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In order for defendants facing legal charges in the United States to be able to move forward with the legal process, they must be competent to proceed with their cases. Defendants are presumed to be competent to make legal decisions, until someone calls their competency...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-01
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“Evolution is by choice”. This is not a passive truth, but a conscious commitment, one that lies at the heart of what I call the Advanced City. Coined and thoroughly introduced here in the book, this new concept is based on people-centric and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book examines the status of public health care services to marginalised and disadvantaged populations in India, sociological perspectives on illness and health, and manifest perceptions of illness and health. It emphasizes the need to address the longstanding issue...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book investigates societal shifts induced by internet technologies. Alexei Anisin applies Anthony Giddens' structuration theory to analyze interactions between digital structures and human agency. He argues against deterministic narratives about technological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book provides a description of what a good human service organization is, and what it does. The author relies on a broad framework to define “good” and offers a fictional account as a methodology, using his considerable consulting and research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This third edition of the highly successful handbook is presented for the first time in two volumes, covering the field of social psychology more comprehensively than earlier, including applying social psychology to different areas in sociology. It showcases the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This open access book discusses the market logic of recruitment agencies who deploy migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia. Agencies are involved in all stages of worker migration trajectory – from their selection, to their training, and their management at...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the complex relationships between aesthetics, politics, and environmental concerns within far-right movements. Drawing on critical theory and insights from Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière, and others, it examines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book explores the complex aftermath and socio-demographic effects of COVID-19 on indigenous people in Indonesia. As a vulnerable group facing multiple problems relating to marginalization, poverty, and lack of access to public facilities, Indigenous communities...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This open-access book presents a socio-legal analysis of immediate responses to large-scale refugee displacement in Europe after the 1951 Refugee Convention came into force, focusing on the countries to which refugees initially fled or through which they passed (namely...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the ‘autographic gesture’.This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book examines the evolving phenomenon of digital transformation in the public sector. First, it provides a theoretical understanding of public sector digitalization, considers policy dilemmas that may hinder it, and assesses strategies for successful digital...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden erstmalig Doulas – nicht-medizinische Geburtsbegleiterinnen – in der Deutschschweiz untersucht. Doulas begleiten gebärende Personen vor, während und nach der Geburt auf emotionaler Ebene. Diese...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book investigates social media regulation in Nigeria as an example for the Global South. It centres around political economy and theoretical insights drawn from studies into internet and social media regulation, the securitisation of online harms, and practical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book presents a broad and in-depth, research-based source for exploring how teaching controversial issues on ethics, values, and beliefs can be conducted in Religious Education. How may teachers conduct an objective and comprehensive education that respects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This volume provides a historical context for the present escalation of hostilities between Palestinians and the State of Israel. It brings together interdisciplinary chapters written by international specialists in the field of interreligious engagement. It presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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Seit längerem wird öffentlich heftig über Ereignisse der sogenannten ‚Cancel Culture‘ diskutiert. Unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche und politische Positionen streiten darüber, ob‚ Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Kunstfreiheit, letztlich die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This edited book (volume 1) focuses on exploring the global security issues associated with transnational unconventional organized crime. The book is divided into 2 sections:
Part 1: Unconventional Organized Crime Landscape Part 2: Cyber space and organised...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This open access book explores the rise of new forms of electricity capital, examining how evolving energy systems shape energy consumption and access in five different case studies from the global South. Structured in seven chapters, it begins with a clear theoretical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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As our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexities continue to increase, this book presents a refreshingly unconventional, creative, and radical meditation on urbanism and city living. Greg Mews...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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