Human-Nature Interactions

This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the imp…

The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults

This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These inclu…

Intelligent Circuits and Systems

ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart and green technologies in the fields of Energy, Electronics, Communications, Computers, and Control. ICICS provides innovators to identify new opportunities for the social and e…

Our extractive age : expressions of violence and resistance

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New Social Mobility

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…

History from loss : a global introduction to histories written from defeat, c…

“Sejarah dari kekalahan” menantang pemikiran umum bahwa "sejarah ditulis oleh para pemenang" dan mengeksplorasi bagaimana para pembuat sejarah di berbagai waktu dan tempat di seluruh dunia telah menulis sejarah dari kehilangan, bahkan ketika hal ini mengancam keselamatan mereka sendiri. Sekelompok sejarawan terkemuka dari seluruh dunia menawarkan pengantar tentang kehidupan dan ide para pe…

Multilingualism across the lifespan

Koleksi inovatif ini mengkaji pertanyaan-pertanyaan kunci tentang keragaman bahasa dan multilingualisme yang terjadi melalui perdebatan kontemporer dalam psikolinguistik dan sosiolinguistik. Untuk memperkuat percakapan interdisipliner tentang tema-tema ini, setiap bab ditulis bersama oleh dua peneliti yang berbeda, yang seringkali belum pernah menulis bersama sebelumnya. Efek gabungannya adalah…

Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises

This is an open access book. 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 faci…

How and Why to Regulate False Political Advertising in Australia

This open access book represents the first comprehensive, Australia-focused treatment of the problem of false election information disseminated for the purpose of gaining an electoral advantage. It explores cautious legal regulation as the most effective and decisive approach to the issue. In doing so, the book demonstrates that, although experiments with such remedies have met with mixed succe…

Digitale Transformation

Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine erweiterte Einführung in die Grundlagen und Charakteristika sowie auch Risiken und Chancen der digitalen Transformation. Anhand von ausführlichen Fallstudien branchenführender Unternehmen werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf die digitale Geschäftsmodellentwicklung und den Wettbewerb aus Sicht von IT-Entscheidern erörtert. Die Ergebn…