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The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work ...
Immaginare l’altrove nell’epoca dell’Antropocene
(2023)
This book explores the processes through which particular places take shape in the imaginaries, perceptions and narratives of people who do not inhabit them, or who have inhabited them only recently. The ways in which we ...
Chapter 6 Virtual Energy Storage Systems for Virtual Power Plants
(2023)
This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing ...
Chapter 34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab
(2023)
The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
(2021)
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the ...
Having Too Much
(2023)
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits.
This concept has deep roots in economic and political ...
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
(2023)
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, ...
Chapter 11 National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage
(2024)
In sub-Saharan Africa a number of national theatres were established from the 1950s onwards. Their construction involved British colonial administration, American philanthropy and Chinese development aid. While each history ...
Chapter 8 Brecht as a Model for Cultural Development
(2024)
Despite the non-governmental status of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute (ITI), its organisational structures enabled its member states to use it as an instrument of cultural representation for national ...
Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
(2024)
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
The introduction outlines the main trajectories of the Cultural Cold War, starting with the revelations in the late 1960s that the CIA was using various front organizations to fund culture abroad as a way to combat Soviet ...
What Would Hercules Do?
(2023)
One day, according to the Ancient Greek author Xenophon, the hero Hercules “went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering”. This book explores what happened here and how and why it can resonate with autistic young people. ...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
(2022)
What constitutes a sovereign wealth fund is contested. In general, however, it is a state-sponsored institutional investor that is answerable only to the state and makes investments according to the interests and mandate ...
Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji
(2023)
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety
(2023)
This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient ...
Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind
(2023)
This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own ...
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
(2022)
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover ...
Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World
(2023)
From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge ...
Moral Teleology
(2023)
This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable ...
Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values
(2024)
This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy ...
Chapter 3 Beyond Ring Composition
(2021)
In this chapter, the author discovers Michel Cuypers’ pioneering application to the Qur’an of the Semitic rhetorical analysis of Roland Meynet. It takes the reader through the first 33 verses of Surat Maryam to show how a ...
Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials
(2023)
This book reports on cutting-edge research within the new field of active rheology control of cementitious materials, presenting new ideas developed within the ERC Advanced Grant Project, SmartCast (hosted at Ghent ...
Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991
(2022)
This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses ...
How People Compare
(2023)
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – ...
European Modernity and the Passionate South
(2022)
In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European ...
Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature...
(2022)
Hale and Riverlea form the core of the Our Mythical Childhood project’s Australasian team, and Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey incorporates reflection on children’s literature from ...
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreign ships and aircraft in densely navigated straits. The book ...
Microhistories of Technology
(2023)
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals ...
Warranty Obligations in Western France, 1040–1270
(2023)
This open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter Commentary (end of Chapter 8)
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter AI Overview: Methods and Structures
(2021)
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Chapter Machine Learning Models for Industrial Applications
(2021)
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Chapter Polyimide Films for Digital Isolators
(2021)
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Wissenschaftskarrieren und Gender Bias
(2024)
What form does social change take with regard to equal opportunities in academic careers? How can gender bias be counteracted structurally and sustainably? The anthology pursues a double focus on this change towards an ...
Sufficiency in Business
(2024)
Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting reduced resource consumption and adjusting production volumes to ...
Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe
(2024)
Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas expansionist processes, this book makes this study for the Portuguese overseas ...
Exegesis of the Gospel of Luke
(2024)
This volume contributes to a better understanding of the Byzantine collections of exegetical excerpts on the Gospel of Luke. The edition of previously unknown or largely neglected series of comments on Luke and the examination ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
Chapter Machine Learning in Volcanology: A Review
(2021)
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Chapter Magnetic Iron Oxide Colloids for Environmental Applications
(2021)
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Chapter Urban Mining of e-Waste and the Role of Consumers
(2022)
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Chapter Recent Advances in Pre-Treatment of Plastic Packaging Waste
(2022)
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Chapter Enzymes – Key Elements of the Future Biorefineries
(2022)
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Chapter 6 Learning to Discriminate
(2022)
It is often thought that traditional recidivism prediction tools used in criminal
sentencing, though biased in many ways, can straightforwardly avoid one particularly
pernicious type of bias: direct racial discrimination. ...
