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Financial Compensation for Victims of Catastrophes

Some countries have created a specific fund solution; others follow a generous ad hoc approach whereby large amounts of compensation ...

Financial Crisis Management and Democracy Lessons from Europe and Latin America

This book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and ...

Financing Public Universities: The Case of Performance Funding

"Financing Public Universities" addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. ...

Finding the Limits of the Limes

This book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques. The book shows the added ...

Firm Competitive Advantage Through Relationship Management A Theory for Successful Sustainable Growth

This book aims to develop a mid-range theory of relationship management, examining truly relationship-orientated firms to ...

Folk Psychology Re-Assessed

FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, THEORY OF MIND AND SIMULATION The tasks we face in our day to day social lives are quite heterogeneous but ...

Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam

This book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent ...

Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective

Agrifood biotechnology—the genetic transformation of plants and animals through recombinant means—has created controversy ...

Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime

This book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime ...

Forest Policies and Social Change in England

The book stresses how values and perceptions shape policies, and conversely how policies can modify perceptions, and also ...

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms, and the ...

Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories

This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence ...

Forming the Mind

The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It ...

Formulation of Appropriate Laws: A New Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach and an Application to Electronic Funds Transfer Regulation

This book presents such an approach using the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) regulation in Australia as its vehicle of analysis. ...

Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship : Theory, Practical Tools and Skills / Tanja Collavo

Foundations of Social Entrepreneurship presents definitions of social entrepreneurship, explains its benefits and challenges, ...

Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda

Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. ...

Freedom and Value : Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value

Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, ...

Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making ...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Until now, Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the development of modern social sciences has not been well documented. This ...

From Animals to Animats 10 : 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2008, Osaka, Japan, July 7-12, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB ...

Total Books: 501 - 520 /1629