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    • Gotlib, Anna; Katz, Claire Elise (2025)
      In a Barbie World: Barbie as Narrative, Symbol, and Cipher brings together a group of global scholars representing different disciplines and identities to examine the myriad themes that emerge from the Greta Gerwig film, ...
    • Ohajunwa, Chioma; Dube, Kudakwashe ‘AK’; Chitando, Ezra (2025)
      This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. The importance of meeting the needs of people with disabilities is ...
    • Marchisio, Alberto; Shafique, Muhammad (2025)
      Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have shown a high level of accuracy, and applications are widely used in many systems and platforms. However, developing efficient ML-based systems requires addressing three problems: ...
    • milton, viola c.; Mano, Winston (2025)
      This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream ...
    • Grover, Veena; Dhanaraj, Rajesh Kumar; Balusamy, Balamurugan; Rathinam, Gopal (2025)
      This book presents insights into how Intelligent Computing and Optimization techniques can be used to attain the goals of Sustainable Development. It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest breakthroughs and recent ...
    • Sułkowski, Łukasz; Lenart-Gansiniec, Regina (2025)
      Paradigm Shifts in Management Theory is an illuminating exploration of the evolving landscape of management science. This book goes beyond the surface, delving into profound insights and perspectives that redefine traditional ...
    • Gardner, Chelsea A.M.; Higgins, Sabrina C. (2025)
      This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for ...
    • Bergman Blix, Stina; Törnqvist, Nina (2025)
      Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book builds on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Scotland. When do judges and prosecutors become ...
    • Odilla, Fernanda (2025)
      This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data ...
    • Hall, Patrik (2025)
      A well-functioning bureaucracy is very important, but in Sweden there are clear signs that bureaucratization is taking place - that there are too many personnel who govern, administer and control operations rather than ...
    • Cons, Jason (2025)
      Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta’s imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh’s southwest, development ...
    • Ciesielska, Dominika; Lamerichs, Nicolle; Zarzycka, Agata (2025)
      This book provides a timely discussion of the creative practices in fandom and media culture. Within their participatory cultures, fans produce a wealth of content, data and materials. They write fan fiction, curate wikis ...
    • Steinbach, Armin (2025)
      This book examines the design and evolution of European law from the perspective of economics. It draws on various branches of the economic sciences—including rational choice and game theory, and institutional and behavioural ...
    • Bieler, Andrea; Hoffmann, Claudia; Ketges, Lisa (2025)
      How do religious individuals, communities, and political institutions navigate diversity and how do they foster social cohesion? This volume focuses on convivial practices in religiously diverse settings and includes ...
    • Johannemann, Hendrik (2025)
      In times of right-wing populists gaining traction worldwide, conservative Christians engage in both continuous and dynamic action forms to gain societal and political hegemony. Hendrik Johannemann delves deeply into the ...
    • Trogemann, Georg (2025)
      Today, we not only design and produce artifacts, but also subjective experiences, life models and social change. This active shaping of our life circumstances is usually seen as a plannable and methodical activity. However, ...
    • Wagner, Martin (2025)
      Warum buchstabieren Rapper so gern ihren eigenen Namen? Warum nennen sie so oft die aktuelle Jahreszahl? Und warum benutzen sie lieber Vergleiche als Metaphern? Auf der Grundlage eines breiten Korpus deutschsprachiger Musik ...
    • Odierna, Beatrice; Sökefeld, Martin (2025)
      Sowohl in der Ethnologie als auch in der Sozialen Arbeit ist Handlungsmacht ein zentrales, aber auch umstrittenes Konzept. Vertreter*innen beider Disziplinen erinnern uns daran, unsere eigenen Vorstellungen von Handlungsmacht ...
    • Schmidt, Werner; Müller, Andrea (2025)
      Personalräte engagieren sich als Interessenvertretung der Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Dienst und achten auf die Einhaltung gesetzlicher und tarifvertraglicher Bestimmungen. Sie sind damit ein wichtiger Akteur der ...
    • Lykov, Egor (2025)
      Die Betonschalen Heinz Islers gelten als Werke schweizerischer Ingenieurbaukunst und Produkte der Hochkonjunktur der Nachkriegszeit. Die künstlerischen und ökonomischen Aspekte erfassen jedoch nicht die ganze Komplexität ...