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Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool
We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant…
Russische Errungenschaften in der Physiologie der Verdauung
Dieses Buch ist den wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Ereignissen rund um die Geschichte und Physiologie der Verdauung in Russland gewidmet. Das Fundament der modernen Wissenschaft auf diesem Gebiet wurde durch die gemeinsame Arbeit von Wissenschaftlern…
Coping With Extreme Environments: A Physiological/Psychological Approach
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With…
Neuroaesthetics: A Methods-Based Introduction
This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/masters students from both the sciences and the humanities. Written in a style that appeals to humanities…
The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan's Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities
Japan is quintessentially by geography a maritime country. Maritime surveillance capabilities – underwater, shore-based and airborne – are critical to its national defence posture. This book describes and assesses these capabilities, with particular…
Clinical Psychometrics: Old Issues and New Perspectives
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With…
Children and Peace : From Research to Action
This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer,…
Northern Exposure : COVID- 19 and Regional Inequalities in Health and Wealth
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic affected all parts of the country, it did not do so equally. Northern England was hit the hardest, exposing more than ever the extent of regional inequalities…
Social Media and Hate
Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies. Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, and the extreme violence…
Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium
Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled. Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and…