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2026-05-25Book
Chapter 4 Forms of managing leisure time of European seniors of the 21st century
(2024-12-13)This chapter is to demonstrate the challenges related to free time of seniors (especially EU residents) in the 21st century. The starting point for the considerations was to explain the concept of free time and to specify ... -
2026-05-25Book
Chapter 10 The World and Beijing World Park
(2024-12-13)This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements,"genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and ... -
2026-05-25Book
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
(2024-12-13)Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage ... -
2026-05-25Book
Chapter 12 From a Story of Disaster to a Story of Victory
(2024-12-13)This volume investigates mediated lives and media narratives during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Asia as a focus point. It shows how the pandemic has created an unprecedented situation in this globalized world marked by ... -
2026-05-25Book
From Clausewitz to Putin
(2024-12-13)From the Twin Towers to the insurrections in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the proxy wars in the Levant and the Persian Gulf to Wagner's role in North Africa and the Sahel, from the challenges in cyberspace to the new race ... -
2026-05-25Book
Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism
(2024-12-13)This book focuses on the roles, opportunities and challenges for the provision of public service journalism and news in today’s increasingly complex and competitive digital media environment. The eleven chapters comprising ... -
2026-05-25Book
Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community
(2024-12-13)This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the ... -
2026-05-25Book
Implementing International Environmental Law and Policy
(2024-12-13)This book introduces a novel discourse, based on socio-legal theory of compliance with international environmental law, which addresses the overarching question: When can international environmental law and policy achieve ... -
2026-05-25Book
Beyond Mestizaje
(2024-12-13)Racism has historically been a taboo topic in Mexico. This is largely due to the nationalist project of mestizaje which contends that because all Mexicans are racially mixed, race is not a salient issue. In recent years, ... -
2026-05-25Book
Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception
(2024-12-13)Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many and reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in Luxemburg’s work today, ... -
2026-05-25Book
and Control in China
(2024-12-13)During the past decade Xi Jinping has reasserted the Chinese Communist Party's dominance of state and society, tightening and controls to consolidate the Party’s monopoly on power in China. This volume brings leading China... -
2026-05-25Book
Demokratische Auszeit
(2024-12-13)Das Verhältnis der Corona-Politik zur Demokratie erscheint uneindeutig und ambivalent: Entweder wird sie als Tendenz zum Ausnahmezustand und Gefahr für demokratische Prozesse begriffen oder sie gilt als routinierte ... -
2026-05-25Book
Democratic Algorithms
(2024-12-13)Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as and phenomena? Democratic Algorithms offers theoretically and empirically informed perspectives on how we can imagine ... -
2026-05-25Book
The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems
(2024-12-13), this volume explores pressing topics such as the institutions of local government, constitutional recognition, financial management, intergovernmental relations, culture, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ... -
2026-05-25Book
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall
(2024-12-13), it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research. Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are still ongoing, and they may serve as a model for change and its , economic, ... -
2026-05-25Book
No Life Without You
(2024-12-13)offers insights into the moral and psychological dilemmas faced by German Jews as a targeted community. It affords a unique appreciation of the impact of historical and socio- upheavals on the lives of a persecuted minority. ... -
2026-05-25Book
Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies
(2024-12-13)Between 1848 and 1914, around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies, now modern-day . This book traces the paths of these mercenaries beyond the boundaries of ... -
2026-05-25Book
Managing Gender Inequity in Academia
(2024-12-13)Academia is not immune to gender bias, and in many public affairs programs, inequities persist in faculty academic rank, salary, career length, job security, leadership roles, professional recognition, resource allocation, ...