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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Der Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung der «Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht» (GAIR) im Oktober 2015 an der Universität Göttingen gehaltenen Vorträge. Thema der Tagung war «Genderforschung und Genderfragen im islamischen Recht». Die Vorträge werden ergänzt um zwei weitere,...
Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century
Implications for Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and...
Converging Pathways- Itinerarios Cruzados
Spain and the European Integration Process- España y el proceso de construcción europea
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Europe: the fruit of a willing construction that superseded much of its past darkness by gradually transforming numerous walls, prejudices and conflicts into bridges of cooperation and mutually enriching developments. Spain: An amalgam of creative tensions, of groundbreaking realisations, of successively...
Conversing with Cancer
How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient,...
by Anna Sroka
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book is a response to the need for scientific research on one of the components of quality of democracy, id est accountability. The author analyses thoroughly in cross-section the accountability mechanisms in Poland and Spain. This approach required that each of the issues under investigation...
Social capital, migration, ethnic diversity and economic performance
Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic...
Decolonizing Africa and African Development
The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the...
Pedagogy for Restoration
Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation through Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet. Moral development and socialization significantly influence...
Assessing Urban Governance
The Case of Water Service Co-production in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance...
Economic Dynamics and Sustainable Development Resources, Factors, Structures and Policies
Proceedings ESPERA 2015 Part 1 and Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
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The Private Sector and the Marginalized Poor
An Assessment of the Potential Role of Business in Reducing Poverty and Marginality in Rural Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The book examines the role that the private sector can play in reducing poverty and marginality in Ethiopia by providing improved agricultural inputs to marginalized poor farmers. By creating a marginality map the author analyzes who and where the marginalized poor are. Data from a household survey...
The Peoples Joan of Arc
Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The ‘People’s Joan of Arc’: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America is the first comprehensive biography tracing the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book discusses the emergence of a multi-polar currency system. With the US Dollar’s hegemony as global reserve currency in question, it examines the role of the Federal Reserve in its decline, the emergence of the Euro in a multi-polar currency system and the Chinese influence in this most...
Whats Race Got To Do With It?
How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice...