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The volume examines urbanization and migration trends and their patterns in the light of India's emerging urban policy, planning and governance perspectives. It sheds light on the differences in urbanization between developed and less developed parts of the world, with...
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Springer
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2025-03-06
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Abrechnung – ein Begriff, der einen schonungslosen Blick erwarten lässt. Als Leitgedanke soll in diesem Buch eher mit dem Begriff gespielt werden. Der kalkulatorische Blick nimmt, wenn es um die Erklärung unseres Verhaltens geht, eine wichtige Rolle ein: Was bringt es?...
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Springer
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2025-03-06
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An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-04
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A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim...
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Algonquin Books
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2025-03-04
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This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar...
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Springer
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2025-03-03
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This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in national welfare systems. With this, it touches upon important questions in the innovation agenda of countries across continents...
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Springer
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2025-03-03
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Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society
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This volume explores contemporary caste dynamics in India, combining theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence. It offers an insightful examination of how caste practices, particularly concerning marginalized communities or Dalits, have transformed over the...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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Using the theoretical framework of new economic geography and the research methods of GIS and econometrics, this book analyzes the impact of high-speed railway development on China's economic distribution, population mobility and regional integration. The development of...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities, lived experiences and complex realities, and the role of faith in social roles. The chapters debunk the idea of Islam or...
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Springer
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2025-02-28
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This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that focus primarily on Mills’ theoretical contributions or political...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-28
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Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This is an open access book.
Welcome esteemed colleagues, scholars, and practitioners to the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND). In today’s rapidly evolving world, the intricate interplay between social environments and...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-02-27
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In The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, David B. Resnik, PhD/JD, develops and defends an approach to thinking about ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects based on the notion of trust. The book explains why trust is important not only between...
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Springer
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2025-02-27
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This open access book offers a structured approach that aligns indicators of social value and provides a stable foundation amidst the dynamic and ever-changing social complexities. From detailed system scales of participation to an overview of how it works, this book...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-26
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From the Foreword:
«This important contribution...to the history of this period shines a light on voices often left in the shadows of history's formal and established narrative, voices that reached across divides, laying down the roots of trust and shared humanity that...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This book presents the intersectionality between ethnicity and disability in the peripheral region of Northeast India. It familiarises the readers with micro issues, local cultural imagination, and social navigation of disability. It explores the region's social...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This book provides a comprehensive contemporary and timely account of the protection of indigenous knowledge in Africa by examining issues such as the nature of indigenous knowledge as part of indigenous property and as the fulcrum of indigenous communities in Africa....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-25
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