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Volume 9: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy (International Institute of Philosophy). As with ...

Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Conceptualising employment and volunteering as two distinct forms of social inclusion, Susanne Strauß analyses their interrelations ...

WIDENING ACCESS TO EDUCATION AS SOCIAL JUSTICE

Universal access to education, a gage of social justice, is much more than a right—it is an open door to freedom: the freedom ...

Water and the Search for Life on Mars

This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted ...

Weak Links

How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform? ...

Whiteness and Class in Education

This book consider the practices of whiteness and how practitioners might consider critical whiteness studies in anti-racist ...

Who Owns the Moon? : Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial ...

Why Context Matters : Applications of Social Network Analysis

Many elements of our society are embedded in network structures in which actors depend on each other as well as the structural ...

Why care for Nature?

this book, resulting from a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental ...

Wie ticken Jugendliche 2016? : Lebenswelten von Jugendlichen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren in Deutschland = How do young people tick in 2016? Living environments of young people aged 14 to 17 in Germany

How do young people live and experience their everyday life? How do you perceive the historical and current conditions in ...

Women and the Mafia

The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for ...

Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict

The debate about the role of women in war, violent conflict and the military is not only a long and ongoing one; it is also ...

Word Sense Disambiguation

This is the first book to cover the entire topic of word sense disambiguation (WSD) including: all the major algorithms, ...

Words and Intelligence I : Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks

The papers include early work descriptions of groundbreaking work on Machine Translation and Preference Semantics as well ...

Words and Intelligence II : Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks

This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of ...

Work, Change and Workers

This book provides a fresh account of the changing nature of work and how workers are changing as result of the requirements ...

Work, Subjectivity and Learning

This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace factors that shape workers’ learning and development. Yet equally, it ...

Work-Related Learning

Work-related learning (WRL) is a topic of steadily increasing interest to today’s vocational education institutions as ...

Working through Barriers : Host Country Institutions and Immigrant Labour Market Performance in Europe

Working through Barriers develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting immigrant ...

Writing in Context(s)

The premise that writing is a socially-situated act of interaction between readers and writers is well established. This ...

Total Books: 961 - 980 /989