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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises Citizen Organisations and Collective Learning in Europe

This book is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current ...

Trends in Business and Economic Ethics

A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing ...

Twitter als Basis wissenschaftlicher Studien : Eine Bewertung gängiger Erhebungs- und Analysemethoden der Twitter-Forschung = Twitter as a basis for scientific studies: an evaluation of common survey and analysis methods in Twitter research

Fabian Pfaffenberger evaluates the scientific usefulness of Twitter by considering several common survey and analysis methods. ...

Understanding Nature : Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology

This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter ...

United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

This volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: the rebalancing of ...

Unsaturated Soils: Experimental Studies

This book includes the Proceedings of the International Conference "From Experimental Evidence Towards Numerical Modeling ...

Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education Indigenous Science, Deconstruction, and the Multicultural Science Education Debate

This book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs ...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

This book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions ...

Use of Force Training in Law Enforcement

This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. ...

Value and the Humanities The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book ...

Visual Methodology in Migration Studies New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions

This book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical ...

Vote Buying in Indonesia

This book presents a pathbreaking analysis of vote-buying in Indonesia. Drawing on a stunning array of evidence, Muhtadi ...

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

In this book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate ...

Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia : Flows across Boundaries

This book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka ...

Web Search : Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities ...

West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

This book explores obstacles that impede, and potential pathways toward improving, the material and psychological well-being ...

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?

This book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion ...

Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which ...

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