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Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives The Case of Finland

This monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, ...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

This book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions ...

Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

Virchows Eulogies : Rudolf Virchow in Tribute to his Fellow Scientists

Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second ...

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 ...

Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles

Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...

Wayfinding, Consumption, and Air Terminal Design / Menno Hubregtse

Investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding ...

Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development

This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. ...

Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences : The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Migration

This book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist ...

Words, Objects and Events in Economics The Making of Economic Theory

This book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models ...

Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard

This collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in ...

Zutot 2004

Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish ...

"Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, ...

matematica e cultura 2008 = mathematics and culture 2008

In this new book, the tenth of the series that began in Venice with the meetings "Mathematics and culture" that many have ...

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