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Nbic technologies as weapons of modern warfare
What are implications of new technological possibilities in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) have for new forms of warfare.
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Sport from the perspective of peer groups
This book explores how communitisation emerges within adolescent peer groups and how it influences their engagement in physical education.
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Transdisciplinary impulses towards socio-ecological transformation
In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields. They provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the t...
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Social consequences of labour market marginalisation in germany
The book examines the social consequences of labor market marginalization for close social relations and social participation in Germany.
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Global trends: prospects for development and peace
Based on longer-term trends, the articles explain in which direction joint global problem-solving can develop in selected areas.
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Sustainability transitions in professional life trajectories
How adults incorporate sustainability into their professional lives.
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Professional-scientific education
This volume intends to reflect and to enhance the discourse on the relation and integration of professional and scientific education. In a series of contributions by well-known educational scientists from Germany and other countries, the theoretical, conceptual and practical design questions for ...
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Early science education – goals and process-related quality criteria for science teaching
Scientific contributions authored by distinguished experts from the field of early education are published periodically within the framework of the series Scientific Studies on the Work of the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” Foundation. This publication series serves to foster informed dialogue betwe...
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Gendered configurations of humans and machines
In numerous fields of science, work, and everyday life, humans and machines have been increasingly entangled, developing an ever-growing toolbox of interactions. These entanglements affect our daily lives and pose possibilities as well as restrictions, chances as well as challenges. The contribut...
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Violence and genocide in kurdish memory
Kurdish memories of the Armenian Genocide challenge the systematic denialism of the Turkish state and foster new possibilities of coming to terms with the past. This book explores the dynamics of intertwined remembrance concerning political violence against Armenian and Syriac Christian Ottoman i...
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Security beyond the state
Which is the role of the European Union in dealing with crises that go beyond the nation states borders – terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, state failure, organised crime, natural and man-made disasters? The authors assess the main challenge for the EU: ...
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Joy, reflections, resistance – lgbtiq+ lived realities in africa
This book brings together activist and scholarly perspectives from different African countries on the multifaceted lived realities of LGBTIQ+ persons.
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Meritocratic beliefs and the persistence of educational inequality
An examination of meritocracy in education how such beliefs are shaped by experiences and what consequences they have for the reproduction of educational inequality.
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Sustainability and intergenerational justice
Hans Bertram follows the UN Sustainable Development Goals and discusses possible solutions and development prospects in order to shed light on the changing lifestyles of children in Germany.
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Growing up in diaspora – education and family of east african refugees in germany
This book centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany.
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Migration and mobility in an enlarged europe
The book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women’s practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically „women’s work“. The book combines different...
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The service user as a partner in social work projects and education
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. However, they are usually reduced to the role of informants and not activel...
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How sentiment matters in international relations: china and the south china sea dispute
The rise of China represents a major challenge for regional stability in Southeast Asia. This book contends that experiences of perceived disrespect by the Chinese side have contributed to its increasingly bold stance toward the South China Sea dispute. However, conflict is not inevitable and the...
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New authoritarianism
Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several long-standing democracies, but their main successes have taken place in states that emerged from dictatorial rule only recently. This book contains case studies of contemporary Hungarian, Kenyan, Polish, Russian, and Turkish regimes and what they ...
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Algorithmic and aesthetic literacy
This book presents a wide array of transdisciplinary perspectives on computational and aesthetic practices and thinking. Drawing on computer and educational science, artistic research, designing, and crafting, this collection delves deeply into social and educational challenges in the wake of the...
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Work-based learning in tertiary education in europe – examples from six educational systems
This research project investigates implementation of work-based learning elements in tertiary education programs in England, France, Ireland, Norway, Austria, and Poland, seeking to contribute to the greater visibility of such education and to facilitate a more critical debate about the issue of...
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Gendering european integration theory
The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholars...
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The state-building dilemma in afghanistan
This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace- and statebuilding interventions in Afghanistan since 2001. It presents Afghan perceptions and discourse on topics such as democracy, Islam, women’s rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divides, and democratic governmental design ...
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Mobile entrepreneurs
This book explores the biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called “born global.” Presenting current ethnographic research, the book critically discusses approaches in migration and mobility studies and the research field of the “migration of the hig...
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The influence of economic interdependence on us-china relations
U.S.-China tensions have escalated in recent years, increasing the likelihood of a future conflict. However, an open conflict would have costly consequences for both sides due to the countries’ deep interconnectedness. This book addresses the incentives for both sides to avoid conflict and contin...
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Women political leaders in rwanda and south africa
This book considers the successes, challenges, and controversies of women’s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, it explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds.
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The role of local political elites in east central europe
This book considers local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It uses a comparative method to examine the profile and the role of the local political elites (such as members of municipal councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.
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Women, biomedical research and art
This book investigates intersectional vulnerabilities, sociogeographical and racial injustices, as well as the potential of trauma in reproductive medicine, human trafficking, and black-market organ trades in a global context. It emphasizes dignity and integrity in the everyday lives of affected ...
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Why states rebel
Given the fact that two-thirds of all intrastate wars since 1945 have included foreign interventions, what drives sovereign states to support non-state conflict parties? In order to understand causes and calculations of this particular type of third party intervention, this book connects some of ...
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Greek tragedy, european odyssey: the politics and economics of the eurozone crisis
Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic...
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Materializing fairness
This book showcases initiatives addressing the gender gap across the tech industry's various sectors.
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Demographics of korea and germany
Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of divided nations. But while Korea is still divided Germany has gone through a peaceful unification. The book offers a unique comparative study on the demographic change in these divided countries. It also investigates the developme...
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Leadership in early education in times of change
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well a...
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The governance of small states in turbulent times
What is special about small states? How do they adapt their policies and patterns of governance to meet turbulent times such as a new security environment and the international financial crisis? Answers to these and further questions are provided by experts. What are the constraints on and oppor...
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Migration and refugee policies in germany
International migration is one of the most controversial political topics today which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamic...
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Parents in the spotlight
Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents a...
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Education, work and family events in women’s lives
This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend toward the service society, and the German unification affect East and West German women’s life courses and family lives. The findings suggest that women’s entry into motherhood during full-time education is highly dependent on their age...
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Psychology’s feminist voices from turkey
The book highlights feminist psychology in Turkey as a force for justice, healing, and solidarity.
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Educating students with refugee and asylum seeker experiences
This book examines the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into their new homelands. The authors propose ways in which these students can be educated with policies and perspectives that respect diversity, using a primary school in Australia d...
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Health among the elderly in germany
Whether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental conditions were to approach those of the vanguard group; (2) the social and be...
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Democracy under stress
This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with ...
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Managing challenging behaviour in schools
This book presents approaches and solutions for understanding and acting in difficult educational situations at school.
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Translating student diversity within the german higher education system
Julia Mergner examines how differently universities translate the idea of student diversity into their local context.
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India in the indo-pacific
In view of the fast-changing world order, emerging countries are increasingly influencing the dynamics of regional securities. This timely and in-depth book examines India’s reorienting strategic posture and describes how New Delhi’s security policy in the Indo-Pacific region has evolved and expa...
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Radical approaches to political science: roads less traveled
This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new ways o...
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Perspectives on transitions in refugee education
This book covers how refugee transitions on an individual, social, and cultural level intersect with educational experiences.
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Enterprise social policy as a means of development of social work
Since its professional beginnings, social work has been a major actor and instrument of social policy. This study is a reconstruction of the development of social work in enterprises implemented as part of enterprise social policy in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia between the years 1876-198...
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European social work – a compendium
This compendium takes stock of the fundamental developments transforming social work in Europe. It discusses visible and invisible changes and maps out where social work is positioned in the emerging post-welfare states. International experts give an overview of different aspects of crucial chang...
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Arsenal of autocracy
This book explores the military strategy and modernization of Russia and China post-2001. In an international system where U.S. power wanes, Russia and China are the most potent challengers to the post-Cold War world order. The security challenge these powers pose is enhanced by their histories a...
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Political power
Although the concept of power is central to the study of politics, there is no agreement as to what exactly power is. Power is often viewed negatively, as domination, though it is also the case that power is created by people acting in concert, in which case it can have positive effects. Making s...
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