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This open access brief explores the profoundly accelerating impact of climate change on law enforcement globally. Drawing on the concept of climatisation, it examines how, on one hand, rising temperatures, extreme weather events, resource scarcity, and sustainability...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This monograph presents the migratory journey and personal experiences of immigrant professionals who live and work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a remote region of the United States which heavily relies on a group of professional immigrants to provide...
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Springer
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2025-07-31
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This open access book explores the macro-social influences on loneliness in later life, emphasizing how societal structures, cultural contexts, and broader social transformations shape the experience of loneliness. Dedicated to the social construction of loneliness and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails.This mixed-methods case study explores how California’s sentencing reform efforts in...
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Springer
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2025-07-31
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Since the 1970s, sentencing in many countries has evolved from a system in which courts enjoyed wide discretion to one where courts must follow or at least consider guideline recommendations. This movement towards greater structure has also led to the creation of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-30
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This book looks at deep-seated elements of racism in Indigenous-settler relations through detailed analyses of the October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia and its outcome---and discusses what might come next. The Voice to Parliament referendum proposed...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book offers a critical examination of the global diffusion and local reception of disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs through the lens of Indonesia’s unique challenges and successes.This book critically examines the global diffusion and local reception of...
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Springer
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2025-07-29
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Talking with God examines the neuroscience of belief and belief change related to prayer. It puts forward a model based on neuroscience and theology to understand how God speaks to us individually and inspires us through the human capacities for language and...
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Springer
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2025-07-29
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This study explores the relationship between the sacred and the virtual, emphasizing the sacred as a divinely dependent, consecrated space activated through ritual, mediating between the profane and the holy. The central argument is that the virtual is fundamentally...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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The demographic change presents new, primarily financial challenges for the state, politics, and the economy (level of power and domination relations). Aging (doing age) should be understood as a social construct that primarily offers self-empowerment opportunities for...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This book presents a fascinating study of the religion of minority groups living in rural areas in Yunnan province in the early twenty-first century and how they use religious rituals to show their own nationality and spiritual culture. By exploring these minority...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This is an open access book.
The conference will emphasize the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in social studies and education, engaging researchers, professionals, and government officials to develop holistic and inclusive strategies for sustainable...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-07-26
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Are you a researcher, science professional, or student looking to communicate more clearly and effectively in academia and beyond? The Communicating Scientist has got you covered!
This essential guide consists of three easy-to-navigate...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-26
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The book investigates modern architecture as an architectural and cultural heritage, highlighting with a holistic view of sustainability the aspects that have led to epochal changes in the way cities are designed and lived. Currently, many of these buildings spread...
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Springer
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2025-07-26
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The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering South-North and South-South inter-epistemic...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2025-07-25
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This book privileges Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in research and serves as a voice in taking on some of the more marginal topics within methodologies. It is significant in that it is written by indigenous scholars themselves. The contributors shed light,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-24
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Queere Charaktere in Videospielen? Davon hört man immer öfter! Doch war das schon immer so und wieso brauchen wir das überhaupt? Hier kommen die verschiedenen Perspektiven aus den Queer Studies, Medien-, Sozialpsychologie und der Mediengeschichte zusammen: Dieses Buch...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-24
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This book, adopting a systemic transdisciplinary perspective, explores the sociopsychological and the psychosocial interfaces shaping people's lived experiences of liminality. It is about life's outstandingly chaotic and confusing moments regularly recurring in or under...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-23
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This book offers an academic analysis of the concept of heritage within the realm of oil-related urban development. It focuses on the term 'heritage', with a specific emphasis on 'oil heritage', exploring its varied implications for urban futures. The book provides a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-23
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This book provides a comprehensive survey of ethical issues raised by advanced medical technologies. The field’s leading authorities explore how artificial intelligence, telehealth, robot caregivers, genetic therapies and enhancement, stem cell...
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Springer
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2025-07-23
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