Electronic Books

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Promoting Active Citizenship

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private ...

Rational Choice and Social Welfare

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. ...

Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...

Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...

Sociology in Germany A History

This book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise ...

Solidarity in Europe

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. ...

Studies in Global Animal Law

This book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. ...

Surviving Globalization?

society, and state Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating ...

The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

This book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic ...

The Challenges of Religious Literacy : The Case of Finland

Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as ...

The Ethics of Intensification : Agricultural Development and Cultural Change

This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached ...

The Illusion of Risk Control

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Managers and regulators need conceptual tools to help them develop risk ...

The Welfare of Cats

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have ...

The Welfare of Dogs

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have ...

The Welfare of Horses

This book describes the development of horse behaviour, and the way in which the management of horses today affects their ...

The Welfare of Laboratory Animals

This book examines the general principles of laboratory animal maintenance and experimental use as well as factors that have ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Trade Unions on YouTube

Trade Unions on YouTube provides a much-needed assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms ...

Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development

This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...

Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison

The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...

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