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  • İSLAM MEDENİYETİNDE KERVANSARAYLAR

    by Mücahit Yaz ...
    Konuya başlarken, İslam medeniyetinde bir sosyal kurum olarak kervansaraylar günümüz sosyal tesisi olarak görülse de kervansaraylarda ve ribat da belli bir süre yolcular ücretsiz kalabiliyor ve orada ihtiyaçlarını giderebiliyordu. Kervansaraylar her türlü güvenlik önlemine karşı güzel bir şekilde korunuyor ve mallar ve canlılar için güvenli bir yer oluyordu kervansaraylar ticaretin gelişmesinde 10 ... Read more

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  • Transformational Change for People and the Planet

    Evaluating Environment and Development

    Edited by Juha I. Uitto, Geeta Batra ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and development are closely interlinked, as are human health and ecosystem health. The pandemic that began in 2020 demonstrated in no uncertain ... Read more

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  • Urgent Archives

    Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

    Series series Routledge Studies in Archives
    Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy beyond the standard liberal archival solutions of more diverse collecting and more inclusive description.Grounded in the emerging field of critical archival studies, this book uncovers how dominant western archival theories and practices are oppressive by design, while looking toward the ... Read more

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  • Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises

    Citizen Organisations and Collective Learning in Europe

    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
    This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors.The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, ... Read more

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  • The Vision Zero Handbook

    Theory, Technology and Management for a Zero Casualty Policy

    This open access handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of Vision Zero, an innovative policy on public road safety developed in Sweden. Covering all the major topics of the subject, the book starts out with a thorough examination of the philosophy, ideas and principles behind Vision Zero. It looks at conditions for the effectiveness of the policy, principles of safety and responsibility as ... Read more

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  • Better Work

    The Impact of Automation, Flexibilization and Intensification of Work

    Series series Research for Policy
    This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who will still have jobs in the future, and – much less studied so far – for the quality of their work. Good ... Read more

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  • Politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen des Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens in der Schweiz

    Eine Einführung

    Series series Basiswissen Sozialwirtschaft und Sozialmanagement
    Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die zentralen politischen und ökonomischen Begriffe, Konzepte und Diskurse des schweizerischen Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens. Es spannt den Bogen von den demokratischen Grundsätzen und Eigenheiten des politischen Systems, über die Sozialhilfe, Sozialversicherungen sowie ökonomischen Strukturmerkmale des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens, bis hin zu Fragen ... Read more

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  • Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention

    Best Practices and Policy Implications

    Series series Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice
    This open access book focuses on the public health crisis of youth suicide and provides a review of current research and prevention practices. It addresses important topics, including suicide epidemiology, suicide risk detection in school and medical settings, critical cultural considerations, and approaches to lethal means safety. This book offers cutting-edge research on emerging discoveries in ... Read more

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  • 341 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves

    by Daniel Alman ...
    All 341 of the items in this book are also included in a previous book that I published, which is called "1,342 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc."Therefore, if you already own that book, then you already own the complete contents of this book.However, because some people are interested in reading a book which is specifically ... Read more

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  • Cadastro Único

    tecnologia de reclassificação social

    O livro analisa o processo de criação, desenvolvimento e operacionalização do sistema de Cadastro Único para Programas Sociais do Governo Federal (CadÚnico). Por meio de entrevistas, noticiário jornalístico e consultas a documentação institucional, a obra se debruça sobre a gerência das políticas sociais focalizadas que exigem a operação de uma estrutura institucional e tecnológica complexa, ... Read more

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  • Project Do Better: Enough For All, in Four Phases

    This book, meant for use by community organizers, builds on systems critiques with action item sets which lay out a vision of a world described by FDR's Four Freedoms. It reiterates Dr. King's call for a Citizen's Income with updated planning and a pathway to get there. Suggestions for new ways to solve the housing and homeless crises over the next 70 years offer new models for participatory and ... Read more

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  • White Nile

    Africa is an ancient continent, of hard lands, in which good lands are scarce. There are few deep alluvial spaces. The oldest is in the bucket of Chad. There is another one in the middle Niger and this one from the Bahr el Gazal-White Nile, which should have an extension of perhaps 100,000 km2, approximately the space that the swamps occupy today. These good lands have an invaluable value. As here ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • ТӨРИЙН НУУЦЫН ТУХАЙ ӨНӨӨГИЙН ХАНДЛАГЫГ ӨӨРЧЛӨХ ЗАМААР ИРГЭДИЙН МЭДЭХ ЭРХИЙГ ХАНГАХ НЬ

    This is a policy report about improving citizen participation in country's policy making process through changing state secrecy approach within the country. The policy report was carried under the policy fellowship program by the Open Society Forum in 2010.Under the policy fellowship program, the researchers aimed to reveal following issues:- To study what are the challenges in the county for ... Read more

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  • Adam Gopnik Hates African-Americans

    by David Wilson ...
    Adam Gopnik claims to care about racial justice, but look at what he actually does, and you can see he doesn't care one bit. ... Read more

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  • Using Evidence in Policy and Practice

    Lessons from Africa

    Edited by Ian Goldman, Mine Pabari ...
    This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why.Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west ... Read more

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  • Sam: A Political Philosophy

    With her novels, The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand created the philosophy of Objectivism, which continues to influence conservative American politics. Now, after all of these years, a political balance is provided by Sam, an entirely fact-based political philosophy narrated by fictional and real-life characters seeking to establish a nurturing society. Sam provides a ... Read more

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  • Lago Victoria

    La propuesta que nos hemos permitido plantear es la siguiente. Debido a su altitud y al rápido descenso que sigue a continuación, el Nilo Victoria, se podría vaciar fácilmente, ahondando el cauce del Nilo unas decenas de metros. Así casi toda la superficie que cubre actualmente el lago quedaría al descubierto y podría ponerse en cultivo. Los fértiles suelos volcánicos de los países de alrededor ... Read more

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  • Die Dialektik der Angewiesenheit

    Das sozialpolitische Werk von Eduard Heimann neu lesen

    Series Book 98 - Edition Politik
    Eduard Heimann zählt zu den seit der Nachkriegszeit bis heute vergessenen Sozialwissenschaftler*innen. Weder in den allgemeinen sozialökonomischen Diskursen noch in der Diskussion um den »dritten Weg« finden die Überlegungen des emigrierten linken Forschers Resonanz. Doch nicht nur der gegenwärtige sozialökologische Transformationsdiskurs kann sein historisch-dialektisches Modell der ... Read more

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  • Shared Physical Custody

    Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

    Series Book 25 - European Studies of Population
    This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in ... Read more

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  • What Works in Improving Gender Equality

    International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on comparative research from five countries, What Works in Improving Gender Equality provides an accessible analysis of what gender equality means and how we can achieve it by adapting best practices in care policies from other countries. Realistic policy solutions are reached by examining the contexts in which childcare and ... Read more

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  • Social Policy Review 35

    Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2023

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the latest edition of Social Policy Review, experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year. The book addresses current issues and critical debates within the field, with a particular focus on intergenerational research. Contributors also explore key social policy and research developments across a wide range ... Read more

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  • Housing Market Dynamics in Africa

    This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy ... Read more

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  • 2013 Hispanic Values Survey: How Shifting Religious Identities and Experiences are Influencing Hispanic Approaches to Politics

    Compared to the Democratic Party, Hispanics are twice as likely to volunteer negative associations about the Republican Party, are more than three times less likely to say the Republican Party cares about people like them, and are half as likely to say they feel closer to the Republican Party than they did in the past, a major new national survey of 1,563 Hispanics living in the United States ... Read more

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