research supervision, and learn from the experience of real researchers in your chosen field. By providing anecdotes, words of wisdom, scenarios, or simply reminders, hints, and tips on how best to prepare for meetings, and communicate effectively, How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation is the most complete guide to facilitate the student-supervisor working relationship.Dedicated chapters cover all the typical stages of a research project or dissertation in the social sciences, while their carefully constructed structure allows you to quickly and efficiently navigate the content. Throughout the book, you''ll focus on three key questions: ''What do I need to know?'', ''What do I need to think about?'' and ''What do I need to do?''. In so doing, each chapter gives you a clear and direct checklist of actions as you progress through your dissertation or research project, keeping you organized, motivated, and confident.The book''s online resources include a wealth of free-to-access materials, including:Author videos - Additional advice around key challenges for each chapter, including developing a research idea, managing your time, and writing up your dissertation.Supervision guidance Advice and tips on how to approach your supervision meetings, including tasks to help you plan for meetings and to build a productive relationship with your supervisor. Doing academic presentations Support with planning and delivering presentations, including tips on what a dissertation presentation might include, as well as author videos showing examples of a good and bad presentations._ Dissertation templates Templates for dissertations, showing how dissertations might look different depending on which theoretical and methodological approaches you use. This includes notes on chapter content and tips on dissertation structure. Research plan templates Templates for you to use for planning your project, including helping you to get started and complete the dissertation, and to manage your time using key milestones and recommended timescales and targets.Guidance on developing and designing your research question - A set of questions divided into categories and designed to help you formulate ideas, develop your thinking, set your research questions, help you later on in the process to consolidate your argument and consider the contribution of your work. Delve Even Deeper Even more Delve Deeper recommendations and research suggestions, including a list of freely available data sets, links and resources to help you understand SPSS and NVivo processes and tools, analysis tools and help for specific research methods, and guidance on using vlogs, blogs, and other public resources, as well as using social media for your research. Bad, better, and best examples of literature reviews, questionnaires, interview questions, and observation plans Examples of each of these key elements of your project deliberately designed to demonstrate how you can improve your work, and highlighted with annotations to help you gain a deeper understanding of how best to approach these stages of your project.Examples of research proposals Examples of research proposals for different social sciences to give you that extra support and an idea of what to expect. Here you will find tips on how to build a proposal and consider how this is useful for planning the dissertation. What do I need to think about? and What do I need to do? checklists digital versions of the end-of-chapter checklists for you to download and use.

DKK 375.00
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Readerful Rise: Oxford Reading Level 8: Do Astronauts Wear Pants? - Rob Alcraft - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Readerful Rise: Oxford Reading Level 8: Do Astronauts Wear Pants? - Rob Alcraft - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Get ready to travel into space. Blast off and find out what it''s like to be an astronaut! Do Astronauts Wear Pants? is at Oxford Reading Level 8. It is for readers aged 7 to 11 years old who are working below expected standard in their reading. The Readerful Rise series ensures that older struggling readers have high-low books with age-appropriate content and topics, that look like the books their peers are enjoying, but are written at a level they can read successfully.

DKK 154.00
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Imagining Malaya - Bernard Z. Keo - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Imagining Malaya - Bernard Z. Keo - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The end of Britain''s empire in Southeast Asia in the wake of World War II generated new opportunities for colonial subjects across the region to reimagine themselves as citizens of a dizzying array of potential new nations. While post-war optimism and a global push for decolonisation created an environment where myriad communities felt a palpable sense of possibility for bringing their aspirations of nationhood to life, many of these desires were unfulfilled. Imagining Malaya is an exploration of one of those many imagined nations that never came to be. It narrates a series of seemingly disparate and contradictory political acts by the Peranakan Chinese -- a creolised community borne of intermarriage between the earliest Chinese migrants to the region and indigenous Malays -- in the post-World War II period to demonstrate that the community were, in fact, seeking to bring to life a cosmopolitan, inclusive, and multi-ethnic imagination of the Malay(si)an nation. Engaging in a critical re-examination of the intertwined processes of decolonization and nation-making, Imagining Malaya provides an alternative reading of Malay(si)a''s path to merdeka (independence) from the perspective of the Peranakan. It narrates how a once powerful community at the centre of Malay(si)an politics and society came undone by their attempts to present an alternative imagination of the nation which challenged the ethnocentrism that came to dominate the country''s political life. Rewriting the Peranakan into the centre of Malaysia''s national story rather than its periphery is a parable on the complexities and pitfalls of attempting to forge a representative nation-state from a multi-ethnic society during the transition between colony and nation. By bringing the Peranakan imaginary of the nation to life, Bernard Z. Keo makes a case for how studying nations that were unrealized can reveal just as much as investigating those that were.

DKK 943.00
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Objects - Daniel Z. (university Of Illinois At Urbana Champaign) Korman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Objects - Daniel Z. (university Of Illinois At Urbana Champaign) Korman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

What sorts of material objects are there? Many philosophers opt for surprising answers to this question that seem deeply at odds with how we ordinarily think about the material world. Some embrace radically eliminative views, on which there are far fewer objects than we ordinarily take there to be, while others go in for radically permissive views on which there are legions of extraordinary objects that somehow escape our notice, despite being highly visible and right before our eyes. In this book, Daniel Z. Korman defends our ordinary, intuitive judgments about which objects there are. The book responds to a wide variety of arguments that have driven people away from the intuitive view: arbitrariness arguments, debunking arguments, overdetermination arguments, arguments from vagueness and material constitution, and the problem of the many. It also criticizes attempts to show that permissive and eliminative views are, despite appearances, entirely compatible with our ordinary beliefs and intuitions.

DKK 808.00
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How to Do Public Policy - Anke (professor Of Public Policy Hassel - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Public Policy - Anke (professor Of Public Policy Hassel - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured by two spheres of action - the ''engine room'' of specialists and experts in government agencies, NGOs, research organizations etc., on the one hand, and the political ''superstructure'' of politicians, key public stakeholders and the public, on the other hand. Understanding the different logics of the engine room and the superstructure is key for successful policy-making. The dual structure of policy-making provides a perspective on policy-analysis (interactive policy analysis) and policy-making (actor-centred policy-making) that moves from the focus on individual and specific measures, towards understanding and shaping the relation and interaction between policy interventions, the institutional context and the stakeholders involved or affected. Part I of the book presents the basic analytical concepts needed to understand the policy process and the structures and dynamics involved in it, as well as to understand how and why actors behave the way they do-and how to engage with different types of actors. Part II moves further into the nuts and bolts of policy-making, including policy design, implementation, and evaluation. Part III introduces and explores three key aspects of the capacity to make good policies: engagement with stakeholders, the process of policy coordination in a context of interdependence, and the role of institutions.

DKK 330.00
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