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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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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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European Welfare States and Globalization
Ali Hajighasemi
This timely book assesses how Europe’s welfare states have dealt with the challenges of globalisation and the financial crisis. It asks whether the European Union has adopted a general strategy for dealing with four major threats to the ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Invention of Technological Innovation
Benoît Godin
This timely book provides an intellectual and conceptual history of a key representation of innovation: technological innovation. Tracing the history of the discourses of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers, and exploring how and w...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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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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![Handbook of the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment]()
Handbook of the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment
Edited by Gregor Gall
Providing a thorough overview of the political nature and dynamics of the world of work, labour and employment, this timely Handbook draws together an interdisciplinary range of top contributors to explore the interdependent relationship...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Governance Analysis
Edited by Emma Carmel
This state-of-the-art book develops the parameters of ‘governance analysis’ as a critical mode of enquiry. From a synthesis of theoretical approaches to public policy and governance, it offers a critical analytical perspective for empiri...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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![Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa]()
Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Italian Mafias Today
Edited by Felia Allum, Isabella Clough Marinaro, Rocco Sciarrone
Despite a rapidly changing economic and legal landscape, Italian mafias remain prominent actors in the global criminal underworld. This book provides an extensive and up-to-date view of how they adapt to shifting economic opportunities a...eBook:Find out more£25.00
