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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.

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    • Handbook of Industrial Organization

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4
      • December 9, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 5 1 4 4
      Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume Four highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of expert authors.

    • Big Data and Mobility as a Service

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2021
      • Haoran Zhang + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 1 6 9 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 1 7 0 3
      Big Data and Mobility as a Service explores MaaS platforms that can be adaptable to the ever-evolving mobility environment. It looks at multi-mode urban crowd data to assess urban mobility characteristics, their shared transportation potential, and their performance conditions and constraints. The book analyzes the roles of multimodality, travel behavior, urban mobility dynamics and participation. Combined with insights on using big data to analyze market and policy decisions, this book is an essential tool for urban transportation management researchers and practitioners.

    • Security Operations Management

      • 4th Edition
      • December 8, 2021
      • Robert McCrie + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 2 3 7 1 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 2 3 7 2 7
      Security Operations Management, Fourth Edition, the latest release in this seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today’s security management professionals and students, explores the characteristics of today’s globalized workplaces, security’s key role within them, and what the greatest concern is for security practitioners and senior managers. Incorporating the latest security research and best practices, the book covers key skills needed by security managers to demonstrate the value of their security program, offers information on identifying and managing risk, and reviews the latest technological advances in security control, command, communications and computing.

    • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5
      • December 8, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 5 0 1 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 5 0 2 1
      Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume Five highlights new advances in the field, with this new release exploring comprehensive chapters written by an international board of authors who discuss topics such as The Economics of Agricultural Innovation, Climate, food and agriculture, Agricultural Labor Markets: Immigration Policy, Minimum Wages, Etc., Risk Management in Agricultural Production, Animal Health and Livestock Disease, Behavioral and Experimental Economics to Inform Agri-Environmental Programs and Policies, Big Data, Machine Learning Methods for Agricultural and Applied Economists, Agricultural data collection to minimize measurement error and maximize coverage, Gender, agriculture and nutrition, Social Networks Analysis In Agricultural Economics, and more.

    • Autonomous Vehicles

      • 1st Edition
      • April 14, 2021
      • George Dimitrakopoulos + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 1 3 7 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 0 1 3 8 3
      Autonomous Vehicles: Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Impacts explores both the autonomous driving concepts and the key hardware and software enablers, Artificial intelligence tools, needed infrastructure, communication protocols, and interaction with non-autonomous vehicles. It analyses the impacts of autonomous driving using a scenario-based approach to quantify the effects on the overall economy and affected sectors. The book assess from a qualitative and quantitative approach, the future of autonomous driving, and the main drivers, challenges, and barriers. The book investigates whether individuals are ready to use advanced automated driving vehicles technology, and to what extent we as a society are prepared to accept highly automated vehicles on the road. Building on the technologies, opportunities, strengths, threats, and weaknesses, Autonomous Vehicles: Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Impacts discusses the needed frameworks for automated vehicles to move inside and around cities. The book concludes with a discussion on what in applications comes next, outlining the future research needs.

    • Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • October 27, 2021
      • Paulo Barbosa Marques + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 1 4 1 9 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 1 4 2 0 9
      Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges fills a gap in the market by covering new topics and angles not addressed in other literature. The book's authors approach the interaction of psychopathy with different types of crime, reflecting on comorbidity with other disorders, symptoms and emotional function. In addition to examining questions of prevention and treatment, they present new developments with solid theory and scientific evidence, also addressing forensic realities. This is a must-have guide for practitioners, students or anyone interested in psychopathy, criminal behavior and the various avenues of treatment.

    • Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age

      • 1st Edition
      • September 30, 2021
      • Svetla Baykoucheva
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 3 7 2 3 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 3 7 2 4 3
      New digital technologies have transformed how scientific information is created, disseminated—and discovered. The emergence of new forms of scientific publishing based on open science and open access have caused a major shift in scientific communication and a restructuring of the flow of information. Specialized indexing services and search engines are trying to get into information seekers’ minds to understand what users are actually looking for when typing all these keywords or drawing chemical structures. Using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and semantic indexing, these "discovery agents" are trying to anticipate users’ information needs. In this highly competitive environment, authors should not sit and rely only on publishers, search engines, and indexing services to make their works visible. They need to communicate about their research and reach out to a larger audience. Driving Science Information Discovery in the Digital Age looks through the "eyes" of the main "players" in this "game" and examines the discovery of scientific information from three different, but intertwined, perspectives: Discovering, managing, and using information (Information seeker perspective) Publishing, disseminating, and making information discoverable (Publisher perspective) Creating, spreading, and promoting information (Author perspective).

    • Implementing Data-Driven Strategies in Smart Cities

      • 1st Edition
      • September 18, 2021
      • Didier Grimaldi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 1 1 2 2 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 1 1 2 3 6
      Implementing Data-Driven Strategies in Smart Cities is a guidebook and roadmap for practitioners seeking to operationalize data-driven urban interventions. The book opens by exploring the revolution that big data, data science, and the Internet of Things are making feasible for the city. It explores alternate topologies, typologies, and approaches to operationalize data science in cities, drawn from global examples including top-down, bottom-up, greenfield, brownfield, issue-based, and data-driven. It channels and expands on the classic data science model for data-driven urban interventions – data capture, data quality, cleansing and curation, data analysis, visualization and modeling, and data governance, privacy, and confidentiality. Throughout, illustrative case studies demonstrate successes realized in such diverse cities as Barcelona, Cologne, Manila, Miami, New York, Nancy, Nice, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, and Zurich. Given the heavy emphasis on global case studies, this work is particularly suitable for any urban manager, policymaker, or practitioner responsible for delivering technological services for the public sector from sectors as diverse as energy, transportation, pollution, and waste management.

    • Research Data Management and Data Literacies

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2021
      • Koltay Tibor
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 8 6 0 0 2 4
      Research Data Management and Data Literacies help researchers familiarize themselves with RDM, and with the services increasingly offered by libraries. This new volume looks at data-intensive science, or ‘Science 2.0’ as it is sometimes termed in commentary, from a number of perspectives, including the tasks academic libraries need to fulfil, new services that will come online in the near future, data literacy and its relation to other literacies, research support and the need to connect researchers across the academy, and other key issues, such as ‘data deluge,’ the importance of citations, metadata and data repositories. This book presents a solid resource that contextualizes RDM, including good theory and practice for researchers and professionals who find themselves tasked with managing research data.

    • Shared Mobility

      • 1st Edition
      • July 20, 2021
      • Junfeng Jiao
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 3 0 8 8 6
      Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years. While most studies investigate shared mobility services and transportation piecemeal by city, mode, or company, this book focuses on transportation network companies themselves, highlighting shared bikes and E-scooters. Sections cover how they perform at the local or regional level in an effort to help governments better plan and regulate these emerging services. Shared Mobility explores the opportunities and challenges in these new systems and provides a thorough and succinct reference text for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of transportation planning, transportation engineering, and urban planning.

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