Understanding the specific active role of computer and artificial intelligence technologies in the digital transformation of society is among the most crucial issues in social sciences and computing today.
Originally published in 1986, From Berlin to Berkeley is an intellectual portrait of one of America's leading 20th century social scientists, Reinhard Bendix, and his father, Ludwig Bendix.
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial relationships, and extractivism.
The sociological theory of practices developed in this book from the concept of the event compels us to question how practices not only chain into forms of practice.
The sociological theory of practices developed in this book from the concept of the event compels us to question how practices not only chain into forms of practice.
This book offers a critical and timely exploration of two of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time—climate change and land degradation—and the transformative role that eco-resilience can play in addressing them.
Visual Mythologies in Education examines how schools reproduce privilege and disadvantage through an analysis of the visual imagery in their promotional materials.
This volume examines the turn inwards, toward matters of the self, in an era characterized by suffering, destruction and death resulting from large-scale structural problems, including global pandemics, economic inequality and climate change.
Wenngleich immer von „der“ geringen Literalität gesprochen wird, weisen die Befunde vieler Forschungsarbeiten, darunter auch des Projektes LitInvolve, darauf hin, dass vielmehr von multiplen Literalitäten und korrespondierenden, literalen Praxen gesprochen werden muss.
Wenngleich immer von „der“ geringen Literalität gesprochen wird, weisen die Befunde vieler Forschungsarbeiten, darunter auch des Projektes LitInvolve, darauf hin, dass vielmehr von multiplen Literalitäten und korrespondierenden, literalen Praxen gesprochen werden muss.
First published in 1978, Radicals in Social Work by Daphne Statham challenges traditional social work theories, urging professionals to question institutional norms.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into academic research, specifically tailored for higher education institutions and postgraduate research (PGR) students.
This book offers a critical and timely exploration of two of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time—climate change and land degradation—and the transformative role that eco-resilience can play in addressing them.
This collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and experts from Australia and beyond to examine the persistent settler-colonial patterns of denial, ignorance and antipathy that continue to constrain the possibilities of truth and justice in settler-colonial societies.
This collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and experts from Australia and beyond to examine the persistent settler-colonial patterns of denial, ignorance and antipathy that continue to constrain the possibilities of truth and justice in settler-colonial societies.
Originally published in 1998, the aim of the Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology was to compile a volume that would facilitate the development of the evolutionary approach to human behavior by communicating some of the major ideas, issues, and applications of the Theory of Evolution at the time.
Evidence as a concept is central to our understanding of the world and the way in which we establish or verify the truth or otherwise of a statement, assertion or proposition.
This book explores how pharmaceutical evidence is designed, interpreted, and used, drawing on positivist, constructivist, critical realist, pragmatist, feminist, and decolonial traditions.
This book provides an in-depth exploration of ethics and rationality in the context of the contemporary Indian perspectives, focusing on applied ethics in organizational, technological, environmental, and philosophical contexts.
This book provides an in-depth exploration of ethics and rationality in the context of the contemporary Indian perspectives, focusing on applied ethics in organizational, technological, environmental, and philosophical contexts.
This book explores how pharmaceutical evidence is designed, interpreted, and used, drawing on positivist, constructivist, critical realist, pragmatist, feminist, and decolonial traditions.
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore why the EU increased its entanglement with religion while many Member States - particularly in Western Europe - were decreasing theirs.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the drug Thalidomide (marketed in the UK by Distillers Company without sufficient testing) was a sedative and medication prescribed for morning sickness.
This volume sheds light on the complex global landscape of democracy weakening and autocracy strengthening, along with their profound impact on the response to the climate crisis.
