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This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems prov……続きを見る

The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain of place and space in cinema and the film industry'……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay litt……続きを見る

Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic peo……続きを見る

Brief research report/essay providing an overview of the nature of the opoid and fentanyl crisis in the United States. This paper gives details about pharmaceutical companies bribing medical practit……続きを見る

Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding ident……続きを見る

Pourquoi faut-il danser près de la porte ? Comment un repas peut-il être révolutionnaire ? L’Occident est-il voué au déclin ? Quel est le point commun entre une fashion victim et un bouddhiste ? Peu……続きを見る

This open access book is the first book that attempts to treat the notion of articulation as an important concept to be added to the lexicon of communication studies and social science. It constitut……続きを見る

This is an open access book. ASEAN countries are diverse, with GDP per capita ranging from about USD1,297 in Myanmar, a lower-middle income country, to USD64,041 in Singapore, a high-income advanced……続きを見る

This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and di……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”ーBeth Macy, author of Dopesick, as heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleas……続きを見る

To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an exa……続きを見る

The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating ……続きを見る

中澳建交五十週年，雙方關係降至最冰點 當習近平統治下的新中國將澳洲記者全面清零，下一個要清除的是什麼？ 　　二〇二〇年九月三日，中國公安深夜突襲史密斯在上海的住處，官僚化地朗誦完公文後請他在中文紙本上……続きを見る

This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in the complexities of power ……続きを見る

This open access book is one of the first academic works to comprehensively analyse the dilemma concerning global content governance on social media. To date, no single human rights standard exists ……続きを見る

Однако негативные последствия их функционирования, являющиеся результатом сложившихся в прошлые годы не соответствующих принципам устойчивости видов деятельности иźприемов, приводят к изменению клим……続きを見る

تعود النظم الزراعية والغذائية بفوائد جمة على المجتمع، بما فيها الأغذية التي تغذينا وفرص العمل وسبل العيش لأكثر من مليار شخص. ولكنّ آثارها السلبية الناجمة عن الأنشطة والممارسات المعتادة غير المستدامة……続きを見る

This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS)……続きを見る

C'est à partir de 1868, au début de l’ère Meiji, que le Japon s’empare réellement des questions de santé publique. Face à la nécessité de structurer le corps médical, les différents gouvernements te……続きを見る

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concep……続きを見る

"Improving Trains and Tubes in the UK using AI: A Whitepaper" explores the current state and future potential of the UK's public transportation systems, focusing on the extensive networks of trains,……続きを見る

This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical – and hence uncontroversial – field of inquiry. Against the……続きを見る

This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sus……続きを見る

The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation……続きを見る

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender and water governance, exploring how the use, management and knowledge of water resources, services and the water environment ar……続きを見る

**A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that isーdecades after its first publicationーone of the most important books written about our ……続きを見る

★「Books From Taiwan 2008」 國際版權推薦書。 ★榮獲「2007中時開卷十大好書獎」 。 十大好書得獎推薦理由： 糧食匱乏的時代來臨了！過去依靠他人的饑饉而飽食無虞的人們，將面對世界糧食資源重分配的挑戰，也將……続きを見る

This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-large……続きを見る

This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make the……続きを見る