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Foto Wien 2025

Dynamic Futures, the book accompanying Foto Wien 2025, this year's edition of Austria's largest biennial photography festival, engages with speculative future scenarios and examines how scientific and tec…

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Lisa Elena Fuchs
A Political Ecology of Kenya's Mau Forest

A timely and important examination of the forest's environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts fa…

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Tomas Petricek
Cultures of Programming

What defines a correct program? What education makes a good programmer? The answers to these questions depend on whether programs are seen as mathematical entities, engineered socio-technical systems or m…

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Viral Diseases and One Health in Africa

Viral diseases continue to be a public health threat to humans. Humanity has been affected over the years by several pandemics associated with viruses, the most recent being COVID-19, caused by Severe Acu…

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Eva Puschautz
Maria - Mutter im Konflikt

Eva Puschautz undertakes a detailed analysis of Mk 3:20f.31-35, centering on the question of how Mary is portrayed within the narrative and theological framework of the Gospel of Mark. Combining textual, …

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Galyna Zelenko
Fake Russia

Drawing on both international and Russian sources, expert analyses, and empirical data, this essay collection examines the real state of political, economic and social affairs in Russia. It explores the n…

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Kurt Bangert
The Social Question

This socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861--1918) and Martin Rade (1857--1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and s…

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Daniel Spicer
Peter Brötzmann

Explores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them. Peter Brötzmann is the first ever, full-length, …

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Leonid Finberg
My Ukraine - Rethinking the Past, Building the Present

Leonid Finberg is a prominent Jewish-Ukrainian public intellectual. His main research interests include the history and culture of the Jews of Ukraine, Ukrainian society of the twentieth century, post-tot…

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Elizabeth R. Macaulay
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power

Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery" of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes, Cor…

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Matteo Mazziotta, Adriano Pareto
Statistics for Composite Indicators

This book provides a systematic and integrated approach to construct measures of complex and multidimensional concepts called composite indicators. One of the most pressing needs of scientists and policy …

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Elizabeth R. Macaulay
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power

Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery" of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes, Cor…

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Altheria Caldera
Reimagining Educational Justice in the Face of Opposition

Since their inception, schools in the United States, as a reflection of society, have been unjust, meaning that they have privileged the identities, experiences, and perspectives of certain groups, namely…

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Mariusz Finkielsztein
The Sociology of Boredom

A pioneering sociological exploration of boredom as a culturally- and socially-dependent emotionDoes boredom have a history? What can hunter-gatherers teach us about boredom? Is boredom experienced differ…

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Jonathan Herring
Medical Law and Ethics

Medical Law and Ethics covers the core legal principles, key cases, and statutes that govern medical law alongside the key ethical debatesand dilemmas that exist in the field.Carefully constructed feature…

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Environmental Sociology Now

It is a critical time for environmental sociology. Against a backdrop of increasingly dynamic environmental and social change, contemporary scholarship must reorient itself to cut through the noise and di…

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Ilán Bizberg
Four Worlds of the Welfare State in Latin America

This book explores the trajectories and structures of Latin American welfare states using a typology developed through conceptual and historical analyses of social protection systems in Latin America. It …

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Constructing Worlds of Labour

This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origi…

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Alon Helled
Israel's National Historiography

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias' historical and figurational sociology, the book examine…

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The Cambridge History of the Papacy

Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and religious. Aptly…

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