Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce ...
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                Traditional approaches to the "intensification question" emphasize population pressure, climate change, bureaucratic management, ...
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                The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including ...
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                There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, ...
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                The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses ...
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                Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book ...
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                This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains ...
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                This book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, ...
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                This volume examines the shifts in the compensation of environmental damage between private and public systems. Recent developments ...
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                Inspired by developments mirroring shifts in the legal basis for compensating damage from civil law to public funding and ...
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                This volume addressing, on the one hand, the issues relating to ‘shifts’ in compensation systems at a more general level, ...
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                This work sheds considerable new light on these and other aspects of Peirce’s philosophy and his pragmatic theory of meaning. ...
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                This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical ...
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                Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been ...
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                Social computing concerns the study of social behavior and context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces ...
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                Social Geographies, as spatial location, is a factor relevant to understanding the variety of people’s interpretations ...
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                International Expert Workshop on the Right to Social Security was held in April 2005 at the German Institute for Human Rights, ...
Continue readingThis open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe ...
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                Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic ...
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                Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...
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