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Society 5.0 = A People-centric Super-smart Society
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for a technology-based, human-centered society, emerging from the fourth industrial revolution. The respective chapters summarize the findings and suggestions of joint resear…
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- 9789811529894
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- XX, 177 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Children and Families
This open access book illustrates how systemic theory, as both a meta-theory and a relational organic theory, can be a suitable framework for understanding and appreciating the new horizons of systemic practice with children and families in their various contexts. The different chapters shed light on how systemic perspectives, as they are presented in their varying contexts, promote hope by giv…
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- 9783031381119
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- XIV, 203 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents = A Stress-System App…
This open access book sets out the stress-system model for functional somatic symptoms in children and adolescents. The book begins by exploring the initial encounter between the paediatrician, child, and family, moves through the assessment process, including the formulation and the treatment contract, and then describes the various forms of treatment that are designed to settle the child’s …
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- 9783030461843
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- XXXI, 383 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke an…
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- 978-90-04-54860-2
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- Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 4
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Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures
This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extend…
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- 978-90-04-69371-5
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- World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, Volume: 16
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Bioethics and the Holocaust = A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Cont…
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
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- 9783031019876
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- XII, 323 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 96
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Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710)
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law and judiciary in seventeenth-century Livonia. Immediately after Sweden conquered the province in the 1620s, a reorganization of the Livonian judiciary began. Its legal order became largely modelled…
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- 978-90-04-33152-5
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- The Northern World, Volume: 77
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Connecting Territories
The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants, and local natural environments during the long eighteenth century. The eleven chapters look at European science at home and abroad as well as at global scientific practices and the involvement of a great variety of local actors in the processes of mapping and recording. Dealing w…
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- 978-90-04-41246-0
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- Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 5
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Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. They must be addressed through global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require intercultural dialog that goes beyond fashionable slogans and can lead to a truly equal …
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- 978-90-04-54564-9
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- East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, Volume: 13
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Oslo Manual on Select Topics of the Law of Armed Conflict = Rules and Commentary
This new open access book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, sea…
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- 9783030391690
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- X, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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