Society and Social Sciences

Alle wichtigen Arbeitsvertrage in einem Set - rechtssicher, aktuell und sofort einsatzbereit.

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

Just as higher education (HE) in Europe had its beginnings in religious training for the priesthood, HE in feudal Japan, too, provided instruction for a religious life.

This book makes a consciously positive case for the civic value of the humanities in higher education.

Professors Milne and Bull have produced an updated magnus opus of the science of investigative interviewing.

This book analyses what Myanmar's struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies.

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

This book explores the possibilities of and the challenges in implementing Intercultural Education to address the internal divides in education in non-western contexts.

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

In this book, Aljunied analyses how ASEAN and its key maritime member states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia govern environmental issues through strategic engagements with social forces.

This book investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the educational, cognitive, social, and psychological processes of teaching and learning in diverse ways across different educational levels.

This book focuses on the impact of social dimensions on the mental health of people living in the eight South Asian countries.

The mysteries of creationthat is, of the Earths formation and the emergence of humanshave perplexed humanity for a long time.

Was ist wahre Groe?

This volume critically examines the intersection of settler colonialism and human-created disasters affecting many Indigenous and minority communities in Bangladesh.

African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.

This book is about a psychologist on the move who engages in a process of questioning about the validity of his field.

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.

Das essential diskutiert Zielsetzung und Rahmen einer Patientenverfügung und legt ein neues Konzept vor, das den Willen von Patient*innen für zukünftige Behandlungen und Pflegesituationen, Notfälle oder chronisch fortschreitende Erkrankungen abbildet.

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

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through 'invited spaces' offered by the government and 'claimed spaces' created by the poor.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Künstliche Intelligenz), KI 2025, which was held in Potsdam, Germany, during September 16–19, 2025.

“Allies in Arms: Turkish-American Defense Relations” offers an examination of the strategic evolution of military cooperation between the United States and Turkey, with a particular focus on the aerospace and defense industry.

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture.

This volume provides an overview of a number of different areas of social and cultural life in which nostalgia is shown to be an important prism for understanding and analysing human thoughts, actions and feelings.

This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

This book investigates societal shifts induced by internet technologies.

This book stimulates new conversations around the ethical and policy considerations stemming from the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on human relationships within a cross-cultural perspective.

Monsters fascinate us.

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

While doing research for a term paper on civil rights for his ninth-grade civics class in the spring of 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old postman from Binghamton, New York.

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.

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 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.

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

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

The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish.

The Netherlands men's team has been an international soccer force for more than one hundred years, and the women's team is rising.

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

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

This volume critically examines the intersection of settler colonialism and human-created disasters affecting many Indigenous and minority communities in Bangladesh.

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 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.

The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the innovative strategies, smart recycling solutions, and advanced technologies that enable the sustainable utilization of wastewater resources.

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders.

This book offers a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration into the role of metacognition in medical education and practice, focusing on transforming the doctor-patient relationship through cognitive, metacognitive, and humanistic approaches.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Künstliche Intelligenz), KI 2025, which was held in Potsdam, Germany, during September 16–19, 2025.

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.

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.