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New technologies are changing how we protect our citizens and wage our wars. Among militaries, everything taken for granted about the ability to maneuver and fight is now undermined by vulnerability to “weapons of mass disruption”: cutting-edge computer worms, viruses,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-11
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This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland’s mould-breaking 2020 election. For the first time ever, Sinn Féin won the most votes, the previously dominant parties shrank to a fraction of their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-10
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This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years. The Japanese National Character Survey, launched in 1953, is a rare longitudinal survey in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-10
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'Nobody writes better prose than Renata Adler' John Leonard, Harper's For decades Renata Adler - acclaimed author of Speedboat and Pitch Dark - has pursued a single urgent question: What is really going on here? As a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1963 to 2001,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-06-10
Collection :
W&N Essentials
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Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidated
statehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, global
order has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistance
movements, and cultural diversity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-09
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Memories contribute to the construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far East societies by highlighting non-European cases of practicing collective and historical memory.
The Far...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-09
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‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-09
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This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters. Certification according to private sustainability standards...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-09
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This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance, Populist Moments and Extractivist States identifies it as an intervening variable...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-07
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This book examines the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda and its comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach to achieving a more human rights-based and environmentally sustainable development process. More crucially, it provides a much needed and innovative analysis of the role of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-07
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Our understanding of modern power politics usually relies on simple, linear narratives which tend to obfuscate complex systems. Sociological and historical connections in particular are eschewed, in favor of national (hi)stories and short-term analysis. Yet actors tend...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2021-06-07
Collection :
Diplomacy and Strategy
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In diesem Buch wird die historische Entwicklung und Begriffsgeschichte des Hammelsprungs als eines der bemerkenswertesten sichtbaren Instrumente der Parlamentsarbeit seit dem 19. Jahrhundert dargestellt. Ferner wird gezeigt, dass die tatsächliche Handhabung des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-04
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This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the current monetary and financial system and discusses several reform options.This book systematically...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-03
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Die Dorfgeschichte im Vormärz kennzeichnet eine Ablehnung der neoklassizistischen « Kunstperiode » zugunsten der von Robert Prutz definierten « Unterhaltungsliteratur ». Das bedeutet die Hinwendung des auktorialen Erzählers zur Erzählgegenwart, eine oft autobiographisch...
Editeur :
NBN International
Parution :
2021-06-03
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How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?How do we tackle the climate crisis?How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are successfully...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-06-03
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Das Buch thematisiert den aus der Besiedlungs-, vor allem der Cowboy-Ära hergeleiteten Westernmythos in den USA, der über Generationen hinweg von den populärsten Medien jeder Epoche wiederholt wird. Der bewaffneten Gesellschaft, die das 19. Jahrhundert den Vereinigten...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-02
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This open access book explores the new complexities and ambiguities that epitomize EU-Turkey relations. With a strong focus on the developments in the last decade, the book provides full access to a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted relationship through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-02
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The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst effects at the Irish border in the form of violence, controls and barriers. When the relationship has been good, the Irish...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-06-02
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Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe.
In particular, it captures developments that have taken place...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-02
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Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe.
In particular, it captures developments that have taken place...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-02
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