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Official Statistics 4.0

Explores official statistics and their social function in modern societies. Digitisation and globalisation are creating completely ...

One Hundred Years of Social Protection The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, ...

Open Science: the Very Idea

The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and ...

Optimizing Health : Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery

The resulting systems perspective of this timely book merges thinking from clinical medicine and economics to form the hybrid ...

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 6

This book is the sixth volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). The chapters of this book ...

Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care : An Australian Contribution to an International Debate

The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster ...

Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe

This book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents ...

Parenting and Work in Poland A Gender Studies Perspective

The book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers ...

Participation and Learning : Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability

The Research in Participatory Education Network (RIPEN) embraces a broad spectrum of researchers, scholars, students, and ...

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

This book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. ...

Perspectives on Mathematical Practices

The editors of this book felt the urge, first of all, to bring together the widest variety of authors from these different ...

Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers : Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern

This book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around ...

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 ...

Racism in the 21st Century : An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color

In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the ...

Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity / Jonathan Bach and Michał Murawski

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand ...

Reality Lost : Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

This book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, ...

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

This volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, ...

Resetting Human Resource Management : Seven Essential Steps to Evolve from Crises / Hermann Troger

It provides the tools for effective human resource management, summarized in the following seven success factors: demographic-oriented ...

Revisiting Migrant Networks : Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

This book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. ...

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