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A Korean Peninsula Free of Nuclear Weapons

This book focuses on three main subjects: the DPRK's inability to survive as a nuclear state; the importance of Chinäs role in encouraging denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; and the possibility of …

Academic Citizenship in African Higher Education

This book addresses national development and academic citizenship in higher education in Africa. For some, the concept of academic citizenship refers to the legitimate practice of academics working within…

Hauke-Peter Vehrs

Pokot Pastoralism

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.

Nicholas C. Kyriazis, Emmanouil M. L. Economou

Daily Life in Classical Athens

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying…

Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19

This edited volume discusses the biopolitics and shock economy of COVID-19, emphasizing medical perspectives and the socioeconomic dynamics of the pandemic and the ensuing institutional responses. Written…

Damion Keith Blake

Don Dada

In Don Dada: Assessing the Socio-economic and Political Power of Jamaica's Mafia Bosses, Damion Blake takes on a controversial subject: the Jamaican don. The Jamaican don is a non-state actor, a male fig…

The Invisible Hand of Cancer

Oncology is a field characterized as medicine of high complexity and cancer is generally regarded as a complex system. Therefore, it cannot be classified and treated according only to its biology. Even …

Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. Th…

Economy, Society and Politics

The interconnections of economy, society and politics so obviously determine socio-economic and political structures and problem situations, current ways of thinking and acting as well as the collective p…

Agroecology of Edible Weeds and Non-Crop Plants

Agroecology of Edible Weeds and Non-Crops: Ecology and Socio-Economic Potential of Plant Biodiversity is the first book to move beyond the ethnobotanical aspect of under-utilized non crops to explore how …

Hydroclimatic Extremes in the Middle East and North Africa

Hydroclimatic Extremes in the Middle East and North Africa: Assessment, Attribution and Socioeconomic Impacts focuses on assessing the current situation of hydroclimatic extremes in the MENA region, with …

Samuel Oyewole

Utilitarianism in Outer Space

This book showcases Nigerian and South African experiences on space politics, policy and strategy vis-à-vis their development and security aspirations, while contributing to the broader African and the Gl…

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Kristina Hauschildt, Christoph Gwosc, Hendrik Schirmer, Cordelia Menz

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Das Projekt EUROSTUDENT erhebt Daten zu den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen des Studierens in Europa. Der Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse der aktuellen Studierendenbefragung in 25 Ländern …

Daniel Weißbrodt

Economics as an Empirical Social Science

Economics still adheres entirely unreflectively to a mechanistic worldview and machine thinking. Epistemologically, it thus remains in the 19th century, and its assumptions and theories, methods, and mode…

Éloi Laurent

Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being

This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenti…

Carmine Gorga

Concordian Economics, Vol. 1

This is the first part of a two-volume set on Concordian economics, a new paradigm whose core completes the Aristotelian-Aquinian project of economic justice. The book delves into the history of economics…

Raimund Dietz

Economics as a Social Science

This book explores the separation of economics from the social sciences. Raimund Dietz attributes this development to the adoption of a too narrow, instrumentalist perspective and demonstrates how close t…

Robert Elliott

The Economics of the UK Health and Social Care Labour Market

This book explores the reasons for the acute shortage of some key frontline occupations and explains why economic theory is essential to understanding the way this labour market works and to constructing …