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This book explores the variety of forms that individual heroism and sacrifice can take in the context of contemporary military conflicts. It addresses three key questions: How has an enduring ideal of heroism been transformed by the nature of modern warfare? Are we now...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-11
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China is a leading engineering country, fueling unprecedented global development. Technology and educational exchanges bring Chinese organizations, practitioners, and students together with similar groups from around the world. These collaborations depend on ethical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-10
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A concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants.
Britain owes reparations to the Caribbean. The exploitation of generations of those trafficked from Africa, or born into enslavement, to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-10
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‚Männlichkeit‘ gilt als lange gleichgesetzt mit dem ‚Allgemein-Menschlichen‘ und daher als Spezifikum regelrecht unsichtbar. Was macht das Nachdenken über und die Beforschung von‚Männlichkeit‘ dann epistemologisch wie gesellschaftlich wahrscheinlich? Dieser Frage geht...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-04-09
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This edited book aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between the coining of the «Western Music» concept and the institutionalised and entrepreneurial management of culture. It studies the emergence of the trademark «Western Music» in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-08
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Addressing the topic of expertise in international cultural conservation, this book argues that the UNESCO World Heritage regime emerged as a Faustian pact between protection and prestige, and a productive tension between these elements remains at its core, embodied by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-06
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This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectives of Law and Literature and Law and Film Studies, two of the most multidisciplinary branches of critical legal theory. The central thesis is that...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-05
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Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) stellt eine Schlüsseltechnologie des gesellschaftlichen Wandels im 21. Jahrhundert dar. Mittlerweile werden zahlreiche technologische Anwendungen genutzt, die auf maschinellem Lernen und den damit verbundenen Möglichkeiten der Datensamm¬lung,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-04-05
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This is an open access book. The 3rd IMOVICCON aims to celebrate moving images by looking at their past, present, and future. It’s necessary to examine the past, the present, and the future of moving images since the past can be used as a reflection site. The present...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-04-05
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An authoritative and accessible guide to the world’s most influential force – the contemporary media Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend, on average, over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The news...
Editeur :
Pelican
Parution :
2024-04-04
ePub
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WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD ‘A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann. It's beautifully written, gorgeously produced, absorbing and full of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-04-04
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Introduces both classical and contemporary sociological theory in a single comprehensive volume Introduction to Sociological Theory helps undergraduate and graduate students appreciate the diverse perspectives found in sociological analysis, apply theoretical concepts...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-04-04
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-04-04
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Der zentrale Forschungsgegenstand dieser multimethodischen Fallstudie ist der Königsteiner Schlüssel, ein inzwischen standardmäßig verwendeter Verteilungsschlüssel zwischen den deutschen Bundesländern. Wesentliche Problemperspektive ist die Übersetzung räumlicher...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-04-03
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Provides students with clear and up-to-date coverage of the various areas associated with representations of diversity within the mass media Diversity in U.S. Mass Media is designed to help undergraduate and graduate students deepen the conversations around diversity,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-04-02
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-8%
47,90€
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Der Sammelband befasst sich mit der gegenwärtigen Darstellung von Sport in audiovisuellen Medien und erörtert verschiedene Bedingungen und Verfahren in Bezug auf sportliche Wettkämpfe wie auch Akteur_innen in Fernsehen und Internet. Die Beiträge widmen sich aus mehreren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-04-02
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Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential quality of being human: without love, we don’t learn and develop properly...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-04-02
ePub
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28,00€
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Navigating a polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty-first-century horror films critically frame conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in post-2010 US Horror Cinema analyses the ways in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-01
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The book addresses the theme of the advent of a ‘Matrix Land’ as a pervasive environment of digital (virtual) reality in which humanity is destined to live increasingly distant from its original natural condition.The challenge posed by the Matrix Land is that of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-01
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This book explores key issues on the relational and operational dimension of the professional actions aimed at ensuring the well-being and inclusion of migrants in the reception system. Starting from the assumption that well-being is a multi-level phenomenon related to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-04-01
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