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Saving for Development
development; economic policy
Scaling Migrant Worker Rights : How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
International migrants’ home countries often play an integral part in protecting their citizens’ labor and human rights abroad. At the same time, institutions such as labor unions, worker centers, and legal aid groups are among the most visible…
Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
International migrants’ home countries often play an integral part in protecting their citizens’ labor and human rights abroad. At the same time, institutions such as labor unions, worker centers, and legal aid groups are among the most visible…
Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
Schizophrenia is a poorly understood but very disabling group of brain disorders. While hallucinations and delusions (positive symptoms of schizophrenia) feature prominently in diagnostic criteria, impairments of memory and attentional processing…
Schizophrenia Research and Care—Advancements and Challenges
The healthcare system’s ability to diagnose and care for people with schizophrenia has
improved in recent decades, as effective pharmacological and psychosocial interventions
are now available. However, schizophrenia remains a leading cause of…
Science and the Politics of Openness
The phrase ‘here be monsters’ or ‘here be dragons’ is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science and politics that have…
Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different…
Science in the Forest, Science in the Past
This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western, and Indigenous societies, both ancient and…
Science of Societal Safety : Living at Times of Risks and Disasters
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and…