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.
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.
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.
The ever-evolving ways that we interact with each other, our world, and ourselves through technology is a topic as worn as the devices we clutch and carry every day.
The Social and Emotional Core of Equity Leadership: A Guide for Driving Change in Schools is a practical guide for educational leaders committed to creating inclusive schools where all students feel a sense of belonging.
This book deals with the 1980s - the "e;golden decade"e; of Hong Kong pop culture - in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city.
Abrir la historia del Instituto de Investigacion Social (Ins-titut fur Sozialforschung - IfS), conocido como la Escue-la de Frankfurt (1923), y hacerlo desde las mujeres que lo construyeron y pasaron por alli en distintos momentos pero quedaron tapadas por la historia como esposas, asistentes, bibliotecarias, taquigrafas o secretarias es la tarea colectiva de este libro.
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 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.
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.
Grounded in autoethnographic observations and informed by critical, postmodern, ethnographic, and narrative approaches, this work presents a new framework for intercultural communication education that aims to deconstruct normative intercultural paradigms.
This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.
This book examines the effectiveness and limitations of existing body image law, and proposes evidence-based regulatory alternatives informed by public health and psychology research.
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 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.
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.
