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This book presents peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistical research presented at the Italian Statistical Society’s international conference on “Statistics for Innovation”, SIS 2025, held in Genoa, Italy, June 16-18, 2025....
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Springer
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2025-06-15
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Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate social and economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by...
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Polity
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2025-06-13
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Easter Sunday 1722: The sea roars. After a seemingly never-
ending journey across the Pacific, the outlines of an island
appear in the morning mist. Captain Roggeveen and his crew
christen it: Isla de Pascua -Easter Island.
For more than 50 years, the Freiberg Archive...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-09-03
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The 2011 war in Syria triggered a wave of people seeking asylum in Europe, bringing immigration into the political and media spotlight and sparking numerous debates on displaced people. These debates have been marked by a heightened focus on the terminology used to...
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Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles
Parution :
2025-08-21
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In "Speed's Work", one of the most profound and radical confrontations with the modern concept of labour and its associated social values unfolds.
Timothy Speed - autistic artist, labour theorist, and human rights activist - has worked for over twenty years, almost...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-20
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A month of Talking to AI
An extraordinary dialogue about the future, technology, and humanity
What happens when a person engages in regular conversations with an artificial intelligence for a whole year - not superficially, but deeply, seriously, and as equals? This...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-18
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The concept of sine curves, i.e. regular upswings and downswings, can be used as a metaphor and, at the same time as a guideline in many areas of life. It describes cyclical movements, phases of peaks and troughs. Sine-curves in politics, sport, science, health,...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-08-04
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Annette Bräker and Horst H. Geerken take us with them on a more than 3000-kilometre journey from Pakistan through the Hunza Valley to Kashgar in Xinjiang and back to Pakistan. The book deals with the history, culture and peoples of the Hunza Valley and Xinjiang. As well...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-06-27
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Editeur :
Brazen
Parution :
2023-02-16
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Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Bürger*innen, Bürger oder Bürgerinnen oder schlicht: Bürger? Niemand, der beruflich mit Sprache unterwegs ist, kommt heute am Thema Gendern vorbei. Seitdem der Genderstern seit 2020 dammbruchartig auch beim öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk Einzug gehalten hat, gewinnt...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-23
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This book is a collection of works written by young scientists involved in the Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR). Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research programme co-sponsored by the International Science Council (merged by...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-02-05
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This volume aims to present the essential work of geographer and historical ecologist William M. Denevan to explain the impact and influence his thinking had on the conceptual advancement not only in his own discipline, but in a range of related disciplines...
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Springer
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2021-01-12
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This book examines women’s political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women’s voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-14
Collection :
Contributions to Political Science
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Zhu Xi (1130-1200) has been commonly and justifiably recognized as the most influential philosopher of Neo-Confucianism, a revival of classical Confucianism in face of the challenges coming from Daoism and, more importantly, Buddhism. His place in the Confucian...
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Springer
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2020-03-04
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This book considers whether coercive control (particularly non-physical forms of family violence) should be prohibited by the criminal law. Based on the premise that traditional understandings of family violence are severely limited, it considers whether the core of...
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Springer
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2020-02-28
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Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls for a different way...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-13
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This edited volume is a compilation of the ‘built environment’ in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design. The chapters concentrate...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-24
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book analyses and compares the development paths of five major cities in East and Southeast Asia since the early 1960s, including Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, and Shanghai. In examining these five cases through a carefully crafted conceptual framework,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-19
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Regional Science
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