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Al'pidovskaya, Marina, Oleg Damenia, Lyudmila Karaseva, et al. Economics in the "New Reality": from Dogma to Truth. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2176614.

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The monograph is devoted to the study of the problems of modern economics, its place in the life of a postmodern society in the context of rapid changes associated with the development of new high technologies. There is a need for reactualization of fundamental socio-economic research in the field of functioning of socio-economic systems. The book highlights key turning points in modern economics, defines the "new reality" and provides the reader with the opportunity to determine a person's fate in the "new future" and find ways to build a just society. It is intended for a wide range of reade

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Saladin, Irina, and Pamela E. Selwyn. Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725651.

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In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships betw

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Rogers, Hiromi T. Anjin - The Life and Times of Samurai William Adams, 1564-1620. Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823858.

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The year is 1600. It is April and Japan’s iconic cherry trees are in full flower. A battered ship drifts on the tide into Usuki Bay in southern Japan. On board, barely able to stand, are twenty-three Dutchmen and one Englishman, the remnants of a fleet of five ships and 500 men that had set out from Rotterdam in 1598. The Englishman was William Adams, later to be known as Anjin Miura by the Japanese, whose subsequent transformation from wretched prisoner to one of the Shogun’s closest advisers is the centrepiece of this book. As a native of Japan, and a scholar of seventeenth-century Japanese

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Coss, Peter. Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198924319.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is a reinterpretation of what it prefers to call the ‘crisis’ rather than the ‘revolution’ of mid-thirteenth-century England. Paradoxically, given the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of this period has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the emphases and accentuations of his present-day successors. With its high-flown interpretation of concepts like community, its constitutionalism, its ready identification of a national enterp

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Volmar, Axel. Experiencing High Fidelity. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.19.

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This chapter focuses on the shifting conceptions of how to listen to music in the age of sound recording. I start with reviewing Adorno’s concerns regarding a regression of listening and contrast these with new listening practices in the first half of the twentieth century. I show, then, how hi-fi enthusiasts in the Cold War era linked ideals of sophisticated music listening to recorded music and technical expertise. While the self-image of the cultivated yet technologically aware domestic listener greatly revalued the experience of skillful music listening, I show how societal change rendered

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Preston, Katherine K. The American Opera Company. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371655.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on the philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, who founded the American (National) Opera Company (1885) to encourage high-caliber performances of continental operas translated into English. Her company was heavily subsidized by New York society and supported by establishment music critics. But both Thurber and her musical director Theodore Thomas misunderstood the American opera audience, and mounted serious works designed for cultural uplift, to the neglect of Italian and French operas that were popular among the general public. Society members were not interested in English-la

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Youngner, Stuart J. The Smell of Chlorine. Edited by Stuart J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199974412.013.29.

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After trying to come to terms with death in the late 1960s and early 1970s, American medicine and the society it served largely abandoned the effort. Instead, both became preoccupied with a less existentially threatening task—controlling the timing of death by using or not using an array of high-tech interventions. The author shares some of his personal biography and the cultural context of his own professional development to illuminate some of the difficulties inherent in the efforts of health professionals to help dying patients and their families. He suggests that our society, with its emph

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Domina, Lynn. The Harlem Renaissance. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400661822.

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A perfect guide for use in high school classes, this book explores the fascinating literature of the Harlem Renaissance, reviewing classic works in the context of the history, society, and culture of its time. The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices for minorities. In this enlightening guide, author and educator Lynn Domina examines the li

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Hernandez, Rebecca Skreslet. Authority by Persuasion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805939.003.0002.

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This chapter gives the reader a snapshot of the socio-political context of late Mamluk Egyptian society in which al-Suyūṭī competed for authority. In an age of economic, political, and intellectual deterioration, al-Suyūṭī insists in a controversial legal opinion that the “true” scholar appointed to a position in an endowed institution is entitled to funding by virtue of his learning regardless of whether or not he fulfills the duties stipulated in the endowment deed. The dispute over how endowment funds should be distributed culminated in a crisis in which al-Suyūṭī was dismissed from his pos

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Lloyd, Ian J. Information Technology Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198787556.001.0001.

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Information Technology Law provides a thorough account of information technology (IT) law. The volume looks at the subject in a wide context, examining the legal response to the latest IT-related developments within society, bringing the law to life and examining how legal issues in IT can affect everyone. This title considers issues in IT law on European and international scales, providing a realistic overview of how the law in this area operates globally and encouraging further thought and investigation about the current issues within IT law. The eighth edition covers major new legislation i

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Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. Sapphic Memnon. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626310.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 concentrates on four epigrams by Julia Balbilla, comprising fifty-four lines of Greek elegiac verse—the largest corpus on the colossus by any single author. While most visitors chose to model their language on Homer’s, Balbilla’s style and Aeolic dialect are unmistakably Sapphic (although her elegiac meter is borrowed from epigram rather than lyric). This chapter assesses what it means for Julia Balbilla to imitate Sappho while at the same time honoring her royal patrons in the public context of dedicatory inscriptions. Previous scholars have derided the quality of Balbilla’s poetry,

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Jackson, John L. Obama, Black Religion, and the Reverend Wright Controversy. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036453.003.0011.

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This chapter examines the controversy surrounding Obama's former, prophetic pastor Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. as it relates to Black identity. The controversy surrounding the comments of Rev. Wright can be traced to black religion's unsolicited interjection into the American public discourse on diversity during an unprecedented presidential campaign, when white America had begun to feel a measure of self-satisfaction about its capacity to transcend historic white supremacy and elect a black man to the high office of the U.S. presidency for the first time in American history. Public questi

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Forman-Brunell, Miriam, ed. Girlhood in America. ABC-CLIO, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400657221.

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This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means—and what it has meant over the last 400 years—to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages

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Trappenberg, Thomas P. Fundamentals of Machine Learning. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828044.001.0001.

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Machine learning is exploding, both in research and for industrial applications. This book aims to be a brief introduction to this area given the importance of this topic in many disciplines, from sciences to engineering, and even for its broader impact on our society. This book tries to contribute with a style that keeps a balance between brevity of explanations, the rigor of mathematical arguments, and outlining principle ideas. At the same time, this book tries to give some comprehensive overview of a variety of methods to see their relation on specialization within this area. This includes

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Cawthon, Stephanie, and Carrie Lou Garberoglio, eds. Research in Deaf Education. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190455651.001.0001.

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This edited volume, Research in Deaf Education: Contexts, Challenges, and Considerations, provides readers with critical foundational information with which to view contemporary research in deaf education. Deaf education as a field is experiencing a high degree of turnover in its researchers, as well as major shifts in how deaf individuals access information and engage with society as a whole. To conduct research in deaf education includes a need to be mindful of the influence of context as well as the challenges of conducting research with a low-incidence and diverse population. Together with

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Lloyd, Ian J. Information Technology Law. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198830559.001.0001.

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Information Technology Law provides a thorough account of information technology (IT) law. The volume looks at the subject in a wide context, examining the legal response to the latest IT-related developments within society, bringing the law to life and examining how legal issues in IT can affect everyone. This title considers issues in IT law on European and international scales, providing a realistic overview of how the law in this area operates globally and encouraging further thought and investigation about the current issues within IT law. The ninth edition covers major new legislation in

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Moran, Bruce T., ed. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474203753.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age covers the period from 1500 to 1700, tracing chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social, and political contexts. This era in the history of chemistry was notable for natural philosophy, scientific discovery, and experimental method, and also as the high point of European alchemy – exemplified by the immensely popular writings of Paracelsus. Developments in the chemistry of metallurgy, medicine, distillation, and the applied arts encouraged attention to materials and techniques, linking theoretical speculation with practi

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Wolfs, Wouter. Models of Digital Reporting and Disclosure of Political Finance: Latest Trends and Best Practices to Support Albania. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the Rule of Law Centre (University of Helsinki), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2022.40.

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Transparency in politics—in particular with regard to political finance—lies at the core of every democracy. The availability of accessible, detailed information about the funding of political parties and candidates enables scrutiny by civil society organizations and the wider public, and ensures that all political actors can be held accountable. In Albania, transparency in political finance is enshrined in the fundamental principles of the Constitution. Despite the modest progress on party and campaign finance regulation achieved in recent years, however, lack of trust in politics and the ris

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Tucker, Spencer C. Battles that Changed History. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400616990.

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This encyclopedic collection of more than 200 of the most decisive and important battles throughout world history gets a fresh interpretation by a noted military historian. The mythic and doomed stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae; the siege of Carthage in 149-146 BCE, which ended with Rome destroying the city and enslaving the entire remaining Carthaginian population; the Battle of Hastings in 1066, arguably the most important battle ever on English soil; the Battle of Trenton that saved the American Revolutionary cause and established the military reputation of General Washington; the f

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Monger, George. Marriage Customs of the World. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400683114.

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition ofMarriage Customs of the Worldexamines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing th

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Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Greenwood, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400659522.

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While other works cover individual ethnic literary traditions, this encyclopedia is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to the spectacularly diverse range of ethnic American writing. Included are more than 1100 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 300 scholars. While most of the entries are biographical, others cover genres, ethnic stereotypes, seminal works, significant places, major historical events, key pieces of legislation, and various other topics that are part of the context of multiethnic America literature. While some of the writers profiled have international rep

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Dwyer, Michael. Strangling Angel. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940469.001.0001.

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This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials i

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Bartrop, Paul R., and Steven Leonard Jacobs, eds. Modern Genocide. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400686672.

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This massive, four-volume work provides students with a close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events. Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collectionspans nearly 1,700 pages presented in four volumes and includes more than 120 primary source documents, making it ideal for high school and beginning college students studying modern genocide as part of a larger world history curriculum. The coverage for each modern genocide, from

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Gronnerud, Kathleen A., and Scott J. Spitzer, eds. Modern American Political Dynasties. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400686528.

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This collection of entries offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on political, social, and economic issues in American society. Modern American Political Dynasties: A Study of Power, Family, and Political Influence is a unique research resource and fascinating read that explores the dynamics and modern America's most influential political families. It provides a thorough study of approximately 20 of the best-known surnames in 20th-century American politics. More than just a biography, it highlights how

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Ashley, Seth, Jessica Roberts, and Adam Maksl. American Journalism and “Fake News”. ABC-CLIO, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400611148.

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This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the state of American journalism and news-gathering in the 21st century, with a special focus on the rise–and meaning–of ""fake news." A part of ABC-CLIO's Examining the Facts series, which uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics, this volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about American journalism and news media. It offers a comprehensive overview of the field of American journalism, including contemporary issues and historical fo

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Wagner, John A. Voices of Victorian England. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033059.

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The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public. Exc

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Scott, Gini Graham. American Murder. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216957515.

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America has long had the reputation as the most violent and murderous of modern industralized nations. Even while violent crime has dropped in recent years, our murder rate is still incredibly high. Since the beginning of the 20th century, our society has undergone profound changes, and our technologies have advanced, but the motives and methods for murder and escaping the long arm of the law have kept pace, often capitalizing on availble technologies. In addition, as the century progressed, the media would become an integral part of murder in America, helping investigations, glamorizing murde

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Scott, Gini Graham. American Murder. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216957522.

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America has long had the reputation as the most violent and murderous of modern industralized nations. Even while violent crime has dropped in recent years, our murder rate is still incredibly high. Since the beginning of the 20th century, our society has undergone profound changes, and our technologies have advanced, but the motives and methods for murder and escaping the long arm of the law have kept pace, often capitalizing on availble technologies. In addition, as the century progressed, the media would become an integral part of murder in America, helping investigations, glamorizing murde

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Lively, Donald E., and D. Scott Broyles. Contemporary Supreme Court Cases. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400631481.

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With its blend of accessible writing and actual excerpts from Court opinions, this book serves to explain the legal and cultural underpinnings of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the past 35 years—and to illuminate how these decisions have shaped the trajectory and character of modern American society. As the nation's law defines society, society defines the law. As the nation's fundamental law, the U.S. Constitution is the overarching statement of the people's will. Interpreting the Constitution, however, is no simple task. This book examines more than 100 landmark Supreme Court cases

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Scott, Virginia. Google. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400658495.

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It's the American dream—start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All they did, after all, is come up with a better way to search for things on the Internet, right? Only in part. No company achieves a market value in the range of $172 billion (in early 2008) based on a single good idea. This new entry in the Corporations That Changed the World series shows how Google exploited the rage for click through ads, instant news, mapping and satellite imagery, email, and mor

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Sundstrom, Beth L., and Cara Delay. Birth Control. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190069674.001.0001.

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Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Research indicates that women are familiar with the range of contraceptive methods available today. But the persistently high rates of unintended pregnancy, combined with common dissatisfaction and discontinuation, suggest that women’s contraceptive needs continue to be unmet. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Kno

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Pracana, Clara, and Michael Wang, eds. Psychology Applications & Developments VI. inScience Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021padvi.

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In this sixth volume, a committed set of authors explore the Psychology field, therefore contributing to reach the frontiers of knowledge. Success depends on the participation of those who wish to find creative solutions and believe in their potential to change the world, altogether, to increase public engagement and cooperation from communities. Part of our mission is to serve society with these initiatives and promote knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary the strengthening of research efforts in all fields and cooperation between the most assorted studies and backgrounds. In particular, this

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Seidman, Naomi. Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764692.001.0001.

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Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a generation of girls to take an active part in their community. The movement grew at an astonishing pace, expanding to include high schools, teacher seminaries, summer programmes, vocational schools, and youth movements, in Poland and beyond; it continues to flourish throughout the Jewish diaspora. This book explores the movement through the tensio

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Messina, Anthony M. West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century. www.praeger.com, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216187424.

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Few, if any phenomena affecting Western Europe as a whole since 1945 have been more far-reaching in their immediate effects or more potentially destabilizing to politics and society over the long term than the accumulative experience of immigration. Messina and his contributors analyze why the major immigrant-receiving states of Western Europe historically permitted and often abetted relatively high levels of postwar migration, and they assess how contemporary governments attempt to govern immigration flows and manage the domestic social and political fallout which it inevitably yields. The ce

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Bellamy, Alex J., and Stephen McLoughlin. Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350494190.

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Two leading experts in the field re-examine the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention in this major new text. The recent high-profile interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria show the various international responses to impending or ongoing humanitarian crises, tracking the development from ad hoc military interventions to a more formalised international human rights regime. This evolution has fundamentally changed the way that states and international society think about, and respond to, atrocities. This textbook charts and explains the transformation, examines the challenges th

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Forgeng, Jeffrey L. Robin Hood. Praeger, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216009498.

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Among the narrative traditions of the Middle Ages, the Robin Hood legend holds a unique, important, and often overlooked position. Robin Hood's uniqueness and importance begins with his status as the only English contribution to world mythology. His is also the only lasting myth to arise from the High Middle Ages and the last Western legend to achieve a sustained international appeal. Several Robin Hood ballads survive from the Middle Ages, and from the 15th to the 17th centuries he figured prominently in folk drama. Since then, he has appeared in numerous proverbs, placenames, operas, novels,

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Stevens, Gunnar, Markus Rohde, Matthias Korn, and Volker Wulf. Grounded Design. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.003.0002.

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This chapter presents grounded design as a suggestion for a praxeological turn in the field of computing. It argues that, given the high societal relevance of computing to all aspects of life, the academic field of (applied) computer science needs to develop its epistemological paradigm and research methods accordingly. Computer science arguably needs to define itself as a sociotechnical discipline that contributes to the solution of social problems in context. The grounded-design position is that a design-oriented discipline of practice-based computing is needed, one where methods and techniq

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Prieto-Bustos, William Orlando, Johanna Manrique-Hernández, María Camila Jaramillo-Cruz, Marlén Cecilia Torres-Castiblanco, and María Alejandra Dueñas-Portes. Conflicto armado y desplazamiento forzado: un caso de migración forzada en Colombia. Edited by William Orlando Prieto-Bustos and Johanna Manrique-Hernández. Editorial Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/9789585133907.2021.

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Colombia has the highest number of people displaced by violence in the world. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHRC), in 2017, 7.7 million people were registered as being internally displaced. Forced migration as a result of displacement caused by armed conflict, in a context of weak protection of the rights of the victim population and low-income generation, represents a challenge for social development, which is limited by high levels of poverty and income concentration. In particular, the territorialisation of the peace agreements is currently still under construction with s

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Gradín, Carlos, Murray Leibbrandt, and Finn Tarp, eds. Inequality in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001.

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Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the seventeen goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurem

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Osborne, Evan. The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216009191.

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Against the backdrop of Enron and the other high-profile cases of corporate malfeasance, it is easy to paint today's executives as villains and blame big business, and corporations generally, for a wide array of social ills. Is the criticism warranted? Not quite, says Evan Osborne, as he traces the history of anti-corporate sentiment and assesses the fever-pitch hatred, by some, of all things corporate. While not perfect angels, Osborne argues, corporations confer many more benefits to society than ills. Moreover, they are an essential engine of human progress, and longstanding legal principle

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Frerk, Christopher, and Takashi Asai. The airway in anaesthetic practice. Edited by Michel M. R. F. Struys. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0048.

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This chapter provides a comprehensive review of current airway management set against its historical context and likely future developments in the field. Developments in equipment design are discussed against the background of a short review of the anatomy and physiology relevant to clinical airway management. An exploration of airway devices examines progress in design from the first facemasks and early hands-free delivery systems, through to current second-generation supraglottic airways and the future of providing improved protection against aspiration. Continuing advances in tracheal tube

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Bornstein, Marc H., and Diane L. Putnick. Parent–Adolescent Relationships in Global Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847128.003.0006.

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The chapter on parent–adolescent relationships in global perspective explores dynamic and reciprocal relationships between parents and their growing adolescents. Relationships between parents and their children change as children enter adolescence. This chapter covers how parents shape their adolescents’ characteristics and meet their needs just as adolescents’ characteristics and needs shape parenting. Most research on adolescence emanates from high-income and Western countries, and parent–adolescent relationships are molded by culture or context. This chapter covers some aspects of parent–ad

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Anderson, James M. Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400636790.

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The life of persecuted minorities, as well as that of the wealthy and the ordinary people of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, comes alive in this illuminating account. For three and a half centuries, the Inquisition permeated every aspect of daily life in early modern Spain. This history depicts in graphic terms the dangers faced by Jews and Muslims and their suffering at the hands of the Inquisitors, as well as the struggle for survival of the lower classes and the ostentatious display of wealth of the high nobility. Set against the political, religious, social, economic, and cultural ev

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Devlin, R. K. LGBTQ+ and Healthcare in America. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765114247.

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Considers the issues that impact healthcare for LGBTQ+ Americans today and the negative influences that disproportionately affect the well-being of these communities, and presents a path forward to making needed improvements. The health of LGBTQ+ Americans is affected by many historical achievements and failures, societal influences, economic disparities, cultural shifts, and political divisions that can greatly impact the world of medicine, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter examines these issues to identify the systemic factors and enduring consequences impacting these comm

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Thackeray, Frank W., and John E. Findling. Events That Changed the World in the Eighteenth Century. Greenwood, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400648373.

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Warfare on three continents, empire building, and revolution—political, agricultural, and industrial—dominate 18th-century world history. In Europe royal dynasties formed, fought major wars that carved up the map of Europe and the Americas, and began the great colonial expansion that dominated the next century. But the 18th century also ushered in the Enlightenment, which fired the imagination of Europeans, and the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions, which changed society and work forever. To help students better understand the major developments of the 18th century and their impact on 19

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The social impact of sport. Unlocking the potential of sport to drive social transformations. UNESCO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54678/unqq6059.

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Sport as a tool for social impact has gained recognition from international bodies and initiatives such as the SDGs and UNESCO’s flagship, Fit for Life. At UNESCO’s 7th International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS VII), practitioners, experts and representatives of 110 countries in attendance reaffirmed UNESCO’s leading role in building knowledge, developing Member States’ capacities and implementing programmes in the field of impact investment in sport, as critical means to increase public and private investments in Sport for

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SAHAIDAK, Mykhailo, ed. STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES OF MODERN MANAGEMENT. Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.35668/978-966-926-500-5.

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This study examines issues of modern management and trends in its development. Its evolution from the end of the 19th century to the present is presented. The current state of management systems is analyzed, attention is paid to trends in the development of management science and practice, which have developed and are still being formed, as well as objective factors that affect the specified process. Globalization, as a phenomenon, is a complex and multifaceted process that affects various aspects of society, economy, and politics. In the context of business and management, globalization creat

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Thoms, Peg. Finding the Best and the Brightest. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400651397.

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Finding the Best and Brightest proposes an approach to choosing leaders based on a set of criteria designed to align individual qualities with organizational or institutional goals. Peg Thoms challenges the popular trend in theory and practice toward transformational or visionary leadership, arguing instead that leadership must be developed in context; many organizations, for example, don't need visionaries as much as they need operational leaders, who get things done by focusing on present-day tasks, such as designing superior products and delivering exceptional customer service. This book pr

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Esteban-Salvador, Maria Luisa, ed. The International Conference on Multidisciplinary Per- pectives on Equality and Diversity in Sports (ICMPEDS). 14th to the 16th of july 2021 . Book of abstracts. Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/uz.978-84-18321-32-0.

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The International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity in Sports (ICMPEDS) is organized by GESPORT with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union from the 14th to the 16th of July 2021. The conference is an excellent forum for academics, researchers, practitioners, athletes, man- agers and professionals of federations, associations and sport organizations, and those other- wise involved in sport to share and exchange ideas in different areas of sport related equality worldwide. We will keep you informed by email and post the latest informatio

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Tham, Henrik, ed. Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbo.

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The drug policies of the Nordic countries have been relatively strict. Since this seems to contradict the internationally recognized liberal criminal policy in general, analyses have been devoted to try to understand this gap. Why doesn’t the “Scandinavian exceptionalism” apply to the drug policies? The new question in relation to drug policy is, however, if and how the Nordic countries will adapt to a situation when several countries all over the world are questioning ‘the war on drugs’ and orienting themselves in the direction of decriminalization and legalization. An analysis of a possible

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