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Berufliche Passagen im Lebenslauf : Berufsbildungs- und Transitionsforschung in der Schweiz = Vocational passages in the CV: Vocational training and transition research in Switzerland

During the transition from school to work, important groundwork is laid that prepares the further course of a person's life. ...

Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

This book explores bioeconomy and bioenergy policies across South America, Asia and Europe. It discusses how a transition ...

Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides ...

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development / R. Maheswar, M. Balasaraswathi, Ravi Rastogi, A. Sampathkumar, G. R. Kanagachidambaresan

Discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in ...

Charity Law & Social Policy : National and International Perspectives on the Functions of the Law Relating to Charities

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations. It does ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Chemical Youth Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

This book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements ...

Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written ...

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways : Comprehensive Report

This book introduces a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research on China's long-term low-carbon emission strategies ...

Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Climate Change - Environment and History of the Near East

When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 2004, the following year 2005 has happened to have been the warmest year ...

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

This book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity ...

Common Interests, Uncommon Goals : Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and its Members

This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies. It shows ways in which the field has changed over the ...

Communicating Science and Technology in Society

Addresses the engagement between science and society from multiple viewpoints. At a time when trust in experts is being ...

Communicating Science in Social Contexts : New models, new practices

Science communication, as a multidisciplinary field, has developed remarkably in recent years. It is now a distinct and exceedingly ...

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different ...

Comparative Third Sector Governance in Asia : Structure, Process, and Political Economy

The book – the first of its kind – establishes new theory and knowledge in the area of third sector organizations (TSOs) ...

Comparative and Global Pedagogies : Equity, Access and Democracy in Education

This book critically examines equality, equity and democracy in education, globally as well as from various perspectives. ...

Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics

Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics brings together for the first time social scientists and engineers to develop a predictive ...

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe Selected Cases

This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...

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