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Children in Custody Disputes : Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems
This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular on Nordic experiences of in and out-of-court mechanisms as means of resolving custody disputes. The contributors are internationally renowned and experienced researchers f…
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- 978-3-031-46301-3
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- XIII, 221
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A Roadmap for Plant Genome Editing
This open access book is an update of genome editing techniques applied to a range of plants. We discuss the latest techniques and applications to cereals, roots and tubers, oilseed crops, fruit and forest trees, vegetables, legumes and algae including resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, improved quality, drug production, yield and adaptation to climate change. The regulations in differ…
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- 978-3-031-46150-7
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- X, 561
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Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporar…
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- 978-3-031-46057-9
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- XIII, 352
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Manufacturing Refused Knowledge in the Age of Epistemic Pluralism : Discourse…
This open access book explores contemporary practices that challenge science, arguing that this matter cannot be simply disregarded as a new manifestation of “anti-scientism”. It scrutinizes the processes through which knowledge claims, refused by established institutions and the scientific community, seek legitimacy. Assuming an agnostic analytical stance, it explores the actors involved i…
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- 978-981-99-7188-6
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- XVIII, 306
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Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy : Duty and Distraction
In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate t…
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- 978-3-031-45638-1
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- XIX, 275
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How Designers Are Transforming Healthcare
This is an open access book. How Designers are Transforming Healthcare is a bold manifesto for change, demonstrating the value of a strategic design-led approach. Drawing on a rich array of real-world projects, this book illustrates how designers, in collaboration with clinicians and consumers, are co-creating transformative change across healthcare environments, products, services, and syst…
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- 978-981-99-6811-4
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- XVII, 355
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Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabe…
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- 978-3-031-44731-0
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- XII, 142
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Biographical Life Course Research : Studying the Biography-History Dynamic
This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American pragmatist thought and Chicago qualitative sociology in the early 20th century to the revival of biographical research in European and…
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- 978-3-031-44717-4
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- XI, 178
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Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance : Studies on Transformat…
This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and C…
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- 978-3-031-44584-2
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- XVII, 427
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Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics
While international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) or the Council of Europe (CoE) agree that intercultural competence should play an important role in education, it is not always clear what IC may encompass in specific teaching contexts and subject areas. Examining how modern foreign language teachers in higher education conce…
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- 978-3-031-44472-2
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- XXIV, 154
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