This edited collection provides a synthetic analysis of the rise of contemporary China and its impact on the current global system from a range of Asian and Western perspectives. Highlighting Taiwanese and Japanese viewpoints, the b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319755731)
This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomiz...Loe edasi...
Jon Mulholland, Nicola Montagna, Erin Sanders-McDonagh
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319766980)
This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality....Loe edasi...
Combining both legal and empirical research, this book explores the statutory aspects and practice of Gacaca Courts (inkiko gacaca), the centrepiece of Rwandas post-genocide transitional justice system, assessing their contribution to truth, ju...Loe edasi...
Combining established theory with original analysis, this book provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots and calls for a more critical approach to th...Loe edasi...
Combining established theory with original analysis, this book provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots and calls for a more critical approach to th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319764924)
This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic growth; sources of productivity growth; and prices,...Loe edasi...
This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319787091)
The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states....Loe edasi...
Communication Theory: A Journey Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions. Informed by contemporary problems, students explore theory up close through their own engaged questions...Loe edasi...
Communication Theory: A Journey Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions. Informed by contemporary problems, students explore theory up close through their own engaged questi...Loe edasi...
Pamela Murray-Tuite, Michael K. Lindell, Paul Brian Wolshon, Earl Baker
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781482259858)
This book focuses on the topic of modeling evacuations that use the road transportation network. It combines perspectives from social scientists and transportation engineers, fields that have traditionally approached evacuation modeling from disti...Loe edasi...
In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, lost control of both the presidency and legislature. In concert with grassroots activism, the KMT led democratization in Taiwan in the 1980s because it was confident its financial reso...Loe edasi...
The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against glo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780190630287)
Drawing on ethnographic field work, A Village Goes Mobile examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India. The book investigates how the use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships, incl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780190630270)
Drawing on ethnographic field work, A Village Goes Mobile examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India. The book investigates how the use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319774183)
Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres, from different geographies and languages. Rich with illustrative examples from Tu...Loe edasi...
In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national po...Loe edasi...
Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, has increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to...Loe edasi...
In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780190859022)
Since the first edition in 1981, Social Work Research and Evaluation has been designed to provide beginning graduate social work students with the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced rese...Loe edasi...
China has surged into the 21st century as one of the most rapidly modernizing countries in the world. Its burgeoning cities reflect this extraordinary growth with a dazzling array of new architectural forms and designs. In its transform...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319741093)
This book presents a novel decision-making support system based on paraconsistent annotated evidential logic, which directly handles imprecise, incomplete and contradictory data. The authors offer insights into areas such as engineering and biomed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319740690)
Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock...Loe edasi...
Bradley L Jolliff, Mark A Wieczorek, Charles K Shearer, Clive R Neal
Sari: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Mineralogical Society of America, ISBN-13: 9780939950720)
Large teams of scientists from around the world contribute to each of the long chapters on the lunar surface and space-moon interactions; the constitution and structure of the lunar interior; the thermal magmatic evolution of the moon; cratering hist...Loe edasi...
This edited collection provides a synthetic analysis of the rise of contemporary China and its impact on the current global system from a range of Asian and Western perspectives. Highlighting Taiwanese and Japanese viewpoints, the b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319755731)
This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomiz...Loe edasi...
Jon Mulholland, Nicola Montagna, Erin Sanders-McDonagh
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319766980)
This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality....Loe edasi...
Combining both legal and empirical research, this book explores the statutory aspects and practice of Gacaca Courts (inkiko gacaca), the centrepiece of Rwandas post-genocide transitional justice system, assessing their contribution to truth, ju...Loe edasi...
Combining established theory with original analysis, this book provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots and calls for a more critical approach to th...Loe edasi...
Combining established theory with original analysis, this book provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots and calls for a more critical approach to th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319764924)
This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic growth; sources of productivity growth; and prices,...Loe edasi...
This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319787091)
The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states....Loe edasi...
Communication Theory: A Journey Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions. Informed by contemporary problems, students explore theory up close through their own engaged questions...Loe edasi...
Communication Theory: A Journey Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions. Informed by contemporary problems, students explore theory up close through their own engaged questi...Loe edasi...
Pamela Murray-Tuite, Michael K. Lindell, Paul Brian Wolshon, Earl Baker
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781482259858)
This book focuses on the topic of modeling evacuations that use the road transportation network. It combines perspectives from social scientists and transportation engineers, fields that have traditionally approached evacuation modeling from disti...Loe edasi...
In January 2016, Taiwan’s former authoritarian ruler, the KMT, lost control of both the presidency and legislature. In concert with grassroots activism, the KMT led democratization in Taiwan in the 1980s because it was confident its financial reso...Loe edasi...
The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against glo...Loe edasi...
