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Handbook of Futures Studies
Edited by Roberto Poli
This insightful Handbook emphasizes the unique contribution that Futures Studies offers when understanding and managing current situations. Contributing authors argue that by learning to examine the future in the present, individuals and... -
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Homo Anthropologicus
Jean-François Chanlat
Skilfully analysing the challenges posed by management practices to the human condition, Jean-François Chanlat examines the sociological evolution of modern management. This book acts as a crucial pedagogical guide to the history and ess... -
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Taxation, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century
Edited by Yvette Lind, Reuven Avi-Yonah
Proposing innovative ideas on the links between taxation, citizenship and democracy, this multidisciplinary book contributes to ongoing research and scholarship by emphasizing the importance of taxes to the functioning of democracy. -
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How to Do Migration Research
Edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Daniela Vintila
This book provides a toolkit for tackling the fundamental questions and challenges in planning and conducting migration research. It illustrates not only how to develop rigorous methodological procedures, but also how to effectively diss... -
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How to do Social Science that Matters
Edited by Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera
This holistic How to guide provides practical advice on conducting meaningful research within the social sciences, focusing on practices which are sensitive and bespoke. Mapping out the field and inviting further exploration, its insight... -
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The Sociology of Diagnosis
Annemarie G. Jutel
This incisive brief guide critically examines the role of medical diagnoses in social life, shining light on both health and disease. Annemarie Goldstein Jutel shows that diagnosis is not simply the labelling of natural disease, but rath... -
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Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security
Mark Elliot, Anna M. Mandalari, Miranda Mourby, Kieron O’Hara
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. The Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security explains the complex tec... -
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What Have Populists Done for Us?
Dani Filc, Amit Avigur-Eshel
This ground-breaking book goes beyond conventional arguments to explore how and why populists are able to hold power for long periods. It illustrates that exclusionary populist movements maintain power whenever they succeed in stabilizin... -
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Understanding Health Systems and Welfare
Bent Greve
Understanding Health Systems and Welfare explores the ways in which we understand health care systems and recommends how individuals, health care providers and society as a whole can best use the resources within the systems for maximum ... -
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Rapidly Increasing Retirement Ages
Per H. Jensen
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. This prescient book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of retirement practices in D... -
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Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research Methods
Edited by Pranee Liamputtong
This Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where re...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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Smart-Tech Society
Mark Whitehead, William G.A. Collier
Informed by the latest theoretical developments in studies of the social impacts of digital technology, Smart-Tech Society provides an empirically grounded and conceptually informed analysis of the impacts and paradoxes of smart-technology.eBook:Find out more$28.00
