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  • Endocrine Disorders in Thalassemia

    Physiopathological and Therapeutical Aspects

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Endocrine glands may be involved in patients with thalassemia major. In the last 20 years, new therapies have significantly improved life expectancy, while several endocrine abnormalities have been described in children, adolescents, and young adults suffering from thalassemia major.The practical objective of this book is to establish guidelines for the management of endocrine disorders underlying ... Read more

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  • Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East

    The Case of Jordan

    Edited by Paolo Maggiolini, Idir Ouahes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today’s Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation – especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial ... Read more

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  • e-Government and Employment Services

    A Case Study in Effectiveness

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book explores the factors that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of electronic government (e-Government) by analyzing two employment- service systems in Italy and Catalonia: the Borsa Lavoro Lombardia Portal (Lombardy Employment Services Portal) and the Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya (Catalan Employment Services Portal). The evaluation methodology used in the case studies and the ... Read more

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  • Democratisation against Democracy

    How EU Foreign Policy Fails the Middle East

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains why the EU is not a ‘normative actor’ in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing ‘what the people want’, the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy which people do not share. Likewise, the EU’s ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Read more

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  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

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  • Migration

    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts.Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical ... Read more

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    From Sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean Region

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  • Obligations and Omissions

    Canada’s Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality

    Series Book 1 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South
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    Edited by Aylin Güney, Ali Tekin ...
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    Turkey’s candidacy for membership of the European Union has had mixed effects on its public policies. The initial degree of cohesion between EU and Turkish national policies, practices and institutions has varied by the policy field in question, leading to a complex amalgam of fit and misfit between the two actors. Their interaction in different policy areas has had direct influence both on Turkey ... Read more

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  • Gender and Peacebuilding

    Series series Gender and Global Politics
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