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This book is a comprehensive compilation of academic papers and presentations delivered at the conference. It brings together research from various disciplines within the humanities and social scien……続きを見る

This timely book focuses on an overview of the fundamentals behind high-performance workplaces underpinning occupants’ satisfaction, health, and productivity. To this end, it covers human, environme……続きを見る

This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-sca……続きを見る

Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Stefan Lüder auf, dass die Geschichte der Himalaya-Region mit der übrigen Welt weitaus verflochtener ist als bisher angenommen wird. Die historische Legitimationsfo……続きを見る

"Ich finde das beängstigend." Sylvia Müller am 26. Juni 2017 auf Amazon.de Neukölln – ein Frontbericht? Ist das nicht übertrieben? Das fragt sich jeder, der noch nie hier war. Jeder, der noch keine ……続きを見る

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring t……続きを見る

This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the G……続きを見る

This book reveals how decisions regarding where to migrate are made, what factors are considered, how these change over time and why some destinations are more attractive to certain categories of pe……続きを見る

The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. ……続きを見る

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with system……続きを見る

This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to ……続きを見る

Locating Black girls’ desires, needs, knowledge bases, and lived experiences in relation to their social identities has become increasingly important in the study of transnational girlhoods. Black S……続きを見る

Adolescent fasciné par les kanjis (les idéogrammes japonais) et le bouddhisme zen, Alexandre Barbe répond à un appel, une sorte de " pensée filante ", qui traverse son esprit alors qu'il est en clas……続きを見る

In "The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies," Paul Lafargue presents a provocative examination of labor, leisure, and the meaning of work within a capitalist society. Written in a spirited yet analy……続きを見る

In "The Causes of Prostitution," James Peter Warbasse provides a comprehensive sociological analysis that delves into the multifaceted origins of prostitution within the framework of early 20th-cent……続きを見る

In "The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World," William W. Sanger presents a comprehensive exploration of one of society's most enduring institutions. Employi……続きを見る

This book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technolo……続きを見る

Offering a multidisciplinary exploration of “flow” and the often-nebulous ways it is conceptualized and operationalized in writing pedagogy, this book addresses a critical gap in writing studies. Br……続きを見る

This book examines the economic and social impacts of switching diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, and vice versa, and investigates how China achieves its foreign policy objective of dissuad……続きを見る

Unequal development has been a defining characteristic of capitalism. Throughout history, countries and regions have exhibited differences in labor productivity growth – a key determinant in poverty……続きを見る

Winner of the British Society of Criminology's Criminology Book Award for 2025 The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read onl……続きを見る

We live in an age of insecurity. The Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the climate crisis are just the most evident examples of shocks that have increa……続きを見る

"Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade" is a seminal work that exposes the alarming realities of human trafficking in the early 20th century. The book, composed of a ……続きを見る

In "A Supplication for the Beggars," Simon Fish presents a compelling treatise that delves into the socioeconomic dynamics and moral responsibilities entwined with poverty in early 16th-century Engl……続きを見る

In "The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam," Richard Francis Sir Burton embarks on a profound exploration of cultural identity and religious diversity through a comparative analysis of Jewish, Romani, and ……続きを見る

In "Certain Diversities of American Life," Charles Dudley Warner presents an insightful exploration of the multifaceted nature of American society during the late 19th century. Utilizing a blend of ……続きを見る

In "Navvies and Their Needs," Lewis Moule Evans offers a profound exploration of the life and struggles of the navviesーlaborers who toiled in the construction of railways and roads during the 19th ……続きを見る

First published in 2004. The purpose of this dictionary is to provide the student with a representative vocabulary of Pahlavi in which such uncertain words have been reduced to a minimum and marked.……続きを見る

Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer Intensivierung und internationalen Öffnung der europäischen Übersetzungskultur. Der……続きを見る

This open access book presents state-of-the-art insights on transdisciplinary work towards societal transformation. It provides theoretical and practical guidance and tools, applicable across divers……続きを見る