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Total Books: 781 - 800 /1078

Secondary Education at the Crossroads

Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce ...

Seeking a Richer Harvest

Traditional approaches to the "intensification question" emphasize population pressure, climate change, bureaucratic management, ...

Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including ...

Self and Substance in Leibniz

There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, ...

Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities : Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses ...

Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences

Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book ...

Semantics in Acquisition

This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains ...

Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

This book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, ...

Shifts in Compensation for Environmental Damage

This volume examines the shifts in the compensation of environmental damage between private and public systems. Recent developments ...

Shifts in compensating work-related injuries and diseases

Inspired by developments mirroring shifts in the legal basis for compensating damage from civil law to public funding and ...

Shifts in compensation between private and public systems

This volume addressing, on the one hand, the issues relating to ‘shifts’ in compensation systems at a more general level, ...

Signs of Logic

This work sheds considerable new light on these and other aspects of Peirce’s philosophy and his pragmatic theory of meaning. ...

Simulation

This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical ...

Sirius : Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky

Sirius - A Diamond in the Night will tell two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been ...

Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction

Social computing concerns the study of social behavior and context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces ...

Social Geographies of Educational Change

Social Geographies, as spatial location, is a factor relevant to understanding the variety of people’s interpretations ...

Social Security as a Human Right

International Expert Workshop on the Right to Social Security was held in April 2005 at the German Institute for Human Rights, ...

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity : Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics

This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe ...

Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality

Provides a comprehensive, thoughtful and critical discussion of all aspects involved in the relationship between socioeconomic ...

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...

Total Books: 781 - 800 /1078