Search results for “[Subject: finnish]”

• Author(s): Taina Saarinen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Pivot • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back Cover"Taina Saarinen explores the intensifying intersection between language and nationalism as it relates ...

• Author(s): Christopher Mihajlovic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: ComparativeFrom the Back CoverSince its successful performance in the PISA studies, at the latest, the Finnish education system has become the foc...

• Author(s): Georg Rehm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis white paper is part of a series that promotes knowledge about language technology and its potential. It addresses educators, journalist...

• Author(s): Katsura Aoyama • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: JapaneseIn this monograph Katsura Aoyama presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author...

• Author(s): Stephen M. Croucher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom the Back CoverThis book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the Europ...

• Author(s): Raita Merivirta • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverBreaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned...

• Author(s): Henry Bacon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom the Back CoverThis book presents an expert analysis of the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history. As a smal...

• Author(s): Jussi S. Jauhiainen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationFrom the Back CoverThis open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby f...

• Author(s): Olli Vehviläinen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Eu...

• Author(s): Martin Thrupp • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformFrom the Back CoverThis open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion a...

• Author(s): Ville Kivimäki • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to stud...

• Author(s): Raisa Maria Toivo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 16th CenturyFrom the Back CoverEarly modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it has a pla...

• Author(s): Risto E. J. Penttila • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Military ScienceBased on the author's doctoral dissertation at Oxford, this study examines with a historical perspective the national defence...

• Author(s): A. De Gadolin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralDr de Gadolin's study calls attention to a country, a people, and a problem about which in general much too little is known outs...

• Author(s): Eduardo Andere M. • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Back CoverThis superbly researched study offers a chalk-face perspective on the secret of Finland's educational success. Providing...

• Author(s): Andrew G. Newby • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history's most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the ...

• Author(s): Jussi Välimaa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFrom the Back CoverThis book unravels the origins, continuities, and discontinuities of Finnish higher education as part of European ...

• Author(s): Heidi Harju-Luukkainen | Jonna Kangas | Susanne Garvis • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhoo...

• Author(s): Louis Clerc • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyFrom the Back CoverThis open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland's Cold War cultural dip...

• Author(s): T. Utriainen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Comparative ReligionFinnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Fi...

• Author(s): S. Muir • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralFinland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland. Taking up a range of issues - from cultural...

• Author(s): Kari Alho • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralEuropean integration has come a long way since the fIrst steps in the aftermath of the Second World War. At that time, the neutral European countries chose...

• Author(s): Tuula Sakaranaho • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionFrom the Back CoverThis open-access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic g...

• Author(s): Eino Mälkönen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The threats posed by air pollution and climate change have resulted in considerable public debate ab...

• Author(s): Jennifer Chung • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Pivot • BISAC: Professional DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the partnership between Finnish universities and the university-affiliated teacher traini...

• Author(s): Elias Pekkola • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structu...

• Author(s): Päivi Armila • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the social participation, identification and transnational practices of Somalis living in Fin...

• Author(s): Ilkka Kärrylä • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the relationship between democracy and the economy in contemporary political thought and polic...

• Author(s): Matti Palo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryFrom the Back CoverWhile deforestation continues at an alarming rate around the world, discussions on the range of underlying causes contin...

• Author(s): K. H. Stone • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAs the world's population increases, where will it live? Surely many will end up in cities for a recent United Nations' report anticipates th...

• Author(s): Juhana Mikael Salojärvi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverThis book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentie...

• Author(s): Juhani Karhumäki • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Computer ScienceThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Combinatorics on Words, WORDS 2013, held in Turku, Fi...

• Author(s): E. Luhtakallio • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. Focusing on France and Finland, the book...

• Author(s): Amos J. Peaslee • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Constitutional

• Author(s): Nina Tynkkynen | Linnéa Henriksson | Björn Egner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsOffering policy advice on how to integrate these sectors and pursue sustainable housing from a holistic...

• Author(s): M. Kojo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyIn 2002 Finnish Parliament decided to permit further construction of nuclear power after decades of long societal stru...