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Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Julia Simonson
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $63.34This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS)... -
Responsibility in Science and Technology: Elements of a Social Theory by Simone Arnaldi 9783658110130
Booksplease Price: $108.01The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways... -
Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping: Opening the Black Box by Daniel Weissenrieder 9783658406479
Booksplease Price: $128.62In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates... -
The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today by Julia Gerlach 9783658024406
Booksplease Price: $80.65While religion was expelled from the public space during Communist times and became a secret form of "inner emigration", it entered the empty public space again in Post-Communist times. Public... -
Friendly Business: International Views on Social Supply, Self-Supply and Small-Scale Drug Dealing by Bernd Werse 9783658103286
Booksplease Price: $90.25Based on social research conducted in different countries in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, this anthology is the first to provide detailed insights into small-scale drug distribution. A main focus... -
German Foreign Policy and Greek Martyr Communities: Reconciliation Policy for Places of Memory in Greece and the Role of Recognition by Charalampos Karpouchtsis 9783658443696
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.59The Euro crisis of 2008 had a deep impact on German-Greek relations. The exchange of blows in media, and amongst politicians created a deep divide and made old wounds visible - wounds that lie in the... -
Germany's future electors: Developments of the German electorate in times of demographic change by Nora E. Sanchez Gassen 9783658069414
Booksplease Price: $90.25Nora E. Sanchez Gassen analyses how demographic trends and electoral law have influenced the German electorate in the past and projects their future impact. A set of population projections... -
More than a resource - the social significance of local seed systems and seed exchange in the Global South: The example of Tanzania by Jonas Metzger 9783658400101
RRP: $126.73Booksplease Price: $119.03Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in... -
Redefining the Political. Youth Experiences of Collective Action in Turkey by Pınar Gümüş Mantu 9783658405649
Booksplease Price: $119.03This book offers an analysis of the complex and shifting conditions of being young as well as the new ways in which young people engage in politics in Turkey. It is based on a closer examination of... -
Muslims in Europe: Historical developments, present issues, and future challenges by Rauf Ceylan 9783658430436
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $155.01Since the migration movements from Islamic countries, a Muslim diaspora has developed in many Western societies. While in classical Islamic theology residence in non-Muslim countries has always been... -
Unequal Neighbourhoods, Unequal Schools: Organisational Habitus in Deprived and Privileged Local Contexts by Julia Nast 9783658275907
Booksplease Price: $119.03Do schools work differently in deprived and privileged neighbourhoods? As segregation is on the rise in many cities, this book explores how different neighbourhood contexts shape public... -
Beyond Energy: Trade and Transport in a Reconnecting Eurasia by Jacopo Maria Pepe 9783658201913
Booksplease Price: $138.80Jacopo Maria Pepe examines the rapid development of non-energy transport infrastructure in the broader Eurasian space. By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the... -
Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance by Peter Moormann 9783531174099
Booksplease Price: $90.25This anthology examines the various facets of video game music. Contributors from the fields of science and practice document its historical development, discuss the music's composition techniques,... -
U.S. War Resisters' Quest for Refuge in Canada: A Comparative Study of Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq War Resisters' Migration Experiences by Sarah J. Grunendahl 9783658378394
Booksplease Price: $91.47When U.S. war resisters turned to Canada as refuge during the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars, they not only hoped to forestall deployment to a combat zone but also to build new lives and... -
Beyond the Rhetorics of Compliance: Judicial Reform in Romania by Anitta M. Hipper 9783658096106
Booksplease Price: $91.14Anitta M. Hipper examines to what extent and under what conditions the EU's transformative power met with resistance in Romania. The book touches upon a raw nerve for most post-communist societies:... -
The Influence of the Type of Dominant Party on Democracy: A Comparison Between South Africa and Malaysia by Malte Kassner 9783658044374
Booksplease Price: $90.25Dominant parties and democracies - are they really strange bedfellows? Malte Kassner sheds light on the relation between one-party dominance and democracy from a comparative perspective. The study... -
Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes: The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes by Diedrich Bruns 9783658042837
Booksplease Price: $91.14In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude... -
The role of scientific expertise in minimum wage policy making: The Cases of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States by Fabian Klein 9783658327453
Booksplease Price: $128.62This book examines the role of scientific expertise in minimum wage policy making in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It finds that scientific research is an important part of the... -
I Long for Normality: A Study on German Parliamentarians with Migration Backgrounds by Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz 9783658018719
Booksplease Price: $91.14The political participation of names such as Mowassat, Demirel, or OEzdemir alongside conventional German names such as Schmidt, Maier, or Beck is already becoming a routine aspect in German... -
Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries by Bettina-Johanna Krings 9783658144487
Booksplease Price: $91.14The aim of this book is to understand and critically appraise science-based transgression dynamics in their whole complexity. It includes contributions from experts with different disciplinary... -
Exporting Culture: Which role for Europe in a Global World? by Raphaela Henze 9783658019204
Booksplease Price: $80.65Is European culture visible enough in the globalized world? Why is culture from this continent often perceived as 'old-fashioned' or even worse as 'out-dated'? Is the export of national cultural... -
Corporate Culture Practices of German Corporations in the Host Country Indonesia: An Analysis from the Perspective of Indonesian Employees, Managers and German Expatriates by Aang Koswara 9783658392888
Booksplease Price: $91.47This study addresses the corporate cultural practices of German companies in the host country Indonesia from the perspective of Indonesian employees, managers and German expatriates. The focus is on... -
Modelling Landscape Dynamics: Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity by Fivos Papadimitriou 9783658424954
Booksplease Price: $71.06This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics. It is systematically shown how mathematical models of progressively higher... -
National Economic Identity and Capital Mobility: State-Business Relations in Latin America by Ralf J. Leiteritz 9783531185286
Booksplease Price: $80.65Why has capital account liberalization been a durable policy in some countries, but not in others? The book uses the contrast between the path pursued by Peru and Colombia regarding capital account... -
Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections by Ednan Aslan 9783658183011
Booksplease Price: $109.43In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident that many impulses from this work will also impact the direction of... -
Fluctuating Transnationalism: Social Formation and Reproduction among Armenians in Germany by Astghik Chaloyan 9783658188252
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population-Armenians in Germany-by drawing parallels between the first and second generation migrants. It puts forth the... -
Return Migration Decisions: A Study on Highly Skilled Chinese in Japan by Ruth Achenbach 9783658160265
RRP: $146.23Booksplease Price: $143.87Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled... -
Pandemics as Matter of a System Crisis: Precarity of Society by Peter Herrmann 9783658434496
Booksplease Price: $91.01Pandemics — it seems that it had been the beginning of a new era, after a first shock wave a new normality commenced trying to, repress the complex challenges while living under a new Sword of... -
Prostitution: An Economic Perspective on its Past, Present, and Future by Eva-Maria Heberer 9783658044954
Booksplease Price: $90.25Eva-Maria Heberer provides an overview over the history of prostitution in Germany, in which she discusses changes in legislation, in society and its view on prostitution, as well as in the market... -
Corporate Identity and Crisis Response Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities of Communication in Times of Crisis by Olga Bloch 9783658062217
Booksplease Price: $90.25The history of crisis management shows that companies embark on particular strategies in response to crisis. So why are some companies' crisis communication strategies successful, while others are... -
Citizen Consciousness in Cambodia: Politic-Didactical Reconstruction of a Social Accountability Project by Johannes Ph. Backhaus 9783658308780
Booksplease Price: $90.25Johannes Ph. Backhaus applies the Model of Education Reconstruction (MER) to the context of a social accountability intervention in Cambodia. This book is not an evaluation but adopts a qualitative... -
Seeking Reconciliation in a Context of Coloniality: A Study of White People’s Approaches in a Multicultural South African church by Marcus Grohmann 9783658414610
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $213.78How do white people handle their own dominance while striving for racial reconciliation in a concrete church context in Cape Town? Persisting effects of colonialism present a challenge to... -
![(Re-)Imagining New Media: Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992) by Christoph Ernst 9783658328986](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7960447/8996469/9783658328986__73902.1747444098.jpg?c=1 "(Re-)Imagining New Media: Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992) by Christoph Ernst 9783658328986")
(Re-)Imagining New Media: Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992) by Christoph Ernst 9783658328986
Booksplease Price: $51.87The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of 'new media' was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book... -
Situating Social Practices in Community Energy Projects: Three Case Studies about the Contextuality of Renewable Energy Production by Angela Pohlmann 9783658206345
Booksplease Price: $90.25Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. The author challenges tendencies in the existing literature to homogenize community energy projects. Energy production... -
Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana by Dieter Reicher 9783658378486
Booksplease Price: $119.03In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias... -
Jewish-Muslim Relations: Historical and Contemporary Interactions and Exchanges by Ednan Aslan 9783658262747
Booksplease Price: $109.43This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence across time including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, Jews in the Qur'an and... -
Taming the Big Green Elephant: Setting in Motion the Transformation Towards Sustainability by Ariel Macaspac Hernández 9783658318239
Booksplease Price: $71.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783658318239Author Ariel Macaspac HernándezFormat PaperbackPage Count 430 -
Foreign Actors' Influence on Azerbaijan's Energy Policy: Decisions under Complex Uncertainty by Tina Flegel 9783658114039
Booksplease Price: $90.25The author traces several energy policy decisions taken between 2006 and 2013 in Azerbaijan to find out how international actors tried to influence policy-making. The book facilitates understanding... -
Politics, Markets and EU Gas Supply Security: Case Studies of the UK and Germany by Sandu-Daniel Kopp 9783658083236
Booksplease Price: $91.14Sandu-Daniel Kopp investigates whether carbon reduction targets are compatible with market-driven competition in gas (and power) industries, and whether security of supply is compatible with... -
Transitional Justice in Nicaragua 1990-2012: Drawing a Line Under the Past by Astrid Bothmann 9783658105020
Booksplease Price: $91.14Astrid Bothmann examines historical, political and socioeconomic factors that explain the absence of transitional justice in Nicaragua from 1990 to 2012. The author provides the first systematic...