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  • Social Capital and Health Inequality in European Welfare States

    by M. Rostila ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigates social capital in relation to health and health inequalities in European welfare states. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Listening to the Welfare State

    by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila ...
    Series series Welfare and Society
    Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients in these systems. All have collected their data through ethnographic observations as well as taped ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Edited by E. Avril, C. Zumello ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly innovative practices. This book analyzes the impact of new technologies testing empowerment, engagement and democratization against the new organizational morphology of political parties and corporations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Governor's Story

    The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future

    by Jennifer Granholm, Dan Mulhern ...
    Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America's major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm's grand plans for education reform, economic revitalization, clean energy, and infrastructure development were blitzed by a perfect economic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space

    An Analysis of Space Power, Security and Governance

    by N. Al-Rodhan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Al-Rodhan sheds new light on the debate about the geopolitics of outer space, going beyond applying traditional International Relations approaches to space power and security by introducing a multidimensional spatial framework. The meta-geopolitics framework includes space and expands classical power considerations to cover seven state capacities. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edited by Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]

    by Andrew Hankinson ...
    Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and a Northern Writers AwardThese are the last days of Raoul Moat.Raoul Moat was the fugitive Geordie bodybuilder-mechanic who became notorious one hot July week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a policeman, he disappeared into the woods of Northumberland, evading discovery for seven days ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Strengthening Information and Control Systems

    The Synergy Between Information Technology and Accounting Models

    Edited by Daniela Mancini, Renata Paola Dameri, Elisa Bonollo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents a collection of original research papers focused on the relationship between information technology and accounting and control models. The book discusses the importance of establishing a synergetic relationship between new information technologies (ERP, BI, web-based technology, data mining, XBRL, etc.) and new or renewed accounting models and tools (performance indicators, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe

    From Acquiescence to Protest?

    Edited by D. Chabanet, J. Faniel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from the local to the transnational. This work explores why, when, and how the unemployed move from acquiescence to protest. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • European Capitalist Welfare Societies

    The Challenge of Sustainability

    by P. Frericks, R. Maier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rights. Capitalism is defined as a multi-model economy, comprising of a market economy (including production, distribution and exchange), a state welfare economy (based on compulsory transfers, such as taxes and social contributions), a household economy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True

    by Mark Dice ...
    In Big Brother, Mark Dice details actual high-tech spy gadgets, mind-reading machines, government projects, and emerging artificial intelligence systems that seem as if they came right out of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.Orwell’s famous book was first published in 1949, and tells the story of a nightmarish future where citizens have lost all privacy and are continuously monitored by ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Interpreting Hashtag Politics

    Policy Ideas in an Era of Social Media

    by S. Jeffares ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD