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'The Bell Curve' in Perspective
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic incr…
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- 978-3-031-41614-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
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- 978-981-97-3933-2
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- X, 234
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- Asia in Transition
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Schöne Momente pflegender Angehöriger in der Pflege und Begleitung von Mens…
Supporting and taking care of family members is a challenging life situation for relatives, which is associated with high physical, psychological and social stress, especially when caring for people with dementia. For these reasons, family caregivers as well as municipalities that develop support services view and experience the care situation primarily from a deficit-oriented and burdening…
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- 9783658451868
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- XXV, 184
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Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture: Revisiting Theory and Practice
This is a open access book. In the agriculture sector, the language of gender integration often ignores the politics and the power dynamics that are central to critical, and feminist, analysis of gender relations. This volume explores largely neglected topics such as power dynamics, masculinities, gendered social norms, feminist research practice, intersectionality, critical analysis of tools a…
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- 9783031609862
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- XIV, 231
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Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there…
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- 978-90-04-38844-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Crime and City in History, Volume: 3
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Emerging Pollutants: Protecting Water Quality for the Health of People and th…
This open access book focuses on the importance of reducing pollution and protecting water resources for the health of people and the environment. Water is vital for life on Earth. The quality of the world's freshwater resources is deteriorating due to the rise in pollution levels, which puts the health of people and the environment at risk. Emerging pollutants, a new class called Contaminants …
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- 978-3-031-71758-1
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- XXII, 517
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Embracing the Future, Powering Growth: An Energy System Renewed for China
To build a new energy system is the key towards China's goal of carbon emissions peak and achieving carbon neutrality. The new energy system will reshape the conventional energy system in an integrated and revolutionary way. It will not only bring about major changes in energy production, utilization and consumption, as well as emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) and local pollutants, but also ha…
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- 978-3-031-73075-7
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- XXXI, 403
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Electronic Voting: 9th International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2024, Tarrag…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2024, held in Tarragona, Spain, during October 2-4, 2024. The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They present research on all aspects of the mechanization of reasoning with tableaux and related methods. The pap…
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- 978-3-031-72244-8
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- XI, 175
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