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![Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion]()
Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Edited by Russell Sandberg, Norman Doe, Bronach Kane, Caroline Roberts
Following 9/11, increased attention has been given to the place of religion in the public sphere. Across the world, Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline and scholars have grappled with the meaning and effect of legal texts ...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Big Data
Edited by John S. Pedersen, Adrian Wilkinson
Big data and ''the package'' of the digital society is de-mystified in this important book. A group of international experts frame the debates around big data and analyse its impact in different sectors in practice. They also examine whe...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment
Edited by Nora Götzmann
Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by the Human Rights Council...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Political Corruption in Africa
Edited by Inge Amundsen
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Philanthropy in Education
Edited by Natasha Y. Ridge, Arushi Terway
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings toget... -
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State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability
Tracy-Lynn Field
States in mineral-rich jurisdictions must promote mining as a development industry just as they must protect people and environment from the worst excesses of extractivism. State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability explo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism]()
Local Accountability and National Coordination in Fiscal Federalism
Charles R. Hankla, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Raúl A. Ponce Rodríguez
This book argues that fiscal federalism will consistently deliver on its governance promises only when democratic decentralization is combined with the integration of political parties. It formalizes this argument and, using new data on ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Encyclopedia of Islamic Insurance, Takaful and Retakaful]()
Encyclopedia of Islamic Insurance, Takaful and Retakaful
Mohd M. Billah, Ezzedine GhlamAllah, Christos Alexakis
The model of Islamic insurance policy is based on the principles of mutual cooperation, brotherhood and solidarity. This timely volume contradicts the widely-held belief that insurance policies oppose the teachings of Islam, exploring wa...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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![A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity]()
A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Edited by Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni, Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastruct...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Edited by Loretta Lees, Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrificat...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics
Anna Durnová
Post-factual politics has united scientists and civil society in a public defence of truth, however, the battle may already have been lost to a binarity of facts and emotions. Analysing and comparing scientists’ protests against the Trum...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![A Modern Guide to State Intervention]()
A Modern Guide to State Intervention
Edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis, John E. King
A Modern Guide to State Intervention investigates the impact of the changing role of the state, offering an alternative political economy for the third decade of the twenty-first century. Building on important factors including history, ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
