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Quality of Life and Well-Being for Residents in Long-Term Care Communities: Perspectives on Policies and PracticesTable of Contents1 Quality of Life in Long-Term Care1.1 Aging Demographics Across the Globe1.2 Defining "Good" Quality of Life1.3 Long-Term Care Communities1.4 The Decision to Move into a Long-Term Care Community 1.5 Influence of Quality of Life on Other Metrics1.6 Enhancing Resident Quality of...
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Autocracy and Health Governance in RussiaThe book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake....
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Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, FutureThis book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift,...
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Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Best Practices and Policy ImplicationsThis 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...
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Racism in and for the Welfare StateThis book presents a global overview of racism against immigrants within and in the name of the welfare state. Rich in documents and historical perspective, it analyses politics, practices, and discourses of welfare racism through the exam of discriminatory laws, measures and speeches by...
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Disruption, Ideation and Innovation for Defence and SecurityThis book explores types of disruptions in defence and security, ways to assess disruptions triggered by technological advancements or the lack of legal frameworks; the consequent delays or disruptions to making decisions, creative idea generation and finally the innovative pathways to counter such disruptions....
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Towards Economic Inclusion in the Western BalkansThe countries in the Western Balkans have been severely affected by the wars and conflicts that led to the breakup of former Yugoslavia, by political instability and the effort of creating new states, weak economies and high levels of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion,...
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Electoral Patterns in Alabama: Local Change and Continuity Amid National TrendsWhile significant attention in political science is devoted to national level elections, a comprehensive look at state level political dynamics in the United States is so far sorely missing, and state level electoral developments and shifts are treated as mere reflections of national-level dynamics...
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Discussing the Islamic State on TwitterThis book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature. The authors provide a comprehensive account of the evolution...
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Populismus: Eine EinführungDas Lehrbuch bietet eine einführende Darstellung des Populismus in allen relevanten Facetten. Namentlich adressiert das Buch seine unterschiedlichen Manifestationen (als Ideologie, Parteiprogramm und individuelle Einstellung), stellt den Populismus in vergleichender Perspektive vor und analysiert die Ursachen für den Wahlerfolg populistischer Parteien. Ferner diskutiert das...
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Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and MigrationThis book features essays that untangle, express and discuss issues in and around the intersections of politics, pop-culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge and as they relate to the two concepts of radicalisms and conservatisms in Africa.Author: Edwin EtieyiboPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Permanent SovereigntyIndigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Permanent Sovereignty explores the possibility to conceive a permanent sovereignty over natural resources vested in indigenous peoples rather than in States. The author examines the conceptualisation and content under customary international law of indigenous rights with respect to natural...
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Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040The Forest Sector Outlook 2020-2040 study for the UNECE region provides information that supports decision-making by showing the possible medium- and long-term consequences of specific policy choices and structural changes, using scenario analyses whenever possible. The study is the first to cover the entire...
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Disaster Management and City Planning: Lessons of the Great Hanshin-Awaji EarthquakeThis book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan. It is a compilation of knowledge and know-how obtained through the author's work in the national government for one and half years in...
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Hong Kong Media: Interaction Between Media, State and Civil SocietyThis book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market...
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Solve, Not Serve: What Other Nonprofit Management Books Won't Tell You"This is not just 'outside-the-box' thinking. This is 'set the box on fire, throw it over a cliff, and start inventing entirely new shapes' thinking."In Solve, Not Serve: What Other Nonprofit Management Books Won't Tell You, author Kelly E. Griffin proposes a long-overdue paradigm...
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We Are America, We Are AmericansA Journey through life (at least part of it)... and the lessons learned... and in a rare instance.... taught. In this quasi-autobiography, I answer the confounding questions of our day through a riveting (for some people) journey of all topics relevant. Is the United...
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The Routledge Guidebook to Gramsci's Prison NotebooksGramsci's Prison Notebooks are one of the most important and original sources of modern political philosophy but the Prison Notebooks present great difficulties to the reader. Not originally intended for publication, their fragmentary character and their often cryptic language can mystify readers, leading to...
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Escaping the Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil War in the Middle EastHow can the current civil wars in the Middle East be resolved? This volume brings together academics, experts, and practitioners to explore this question. The book covers the history of civil wars in the region during the 20th century, and then examines the specific...
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Climate and Energy: The Case for RealismThe attempted cures for climate change are generally worse than the disease--especially for the poor. In this groundbreaking volume, experts in all the fields related to climate change explain for laymen what we know about climate change and evaluate from a Christian perspective the...
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