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  • Körper und Emotionen in Bewegung
    Der Band versammelt aktuelle interdisziplinäre Analysen zu Körper und Emotionen in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Gefühle und Körper spielen eine wesentliche Rolle in Migrationsprozessen wie auch in Diskursen und Debatten über Migration und über ‚Migrationsandere’. Sie begleiten und verstärken Aushandlungen über Zugehörigkeit, über das Eigene und das Fremde. In den Beiträgen werde...
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    109,79 €

  • The Flag Revelation
    Christopher Maddish
    Unlock the hidden secrets of America’s soul inside the 50 American state flagsSome people may look at all 50 American state flags and see an amazing collection of US history woven in. But have you ever wondered if there’s more to America’s state flags than meets the eye? Beyond the colorful designs, a hidden realm awaits, where flags hold the keys to stories you never knew exis...
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    30,20 €

  • The Flag Revelation
    Christopher Maddish
    Unlock the hidden secrets of America’s soul inside the 50 American state flagsSome people may look at all 50 American state flags and see an amazing collection of US history woven in. But have you ever wondered if there’s more to America’s state flags than meets the eye? Beyond the colorful designs, a hidden realm awaits, where flags hold the keys to stories you never knew exis...
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    34,61 €

  • Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic
    This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities. Centering the voices of migrants as anchors for theorizing health, the chapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and soci...
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    197,63 €

  • Mapping Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India
    Khanindra Ch. Das / Swati Dutta
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of child well-being within the context of Indian states, focusing on the progress made in eight Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets. What sets this book apart is its unique perspective, as it delves into the well-being of children, examining their experiences across six key dimensions: child poverty and deprivation, anthropom...
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    157,41 €

  • Systems, Decision and Control in Energy IV
    In recent years, the scale of environmental hazards has been growing, emergencies occur more often at special facilities, in particular nuclear power, the largest of which was the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. With the advent of nuclear power, it was believed that nuclear power reactors were safe enough, control and monitoring s...
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    247,19 €

  • THE EMPEROR’S MIRROR THE STATE OF RESEARCH IN INDIA
    Dr N. Bhaskara Rao
    ’Independent and transparent research is vital for good governance. It can evensafeguard against bad governments,’ writes Dr N. Bhaskara Rao, a pioneerin social research and countrywide surveys. In this book, backed by over fivedecades of experience, he then goes on to show how such research has declinedin India from the golden period of the first few decades after Independence...
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    18,66 €

  • Healthy Ageing after COVID-19
    Chiu and Law identify and examine important issues of healthy ageing after COVID-19 from research and policy perspectives in the Asian contexts. Written by researchers and experienced health professionals from Hong Kong and China, this books is a valuable resource to governments, academics and practitioners. ...
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    88,84 €

  • Global Trends Compendium
    Edoardo Monaco
    This Compendium was conceived as a 'pocket compass', a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development. The book is intended to be an accessible, concise, yet comprehensive reference for anyone who hopes to better ...
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    160,59 €

  • Neoliberal Urban Governance
    Carolina Sternberg
    This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021. This work argues that neoliberal principles, rationales and institutions, along with the elaborate rhetoric that has contributed to their success, are forever present in the ...
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    171,26 €

  • Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Christian Aspalter
    This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the 'Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory', as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a ...
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    148,34 €

  • Public Procurement for Innovation
    Benjamin McMartin / Dolores Kuchina-Musina
    Dolores Kuchina-Musina and Benjamin D. McMartin present a comprehensive analysis of the alternative contract vehicles used to promote innovation in the United States (U.S). Alternative Contracting Pathways examines the models, methods, and techniques the U.S. uses to promote the development of innovative technologies and products. ...
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    88,84 €

  • Migration, Culture and Identity
    This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and ne...
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    148,35 €

  • Nigerian Foreign Policy 60 Years After Independence
    This book covers critical issues in Nigeria’s external relations since 1960. As an independent nation, Nigeria has stood out as the most populous black country in the world and contributed immensely to the search for solutions to pressing international issues, notably in Africa affairs. Nigeria has also participated actively in global affairs and used the platform of internatio...
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    169,92 €

  • Managing for Social Justice
    The book introduces a preliminary, integrative conceptual framework on the intersections between management and social justice with a view that the quest for social justice is not an endpoint rather an ongoing journey. With contributions from management scholars and practitioners, it highlights, examines, and explores the continuities and discontinuities, gains and losses, and ...
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    219,01 €

  • Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability
    This book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change. Since the late 1980s, and in order to regulate the increasingly detrimental impacts of humans on the environment, the transition towards sustainability has been high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers alike. Meanwhile, peace considera...
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    160,67 €

  • Coalition Navies during the Korean War
    Ian Bowers
    This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. ...
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    241,49 €

  • Big Data and Public Policy
    Rebecca Moody / Victor Bekkers
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of how the course, content and outcome of policy making is affected by big data. It scrutinises the notion that big and open data makes policymaking a more rational process, in which policy makers are able to predict, assess and evaluate societal problems. It also examines how policy makers deal with big data, the problems and limitat...
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    158,90 €

  • Development with Justice
    Sankar Kumar Bhaumik
    This book offers an understanding of the various aspects of the Bihar government’s 'development-with-justice' model, and the effects of its implementation on lives and quality of living conditions of the state’s underprivileged population. ...
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    244,55 €

  • Development with Justice
    Sankar Kumar Bhaumik
    This book offers an understanding of the various aspects of the Bihar government’s 'development-with-justice' model, and the effects of its implementation on lives and quality of living conditions of the state’s underprivileged population. ...
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    74,93 €

  • The Prince
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From his correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities).However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s death. This was carried out with the pe...
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    15,60 €

  • Grassroots Governance in Taiwan
    Yaguang Hao
    This book provides an alternative agenda to deepen understanding of grassroots governance and interaction in Taiwan. Through to the Taiwan Local Council origin, the judicature, the finance, the political party, the election behavior, the political participation, the government and the local government relations, and so on have carried on the more thorough research. It not only ...
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    160,80 €

  • Trump and the Bureaucrats
    Stuart Shapiro
    This volume discusses the long term impacts of the Trump presidency on the federal bureaucracy. Drawing on the longstanding academic literature on neutral competence and interviews with the bureaucrats themselves, this book adds insight to the academic question of the role of bureaucrats in a democratic system after a four-year period in which their role has been questioned and...
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    134,62 €

  • The EU between Federal Union and Flexible Integration
    Against a backcloth of tumultuous events in Europe, the EU faces once again the fateful question of moving towards federal union or let flexible integration guide the Union. The sixth volume in Interdisciplinary European Studies explores the coexistence of deepening political integration and flexible patterns of integration in the EU. The book brings together scholars from econ...
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    158,66 €

  • The Federal Estate Tax
    David Joulfaian
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    39,16 €

  • Sports Policy and Politics in the Western Balkans
    Marko Begović
    This book examines how states in the post-socialist Western Balkans region have used sport as a policy tool, and how sport in the region has been shaped by politics, history and culture. ...
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    241,23 €

  • Putting Women Up
    For the duration of Myanmar’s experiment with electoral democracy, why did some women run for political office, and not others? What role did gatekeepers such as party leaders play in those decisions, and using what criteria in selecting candidates? How did experience of domestic violence or harassment affect women’s likelihood to participate in politics, especially beyond the ...
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    49,55 €

  • Asian American Educators and Microaggressions
    Andrew Wu
    This book explores the effects of racial microaggressions on Asian American (AA) faculty members currently at higher education institutions utilizing the frameworks of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. The book delves into how AAPI faculty members were able to individually navigate and transcend at college and universities. Chapters offer original insi...
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    146,84 €

  • Transformation of Tax Audit in Innovative Economic Development
    Lyazzat Sembiyeva / Madina Serikova
    This book examines the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the transformation of tax audit in the context of innovative development of the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.Throughout the chapters, the authors examine the basics of state tax audit, its institutional aspects, as well as global trends in the transformation of tax audit models in countries in ...
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    160,43 €

  • Globalisation, Values Education and Teaching Democracy
    This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching democracy, set against the backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to values education and teaching democracy in schools. Th...
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    170,99 €