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This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17–25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-02
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Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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The purpose of this ground-breaking book is to inspire the principle of innovation as a permeating program for Europe’s societies. After demonstrating early success from the realization of a single market and single currency, the European cooperation process is falling...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-28
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What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and misconceptions of charitable activity in contemporary British society, especially insofar as these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-07-26
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This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-12
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This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach, it investigates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-12
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This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from slowing productivity, ageing populations and pressing labour shortages. To address these inter-related challenges, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public forms of organization and governance in urban residential developments. Bringing together top experts from numerous disciplines, including law, economics,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-01
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This book explores
the power of greater openness, accountability, and transparency in digital
information and government data for the nations of Southeast Asia. The author demonstrates
that, although the term “open data” seems to be self-explanatory, it involves
an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-27
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This book provides new insights into the economic impacts, strategic objectives and legal structures of an emerging branch of government incentives conditioned on meeting intellectual property-related requirements. Despite becoming more common in recent years, such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in the African context:...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-18
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This fully updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Student’s Companion to Social Policy charts the latest developments, research, challenges, and controversies in the field in a concise, authoritative format. Provides students with the analytical base from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-17
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This book aims to clarify the present situation of the relations between small island countries and territories on the one hand and the great powers, mainland areas, and mega-islands on the other, and explores how small island countries and territories preserve and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-14
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It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will accrue only to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-06
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Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-06-03
Collection :
Social Work in Theory and Practice
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This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict society largely...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-31
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This book explores the mechanisms by which top incomes are achieved through work in today’s advanced economies and asks to what extent current extreme inequalities are compatible with widely held values of social justice. Reflecting on the heterogeneity of the working...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-28
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This book draws upon a meticulous study of background documents and a string of fresh interviews to tell the fascinating story of how the EU’s climate flagship was significantly improved. The EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) covers almost half of its greenhouse gas...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-25
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This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies. These approaches are based on a number of theoretical perspectives on decision-making, as well as alternative perspectives on policy instruments and implementation. The range of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-25
ePub
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