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  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Ageing, Learning and Development
    This book examines the modalities of learning and development of older persons. It calls upon theoretical perspectives that conceptualise people both in their unicity and in their cultural and historical inscriptions – here, mainly, sociocultural psychology and psychoanalysis. With the extension of life expectancy, what is colloquially called “old age” designates a period that ...
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    234,46 €

  • Ageing Smart - Digitale Instrumente im kommunalen Kontext
    Die geburtenstarken Jahrgänge 1955 bis 1969 (Babyboomer) treten nach und nach in den Ruhestand über. Diese Entwicklung stellt Städte und Gemeinden vor neue Herausforderungen. Es wird notwendig, die große Zahl und Vielfalt älterer Menschen stärker in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken, um Ansprüche an seniorenfreundliche Wohnstandorte und Teilhabemöglichkeiten zu gewährleisten. In diesem...
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    119,57 €

  • Birthrates and Battlelines
    Charles M. Mugera
    Discover the Forces That Shaped a Continent’s DominanceWhat propelled Europe to a position of unmatched influence across the globe? This compelling exploration delves into the intricate web of demographic trends, economic strategies, social structures, and political innovations that carved a distinct edge for Europe over Asia and Africa. From the subtle shifts in population gro...
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    17,40 €

  • Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Maldives
    Asian Development Bank
    This report analyzes the potential benefits and challenges of machine learning and small area estimation (SAE) to monitor poverty and help tackle inequality in Maldives.It explains how SAE can generate granular poverty estimates using household survey and census data, and how machine learning including convolutional neural networks were developed using a model trained on Indone...
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    37,98 €

  • Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Poverty
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how Indonesia can combine satellite imagery and geospatial data with machine learning to create maps showing areas of poverty, which could help shape targeted support for vulnerable communities. Based on a collaborative study with Statistics Indonesia (BPS) and World Data Lab, the report shows how Indonesia can develop a grid-like poverty map. Computer vision ...
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    36,42 €

  • ICT Use and Healthy Longevity
    With the revolutionary technology advancement and the global population aging, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of the use of information and computer technology (ICT) among older people, and the need for ICT inclusivity to ensure that all older individuals can benefit equally from the modern technology. ICT use is also considered to has the potential to ...
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    205,57 €

  • The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning
    Brenda White
    First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it. ...
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    55,72 €

  • Selected Articles from the International Conference on Designing in Disorder
    This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the UrbanPromo International Conference on “Designing in disorder - Designing disorder. Reorganizing Urban Fragility” held from 5 to 8 November 2024 at Florence in Italy. It highlights the issue of land management and its transformations through the use of soft policies and soft power practices: informal tools that progressively co...
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    496,22 €

  • Home Sweet Home
    Ferihan Yesil
    Heimaten sind nicht ausschließlich Ergebnisse individueller Anstrengungen, sondern Produkte gesellschaftlicher Aushandlungen. Sie entstehen im Zusammenspiel von Kreation und Ko-Kreation – durch das Mitwirken sozialer, räumlicher und materieller Kontexte. Wenn Heimatkonstruktionen zu gemeinsamen Gestaltungsprozessen werden, kann ein ganzheitliches Heimatgefühl entstehen.Die Pers...
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    118,82 €

  • The Anthem Companion to David Riesman
    Peter Kivisto
    The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century. ...
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    282,61 €

  • Catamarca Curato de Ancasti Matricula 1806
    Flores Ivaldi / Gabriel Bulacio
    En este trabajo ponemos a disposición de historiadores y genealogistas la reproducción y transcripción de una matrícula o padrón registrado en el curato de Ancasti, provincia de Catamarca, en el año de 1806. El documento fue encontrado entre los expedientes de las informaciones patrimoniales del cura de Ancasti, donde, sin lugar a dudas, estuvo extraviado o traspapelado durant...
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    14,15 €

  • Climate and the Courage of Leadership
    Royce William Warren
    We are rapidly approaching the point of no return on climate change.Climate and the Courage of Leadership addresses this critical moment with clarity and urgency. It explores why current political systems struggle to act and presents four specific, actionable solutions that governments can implement to move us toward a more sustainable future.Modern democracies face a difficult...
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    25,77 €

  • Cultural Pressures and Mental Health Challenges in Gen Z’s Digital World
    The rise of influencer culture and constant digital connectivity has profoundly shaped how young people view themselves and the world around them. For Generation Z, growing up immersed in curated online realities has intensified pressures around identity, beauty, success, and authenticity, often leading to heightened anxiety, depression, and self-comparison. Understanding these...
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    249,64 €

  • Cultural Pressures and Mental Health Challenges in Gen Z’s Digital World
    The rise of influencer culture and constant digital connectivity has profoundly shaped how young people view themselves and the world around them. For Generation Z, growing up immersed in curated online realities has intensified pressures around identity, beauty, success, and authenticity, often leading to heightened anxiety, depression, and self-comparison. Understanding these...
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    196,86 €

  • Demon Hammer
    Wal Souza / Eliton Lima
    Demon Hammer é como exorcista profissional — mas esqueça rituais sagrados e orações piedosas. Damon prefere resolver tudo na base da porrada. Armado com seu inseparável martelo sagrado e uma língua afiada, Damon resolve casos sobrenaturais com brutalidade, sarcasmo e métodos nada ortodoxos. ...
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    11,96 €

  • Amazônia Em Debate
    Adolfo Oliveira / Christian Ylana Carvalho / Daniel Sombra / Eldilene Souza / João Marcio Palheta / Nunes
    O livroAmazônia em Debate: Justiça Socioambiental e Sustentabilidade para um Novo Marco Global rumo à COPreúne reflexões críticas e experiências plurais sobre os desafios e oportunidades de justiça ambiental na Amazônia, em um momento decisivo para o planeta. Organizada por pesquisadoras e pesquisadores atuantes na região, a obra articula diferentes dimensões do debate socioamb...
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    31,72 €

  • Economic and Social Mobility
    Intergenerational mobility is an important measure of well-being that underlies a fundamental value: that anyone should be able to succeed economically based on their own merits, regardless of their circumstances. This has been a value held by many Americans throughout U.S. history, even as many observers may rightly argue that it has been, at times and for many groups, severel...
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    31,72 €

  • Full House
    Hal Kane / Lester R. Brown
    Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. ...
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    63,70 €

  • Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Community-Based Suicide Prevention Grants Programs
    In April 2025, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to explore best practices for implementation and evaluation of suicide prevention grants programs. Presenters and participants discussed non-clinical community-based programs intended to mitigate the impacts of social determ...
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    22,83 €

  • Southern Anthropocenes
    Casper Bruun Jensen
    This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. ...
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    79,23 €

  • Southern Anthropocenes
    Casper Bruun Jensen
    This wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. ...
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    271,84 €

  • Population Growth In Latin America And U.S. National Security
    John Saunders
    Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with both population growth in Latin America and the possible consequences of this growth for the security of the USA. The text analyses the demographic dimensions of the phenomenon and then considers the consequences for US security. ...
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    70,13 €

  • Панове, паднапружцеся!
    Élisabeth Badinter / Уладзіслаў Гарбацкі
    Эсэ францускай філёзафкі Элізабэт Бадэнтэр пра страйк улоньняў, які хвалюе сьвет з антычных часоў. Раней ён быў утопіяй ці ўяўнай страшылкай. Але ў ХХ стагодзьдзі кабеты ў заходнім сьвеце нечакана распачалі гэты страйк насамрэч. І нам усім цяпер давядзецца жыць зь ягонымі наступствамі.У ім гучаць тэмы, якія філёзафка ўздымала ў сваіх іншых творах: як сучаснай кабеце спалучыць м...
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    10,26 €

  • Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
    Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. ...
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    76,02 €

  • Analysing Population Trends
    Lincoln H. Day
    Originally published in 1983, this book examines the problems of fertility in predicting population trends. It varies a great deal according to mothers’ ages, ethnic groups, place and time. ...
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    63,70 €

  • West European Population Change
    The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the major trends: fertility decline, counter-urbanisation and the cessation of international labour migration from outside the former EEC. ...
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    63,67 €

  • Planning for Population Change
    Originally published in 1986, this book explores many important aspects of the relationship between population change and planning, exploring the impact of population change on service provision and its impact on the policy-making process. ...
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    63,85 €

  • Demographic Patterns in Developed Societies
    R. W. Hiorns
    Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America. ...
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    57,16 €

  • Taking Population Seriously
    Frances Moore-Lappe / Rachel Schurman
    Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world’s success stories on population. ...
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    64,30 €