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When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...
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Springer
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2025-08-18
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This book is an ethnography of the important cultural characteristics, local myths, and legends in Shawo Town, a subordinate to Dongming County in Shandong Province. Based on the author’s fieldwork in this unique region of the Yellow River area, this book examines...
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Springer
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2025-08-18
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Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
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Polity
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2025-08-15
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WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID OLUSOGAThis is the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano: Child slave. Soldier. Free man. Traveller. Abolitionist. Celebrity. Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of...
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John Murray
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2025-08-14
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This book would be a valuable reference book for academics teaching and researching climate change and environmental governance.This book would be useful to students studying environmental planning, science and management, and social sciences – especially, human...
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Springer
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2025-08-13
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This open access book joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways integration is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European...
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Springer
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2025-08-13
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The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street situations, employing soft law documents to elucidate treaty interpretation and supplement existing legal standards.The...
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Springer
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2025-08-12
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The Data Analytics Advantage is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the essential skills to analyze and leverage social media data for strategic decision-making. Combining academic principles with case studies, social media analytics expert Laeeq Khan...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-07
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The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today. How did art emerge from the relationships between people and the things they produce and the ideas of producers? How do people manipulate those relationships in their own society? How do...
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Springer
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2025-08-07
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This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate...
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Springer
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2025-08-07
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In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events that have paved the way for the dramatic paradigm shift in social justice that has...
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Constable
Parution :
2025-08-05
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Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and ideas. Across...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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The introduction of pediatric cochlear implants more than 30 years ago has changed the lives of deaf children and their families and the field of deaf education, early intervention, and research. However, discussions about cochlear implantation have sometimes come with...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-08-05
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This open access book provides a unique way of documenting traditional Sámi knowledge that has survived almost 300 years followed by today’s analysis of the modern state of Sámi reindeer husbandry. Reindeer herders’ knowledge, their language...
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Springer
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2025-08-04
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For decades, activists have drawn attention to gender violence across the Pacific Islands and successfully argued for improved state responses. While reforms have been institutionalised in law and government policy, ongoing violence shows that these have limited...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around socio-economic and spatial inequalities and how...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral and expanded forms of auto/biography. Discussion and analyses to be done at three levels, namely ontology, typology, and writing. It is drawn from...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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How did a modern terror group seize global attention and declare a Caliphate? The emergence of Daesh marks a significant and alarming chapter in modern terrorism. This book unravels the anatomy of the group, tracing its path from Syria and Iraq to Türkiye and Europe,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-08-01
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