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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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