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Chapter 1 The Polyphony of Function
(2021)
"Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.
In the Principle of Hope, Ernst ...
Chapter 2 Barents Sea oil and gas 2025
(2015)
What are some of the possible futures for Barents Sea oil and gas? This chapter draws upon the key trends and issues covered by the book’s thematic chapters
and presents three scenarios on the prospects for Norwegian–Ru ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2021)
"This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.
Accelerating societal, economic, political and ...
Understanding Audience Engagement in the Contemporary Arts
(2021)
Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. ...
The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X
(2022)
Rock salt formations have long been recognized as a valuable resource - not only for salt mining but for construction of oil and gas storage caverns and for isolation of radioactive and other hazardous wastes. Current ...
Real-Time Systems Development with RTEMS and Multicore Processors
(2021)
The proliferation of multicore processors in the embedded market for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) makes developing real-time embedded applications increasingly difficult. What is the underlying ...
Deciphering the European Investment Bank
(2022)
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International ...
Economic Transformation in Poland and Ukraine
(2020)
When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political, social and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s, both economies were at a similar level of economic development (GDP $9,500 per capita). However, in 2018, ...
Chapter 16 Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory
(2019)
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both ...
Chapter 3 Analytical Sociology amidst a Computational Social Science Revolution
(2021)
"The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning ...
Science in Movements
(2022)
This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified ...
A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi
(2021)
This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced ...
Microscale Testing in Aquatic Toxicology
(1998)
Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. ...
Vienna
(2022)
This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social participation and the ...
Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class
(2025)
Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class focuses on the crossover of queer and class, examining a range of texts across languages and genres and spanning nearly a century. This collection of ...
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession
(2018)
Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish ...
Chapter 5 Technological Accretion in Diagnostics
(2016)
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can ...
Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe
(2020)
The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2019)
First, the authors in this collection begin with the assumption that
populism can only be fully understood if the role played by communication
and the media is taken seriously. Second, the authors in this volume argue ...
Chapter 5 State-centric safety and biometric economies
(2021)
"The book investigates how the United Nations, governments and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration. Since the early 2000s, numerous non-governmental ...
International Aid and Democracy Promotion
(2021)
"International Aid and Democracy Promotion investigates the link between foreign aid and the promotion of democracy, using theory, statistical tests and illustrative case studies.
This book challenges the field of development ...
Chapter 7 The development of political systems in post-communist countries
(2022)
This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: ...
Local Politics and National Policy
(2017)
This book is about why and how central and local governments clash over important national policy decisions. Its empirical focus is on the local politics of Japan which has significantly shaped, and been shaped by, larger ...
A Sensory Education
(2021)
A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world. Anna Harris shows that our sensing is not innate or acquired, but in fact evolves ...
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
(2018)
Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was ...
Risk Management in Crisis
(2021)
Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, ...
Circuit Design
(2017)
Circuit Design = Science + Art! Designers need a skilled "gut feeling" about circuits and related analytical techniques, plus creativity, to solve all problems and to adhere to the specifications, the written and the ...
Chapter 10 Modelling the process of translation using metalanguages
(2022)
"This edited volume covers the development and application of metalanguages for concretely describing and communicating translation processes in practice.
In a modern setting of project-based translation, it is crucial ...
Chapter 7 EU Role Conceptions and Role Expectations towards the V4
(2025)
Applying role theory and Putnam’s two-level game framework to the European migration crisis of 2015, Magdalena Kozub-Karkut expertly shows how the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland used the crisis to contest ...
Significance in Language
(2022)
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic ...
Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice
(2025)
This book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives. What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for ...
Chapter 2 Post-conflict political order
(2022)
"This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states.
The work explores the interplay between violence and power by ...
The Value & Purpose of Management Education
(2022)
Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD’s existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy ...
Chapter 12 Hölderlin’s Higher Enlightenment
(2020)
"This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and ...
Chapter 11 Social Media: From Digital Divide to Empowerment
(2016)
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2022)
"This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on ...
Intellectual Property Rights, Copynorm and the Fashion Industry
(2024)
This book traces the development of the fashion industry, providing insight into the business and, in particular, its interrelations with copyright law. The book explores how the greatest haute couture fashion designers ...
Criminal Futures
(2021)
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted ...
Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance
(2020)
"This book examines the European governance of emerging security technologies.
The emergence of technologies such as drones, autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, cyber and biotechnologies has stimulated worldwide ...
Chapter 3 Epistolarity in Twelfth-century Byzantine Poetry
(2021)
Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed ...