Society and Social Sciences

This book offers a comprehensive account of the creation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the development of a supranational criminal justice system by national and European institutional actors.

The two-volume set LNCS 16063-16064 constitutes the proceedings of 20th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2025, which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, UK, September 2025.

The term “transnational organised crime” has been used to describe different realities, depending on the specific category of crime and region of the world concerned.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in the environmental and forensic sciences along with chemometric methods.

This book provides an overview of conducting ethical and rigorous research with an emphasis on key topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest.

In a world where social complexity defies linear explanation, this book offers a groundbreaking methodology for understanding how and why societies transform.

Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.

This book is the first blue book on the research outcomes of Ecological Red Lines (ERLs) of China.

This book delves into a developing area of Japan's labor migration studies, providing comprehensive insights to unveil the complexity of Japan's Technical Intern Trainee Program (TITP), not only from the perspective of the receiving country but particularly from that of the sending country.

Die digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt rückt neben der körperlichen zunehmend die psychische Gesundheit in den Fokus des Arbeitsschutzes.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Internet and Modern Society, IMS 2024, held in St.

How and why does improvisational theater (improv) serve the learning and development of adults in higher education?

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

This book is about the making of intellectual property law in Vietnam across colonial and socialist space and time from 1864 to 1994.

This book focuses on gender issues and its relation with social development, in shaping the current and future global scenario, considering three broad dimensions, namely health, education, and environment, and other SDG implications.

This edited book examines decolonization in applied linguistics, focusing on language teacher preparation across the Global North and South.

This book reports on advances in industrial management, with a special emphasis on innovative approaches in production system optimization.

This book explores various gaps in education and educational equality policy in China.

Der Sammelband prasentiert Beitrage zum Betrieblichen Sozialmanagement aus der Perspektive von Wissenschaft und Praxis.

Online product testing programs have evolved into a significant marketing tool, allowing consumers to apply to test products for free or at a discounted rate in exchange for providing reviews or completing surveys.

This project explores the expanding corpus of texts and artifacts inspired by Cirilo Villaverde's most well-known literary character, Cecilia Valdes.

This book on AI and mental health explores the intersection of AI and mental health care.

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

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

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.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.

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

This book answers a few key questions about Taiwan's future, through specific chapters focusing on geopolitical security topics, to better understand evolving geopolitical challenges within a global context, and what these represent for the future world order-and its stability-in the Indo-Pacific region.

This book focuses on gender issues and its relation with social development, in shaping the current and future global scenario, considering three broad dimensions, namely health, education, and environment, and other SDG implications.

This book explores analogies and correspondences between dance and poetry, with an emphasis on how dance and dance choreography can shed light on poetry, poetic form and the teaching of poetry.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure.

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

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

Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen.

This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.

Zweirader mit Elektromotoren und einer Unterstutzung bis 25 km/h (Pedelecs) sind seit einigen Jahren stark nachgefragt.

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.

This volume reflects nearly two years of Zoom interviews conducted leading up to and following the 2020 US election.

This book analyzes the challenges of North Korea's nuclear threat today and the shortcomings of nuclear defense theory.

When science directs its theoretical and empirical tools toward itself, metatheoretical reflections or sociological studies of science emerge.

This book views the whistleblower as a key character in democratic societies.

How much legal discretion do arbitrators truly have in investment treaty arbitration?

International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century.

This textbook provides a focused and comprehensive overview of applied social psychology and its interconnections with social policy and selected laws in India.

This edited book examines decolonization in applied linguistics, focusing on language teacher preparation across the Global North and South.

This volume offers a concise yet comprehensive machine-generated literature review of the multifaceted landscape of literary theory, encompassing formalism, structuralism, modernism, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, marxism, ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and techno-criticism.

This Palgrave Pivot makes a case for ‘sojourner literature’, a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to ‘immigrant literature’, and its subgenre ‘readaptation narratives’.

Il libro si occupa di riattivazione urbana, una particolare forma di intervento sul costruito, che oltre alla dimensione fisico-spaziale dei luoghi considera anche e soprattutto le dinamiche sociali e relazionali che l'intervento è in grado di attivare.

In recent years, scholars of International Relations have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how to decolonize knowledge.

This book invites readers into a space of reflection, emotion, and ethical inquiry.