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The Digital Ecosystem of Kenya: Transforming Governance for a Sustainable Digital Development Carolin Stötzel 9783658455521
Booksplease Price: €121.62The impact of the digital transformation on countries' sustainable development is increasingly discussed in both theory and practice. This multidisciplinary book analyzes the implications of ... -
Moving Beyond the WEIRD: Lessons from an Amazigh Community in Shaping Pluralistic Digital Futures Sarah Rüller 9783658475857
Booksplease Price: €43.36In this open-access book, Sarah Ruller offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and nuances of conducting Western digital research in non-Western contexts, focusing on a case study in... -
Performance Management in Kenyan Higher Education Institutions: The Role of Organizational Culture by Lencer Ondijo 9783658427054
Booksplease Price: €108.81The present study exploratively investigated the role of organizational culture in performance management practices in Kenyan higher education institutions. Specifically, the influence of... -
The Touristic Use of Ayahuasca in Peru: Expectations, Experiences, Meanings and Subjective Effects by Tom John Wolff 9783658293727
Booksplease Price: €55.79This book covers the psychedelic ayahuasca tourism in Peru, with its facet-rich psychological, pharmacological, anthropological, and sociological aspects. The reader gets an interdisciplinary insight... -
Remembering the 1980 Turkish Military Coup d'Etat: Memory, Violence, and Trauma by Elifcan Karacan 9783658113193
Booksplease Price: €55.07In her research studies, Elifcan Karacan shows the relation between trauma, violence and memory with a specific focus on the events considering the 1980 Military Coup d'Etat in Turkey. Based on... -
Short-Termed-Empires in World History by Robert Rollinger 9783658294342
RRP: €83.29Booksplease Price: €72.64The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as "empires" and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very... -
Borderlands of Governance: Municipal Perspectives on Cooperation in the Saarland-Moselle Region Nora Crossey 9783658478094
Booksplease Price: €118.05Recognizing European cross-border cooperation as a complex multilevel governance shaped by both bottom-up and top-down processes, and viewing recent border-regional strategies as a catalyst for... -
Demand-Driven Approaches in Vocational Education and Training: A Case Study of Rural Population in South India by Muthuveeran Ramasamy 9783658125097
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.56Muthuveeran Ramasamy shows that the formal way of vocational education and training (VET) in rural areas often ignores the illiterate, the less educated, and the poor. The author demonstrates that... -
Future Perspectives for Higher Education: A Delphi-based Scenario Study with Special Regard to Elite Higher Education Institutions and Leadership Education by Nick Lange 9783658407117
Booksplease Price: €96.06In recent decades, trends, such as educational expansion and globalization, have caused structural changes in higher education worldwide. To successfully place higher education institutions in an... -
Contemporary Collaborative Consumption: Trust and Reciprocity Revisited by Isabel Cruz 9783658213459
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.36This book provides critical perspectives on contemporary collaborative consumption, a recent societal phenomenon shaking up previously fixed socio-economic categories such as the producer and the... -
Landscape Conflicts Karsten Berr 9783658433512
Booksplease Price: €126.83Landscape conflicts, for example in connection with / in view of the energy transition, climate policy, transport policy, nature conservation, the extraction of mineral raw materials, the design of... -
The First World War: Trauma of the Twentieth Century by Lutz Unterseher 9783658394301
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €78.49Right up to the war, Europe's power elites were driven: motivated by chauvinistic demands, a spirit of aggression and hopes for a quick victory. Although this study clearly identifies the tendencies... -
Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study by Hans-Peter Blossfeld 9783658119928
Booksplease Price: €135.33This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the NEPS. It covers longitudinal... -
Contemporary Popular Music Studies: Proceedings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2017 by Marija Dumnic Vilotijevic 9783658252526
Booksplease Price: €66.78This is the second volume in the series that documents the 19th edition of the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The volume contains contributions... -
India: Preparation for the World of Work: Education System and School to Work Transition by Matthias Pilz 9783658085018
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book explores how the Indian education and training system prepares young people for the world of work and for the requirements of the employment market - because India is a leading... -
The German Good Life I Want: Voices of Turkish Origin Girls by Pinar Burcu Guner 9783658260699
Booksplease Price: €55.79This book reports research on young Turkish women`s interpretation of a good life in Germany. There were two goals. The first was to identify how girls from Turkish origin living in Germany develop a... -
Refugees in Higher Education: Questioning the Notion of Integration by Jana Berg 9783658333379
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €117.83This edited volume addresses critical issues surrounding higher education access for students of refugee backgrounds. It combines a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the... -
The Balancing Act of Working Mothers and Caring Fathers: Impact of Family Policy on Egalitarianism in Families in Western Democracies Meret Lütolf 9783658477158
Booksplease Price: €43.36This Open-Access-book explores how egalitarian parental leave policies can support a more balanced division of paid work and caregiving. Introducing a novel analysis grid and a unique dataset, Meret... -
Managing Global Challenges: The European Union, China and EU Network Diplomacy by Stephan Mergenthaler 9783658103729
Booksplease Price: €55.07The book provides an in-depth analysis of EU-China cooperation mechanisms with a focus on efforts to jointly address global challenges. It zooms in on the cooperation mechanisms for addressing three... -
An Agent-Based Model of Heterogeneous Demand by Dr. Matthias Muller 9783658187217
Booksplease Price: €63.78Matthias Muller makes a case for the particular role of the demand side in research on innovation. Based on a complex agent-based simulation model, he analyzes the versatile mutual relationships... -
Religion as a Political Resource: Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris by Miriam Schader 9783658167875
Booksplease Price: €66.09Miriam Schader shows that migrants can use religion as a resource for political involvement in their (new) country of residence - but under certain circumstances only. The author analyses the role... -
Trust in Media and Journalism: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, Norms, Impacts and Populism in Europe by Kim Otto 9783658207649
Booksplease Price: €55.07All over Europe and the World communication scientists reflect questions on trust in journalism and media. A large scale of analysis and research gives new perspectives of reasons, impacts and... -
Linking of Emissions Trading Schemes: Conditions for Solid International Cooperation to Mitigate Emissions by Matthias Machinek 9783658366667
Booksplease Price: €96.06Anthropogenic Climate Change is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century and receives more and more international awareness. The central instruments to counter climate change are emissions... -
The German Federal Commissioner: An Institutionally Hybrid Office, its Holders, and their Recruitment Daniel Jochum 9783658488444
Booksplease Price: €119.23Scholars have described the delegation of power from politics to administration with the help of the principal-agent theory. This framework examines challenges in the constellation of a superior, i.e... -
Informal Learning in Vocational Education and Training: Illuminating an Elusive Concept Matthias Pilz 9783658443405
Booksplease Price: €133.42Entering educational debate more than 50 years back, the notion of informal learning is still highly relevant today and of specific interest in the context of vocational education and training (VET)... -
The Politics of Community Energy in Europe: Transforming the Energy System and Influencing Policy from the Bottom Up? Boris Gotchev 9783658474300
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €115.39Community energy actors have emerged as significant players in European energy transitions. This dissertation uncovers the role of community energy actors as policy entrepreneurs. Despite being... -
International Corporations as Actors in Global Governance: Evidence from 92 Top-Managers in Germany and France by Maxim Karl Baer 9783658004057
Booksplease Price: €55.07Global Governance describes on a normative level how companies can be responsible and sustainable actors in the international sphere. In times of globalization, failing financial systems and... -
Between Rules of War and Rule of Law: Legitimation as a Strategic Practice in Norm Transformation Dorte Hühnert-Hugendubel 9783658491208
Booksplease Price: €109.61This book examines the legitimation practices of Presidents Bush and Obama in the transformation of detention norms in the war on terror. The focus is on the conflict between the US use of force and... -
Expanding Horizons: Research on the Internationalization of Vocational Education and Training Michael Gessler 9783658437411
Booksplease Price: €126.83This volume presents selected results from the initiative "Research on the Internationalization of Vocational Education and Training", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research... -
Innovation in Social Services: A Systematizing Overview based on the EU Research Platform INNOSERV by Andreas Langer 9783658051754
Booksplease Price: €60.44Across Europe, there is an intense search for new and sustainable approaches to providing welfare. Demographic change, new social risks and other factors call for new ideas to maintain and enhance... -
European Book Cultures: Diversity as a Challenge by Stephanie Kurschus 9783658080594
Booksplease Price: €55.07Stephanie Kurschus analyses the idea of a common "European" book culture that integrates the book market as an essential aspect and employs book promotion as balancing instrument. Characteristics of... -
The Golden Rule in Sports: Investing in the Conditions of Cooperation for a Mutual Advantage in Sports Competitions by Alicia Bockel 9783658070274
Booksplease Price: €55.07Elite level sport lends itself to a highly competitive environment that encourages players to seek a competitive advantage in order to win. Since competition is an inherent condition that is also... -
'New' Migration of Families from Greece to Europe and Canada: A 'New' Challenge for Education? by Julie A. Panagiotopoulou 9783658255206
Booksplease Price: €55.79The volume aims at analysing the migration processes of families from Greece following the financial crisis from 2009 onwards. It investigates whether and to what extent this 'new' and international... -
Shaping Tomorrow Today – SDGs from multiple perspectives by Sandra Hummel 9783658383183
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €79.23The volume provides a unique view on multidimensional crises, their interplay, and possible resolutions for sustainable life patterns and is therefore broadly related to the Sustainable Development... -
Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism: A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011 by Christian Neugebauer 9783658356385
Booksplease Price: €108.28Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer... -
Substantive Minority Representation in Parliament: A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Minorities Lea Ewe Bönisch 9783658469191
Booksplease Price: €121.62This book explores why members of parliament (MPs) substantively represent minorities with invisible characteristics-those lacking outwardly recognizable features. This invisibility complicates the... -
Examining the Intersection of Incel and Crypto Bro Phenomena: A Linguistic Qualitative Study of Harmful Ideologies in Cryptocurrency-Focused Communities Victoria Kozlova 9783658476618
Booksplease Price: €96.06This book addresses the issue of gender underrepresentation in the cryptocurrency domain. This thesis attributes it to the presence of unwelcoming and hostile communities around it. Grounded in the... -
Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks by Lisa Fischer 9783658361525
Booksplease Price: €72.64This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as... -
Human Rights in a Changing World: Reflections on Fundamental Challenges by Mehmet Okyayuz 9783658395322
RRP: €107.09Booksplease Price: €90.20The book aims at presenting an updated version of the basic and general human rights debates. While it is frequently suggested that Human Rights are universal and indivisible, it is an undeniable... -
At Risk of Deprivation: The Multidimensional Well-Being Impacts of Climate Migration and Immobility in Peru by Jonas Bergmann 9783658422974
Booksplease Price: €43.72This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers...