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This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk...
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Springer
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2023-09-21
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This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises. Using Australia’s own policy as a lens, it examines the ways in which isolated and separatist reactions not only deny...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-21
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This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer–employment relationship and seniority-based wage...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-21
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Das Erkenntnisinteresse der Untersuchung zielt auf einen Beitrag zur Klärung der "besonderen" Positionierung wissenschaftlicher Weiterbildung. Diese wird im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs innerhalb unterschiedlicher Zugänge (auf bspw. wissens-, wissenschaftstheoretischer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-20
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Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider’s view of artmaking in Guantánamo, the world’s most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-20
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Innerhalb von drei Jahrzehnten hat sich die Frage nach ausreichendem und bezahlbarem Wohnraum zu einer der drängendsten sozialen Fragen entwickelt. Den Medien kommt bei der sprachlichen Aushandlung von gesellschaftlich relevanten Themen dabei eine besondere Bedeutung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-09-20
Collection :
Sprache und Wirtschaft
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This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry. It examines the current status and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This edited volume examines the importance of centering gender in research and policymaking focused on climate change, environmental sustainability, and digital technology. Chapters unpack how the transition to a green and digital future affects various fields and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-19
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A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can fix it Mothers aren’t supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2023-09-19
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The entrepreneurial family has hardly been a topic of family sociology so far. Precisely because more than two-thirds of all companies are family-run, it is surprising that sociology has not yet discovered the entrepreneurial family as a field of research. With this...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This edited collection brings together leading and emerging international scholars who explore citizenship through the two overarching themes of Indigeneity and ethnicity. They approach the subject from a range of disciplinary perspectives: historical, legal, political,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "War on Drugs" by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-18
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-16
Collection :
The City Project
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This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This book provides a unique ethnographic approach to the understanding of ethnogenesis in the Chinese context, with a particular focus on how it is being reshaped in the post-2000s era. It reinterprets the Chinese concept of ethnicity, or minzu, by investigating its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Bei einem stationären Aufenthalt in einer Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie sind jugendliche Patient:innen und deren Familien mit verschiedenen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Neben der als ‚psychische Krankheit‘ gedeuteten Krisenkonstellation und damit verbundenen Leiden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-15
Collection :
Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung
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Compiling the best episodes of SAGE's 'Social Science Bites' podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke. With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-14
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