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Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXVI, 271
Programming Languages and Systems: 30th European Symposium on Programming, ES…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 papers included in thi…
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 24th Internationa…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format du…
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- 978-3-030-71995-1
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Organisationsbildung und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bricht mit dem Konsens in der Forschung, nach dem Organisationen als Errungenschaft der modernen Gesellschaft und Produkt der Industrialisierung angesehen werden. Die Frage, wie sich Organisationen als eigenlogische Sozialform konkret ausdifferenziert haben, ist bislang weitgehend unklar geblieben. Das Buch zeigt auf, dass sich bereits in der „unorganisierten Gesellsch…
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- 978-3-658-32871-9
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- Organisation und Gesellschaft - Forschung
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- XIII, 322
Environmental Governance in Latin America
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multi…
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- 978-1-137-50572-9
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- XII, 338
Social Theory of Fear
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is a…
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- 978-0-230-11263-6
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- XI, 234
Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.
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- 978-0-230-29061-7
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- XIII, 264
Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marg…
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- 978-3-030-22639-8
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- XXIV, 360
Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises
Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now facing? By analyzing historical s…
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- 978-3-030-94137-6
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- Springer Cham
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- IX, 347
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020
This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies.
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- 978-94-6265-419-8
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- XXV, 530
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