Werner A. Meier & Klaus Schrape 
Die gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Medienkonzentration [PDF ebook] 
Veranderungen in den demokratischen und kulturellen Grundlagen der Gesellschaft

This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level. Traditionally a dependen …

The impact of the Asia crisis has contributed to the debate about the need for regulation of global markets. This book outlines the events leading up to and during the Financial Crisis of 1997 and as …

A New Approach to Research Ethics is a clear, practical and useful guide to the ethical issues faced by researchers today. Examining the theories of ethical decision-making and applying these theorie …

From the rise of Nordic noir to a taste for street food, from practices of natural gardening to the aesthetics of children”s TV, contemporary culture is saturated with racial meanings. By consuming …

The Iraqi Disputed Territories consist of 15 districts stretching across four northern governorates. While an administrative solution for the disputed territories remains evasive, minority groups acr …

The collection of papers brings out the complexities in PPP in terms of types, conceptualization, structure, institutions, and financing. It covers a broad sweep ranging from infrastructure to servic …

The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors’ interests, aid modalities and the recipient’s pre-existing institutional and …

There is a long-standing fear of that which is not understood. Since September 11, 2001 the fear surrounding the violent elements of religion has led to heightened tensions. Research is thus essentia …

This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of ”liberation theology”. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly sign …

This volume includes more than 40 important articles on integrity and misconduct, biomedical research, the social and disciplinary contexts of science, research in the social sciences, the social res …