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  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling

    Edited by Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, Rami Koskinen ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Models and modeling have played an increasingly important role in philosophy, going back to the nineteenth century. While philosophical interest in models has been remarkably lively over the last two decades, there are still many underexplored questions. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling is an outstanding reference source and guide to this fast-growing area and is the ... Read more

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  • Boundary Spanning Design for Better Organisation

    Edited by Tarja Pääkkönen, Satu Miettinen ...
    This intriguing book explores the concept of boundary spanning design in different organisational fields, advocating for the awareness of human experience and the social aspects of design within an increasingly technology-oriented business landscape.A diverse group of designers and scholars engaged in multidisciplinary collaboration provide valuable insights into boundary spanning perspectives and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research

    Edited by Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, Catia Cecilia Confortini ...
    This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Modeling the Possible

    Perspectives from Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, Ylwa Sjölin Wirling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    Models are used to explore possibilities across all scientific fields. Climate models simulate the potential future climatic conditions under various emissions scenarios, macroeconomic models investigate the implications of various fiscal and monetary policy initiatives, and infectious diseases models study the spread of viral diseases under a range of conditions. Such modeling approaches have not ... Read more

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  • Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children

    A Cross Country Study of Policies and Practice

    Edited by Marit Skivenes, Ravinder Barn, Katrin Kriz, Tarja Pösö ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries. These countries include Australia/New Zealand, Belgium/the Netherlands, England, Estonia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, and the United States--all of them having different child welfare philosophies and systems as ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education

    A Comparative View of the Baltic Countries and Norway

    Edited by Vidmantas Tūtlys, Tarja Irene Tikkanen, Meril Ümarik, Biruta Sloka ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents insights on the resiliency strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the field of learning, employment and social integration, in the Baltic countries and Norway. It investigates the ways in which vocational education and training (VET) can enhance the social inclusion of young people at-risk, both in terms of combating school dropout ... Read more

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  • Conceptualising Integration in CLIL and Multilingual Education

    Edited by Tarja Nikula, Emma Dafouz, Pat Moore, Dr. Ute Smit ...
    Series Book 101 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a form of education that combines language and content learning objectives, a shared concern with other models of bilingual education. While CLIL research has often addressed learning outcomes, this volume focuses on how integration can be conceptualised and investigated. Using different theoretical and methodological approaches, ranging from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Human-Agent Orchestrator

    Leading and Scaling AI-Driven Organizations

    by Pascal Bornet, Jochen Wirtz, Tarja Stephens, Rachel Wood, Frederique Covington Corbett, Shigeki Yamaguchi, Rakesh Gohel, Helen Yu, Nima Schei, Cassie Kozyrkov ...
    From the authors of a Forbes "Top 10 Must-Read Tech Book" for 2025.“The magic isn’t in bigger AI models, it’s in Orchestration.”—Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning.AI and Coursera“The era of the user is ending. The era of the Orchestrator has begun.”—Marshall Goldsmith, two-time Thinkers50 #1 Global Leadership ThinkerWe are the last generation to manage only humans. The next will manage hybrid teams ... Read more

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  • Corporeal Peacebuilding

    Mundane Bodies and Temporal Transitions

    by Tarja Väyrynen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book demonstrates how peace is an event that comes into being in mundane and corporeal encounters. The book brings living and experiencing, sentient body to Peace and Conflict Studies and examines war and peace as socio-political institutions that begin and end with bodies. It therefore differs from the wider field of Peace and Conflict Studies where the human body is treated as an abstract ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services

    Interaction, Identities and Practices

    by Sue White ...
    This innovative book explores social work, therapy and counselling as a series of encounters - between clients and human services professionals, social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. Providing a variety of social constructionist perspectives on the idea of the 'client', it presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Challenging Child Protection

    New Directions in Safeguarding Children

    by Brigid Daniel, Andrew Cooper, Kay Tisdall, Jason Hart, Trevor Spratt, Tarja Pösö, Fiona Arney, Stewart McDougall, Leah Bromfield, Walter Lorenz, Heather Montgomery, Tim Dare, Melissa O’Donnell ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.Taking a fresh look at the principles underlying child protection, this book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the evidence base which underpins professional understanding and intervention. It ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance

    Edited by Tarja Halonen, Ulla Liukkunen ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the impact of this UN´s oldest agency, founded in 1919, on the transforming world of work in a global setting, providing insights into the unique history and functions of the ILO as an organization and the ... Read more

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