Need to tackle your research project? This practical, straightforward book covers every step along the way so you can confidently take the leap into the research world.

Dit rapport onderzoekt de opkomst van child en family influencers in Nederland. Het richt zich op het ontwikkelen van wetenschappelijke methoden om deze influencers te identificeren, hun bedrijfsmodellen te onderzoeken en geautomatiseerde benaderingen voor monitoring voor te stellen. Het rapport benadrukt de complexiteit van het onderwerp en biedt geen uitgebreide juridische analyse, maar richt zich eerst op het begrijpen van de online dynamiek, activiteiten en verdienmodellen van influencers...

Milieucriminaliteit is een vorm van criminaliteit met verstrekkende gevolgen voor mens, natuur en maatschappij. In wetenschap en beleid is er vooral aandacht voor de betrokken bedrijven. Over de individuele daders van milieucriminaliteit is nog weinig bekend. De huidige studie is de eerste studie in Nederland, en wereldwijd, waarin een grote groep milieudaders systematisch in beeld wordt gebracht, met aandacht voor het soort milieudelicten, hun criminele ontwikkelingspaden over de levensloop,...

Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture - as a collective human making, of art, lang...

Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production.

In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despite providing energy that runs the country, the region is still forced to the political and economic periphery as the power they produce is controlled by centralized, international Spanish corporations. Local resistance to wind farm installation in Southern Catalonia relies on the notion of dignity: the ability to live within one's means and according to one's own decision...

Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, and development. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of feminist methodologies, gender theory, and feminist approaches to key topics and themes in global politics.

Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This third edition provides an expanded and fully updated resource suitable for students and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is structured in two parts - the first covers the nature of knowledge and the reasons for doing research, the second explains the specific methods used...

Presents the research in media psychology, bridging selective exposure into a larger framework of choice in media usage. Considering the myriad media options available to use, this work seeks to answer such questions as: what mechanisms guide an individual's exposure to/choice of media and how can researchers model them.

What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts around the world, about the challenges of cybersecurity and social security. This broad list highlights the fact that security is an idea with multiple meanings, but do we all experience security issues in the same way? In this book, Nicole Detraz explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens. Assumptions about masculinity and ...