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Towards Gender Equality in Law :An Analysis of State Failures from a Global P…
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law—namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individ…
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- 9783030980726
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- xix, 250 p.
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- 342.0878 TOW G
Happiness and utility :essays presented to Frederick Rosen
Happiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea …
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- 9781787350489
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- xiv, 334 p.
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- 171.5 HAP G
Sociology of Interdisciplinarity :The Dynamics of Energy Research
This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in interdisciplinary research, which has been advocated as the zenith of research practice for many years, quite often in direct response to questions that cannot be answered (or …
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- 9783030884550
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- xix, 125 p.
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- 001.4 SOC A
Cash flow :the businesses of menstruation
The menstrual product industry has played a large role in shaping the last hundred years of menstrual culture, from technological innovation to creative advertising, education in classrooms and as employers of thousands in factories around the world. How much do we know about this sector and how has it changed in later decades? What constitutes ‘the industry’, who works in it, and how is it…
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- 9781787355385
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- ix, 229 p. ill;
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- 338.767 CAS C
Participative urban health and healthy aging in the age of AI :19th internati…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2022, held in Paris, France, in June 2022. The 15 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover topics such as design, development, deployment, and evaluation of AI f…
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- 9783031095931
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- xi, 312p;
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- 610.28563 PAR H
Alexander Williamson :a victorian chemist and the making of modern Japan
Alexander Williamson was professor of chemistry at UCL (1849–87) and a leading scientist of his time. He taught and cared for visiting Japanese students, thereby assisting them with their goal of modernising Japan. This short, accessible biography explores his contribution to nineteenth-century science as well as his lasting impact on Japanese society. In 1863 five students from the Chōsh…
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- 9781787359314
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- xiii, 133 p. ill;
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- 540.92 ALE H
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy :Between Legitimation and Inter…
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core n…
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- 9783030803025
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- xxii, 158 p.
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- 306.8743 SOC D
Bloomsbury scientists :science and art in the wake of Darwin
Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their collective energy changed the social mood of the era and brought a new synthe…
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- 9781787350045
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- xiv, 198 p. ill;
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- 509.420904 BLO M
The international politics Of The Middle East
The international politics of the Middle East fills a major gap in the field of middle eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It will be of immense benefit to students of middle eastern politics, international relations and comparative politics. The book begins with an overview of the rules and features of the middle east regional syste…
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- 9780719053450
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ALTHUSSER AND EDUCATION :reassessing critical education
Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then present…
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- 9781350101500
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- ix, 228p.
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- 194 ALT b
ACTIVIST AUTHORS AND BRITISH CHILD READERS OF COLOUR
Exploring a history of activists writing for and about children of colour from abolition to Black Lives Matter, this open access book examines issues such as the space given to people of colour by white activists; the voice, agency and intersectionality in activist writing for young people; how writers used activism to expand definitions of Britishness for child readers; and how activism and wr…
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- 9781350196056
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- viii, 216p.
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- 820.809282 ACT s
CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY :narrating unstable futures
This open access book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular so…
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- 9781350233911
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- ix, 232p.
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- 333.7 CON c
Creating the desire for change in higher education :the Amsterdam path to the…
Focusing on change in higher education, and on furthering the integration of research and education, this open access book brings together and builds upon the international bodies of knowledge on higher education change and on the relationship between research and teaching. Rather than simply combining this knowledge, this book provides a thorough understanding of change paths towards sustainab…
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- 9781350244788
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- xii, 232p.
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- 378 CRE g
Spatial histories of occupation :colonialism, conquest and foreign control in…
This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of ‘space’. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspecti…
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- 9781350252622
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- xii, 264p.
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- 950.4 SPA b
CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY OF LONDONS MEGA EVENTS :from the great exhibition to…
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciousl…
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- 9781787358447
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- xiii, 279 p. ill;
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- 942.100909 CON J
Refuge in a moving world :tracing refugee and migrant journeys across discipl…
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experienc…
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- 9781787353176
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- xxx, 566 p. ill;
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- 305.906914 REF E
Re-centring the city :global mutations of socialist modernity
What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? R…
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- 9781787354111
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- xix, 292 p. ill;
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- 307.116 REC J
The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes :Central Asian Migrant…
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration pol…
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- 9783030992569
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- IX, 192 p ; ill
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- 327.111 POL
Land Use Cover Datasets and Validation Tools
This open access book represents a comprehensive review of available land-use cover data and techniques to validate and analyze this type of spatial information. The book provides the basic theory needed to understand the progress of LUCC mapping/modeling validation practice. It makes accessible to any interested user most of the research community's methods and techniques to validate LUC maps …
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- 9783030909987
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- xiv; 462p; ill
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- 333.7313 LAN D
Brexit and beyond :rethinking the futures of Europe
Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future of Europe and the European Union, adopting an explicitly regional and future-oriented perspective m…
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- 9781787352759
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- xv, 291 p.
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- 341.24220941 BRE B
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