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Total Books: 1021 - 1040 /1075
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Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

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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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978-0-387-30525-7
Unique Environmentalism

This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of ...

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978-1-4020-8468-3
Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox

This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution ...

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978-1-4020-3975-1
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period

The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, ...

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978-1-4020-5971-1
University Dynamics and European Integration

This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration ...

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978-1-4020-2799-4
Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?

This book brings together the reflections of independent researchers from around the world. Sixteen authors from fourteen ...

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978-0-387-76602-7
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they ...

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978-3-030-37892-9
Value and the Humanities The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book ...

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978-1-4020-6184-4
Values Education and Lifelong Learning

The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international ...

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978-3-531-91003-1
Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

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978-0-387-74286-1
Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them

Mercury and Venus - known as the "inferior planets" because they are closer to the Sun than the Earth is - have always ...

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Vergleichsweise menschlich? : Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive = Comparatively human? : Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to imprisonment from a European perspective

Ambulatory sanctions are often seen as a humane alternative to deprivation of liberty. The nature of intervention, the perspective ...

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978-3-540-33854-3
Verifying Treaty Compliance

International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification ...

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978-1-4020-3879-2
Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe

This book documents the state of the art on Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders in 15 European nations.It provides ...

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978-3-211-48952-9
Vienna - A Doctor´s Guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history

This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the ...

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978-0-387-73204-6
Violence Against Women : An International Perspective

The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) has interviewed over 23,000 women in eleven countries (including ...

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978-0-387-74508-4
Violence in Europe

Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street crime to ...

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978-1-4020-5895-0
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

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978-1-4020-6422-7
Virtues and Passions in Literature / Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. It shows ...

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