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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Regulating Shale Gas
Leonie Reins
Regulating Shale Gas discusses the regulatory context of shale gas in the European Union and draws conclusions on the EU’s broader approach towards the regulation of new technologies. Providing the first dedicated examination of the over...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership
Marc Parés, Sonia M. Ospina, Joan Subirats
This book explores new forms of democracy in practice following the 2011 global uprisings; democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’. Combining theories of social innovation and collective leadership, it analyses how di...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Environmental Protection through Trade
Barbara Cooreman
Despite an increasing global awareness of environmental concerns, setting internationally binding and ambitious commitments has proven exceedingly complex. As states are seeking alternative methods to support global environmental protect...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Life Cycle of Clusters
Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink
One-size-fits-all cluster policies have been rightly criticized in the literature. One promising approach is to focus cluster policies on the specific needs of firms depending on the stage of development (emergence, growth, sustainment o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Criminal Justice
Gideon Boas, Pascale Chifflet
This book explores crucial themes in international criminal justice. It starts by answering the searching question: what is international criminal justice? The book then considers the role and impact of politics, history, psychology, ter...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Policy Transfer
Edited by Magdaléna Hadjiisky, Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker
Contemporary policy making is deeply influenced by the borrowing, transfer and diffusion of ideas and models from other countries, levels of government and supranational institutions. This is the first book to analyze comparatively the m...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Inequality Across the Generations
Edited by Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Social Inequality Across the Generations provides an innovative perspective on social stratification studies by advancing the theoretical and empirical case for the influence of resource compensation. It examines whether resource compens...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Patenting Genes
Marta Díaz Pozo
This book constitutes a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the significance of the requirement of industrial application within gene patenting and how this influences innovation in Europe and the US. The author addresses an area normal...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Patent Pledges
Edited by Jorge L. Contreras, Meredith Jacob
Patent holders are increasingly making voluntary, public commitments to limit the enforcement and other exploitation of their patents. The best-known form of patent pledge is the so-called FRAND commitment, in which a patent holder commi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Timing of Lawmaking
Edited by Frank Fagan, Saul Levmore
Legal reasoning, pronouncements of judgment, the design and implementation of statutes, and even constitution-making and discourse all depend on timing. This compelling study examines the diverse interactions between law and time, and pr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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How Capitalism Destroyed Itself
William Kingston
Capitalism has been sustained by inherited moral values that are now all but exhausted. A unique combination of a new belief in individualism and a long tradition of property rights had traditionally ensured that self-interested action a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
