The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge
This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of …
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- 978-3-030-59951-5
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- x, 247p.:ill
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- 302.2 Ley t
Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban …
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- 978-3-030-51665-9
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- xi, 124p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mcd b
The Social Construction of AIDS Issues
This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the c…
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- 978-981-16-7519-5
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- viii, 237p.:ill
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- 301 Pan t
Hope
This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw o…
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- 978-3-030-69870-6
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- xvii, 150p.:ill
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- 306.4 Den h
Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood
Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the co…
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- 978-3-030-60877-4
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- xix, 287p.:ill
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- 306.85 Fat
Advancing a Circular Economy
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management …
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- 978-3-030-66564-7
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- xiii, 171p.:ill
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- 333.7 Jon a
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management …
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- 978-981-33-6280-2
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- xxiv, 324p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hum
Everyday Embodiment
This book offers an innovative conceptual and methodological approach to one of the most significant health and wellbeing challenges for contemporary youth: body image. The social and cultural dime…
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- 978-3-030-70159-8
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- ix, 166p.:ill
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- 306.85 Cof e
Geographical Perspectives on International Trade
This book analyzes spatial and temporal patterns of international trade from a geographical perspective. Trade is an important key to understanding the changing dynamics of economic spaces over tim…
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- 978-3-319-71731-9
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- xxvi, 205p.:ill
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- 381 Yad g
Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania
The edited collection is a fresh contribution to the anthropological, sociological, and geographical explorations of time-space in Southeast Europe and Albania in particular. By delving into variou…
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- 978-3-030-84091-4
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- xiv, 276p.:ill
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- 301 Rem
Environment, Development and Sustainability in India: Perspectives, Issues an…
This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues …
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- 978-981-33-6248-2
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- xxx, 329p.:ill
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- 333.7 Env
Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India
This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and en…
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- 978-981-16-4273-9
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- xxii, 337p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Build Back Better
International society led by the United Nations has been working to improve and standardize every country's post-disaster recovery policy. In particular, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Redu…
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- 978-981-16-5979-9
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- xxii, 214p.:ill
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- 327.1 Bui
Exploring Ibero-American Youth Cultures in the 21st Century
The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and…
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- 978-3-030-83541-5
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- xviii, 350p.:ill
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- 301 Exp
Exceptional Lifespans
How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, an…
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- 978-3-030-49970-9
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- vii, 344p.:ill
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- 304.6 Exc
The Power of Parasites
This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in…
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- 978-981-16-6764-0
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- ix, 217p.:ill
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- 362.1 Isk t
Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic
This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious t…
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- 978-3-030-69437-1
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- xiii, 188p.:Ill
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- 362.1 Sta p
East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions
This book is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics of development across the East Africa re…
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- 978-3-030-88987-6
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- xxxii, 411p.:ill
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- 333.7 Mar e
Knowledge, Innovation, and Impact
This book provides researchers with a straightforward and accessible guide for carrying out research that will help them to combine good science with real-world impact. The format of this book is s…
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- 978-3-030-34390-3
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- xx, 397p.:ill
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- 300 Kno
One Hundred Years of Social Protection
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experienc…
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- 978-3-030-54959-6
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- xxiv, 437p.:ill
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- 320.6 One
Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housin…
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- 978-3-030-70849-8
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- XIV, 166p.:ill
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- 307.76 Gra h
Liberty and Landscape
This book explores the importance of freedom and liberalism in the context of socialities, individualities and materialities. The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of conc…
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- 978-3-030-84326-7
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- xiv, 352p.:ill
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- 307.3 Lib
Gendered Experiences of COVID-19 in India
This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, c…
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- 978-3-030-85335-8
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- xxii, 370p.:ill
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- 305.3 Gen
Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children
This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors’ experience carrying out arts-based research with childr…
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- 978-3-030-68060-2
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- xv, 149p.:ill
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- 306.85 Art
Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China
This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated …
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- 978-981-16-1880-2
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- xiii, 275p.:ill
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- 306.85 Lon c
Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and g…
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- 978-3-030-64857-2
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- xiv, 225p.:ill
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- 336.2 Tax
Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, ch…
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- 978-981-16-2320-2
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- xiii, 148p.:ill
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- 362.1 Soc
African Cities Through Local Eyes
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently…
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- 978-3-030-84906-1
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- xix, 320p.:ill
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- 307.76 Afr
An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples
This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the…
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- 978-3-030-86924-3
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- x, 108p.:ill
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- 305.3 Mau a
Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along the Hokurikudo and the Tosando II
This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same pr…
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- 978-981-16-6609-4
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- xv, 103p.:ill
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- -
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- 304.6 Kum s
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