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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom.Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as t...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Size: 365 pages
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 382 pages
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This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data from a broad range of qualitative methods. Using a theoretical framework and methodological approach that can be applied transnationally, it sheds light on the complex interplay of factors which shape children’s socialisation and media usage in multiple ways. ...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 314 pages
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A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality. Coverage looks at new family and partnership forms among the young and middle-aged, their relationship with health, and the pathways through which they act. Among the old, lifelong family biography and present family situation are explored. Evidence is provided that partners advancing in age start to resemble each other more closely in terms of health, with t...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths
Size: 303 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2020 onward
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Genre: History, Ancient, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 434 pages
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Mobilities of Knowledge (Knowledge and Space Book 10)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 303 pages
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This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studie...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 344 pages
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320 Quotes By Albert Einstein: Interesting Quotes By The Legendary Albert Einstein
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Quotations
Size: 321 pages
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Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 313 pages
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Genre: Parenting & Families, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 318 pages
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WARBOOK (The Historical Prequel; 1832-2020)
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Genre: Fiction, Drama, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 3.59 mb
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This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy ac...
Genre: History, Africa, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, History & Philosophy
Size: 360 pages
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4 reviews
James Fenimore Cooper: The Complete Novels
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Genre: Fiction, Anthologies, Fiction Classics, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Education & Reference, Foreign Languages
Size: 21.36 mb
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
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Genre: History, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Other Practices
Size: 593 pages
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Indonesia’s wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to develop environmental awareness and avert vast environmental destruction, not only in Indonesia, but also in the Global South more generally. Based on in-depth studies conducted in the cities of Yogyakarta and Surabaya, complemented with surveys of students in secondary schools, Environmental Education in Indonesia examines educational curricula, pedagogy and ‘green’ activities to reveal what is currently being done in schools to educate children about the environment. The book investigates the shortcomings in environment education, includ...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths
Size: 304 pages
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This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social practices.Nielsen suggests a new way of conducting psychosocial research that focuses on generational psychological patterns of gender identities and gendered subjectivities in times of change from a psychoanalytic perspective. Combining generational...
Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 336 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
The Dynamics of Opportunity in America: Evidence and Perspectives
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Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 489 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 22 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from a new set of realities in America’s metropolitan regions: first, that inequity is, in fact, bad for economic growth; second, that bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and, third, that the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities, w...
Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 366 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 21 February 2020 onward
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country’s emergence into global modernity and of post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. In this penetrating ethnography, Erik...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Urban Planning & Development, Ideologies
Size: 304 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 21 February 2020 onward
Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its residents and users. The city develops over time, and its identity evolves with it. Reflecting the rapid and constant changes the city is subjected to, Architecture and Arts, is the embodiment of the cultural, historical, and economical characteristics of the city. This conference is dedicated for the investigation of the different new approaches developed in Architecture and Contemporary arts. It will focus on the basis of urban life and identities.It will discuss the examples and tendencies in dealing with urban identities as well as the transformation of cities and urban cultures mentioned in terms of their form, identity, and their current ...
Genre: Business & Finance, Industries & Professions, Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 584 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
Hit the Road Jack: A wickedly suspenseful serial killer thriller (Jack Ryder Book 1)
New series from the Amazon Bestselling author Willow Rose. Ben is supposed to be in school. It's Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben Waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today's field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he's not making it to school today at all. Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids' field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once ...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Dance, Fashion, Film & Video, Music, Photography, Pop Culture, Television, Biography & True Accounts, Arts & Literature, Ethnic, Historical, Leaders & Notable People, Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Reference & Collections, Travel, Business & Finance, Business Life, Economics, Finance, Industries & Professions, Investing, Marketing & Sales, Personal Finance, Reference, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Children's eBooks, Arts, Music & Photography, Computers & Internet, Science, Nature & How It Works, Sport & Outd
Size: 454 pages
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White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
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Genre: Business & Finance, Finance, Industries & Professions, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 456 pages
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 310 pages
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Queer Spiritual Spaces (Open Access): Sexuality and Sacred Places
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction
Size: 318 pages
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Genre: Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Relationships
Size: 2.04 mb
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Human Terrain System: Operationally Relevant Social Science Research in Iraq and Afghanistan
To avoid the footpaths which may have been mined with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Ryan Evans, a U.S. federal civilian, was walking across a wheat field in Babaji, Helmand Province, in the spring of 2011. Evans was attached to the Royal Highland Fusiliers (2 Scots), C Company, a heavy infantry patrol tasked with providing security in the vicinity. Begun 2 years earlier, the Helmand Food Zone Program was a form of development intervention which offered subsidies, seed, and fertilizers to farmers who replaced lucrative opium cultivation from poppies with growing and harvesting wheat and vegetable crops. Babaji had been in the control of insurgents until a few months earlier and had not received any assistance from the program during the previous year; consequently, there were tension...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 357 pages
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Geographies of Schooling (Knowledge and Space Book 14)
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Genre: Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 358 pages
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The Conquest of a Continent (Illustrated Edition): The Expansion of Races in America
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 2.13 mb
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Genre: Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Self-Help & Counselling, Psychology, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths
Size: 461 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 18 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Urban Planning & Development
Size: 334 pages
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