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    • 2026-04-15Book

      Chapter 14 Artificial intelligence in the European Union 

      Ulnicane, Inga
      In the context of recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and launch of AI policy documents and ethics guidelines around the world, since 2017, the European Union (EU) is developing its approach to AI. This chapter ...
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      Sport Policy in Canada 

      Jean Harvey||Lucie Thibault
      Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of ...
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      Le poids économique direct de la culture en 2013 

      Xavier Niel||Yves Jauneau
      En 2013, le poids économique direct de la culture, c’est-à-dire la valeur ajoutée de l’ensemble des branches culturelles est de 44 milliards d’euros. Il ne prend pas en compte les retombées économiques indirectes ou induites ...
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      Le poids économique direct de la culture 

      Yves Jauneau
      En 2011, les branches culturelles totalisent une production de 85 milliards d’euros et une valeur ajoutée de 40 milliards d’euros. La production culturelle se partage entre une partie marchande (69 milliards d’euros), issue ...
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      Le jardin : Récits et réflexions sur le travail para-théâtral de Jerzy Grotowski entre 1973 et 1985 

      François Kahn
      Les évangiles, canoniques ou apocryphes, écrivent quelque chose que le maître n’avait pas l’intention d’écrire. Ce sont des témoignages à la fois de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur. François Kahn fait la même chose avec Jerzy ...
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      The Economic Contribution of Culture 

      Yves Jauneau
      In 2011, cultural industries had a total production of 85 billion euros with an added value of 40 billion euros. Cultural production is divided and shared between a merchantable amount of 69 billion euros from the sale of ...
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      Cultural Heritage Ethics : Between Theory and Practice 

      Constantine Sandis
      Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between ...
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      Who Cares? : Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work as a Barrier to Female Microenterprise Development 

      Aatif Somji
      Gender gaps present themselves in a number of different ways across labour markets, consistently to the detriment of females. Gender gaps are well documented in the returns to capital of microenterprises, which provide ...
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      Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland? 

      Lorenz, Astrid (2025-12-13)
      Gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse zu gewährleisten, ist in Deutschland ein rechtlich verankertes Ziel. Dieses Open-Access-Buch analysiert, welche Aspekte Menschen wichtig sind, wenn es um ein gutes Leben geht, mit welchen ...
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      Innovation for Real-World Transformation 

      Chateauvert, Julie (2025-12-13)
      Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In an era where ‘ innovation’ is often used as a buzzword, this book challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most ...
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      Chapter Introduction 

      Bescotti, Elia (2025-12-13)
      actively shape sovereignty and how the latter defines the outer limits of scholarly research. This book will be of interest to students of statehood, sovereignty, discourse analysis, history, science, sociology, and ...
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      Fear the Future 

      Cole, Matthew Benjamin (2025-12-13)
      intellectual and literary traditions, including modern utopianism and anti-utopianism, midcentury science, Frankfurt School critical theory, and continental philosophy. With detailed case studies of key thinkers from the ...
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      Chapter 7 Grey Matters in Technologies 

      Henschke, Adam (2025-12-13)
      and institutions? While information conflict has been a part of conflict, warfare, and international relations for as long as there has been competition, given that our modern and lives are saturated...
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      Agency auf der Spur 

      Odierna, Beatrice (2025-12-13)
      Sowohl in der Ethnologie als auch in der Sozialen Arbeit ist Handlungsmacht ein zentrales, aber auch umstrittenes Konzept. Vertreter*innen beider Disziplinen erinnern uns daran, unsere eigenen Vorstellungen von Handlungsmacht ...
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      Africa’s Strategic Partnerships with BRICS and Other Emerging Countries 

      Zondi, Siphamandla (2025-12-13)
      This book examines Africa’s strategic partnerships with emerging powers, focusing on insights from the global South, such as BRICS countries, Iran, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea. With an emphasis on African agency, the ...
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      The Properties of Concrete 

      Elinoff, Eli (2025-12-13)
      and is an essential part of the carceral apparatus. The Properties of Concrete begins from the premise that concrete is as richly as it is densely material. Just as concrete’s materiality permeates our everyday life, our ...
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      Resilience as Heritage in Asia 

      Herzfeld, Michael (2025-12-13)
      Resilience as Heritage in Asia analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand). Persistent ...
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      Word stress in prosodic theory 

      Kaland, Constantijn (2025-12-13)
      This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern . These aspects, in order of presentation, include acoustic realisation, ...
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      Economic Sustainability and Social Equality in the Technological Era 

      Irawan, Dwi (2025-12-13)
      This book is a comprehensive compilation of academic papers and presentations delivered at the conference. It brings together research from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural ...
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      Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action 

      Guadagno, Lorenzo (2025-12-13)
      Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency responses. This book investigates how the evolving situation of different forced ...