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Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion : Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

This book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global ...

New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research

Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations ...

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular ...

New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

This book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. In ...

Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort ...

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

This book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive ...

Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action

This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our ...

Official Statistics 4.0

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

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

On the path to AI Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age

This book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ...

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, ...

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

open access under a CC BY 4.0 license and reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. ...

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 ...

Particle Verbs in English : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective / Han Luo

This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis ...

Passione per Trilli : Alcune idee dalla matematica = Passion for Tinker Bell: Some ideas from mathematics

It is a general belief that mathematics is a difficult subject to understand, that uses esoteric symbols and an incomprehensible ...

Pathways and Consequences of Legal Irregularity

This book provides a unique study of the complexities and consequences of irregular legal status of Senegalese migrants in ...

Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Genetics

The broad field of neuro-ophthalmology encompasses lesions of both the afferent and efferent pathways, which can result from ...

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of ...

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