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    • Clarke, Isobelle (2024)
      This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and "fake news". Divided into two sections, ...
    • Albrecht, Monika (2019)
      Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly ...
    • Eräsaari, Matti (2023)
      Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” ...
    • Campos Matos, Sérgio (2020)
      This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it ...
    • Kasińska-Metryka, Agnieszka; Pałka-Suchojad, Karolina (2023)
      This volume examines the war in Ukraine from a range of historical, military and feminist perspectives, exploring aspects such as the attitude of neighboring states, political leadership, local government, social mechanisms ...
    • Holt, Louise (2024)
      The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and ...
    • Howsam, Leslie (2024)
      Why are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigation in 1892, and ...
    • Duan, Diana (2024)
      From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of ...
    • MACI, Stefania Maria; Demata, Massimiliano; McGlashan, Mark; Seargeant, Philip (2024)
      This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and "fake news". Divided into two sections, ...
    • Hans, Asha; Kannabiran, Kalpana; Mohanty, Manoranjan (2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were ...
    • Hartung, Julia (2024)
      The increasing use of automated laser welding processes causes high demands on process monitoring. This work demonstrates methods that use a camera mounted on the focussing optics to perform pre-, in-, and post-process ...
    • Gallo, Carina; Svensson, Kerstin (2019)
      This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim support. With the majority of research on victim support centering on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for considering the role of ...
    • Angeli, Federica; Metz, Ashley; Raab, Jörg (2022)
      The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted ...
    • Diaz-Bone, Rainer; Schrör, Simon (2022)
      Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health ...
    • Kocurek, Carly; Payne, Matthew Thomas (2024)
      Ultima and World-Building in the Computer Role-Playing Game is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the long-running Ultima series of computer role-playing games (RPG) and to assess its lasting impact on the RPG ...
    • Egeler, Matthias (2024)
      Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich ...
    • Zeleke, Meron; Smith, Lahra (2024)
      This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place ...
    • Fleck, Bettina (2024)
      There are fewer and fewer treatment options available for treating multi-resistant germs. In this work, peptoids were investigated as a possible class of substances for the therapeutic application of infections with ...
    • Wziątek-Staśko, Anna; Pobiedzińska, Karolina (2024)
      This book exposes two inspiring research categories: digitization and trust. Digitization is a phenomenon that dynamically modifies the modern world in almost every area. Modern technologies, artificial intelligence and ...
    • Robenalt, Erica (2024)
      The Queer Museum examines how relationships between institutions and LGBTQ+ communities function and how they help to define queer museum practice. Analysing what it means to queer the museum in Western contexts, the book ...