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African Futures
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and act…
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- Volume: 27
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- 9789004471641
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Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity: Cultural and Biological Approaches to …
This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological a…
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- Volume: 26
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- 9789004500228
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The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe
This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we need to pay attention to the factors that …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-24643-2
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- XXI, 178
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Axial Spondyloarthritis: Patient-Reported Impact in Europe
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), a chronic inflammatory condition that encompasses radiographic (also known as ankylosing spondylitis [AS]) and non-radiographic (nr-axSpA) forms of the disease (Rudwaleit et al. 2009), can lead to chronic pain, structural damage, and disability. While understanding of the pathophysiology of axSpA and its management (classification, diagnosis, monitoring, an…
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- 9783030976064
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- XXI, 109
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Irregularising Human Mobility : EU Migration Policies and the European Commis…
This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has been the role and contributions of the 2019-2024 European Commission as regards EU migration policy? This book investigates how migration policies have been problematised at the EU institutional level, in particular by the European Commission. It critic…
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- 978-3-031-74021-3
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- XII, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe
Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the im…
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- 978-3-031-20190-5
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- XI, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Collective Actions in Europe : A Comparative, Economic and Transsystemic Anal…
This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, making class actions the most successful export product of the American legal scholarship. While its spread has been surrounded by distrust and suspiciousness, today more t…
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- 978-3-030-24222-0
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- IX, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade
This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application of the acquis communautaire in the UK in matters relating to anti-illicit trade in tobacco legislation. It also analyses the modes of future cooperation between the UK a…
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- -
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- 978-3-030-45979-6
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- XI, 81
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Implementation of EU Readmission Agreements : Identity Determination Dilemmas…
By examining the implementation dynamics of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs), this book addresses the practical reasons why irregular immigrants cannot be expelled. EURAs are one of the vital legal instruments framing EU external migration law with regard to the expulsion of irregular immigrants, yet their implementation has met with various obstacles. Above all, the process of determining an …
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- 978-3-319-42505-4
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- XVII, 83
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Ethics and Civil Drones : European Policies and Proposals for the Industry
This open access book disseminates some of the results of the European H2020 AiRT Project (Technology transfer of RPAs for the creative industry). In particular, it presents findings related to mitigating safety and security concerns when civil drones are piloted by the service sector (mainly, the creative industry). European policies regarding drones generally focus on outdoor drones, but they…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-71087-7
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- X, 92
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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