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Does the long history of urbanization present identifiable regularities through time and space? Are there long-run trends in the development process? In the complex evolution of human societies are there other determining factors than political ...
Editeur :
Presses de l'Université du Québec
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2009
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Le plan d'aménagement des sols est un moyen pour lier les objectifs du développement et la conservation de la biodiversité sur le long terme. Cet ouvrage présente les représentations cartographiques des données historiques,...
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Cirad
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2001-01-01
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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations,...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-09-16
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Becoming Digital Citizens explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. Based on rich empirical evidence, this book examines the citizenship status of disabled people in a rapidly...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-09-05
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The fascinating new history of the British Aristocracy since the Second World War'A deeply researched and highly entertaining account' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downtown Abbey'This well-written, well-researched and fascinating book could not be better timed.' - Lord...
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Penguin
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2025-09-04
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The Sociology of Work, 4th Edition This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work.The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers offer a critical and conceptual introduction to digital methods. In a direct and accessible way, the authors provide hands-on advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to understand which digital methods are best suited to...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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Why do people protest? And how can people protest effectively? This book is about the psychological science and practical art of social protest, based in the psychology of motivation and mobilization. Based on decades of theorizing and research, the book offers a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-04
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Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social Care The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the book examines...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists, 2nd Edition The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and graphical approaches,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology – the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family structures differ around the world, and why? The Anthropology Book...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2025-09-04
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When most people hear the word 'witch', they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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Master the critical tools for understanding media in today’s fast-evolving digital landscape Critical Media Studies: An Introduction for the Digital Age provides students with a powerful framework for analyzing the impact of media on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-09-03
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We live in an era of existential risk, facing multiple threats to the survival of our species.We also face an epidemic of existential anxiety, struggling to find meaning and purpose in a complex and dehumanizing world. In such times, hope can be hard to find. Yet, we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-03
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This open access book mainly focuses on Northeast China, which historically included Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.This area borders Mongolia to the west, the ocean to the south, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development. Results show that Chinese community participation in cultural heritage management has yet to find a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book explores the role museums play in shaping the cultural and historical identities of Central Asia. Through an analysis of around 50 museums, this book offers insights into how these "memory machines" contribute to contemporary identity formation in Central...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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In order for defendants facing legal charges in the United States to be able to move forward with the legal process, they must be competent to proceed with their cases. Defendants are presumed to be competent to make legal decisions, until someone calls their competency...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-01
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