Marek - Social & Cultural Studies 1

Confronting how artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data (BD) analytics are changing how we live, this book examines how these technologies can affect society at large……続きを見る

In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty y……続きを見る

This book explores the complexity of cities as sites of warfare and investigates the ever-growing challenges for Disaster Risk Management (DRM). Through analysis of existing literature, media covera……続きを見る

This book identifies the growing importance of the sharing economy and its practical applications in such areas of the economy as tourism, transportation, and micromobility. At the same time, it hig……続きを見る

Nainen suomalaisen huumekaupan huipulla. Väkivaltainen lapsuus kasvattaa Ellasta aikuisen, joka ei pelkää mitään – paitsi huumeiden loppumista. Kun oma elämä on kiinni amfetamiinin riittävyydestä, i……続きを見る

Turha tulla puhumaan paskaa. Perttu Könönen on tinkimättömänä syyttäjänä tottunut oikeussalin psykologiseen sotaan, jossa parhaiten valmistautunut voittaa. Könösen syytettyinä ovat olleet Suomen ala……続きを見る

Tosielämän gangsteritarina Tallinnan pimeiltä kujilta. 90-luvun alun Viro oli ”rosvojen Riviera”, jota ryösti ja hallitsi venäläinen mafia – kunnes Tallinnan kaduilla ja nyrkkeilysaleilla kasvanut M……続きを見る

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Drawing on Roma community voices and expert research, this book provides a powerful tool to challenge conventional discourses and analyses on Romani identity……続きを見る

Humanity and Ukraine: Resistance through Language, Culture, and Taking up of Armsis dedicated to a nation under siege, the Ukrainian heroes, who stood up to fight for the freedom and independence of……続きを見る

What if the world you're living in isn't the one you choseーbut the one you were programmed to accept? "The Great Is Here and You're Already In It" is not just a bookーit's a wake-up call. A pulse-p……続きを見る

Do small EU member states exert influence over the EU’s foreign policy-making process? Ten years after the Czech Republic joined the European Union, Marek Neuman attempts to answer this question by ……続きを見る

The Treaty of Lisbon was in fact a milestone in the process of expanding the EU's role on the level of international security. It stipulated in the Treaty on the European Union that the principal as……続きを見る

This encyclopedia aims to provide a ready reference to various aspects of American culture. The time frame is from the colonial period to the end of the 20th century. The areas covered are fine arts……続きを見る

Ihmisenä oleminen on joukkuelaji Olli-Pekka Heinosen ajankohtainen yhteiskunnallinen puheenvuoro painottaa yhteisöllisen viisauden ja henkisen kasvun tarvetta nykyajan kompleksisessa, globaalissa to……続きを見る

In Songs of the Factory**, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor.** Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that m……続きを見る

A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, ……続きを見る

This book systematically analyzes Sartori’s complete body of scholarship in English for the first time. It seeks to cover all of Sartori’s main theories, many of which he developed in response to hi……続きを見る

A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure themーbut also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history “[A] fascinating chronicle.”ーBenjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal H……続きを見る

Elitarne tajemne stowarzyszenia zwane lożami masońskimi zawsze budziły zainteresowanie i lęk. Także na ziemi żarskiej dziali wolnomularze. Czy należało się ich obawiać? Czym właściwie się zajmowali?……続きを見る

The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles ……続きを見る

The aim of the book is to outline and discuss a way of thinking about the limits of juristic power. In terms of research methodology, the authors’ approach entails relating the topography of such li……続きを見る

First published in 1986, Military Technology, Military Strategy and the Arms Race argues that a principal factor contributing to the arms race is the military research and development (R and D) sect……続きを見る

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships o……続きを見る

History of the phenomenon system and people who together created third-party reporting in the UK Deeply personal yet backed by deep research and records "This will be an ideal read for those who are……続きを見る

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945. Examining the case of Poland, this book also explores comparisons t……続きを見る

Das Internet hat sich von einem Medium der Kommunikation, Wissensvermittlung und Informationssuche zu einem Instrument entwickelt, das die Öffentlichkeit sowohl positiv als auch negativ beeinflussen……続きを見る

Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It’s here and it’s growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of year……続きを見る

Value Added Tax (VAT) is the backbone of the EU Member States‘ tax systems. However, the rules for taxing Intra-Community delivery created opportunities for so called ‘Missing Trader Intra-Community……続きを見る

Vor beinahe 25 Jahren brachen die kommunistischen Regime Ostmitteleuropas zusammen. Es fragt sich, wie sich deren Aufarbeitung entwickelt hat und wie sie künftig betrieben werden soll, wenn die unmi……続きを見る

International relations since the end of the Cold War have been relatively uneasy, yet we should not discount the fact that the intensity of conflicts has decreased compared to the situation in both……続きを見る