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This sourcebook presents an extensive look at cultural number systems in numeracy and writing systems. Based on a decade of research by the author, the work examines topics such as why Xerxes the First counted his army by having his men march through an enclosure big...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-26
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This open access book presents a novel approach to food security research (SDG-2 Zero Hunger) by integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge. Through extensive field-based research in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and South Africa, it explores the impact of...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-25
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In the original two editions of Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, a response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and underdevelopment, environmental sustainability, and native cultures was described. Ethical codes,...
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Springer
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2025-04-24
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Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and the global,...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-04-24
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Rethinking the Police for a Better Future: Navigating Policing Challenges with Accountability and Trust is an authoritative collection of perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and policymakers around the globe. Edited by renowned experts in the field, this book...
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Springer
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2025-04-23
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From an acclaimed journalist, this "eye opening and insightful" book shows how global cultures parent in community, sharing practical guidance for American parents on how to reimagine the way they raise their children (Iben Dissing Sandahl, author The Danish...
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Balance
Parution :
2025-04-22
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of radical right youth activism in Brazil and Germany, examining the complex pathways of political engagement through innovative biographical and narrative research. By exploring the tensions between democratic and...
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Springer
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2025-04-22
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The sociological theory of practices developed in this book from the concept of the event compels us to question how practices not only chain into forms of practice.The approach also allows us to see how these practices give rise to practice formations that manifest as...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-20
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This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-19
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This book is a selection of linguistic and multimodal research on healthcare and well-being communication in Japan.This volume offers unique perspectives to the field of healthcare communication research, where studies in the West is still dominant, providing a missing...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-18
Collection :
The Humanities in Asia
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This book asks readers to rethink youth activism in the political field as a lifestyle whose sense goes beyond the logic of political action. Reviewing the debate on the relationship between young people, politics and political participation, it shows that a significant...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-18
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Written in an style intended to speak to both academics and a general audience, The Consequences of Rights addresses what it means to encounter the human rights concept and advocate for rights from the position of the university academic but in the face of the reality...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-04-18
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This book explores the symbols of vulnerability, narratives of vulnerability, and ethical norms of vulnerability in the Bible. Focusing on the great Tradition of the Church—from Stoic and Neoplatonic influence to the Moral Systems—and the approach to the Second Vatican...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-17
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Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature...
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Polity
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2025-04-17
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This book examines vulnerability as an anthropological category, unveiling its profound role in defining human existence. Through an exploration of relationality, dependence, and finitude, it sheds light on how vulnerability shapes human experience and our shared...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-15
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This brief documents a demonstration project undertaken in Ocean View, Delaware on a novel, scalable tool for police agencies seeking to optimize their patrol operations while providing transparency and accountability in resource management. It describes and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-15
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This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of ‘Liangdao Man,’ and the origins of Austronesian language...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-04-12
Collection :
The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation
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Provides an encompassing overview of migration routes and dispersal of human populations around the world World on the Move brings together the current state of knowledge about migration and displacement in a single, easily accessible volume. Written as a companion to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-04-11
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Global Insights on Navigating Today’s Complex Crises Now in its second edition, The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research offers a timely and comprehensive exploration of the methods, challenges, and innovations in managing present-day global...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-04-10
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Filled with terrifying tales of ghosts and ghouls, poltergeists and other unexplained encounters, this bone-chilling compendium of paranormal phenomena is sure to haunt you long after you have turned the final pageDid you hear about the ghost who solved her own murder?...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-04-10
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