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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2: Milgram’s Obedience Experimen…
Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram’s personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showin…
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- 9783319979991
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- IX, 328 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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International Comparisons in Learning and Education : Eliasian Perspectives
This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert Elias. This book sets out to challenge dominant perspectives within the sociology of education by reorientating traditional debates about socialisation, childhood, early years education, care, schooling and the curriculum, focusing on the relational l…
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- 9783031609589
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- XXIV, 275 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Delusions In Context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System
This Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet period, and this is the first book to take account of Russia's rise as a food power and the global implications of that rise. It includes food trade policy and practice, and …
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- 9783030774516
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- XIV, 343 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Megatrends in Agriculture, Food Industry and Food Markets : An Empirical and …
This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and have a major impact on business, economies, industries, societies, and individuals. Today the world is characterized by more uncertainty and unpredict…
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- 9783031581526
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- XLV, 410 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection: From DeepFakes to Morphi…
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of studies dealing with the hot topic of digital face manipulation such as DeepFakes, Face Morphing, or Reenactment. It combines the research fields of biometrics and media forensics including contributions from academia and industry. Appealing to a broad readership, introductory chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the t…
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- 9783030876647
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- IX, 487
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Handbook of Vascular Biometrics
This open access handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm vein recognition, retina recognition, and sclera recognition. After an introductory chapter summarizing the state of the art in and availability of commercial systems and op…
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- 9783030277314
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- XVIII, 533
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic System…
Introduction CONTENTS Preface Foreword by Keith Solomon and John Giesy Foreword by Coordinating Board of Editors Ecological Risk Assessment of the Uses of the Organophosphorus Insecticide Chlorpyrifos, in the United States John P. Giesy, Keith R. Solomon, G. Christopher Cutler, Jeffrey M. Giddings, Don Mackay, Dwayne Moore, John Purdy, W. Martin Williams Properties and Uses of Chlorpyrifos in t…
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- 9783319038650
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- XVI, 269
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Safety for Particle Accelerators
The use of non-standard technologies such as superconductivity, cryogenics and radiofrequency pose challenges for the safe operation of accelerator facilities that cannot be addressed using only best practice from occupational safety in conventional industry. This book introduces readers to different occupational safety issues at accelerator facilities and is directed to managers, scientists, t…
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- 9783030570316
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- XI, 148
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Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln : Rahmenbedingungen, Konzepte und Werk…
Die Digitalisierung sowie der damit einhergehende Wandel von Gesellschaft und Arbeitsleben verändern die Anforderungen an Hochschulen, Lehrende und Studierende. Dabei entsteht eine neue Kultur digitaler Lehre mit großen Chancen und Herausforderungen für alle Akteursgruppen. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Open-Access-Sammelbandes beleuchten die Entstehung digitaler Kulturen in der Hochschu…
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