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978-3-319-55381-8
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 ...

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978-3-540-79832-3
Rational Choice and Social Welfare

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. ...

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978-3-030-68479-2
Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...

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978-3-030-51406-8
Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...

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978-3-030-71866-4
Sociology in Germany A History

This book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise ...

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978-3-319-73335-7
Solidarity in Europe

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. ...

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978-3-662-60756-5
Studies in Global Animal Law

This book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. ...

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978-1-4020-3064-2
Surviving Globalization?

society, and state Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating ...

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978-3-030-27920-2
The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

This book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic ...

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978-3-030-47576-5
The Challenges of Religious Literacy : The Case of Finland

Religion has become a pressing matter in different fields of multicultural European society, which raises the question as ...

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978-1-4020-8722-6
The Ethics of Intensification : Agricultural Development and Cultural Change

This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached ...

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978-3-319-32939-0
The Illusion of Risk Control

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Managers and regulators need conceptual tools to help them develop risk ...

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978-1-4020-3227-1
The Welfare of Cats

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have ...

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978-1-4020-4362-8
The Welfare of Dogs

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have ...

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978-0-306-48215-1
The Welfare of Horses

This book describes the development of horse behaviour, and the way in which the management of horses today affects their ...

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978-1-4020-2271-5
The Welfare of Laboratory Animals

This book examines the general principles of laboratory animal maintenance and experimental use as well as factors that have ...

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978-3-030-67130-3
Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

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978-3-030-24914-4
Trade Unions on YouTube

Trade Unions on YouTube provides a much-needed assessment of how old social movement actors employ new social media platforms ...

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Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development

This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...

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978-3-531-91197-7
Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison

The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...

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