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The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings.The volume explores the...
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Springer
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2024-06-18
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This book includes presentations given at the 88th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Maryland, USA on July 24–28, 2023.
The proceeding covers a diverse set of psychometric topics. The topics include, but are not limited to item response theory,...
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Springer
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2024-06-18
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This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving...
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Springer
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2024-06-15
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Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they...
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OH
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2024-06-15
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This book explores modern European religious and non-religious rituals and their main features by focusing on music as a key element required for the full expression of beliefs. It specifically examines the relationship between religious, non-religious, pagan, cultural,...
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Springer
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2024-06-14
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'A must-read for everyone' Stylist'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times'A vital work' Stella DuffyIn a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to those who circumvent motherhood?Now and throughout history, women without children have...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-06-13
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Have you always wanted to know what makes an ordinary person commit a crime? Explore the dark side of human nature with this illuminating beginner's guide to criminology.There are few subjects more compelling or divisive than criminology. Whether crime dominates the...
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Summersdale
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2024-06-13
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‘Insightful and breathtaking’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of Sapiens‘Bold and sweeping’ PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads‘Profoundly thought-provoking’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut EconomicsHow has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are...
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Penguin
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2024-06-13
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Der Diskurs im aktuellen Jahrbuch analysiert anschaulich die Phänomene von Technikanalysen und Mensch-Maschine-Systemen bis hin zu den gesellschaftlichen Aspekten von Quantifizierung in Bildung und Arbeit.
Jedwede Vermessung des Menschen zählt zu den Problemfeldern der...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-13
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Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term "vulnerable" was applied to "individuals" and to "populations", "groups" and "countries" in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies to all objects in relation to all kinds of threats. However, rather than a label for...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2024-06-13
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The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the...
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Springer
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2024-06-12
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This is an open access book.NDIEAS-2024: Discussions on environmental challenges frequently center around human dependence, susceptibility, and resilience. Yet, the subject matter of the present anthropological discussion regarding the ecological framework would mainly...
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Atlantis Press
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2024-06-12
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This book is an exploration of one of the world’s largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa. Originally built for electricity generation, as the lake reached its full capacity in 1963 it attracted other socioeconomic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-11
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This book showcases nine possible scenarios for future cities, based on different aspects and characteristics of the term "proximity". Different points of view have been investigated on many themes related to the city of proximities: from bottom-up design actions to the...
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Springer
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2024-06-11
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Contemporary societies are aging – but what does that mean? Is this something bad? And can societies age as a whole? By bringing together psychological, gerontological, and sociological findings, this open access book opens up a hitherto unique, multifaceted, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle of actions and measures initiated and institutionalised by the state. In many cases, the state has also issued corresponding mandates and set up support...
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Springer
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2024-06-10
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This book discusses the role of whistleblowing in the detection of white-collar crime through examination of publicly available internal investigation reports and evaluation of allegations and suspicions of potential misconduct. The analysis focuses on offender...
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Springer
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2024-06-10
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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2024-06-10
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How to respond to the challenge of climate change in Africa?Can the international climate court (ICC) make its contribution?This work raises the need to create an ICC (International Climate Court) in order to repair and reduce the environmental inequalities suffered by...
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NAS éditions
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2024-06-10
Collection :
Poing levé
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This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-08
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