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Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia : Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan
This edited volume fills a gap in current research on asylum seekers and refugees. By focusing on two East Asian countries, Japan and Taiwan, this volume offers material for comparison and reflection on an area of the world in which this theme is still relatively underdeveloped. By approaching the theme through the different perspectives of human rights, social construction through media repres…
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- 1
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- 9789819728671
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- XIX, 399 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformatio…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 1
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- 9783030329884
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- XVII, 169 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period : The Authors…
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities a…
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- 1
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- 9783030308339
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- XV, 396 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
Editors: Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne Animal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the intentional harms inflicted upon animals for the sake of hoped-for benefits in humans. Despite this rationale for continued animal experimentation, shortcomings of this practice have become increasingly more apparent and well-documented. However, th…
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- Volume: 22
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- 978-90-04-39119-2
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Die Resiliente Stadt
Resilienz ist das Konzept der Stunde. Die Coronakrise, die Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal und die Energieknappheit haben Resilienz an die Spitze der politischen Agenda gesetzt. Auch für die Stadtentwicklung gilt Resilienz als Ziel. Doch was steckt hinter diesem relativ neuen Begriff? In diesem Open-Access Band erfahren die Leser*innen wie Städte auf Krisen und Katastrophen besser vorbereitet we…
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- 978-3-662-66916-7
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- XXI, 296
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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions : Practices of legitimation and accou…
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world challenge of climate …
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- 9783030268916
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- XXI, 168hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Creativity in Art, Design and Technology
Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions. Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential principles and art i…
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- 978-3-031-24869-6
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- XVII, 119
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and application domains. This has produced new kinds of created works which can be viewed, explored, and interacted with, either as an installation or via a virtual environment s…
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- 978-3-030-42097-0
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- XXV, 387
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond
This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can c…
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- 978-3-030-96412-2
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One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene
This is an open access book.Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as new human rights. It approaches the question whether animals can and should have human rights through a comprehensive review of contemporary human rights philosophy, discussing b…
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- 978-3-031-19201-2
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- X, 104
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- SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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