Books in Social sciences

The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

Books Journals

The Basics of Digital Forensics

3rd Edition
January 1, 2026
John Sammons
English

The Basics of Digital Forensics, Third Edition provides a foundation for people new to the digital forensics field. This book offers guidance on how to conduct examinations by discussing what digital forensics is, the methodologies used, key tactical concepts, and the tools needed to perform examinations. Details on digital forensics for computers, networks, cell phones, GPS, the cloud and the Internet are discussed. Also, learn how to collect evidence, document the scene, and how deleted data can be recovered. The new Third Edition of this book includes four all-new chapters, additional pedagogical features within each chapter, and an expansive appendix with useful information in an easy-to-use format. The book provides readers with real-world examples and all the key technologies used in digital forensics, as well as coverage of network intrusion response, how hard drives are organized, and electronic discovery. This valuable resource also covers how to incorporate quality assurance into an investigation, how to prioritize evidence items to examine (triage), case processing, and what goes into making an expert witness. New chapters in the Third Edition cover imaging and processing, digital forensic analysis, IoT forensics, as well as documentation and reporting.

Resilient Smart Cities

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Nisrine Makhoul
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Using a consistent structure throughout, the book examines smart cities in a broad sense, looking at people, governance, economic, mobility, environment, and infrastructure dimensions. It identifies the likely weaknesses of those cities and threats faced, proposing a modeling platform to help enhance resilience of smart cities, offering state-of-the-researc... and deep literature review. Resilient Smart Cities shows the role smart cities play in achieving sustainability goals through the lens of urban resilience and concludes that smart cities are required to be cities of hope where well-being of the humankind is the center.

Measuring and Managing Information Risk

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Jack Freund + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach, Second Edition provides a proven and credible framework for understanding, measuring, and analyzing information risk of any size or complexity using the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology developed over ten years and adopted by corporations worldwide. This new edition covers such key areas as risk theory, risk calculation, scenario modeling, and communicating risk within the organization, and also includes new chapters and essays from industry professionals. It provides a step-by-step guide to help managers make better business decisions by understanding their organizational risk.The field has advanced significantly in the past 10 years and this all-new edition reiterates the importance of the foundations of risk measurement but adds information about modern methods to integrate quantitative risk assessment methods into your security programs. This includes the integration of security telemetry data, outside data sources, approaches to automating FAIR assessments, and how to align methods and programs to security standards and regulations. Further discussed is how such approaches are being used by third-party agencies to provide CRQ data to the investors, underwriters, and regulators. This book is a valuable resource for all those who need the foundations, methods, and techniques for measuring, assessing, and communicating cyber risk to enable an organization to build an organizational IT risk management program. It serves as both a practical how-to guide for those new to the industry as well as tenured professionals that need a formalized guide for implementation.

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Christopher Grant Kirwan + 1 more
English

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Convergent Systems for Planning, Design, and Operations, Second Edition delves into the evolution of urban ecosystems through the integration of advanced technologies like machine learning, geospatial intelligence, and smart connected objects. By examining cities as dynamic, real-time systems and providing tools such as generative design and living lab models, this book equips readers with both conceptual and practical knowledge for planning, designing, and operating smart cities. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing the convergence of digital and physical realms and the transformative impact of human and machine intelligence on urban environments.It offers a holistic understanding of smart city functions, aiming to make cities more livable and sustainable. New sections include a focus on the Metaverse, comparisons of global smart city models, and updated use cases and applications of AI since the first edition.

Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling, Second Edition provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing, and controlling mobility patterns—a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications, and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Fields covered are evolving rapidly, and this new edition updates existing material and provides new chapters that reflect recent developments in the field (such as the emergence of active, transfer and reinforcement learning).Users will find a detailed, mobility ‘structural’ analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements, limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data’s impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.

Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Dominique Lord + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling, Second Edition comprehensively covers the key elements for effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway safety data analysis in a single reference. It includes all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting and assembling data to developing models and evaluating results. It discusses the challenges of working with crash and naturalistic data, identifies problems, and proposes well-researched methods to solve them. It examines the nuances associated with safety data analysis and shows how to best use the information to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes.This thoroughly updated second edition updates the material contained in the book based on the latest advancements in highway safety research as well as feedback from readers. It includes entirely new sections on topics such as digital twins as a source of data, model validation, extreme value models, temporal instability, joint crash frequency and severity modeling, sample size, quasi-induced exposure method, autonomous vehicle safety estimate, and more.This book serves as a valuable reference for students, researchers, and practitioners alike. It provides more examples and exercises to help in using the book for courses, and it continues to complement the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AAHSTO), thus helping in the training of engineers and practitioners to better understand the concepts and methods outlined in the forthcoming HSM.

Handbook of the Economics of Matching

1st Edition
Volume 2
November 1, 2025
Pierre A. Chiappori + 2 more
English

This second volume of the Handbook of the Economics of Matching summarizesboth classic results and the many recent advances on matching without transfers. Its seven chapters, written by leading researchers,cover both theoretical and empirical work.

Transport and Energy Transition

1st Edition
Volume 16
October 1, 2025
Simon Haikola + 1 more
English

Transport and Energy Transition, Volume 16 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics in this new release include The role of organization, policy and planning in facilitating (or constraining) the transport energy transition, Behavioral dimensions and dynamics of transport energy transitions, Where crises and social movements meet: momentum for alternative mobility visions, Institutional implications of transport energy transitions – what new institutions will be needed? Can existing institutions adapt?, and Whose Transition? Power and Discourse in Austria's Rural Mobility Transformation.

Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
David Nowak
English

Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests provides the latest and most comprehensive information on community forests globally, how these trees improve human health and well-being, the value of community trees, and what local land managers, from the lot to regional scale, could do to improve the benefits provided by community trees. It offers a complete understanding of the benefits and costs associated with trees in cities and how these benefits occur. This book facilitates the creation of sustainable community forests that provide optimal benefits to individuals and society.It takes a systems approach, focusing on the forest population rather than the individual tree, and providing information on the best tree species and designs to produce optimal effects. The book is divided into three major sections: The Basics, Urban Forest Benefits, and Improving the Urban Environment with Trees. It covers how cities affect our local environment, the monetary value of trees, and specific steps that land managers should follow to manage and improve their local tree and forest population. This comprehensive resource is valuable for city forest and park managers, policy makers, regional managers, and non-profit groups.

Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Manas Pradhan
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability and Discoverability explores the current state-of-the-art practices in smart city digitization and e-governance processes, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses the pros and cons of various data standards and federation measures involved in the digital transformation of cities from both the end user and implementor’s perspectives. Utilizing real-world use cases from cities worldwide, the book highlights their goals and adopted measures. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability, and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective.This resource is invaluable for practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain. It will help practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain better understand existing and evolving technologies and how to better formulate their processes to provide a sustainable model for urban development.

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