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Das Thema des Buches bildet der Toyotismus als im globalen Maßstab dominantes Produktionsmodell. Infolge seines weltweiten Transfers unter dem Etikett der „schlanken Produktion“ kommt es sowohl im verarbeitenden als auch im Dienstleistungssektor zur...
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Springer VS
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2026-02-23
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This book explores the interconnections between biodiversity, cultural knowledge, and resource management in Lanna in Northern Thailand, and Northeast India. By examining traditional practices, economic activities, and gender roles, the book contributes to the...
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Springer
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2026-02-21
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This book is the second volume in the two-volume set Artificial Intelligence and Discourse. It explores how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4, Gemini, and CoPilot are transforming human–machine interaction and communication across institutions and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-21
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This Handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe. It consists of high-profile contributions that expose structural relations, global colonial and imperial histories, class oppression, and ongoing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-21
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This book advances the Capability Approach as an ethical, people-centred framework for social impact assessment in development practice. Focusing on two Australian Government–funded WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) projects in rural Vietnam and Cambodia, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-21
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This book is about words that fool us into thinking that the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free. The collection shows how metaphors used by Big Tech to promote digital technologies are reductive or misleading. With a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This volume draws on existentialist ideas from philosophy, psychology and sociology to explore some intriguing questions. How do good people commit evil deeds? Which parts of our selves do we try to hide from others – and from ourselves? How do we find a balance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book examines the transformative potential of arts on Afghan society, specifically focusing on how artistic praxes have shaped and influenced social dynamics and identity. Theorising sociocultural responses to military interventions, political instability and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book examines the development of global cities in Indonesia and proposes a new paradigm for urban development, grounded in inclusive social development. Inclusive development is defined as a new approach to development by developing an increasingly open...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book investigates the widespread and persistent human rights violations against Dalits in India, with a focus on the erstwhile central Bihar from 1977 to the present day. Drawing on historical data, field interviews, judicial records, and human rights reports, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book provides an invaluable overview of urban transitions in Africa with a focus on innovations that offer alternative development approaches of these areas. The key to a successful transition is the nature of system changes and the identification of what is needed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book pioneers a systematic inquiry into the link between theatrical performances and histories of Philippine labor migration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Focusing on plays mounted by Tanghalang Pilipino of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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The book explores the politics of gendered belonging in the South Asian (SA) diaspora through the lens of migration. It focuses on the lives of contemporary postcolonial SA migrants, particularly women, through a critical analysis of select South Asian diaspora...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book explores how the public problem of the Ukrainian refugees is constructed in political and media discourses, by looking into the public debates, strategic narratives and practices circulated with reference to this crisis. Taking into consideration the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-19
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Silk Road Cultural Exchange between East and West and the Art of the Northern Steppes is a six-volume series; this book is Volume 1. From multiple historical perspectives, it examines artistic cultures along theSilk Road and the mechanisms of East–West exchange,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-19
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Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and through different disciplines. These include sociology, gender, cultural studies, linguistics, and psychology with topics ranging from masculinity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-19
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A former investigator with the police judiciaire, the author was directly involved in the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès case. Based on authentic facts, unpublished documents and field observations, this account offers an unprecedented immersion behind the scenes of the...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2026-02-19
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The ecological crisis at a planetary scale has heightened our awareness of the geological impact of human activities and the possibility of human species extinction. Within the heightened consciousness of hubris and vulnerability encoded in the Anthropocene discourse,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-18
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This Open Access book explores the role and agency of stories and storytelling in understanding places and in revealing how places tell stories. It addresses themes of colonialism, more-than-human agency, environment, atmospheres, borders, dwelling, enchantment,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-18
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„Haltung“ ist in der Sozialpädagogik ein vielbeachteter Begriff mit einer langen Tradition. Umso bemerkenswerter erscheint es, dass er zwar vielfach im Diskurs aufgegriffen, bislang jedoch wenig erforscht wird. Die vorliegende Studie setzt an diesem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-17
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