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Ivan Pistone

Urban Coasts in Socio-ecological Transition

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edge of the city and the edge of the water, recalling the id…

Istvan Kecskes

The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and Pragmatics

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and socioc…

Socio-Ecological Resilience and Sustainable Quality of Life

The purpose of writing of this book is to address the pressing challenges posed by the complicated relationship between human societies and their socio-ecological environments. It explores the interdepend…

Ludwig D. Morenz, Mohamed Abdelhay Abu Bakr

Kultur und Macht im vorpharaonischen Ägypten

Wadi el Malik and Wadi Nacam are socio-cultural landscapes northeast of the Egyptian city of Aswan and parts of the large Wadi Abu Subeira, featuring rock carvings over five millennia old. Themes, iconogr…

Israel Cedillo Lazcano

A Socio-Legal Theory of Money for the Digital Commercial Society

This book poses the question: do we need a new body of regulations and the constitution of new regulatory agents to face the evolution of money in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?After the Global Financi…

Stone Sour

Come What (Ever) May

Amos Witztum

The Economics of Political Philosophy

This book redefines ideas of liberty and equality for the modern world. After exploring the origins of liberalism and the role of natural liberty as a principle of social organisation, liberty and equalit…

Devi Akella, Niveen L. Eid

Justifying Entrepreneurship

This book on entrepreneurship, compiles a series of evidence-based episodes from the lives of the marginalized and the minority-oriented entrepreneurs to comprehend whether entrepreneurship is truly a soc…

Leisure and Human Development

This edited volume analyses emerging trends in the world of leisure and human development from the perspectives of subjective well-being and policy development. It brings together a diverse group of autho…

Günter Leypoldt

Literature's Social Lives

This book draws from literary sociology to look at literature in a longue durée (from Romantic poetry to the Toni-Morrison novel). It proposes a new value theory, and sketches an institutional history of …

Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework, and provides additional resources, metho…

Justice in the Age of Agnosis

Section I - Introduction.- 1. Doctoring, Distorting, Denying, Doubting: Ignorance Production in the Age of Agnosis. By James Gacek and Richard Jochelson.- Section II - Punishing places and ignorance produ…

Carolin Melia Brendel

aerobic topologies:

In this assemblage of diverse media, Carolin Melia Brendel explores the agency of air by drawing together distinct onto-epistemologies of space that are conditioned by air. The book is based on the joint …

Invasive Alien Plants in Urban Ecosystems

This book provides a collection of contemporary researches focused on the challenges, impacts and precautionary measures to be taken to address invasive alien plant species in urban systems. The current s…

Diletta de Cristofaro

Sleep and Its Meanings

A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century no…

Víctor M. Toledo, Manuel González de Molina

The Social Metabolism

This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism. The authors shed a light on the different existing terms and methodologies that have been developed over the…

Climate Crisis, Social Responses and Sustainability

This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study. Clim…

European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire

This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popu…

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…