Society and Social Sciences

The 16-volume set LNCS 15960 - 15975 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025, which took place in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 23–27, 2025.

It's nice to have plans, but they can change!

Soccer is booming in Japan.

China’s Blueprint for Global Leadership offers the first comprehensive academic analysis of China’s Three Major Initiatives—the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI)—launched between 2021 and 2023.

Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die mehr-als-menschliche Dimension des Lieds im späten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert.

Ravens and crows, both members of the Corvidae family, have long captured human imagination.

This book is my heartfelt contribution to the next generation of families.

This book is a guide for stakeholders in nurse migration at a time when the shortage of nurses is a global crisis and the underutilization of Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) a major factor.

Die Energiewende ist ein Transformationsprozess, der Herausforderungen in unterschiedlichen Themengebieten mit sich bringt, und deshalb ganzheitlich betrachtet werden muss.

This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms.

This illuminating volume critically surveys the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific.

This book is a collection of academic articles selected from papers published in the Chinese journal Education Research in 2023.

This book contains the revised contributions of the International Symposium 2025 of the Business Systems Laboratory, which took place on January 23 and 24, 2025 in Varese, Italy.

Die Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie beschäftigt sich mit der Gewinnung und Anwendung psychologischer Erkenntnisse in der Arbeitswelt.

Conflicts of interest and competing demands are a defining feature of complex, rapidly changing societies.

This book explores the biodiversity on Earth and describes the journey of humanity across the globe.

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat sich bei ihrer Gründung eine vorbildliche demokratische Verfassung gegeben.

Este libro ofrece un abordaje integral sobre la violencia escolar entre alumnos, desde sus raices individuales y sociales hasta sus efectos devastadores en la comunidad educativa.

This book explores how WhatsApp is transforming multilateral diplomacy.

This book is to present a review and new research findings to upgrade the understanding of social attitudes.

This new edition of the very successful handbook documents the incredible theoretical, empirical, and methodological progress within neurosociology since its previous publication in 2013.

For centuries, negotiation has shaped the course of history—from the secret talks that ended wars to the quiet conversations that ignited revolutions.

This book critically examines the development of the post-authoritarian Indonesian National Armed Forces’ (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) military modernisation agenda and its impact towards civil-military relations.

This book explores the significant yet understudied role of non-state actors (NSAs) as agents of disruption and dissent in public diplomacy.

This book presents a new theoretical model for mapping how populist leaders construct “the people”, using simultaneous processes of inclusion and exclusion.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2025, held in Brasilia, Brazil, during October 6–11, 2025.

This timely study considers the challenges of developing a foreign policy for a union of 27 states while taking national political processes into account.

Die Energiewende ist ein Transformationsprozess, der Herausforderungen in unterschiedlichen Themengebieten mit sich bringt, und deshalb ganzheitlich betrachtet werden muss.

This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations.

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat sich bei ihrer Gründung eine vorbildliche demokratische Verfassung gegeben.

What does it mean to reckon with a legacy of white supremacy?

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies.

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking.

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century.

The DS 2025 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2025, which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, during September 22–26, 2025.

This book explores the transformative power of urban public space for women's empowerment.

The US soccer fanbase has never been stronger.

In this fascinating debunking of judicial supremacy, Devins and Fisher argue that nonjudicial contributions to constitutional interpretation make the Constitution more stable, more consistent with constitutional principles, and more protective of individual and minority rights.

The book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of addiction issues from a social work and social science perspective.

This book is a guide for stakeholders in nurse migration at a time when the shortage of nurses is a global crisis and the underutilization of Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) a major factor.

This book examines the practices of teaching oncology communication to health professionals.

This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings.

Erst nachdem die qualitative Forschung sich methodisiert hat, konnte sie sich in der Weise in der Sozial- und insbesondere Bildungswissenschaft etablieren, in der sie es heute ist.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of contemporary police leadership in Norway, drawing on unique data from police leaders.

Soccer is on the rise in Canada.

Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage.

Offering a valuable introduction to those beginning their journey into educational assessment, this book provides both teachers and students insights into the challenging world of designing, implementing, and interpreting classroom assessments.

This book is one of the first to give a systematic account of shuyuan in English.

Das Jahrbuch widmet sich dem Spannungsfeld von Organisation und (Un-)Gerechtigkeit und geht der Frage nach, wie Organisationen Gerechtigkeit herstellen, aushandeln oder auch behindern.