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The must-read memoir from Kathleen Clifford, a housekeeper who worked in the Spencer family home in the interwar years. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs'My favourite gossips were William and Jimmy. I only got the chance to talk to them now and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-04-11
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True Stories of Life Below Stairs
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This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-04-09
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This book provides in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and metropolitan areas in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles. The chapters, written by leading experts and based upon the most current information available from the Census and other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-09
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Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-05
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Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can be a source of dynamism, as when innovative firms raise wages to attract the best...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-03
Collection :
Economy and Society
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‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-03
Collection :
Conversations
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This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely...
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Springer
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2013-04-03
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In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine, and anthropologists. Environmentalists disillusioned by the failures...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-26
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This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-25
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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust.The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-03-19
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While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-08
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In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-04
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What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred?
In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-25
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During 2007 and 2008, the Belgian School at Athens undertook its first ever excavation on Crete, at the Minoan site of Sissi on the north coast of the island. Located at a few kilometres from the palatial site of Malia, the Sissi settlement presents aique test caSe to...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2013-02-21
Collection :
AEGIS
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Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-02-20
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What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it?What does it mean to be...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-19
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Der Band bietet mit 33 Beiträgen einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Medienwirkungsforschung. In den sechs Teilen gibt es jeweils einen Grundlagenbeitrag und mehrere Vertiefungstexte zu folgenden Feldern: (1) kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlagen und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-02-18
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Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-12
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