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Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice
This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional …
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- 978-3-031-75945-1
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- IX, 156
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Systems, Smart Technologies, and Innovation for Society: Proceedings of CITIS…
This open access book compiles the proceedings of the tenth edition of the International Congress on Science, Technology and Innovation for Society, a key event that addresses in a practical and multidisciplinary way smart technologies and their impact on crucial sectors such as sustainability, environment, information and telecommunications, industry and mobility. Through studies with diverse …
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- 1st Edition
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- 978-3-031-87065-1
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- XVIII, 514
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The Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin
This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in whe…
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- 1
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- 978-981-96-2987-9
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- VII, 148
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India Challenges and Policies
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Sozialrechtsbezogene Beratung
Die Beratung in sozialrechtlichen Angelegenheiten ist kein neues Phänomen, sondern existiert solange wie es das Sozialrecht gibt. Mit der Novellierung des Rechtsberatungsrechts im Jahre 2008 ist sie erstmals auf eine rechtlich sichere Grundlage gestellt worden. Zugleich hat der Gesetzgeber mit der Reformierung anerkannt, dass die Beratung für das Funktionieren des Sozialsystems unverzich…
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- 9783658435257
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- XVII, 236
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Complicities
This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects…
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- 978-3-030-79675-4
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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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'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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- 1
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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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- 1
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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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- 1
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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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- 1
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- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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