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  • Public Sector Accounting, Financial Accountability and Viability in Times of Crisis
    This book examines the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for public-sector accounting and finance. It provides a holistic overview of government initiatives to navigate the pandemic, focusing on how government policies and related spending have affected the budgetary process, the disclosure of information and transparency, as well as the importance of accounting technologie...
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    133,82 €

  • Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
    This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking ...
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    60,37 €

  • Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?
    This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking ...
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    70,98 €

  • Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions
    This book presents an interdisciplinary understanding of the social, and economic drivers of far-right politics in South Asia. In response to the growth of xenophobia, reactionary nationalism, authoritarianism, and aggressive leadership in the region, it examines both the religious and economic conditions that have encouraged far-right populism and the profit-driven capitalist ...
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    218,61 €

  • National Security Drivers of Ukraine
    This volume presents the key informational, communication, and socio-political drivers of the Ukrainian state’s national security. Since the beginning of the third millennium, there has been an aggravation of global inter-civilizational confrontations, which in 2022 has already resulted in an open military aggression against Ukraine. The hybrid wars against the world of democra...
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    171,94 €

  • Finnish Public Administration
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have remained intact during the country’s relatively short independence of 100 years, but Finland has been able to tackle major  turbulence ranging from wars and financial crises to the Covid-19 pandemic. Finland has also had to adjust t...
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    156,56 €

  • Diversity of Migrant Entrepreneurship in Varieties of European Capitalism
    Sanja Tepavcevic
    This book explores the role of entrepreneurship in economic and social integration of post-Soviet immigrants in the European Union, and the ways in which national institutions influence these processes. The book traces the development of economic models and immigration policies in Austria, Spain, and Hungary and their influence on post-Soviet immigration and entrepreneurship in...
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    52,83 €

  • Using R for Trade Policy Analysis
    Massimiliano Porto
    This book explains the best practices of the UNCTAD & WTO for trade analysis to the R users community. It shows how to replicate the UNCTAD & WTO’s Stata codes in the Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis by using R. Applications and exercises are chosen from the Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis and explain how to implement the codes in R. This books targets readers ...
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    122,24 €

  • History of Economic Ideas in 20 Talks
    Cheng-chung Lai / Tai-kuang Ho
    This book provides a concise history of economic thought for readers of all ages. While some basic economics knowledge would be helpful, it is not required. The book sets out to achieve three aims: to be interesting, entertaining, and thought-provoking. While the authors may appear opinionated in certain instances, this is intentionally done in order to alert readers to form th...
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    68,23 €

  • Sustainable Smart Cities
    Ghanshyam Singh / Priyanka Mishra
    This book discusses the architecture, design and implementation of critical components of Sustainable Smart Cities to support governance, transportation, energy, healthcare, factories, technologies, securities, agriculture and education. The authors discuss the background of sustainable smart cities architectures and technologies and describe the problems that arise in design a...
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    147,13 €

  • A Letter to Trump Supporters
    Kevin Fahrner
    The Trump Coalition has the ability to be a force of good and change in Washington for the next 24 years. The start of their movement will be the 2024 election. This book is guide on how to take advantage of the power of the coalition and help get Washington functional again. ...
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    11,07 €

  • I’m Able
    Sefakor G.M.A. Komabu-Pomeyie
    This book is about my life - from under my mother’s desk as a child in Ghana to the hills of Vermont as a PhD holder now. As a bubbly child in my eighth year, who had all her future ahead and the love of her mom and dad, I never dreamt of waking up one day and losing my legs to polio, but that was what happened. From that point, my beautiful life began falling apart; Dad ran ou...
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    14,54 €

  • Narendra Modi’s Government
    Atharva Srivastava
    The book titled 'Narendra Modi’s Government: Turning Points and Triumphs' delves into the transformative journey of the Modi government, highlighting its pivotal moments and remarkable accomplishments. This comprehensive volume meticulously navigates through the turning points that have shaped India’s trajectory under Narendra Modi’s leadership. With a keen focus on the policie...
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    52,96 €

  • Public Policy and Research in Africa
    This open access book responds to the need for a specifically African focus on public policy. It outlines the fundamental principles of public policy research, and engages with major issues in the study of public policy from an African perspective, covering essential topics such as the location and centrality of social sciences in relation to public policy, leadership, methodol...
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    60,13 €

  • Research on Community-Centered Poverty-Alleviation Social Work
    Jun Wen / Yuefei Wu / Xiaoying Bao
    This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and intervention models of poverty-alleviation social work. Based on the introduction to the characteristics, theoretical foundation, and practical model of community-based poverty-allevia...
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    145,05 €

  • Multi-dimensional Collaborative Governance of Urban Sharing Platforms
    Jiachen Li / Lei Wang
    This book gives a brief review of current development models and governance of urban sharing platforms, and looks into the economic efficiency of a novel market transaction model of sharing economy, which has been accelerated by high-density urban population and the Internet technology. With an aim to solve current problems featuring excessive competition, waste of resources, s...
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    171,50 €

  • Vielfalt in der öffentlichen Verwaltung
    Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Diversity Management in der öffentlichen Verwaltung gelingt und Vielfalt in Kommunen, Ländern und Bund erfolgreich gefördert wird. Die öffentliche Verwaltung steht vor zahlreichen Herausforderungen: Demografischer Wandel, Arbeitskräftemangel, Klimawandel, Digitalisierung, Krisenbewältigungen, veränderte Ansprüche der Gesellschaft. Eine zeitgemäße Antwort ...
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    83,93 €

  • Real Estate Management in China
    Shukui Tan / Wenjie Cai / Ying Chen
    This book reflects the great changes in terms of real estate sales, purchases, finance and policies from planned economy to market economy in China. Real estate system has always been a great concern to the public for its irreplaceable role in people’s lives and various daily affairs, as well as in the development of the whole economy, especially in China’s context. The unique ...
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    136,82 €

  • Nationalism vs. Nature
    Bruce E. Johansen
    Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented. While the world warms, wars driven by nationalism may lead to worldwide devastation, with humankind being caught between two existential...
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    171,82 €

  • Policy Transfer Under Authoritarianism
    Hang Duong
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of policy transfer in authoritarian regimes. Focusing on Vietnam, it explores how and why authoritarian governments learn from other countries, and the significance of policy transfer outcomes. By examining merit-based policy transfer in Vietnam’s civil service and comparing it with policy transfer in China, the book uncovers key aspe...
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    159,11 €

  • In Local Hands
    Lisa K. Parshall
    The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.In Local Hands examines the contemporary (post-2010) village government dissolution movement and renewed state-level effort to encourage local government restructuring against the backdrop of evolving statutory authority, growing fiscal pressures, and state incentives. Drawing on mul...
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    41,85 €

  • Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era
    Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today’s world. This book provides a range of innovative practic...
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    68,44 €

  • Japanese Politicians’ Rhetorical and Indirect Speech
    Ken Kinoshita
    This book presents a new approach to the analysis of political psychology, political culture, and communication.Using data from Japanese political interviews and parliamentary deliberations, it reveals how Japanese politicians address their audience. In addition to analyzing the use of verbal political rhetoric, the book shows that nonverbal communication is highly relevant as ...
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    146,98 €

  • Late-Night in Washington
    Farah Latif / S. Robert Lichter / Stephen J. Farnsworth
    This book traces the trajectory of late-night political humor during the Biden presidency. For students and scholars of politics and the media, this book will appeal to the general public and political pundits as well. ...
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    65,10 €

  • (И)стория Delivery Unit Kazakhstan. Путеводитель чиновника в схемах с пояснениями
    Birlik Mendybayev / Zhupankhan Aibek
    Практика применения временных специальных групп для разработки и внедрения решений высшего руководства страны не является чем-то новым. Delivery Unit во многом является концепцией, основанной на смешивании управленческих практик, созданных западной управленческой системой, поэтому использование англицизмов неизбежно. Мы не смогли избежать их даже в названии книги, причем с перв...
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    15,87 €

  • Cyber Warfare
    Ajoy Banerjee
    The emergence of the internet and modern technology has led to an increase in the prevalence of cyber warfare, which is a form of conflict that is carried out in the digital realm. Unlike traditional warfare, cyber warfare does not require physical violence or the use of military hardware. Instead, it relies on the use of digital tools and techniques to disrupt, disable, or des...
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    53,05 €

  • Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
    VS Sripal
    The rise of extremist ideologies and the spread of radicalisation have emerged as critical challenges for governments and societies around the world. The use of violence to achieve political or ideological goals has resulted in tragic consequences, and the threat of terrorism continues to loom large. In response, many countries have developed policies and strategies to counter ...
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    66,36 €

  • Practical Economics in an Ever-Changing World
    Rutherford Johnson
     No longer does economics have to be dull or frightening to students!  Practical Economics in an Ever-Changing World equips students with a working knowledge base of economics with a special focus on behavioral and psychological economics and economic applications and implications of the ever-growing field of sustainability. The interactive ebook impresses upon readers that reg...
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    130,77 €

  • Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London
    Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
    This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London. It argues that late capitalism normalises nightwork, yet refuses to recognise the associated problems, from lack of decent working conditions to the seizure of the workers’ private time for self-development, family and social life. The book shows how the articulation of nightworkers’ subjectivities and...
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    157,13 €

  • Slipping the Line
    Amelia Curran
    This book brings a new spatial analysis to gang territories through the concept of the gang assemblage- the variety of actors, contexts, and practices that create and maintain these spaces. This conceptualization helps overcome the tendency of gang literature to succumb to the gang territorial trap, the tendency to assume gang territories are fixed and static containers of gang...
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    157,26 €