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Racism in the 21st Century : An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color

In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the ...

Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity / Jonathan Bach and Michał Murawski

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand ...

Reality Lost : Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation

This book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, ...

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

This volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, ...

Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World

This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth ...

Resetting Human Resource Management : Seven Essential Steps to Evolve from Crises / Hermann Troger

It provides the tools for effective human resource management, summarized in the following seven success factors: demographic-oriented ...

Revisiting Discovery and Justification

The contributions to this volume provide close readings and detailed analyses of the original textual sources for the context ...

Revisiting Migrant Networks : Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

This book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. ...

Risk Communication for the Future

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures ...

Robotics, AI, and Humanity Science, Ethics, and Policy

This book examines recent advances in how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have elicited widespread debate over ...

Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe

This book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

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 ...

Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes

The phenomena of serial violent crime has long plagued human civilizations. Far from being a contemporary notion unique to ...

Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Capital and Health

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus ...

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