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Total Books: 1561 - 1580 /1643

Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison

The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...

Unfolding Social Constructionism

This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider constructionist accounts of ...

Unique Environmentalism

This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of ...

Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox

This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution ...

Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period

The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, ...

University Dynamics and European Integration

This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration ...

Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?

This book brings together the reflections of independent researchers from around the world. Sixteen authors from fourteen ...

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they ...

Urban Informatics

This book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Urban Playground : How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities / Tim Gill

Reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that ...

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 ...

Validity and Reliability in Built Environment Research : A Selection of Case Studies / ian Ahmed, Alex Opoku, Ayokunle Olanipekun, Monty Sutrisna

Presents case studies that emphasize reliability and validity in different examples of qualitative, quantitative and mixed ...

Values Education and Lifelong Learning

The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international ...

Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them

Mercury and Venus - known as the "inferior planets" because they are closer to the Sun than the Earth is - have always ...

Vergleichsweise menschlich? : Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive = Comparatively human? : Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to imprisonment from a European perspective

Ambulatory sanctions are often seen as a humane alternative to deprivation of liberty. The nature of intervention, the perspective ...

Verifying Treaty Compliance

International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification ...

Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe

This book documents the state of the art on Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders in 15 European nations.It provides ...

Vienna - A Doctor´s Guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history

This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the ...

Total Books: 1561 - 1580 /1643