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Written for a wide audience, from undergraduate and graduate students to citizens and activists, this book will teach you about how economics has influenced the digital technologies that we use every day. Most media textbooks won't tell you much about economic terms,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-11-15
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Written for a wide audience, from undergraduate and graduate students to citizens and activists, this book will teach you about how economics has influenced the digital technologies that we use every day. Most media textbooks won't tell you much about economic terms,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-11-15
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An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807--a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-15
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Dieses Buch diskutiert auf verständliche Weise, wie aufkommende globalisierende Prozesse die Bühne für neue Formen sozialer und politischer Kämpfe in Lateinamerika bereiten, mit einer verstärkten Beteiligung multilateraler und ausländischer Akteure sowie Auswirkungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-11-14
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The book examines the state of Open Government in Asia. Drawing on thirteen country case studies and one regional study, it analyses the application of Freedom of Information methods and assesses their implications for democratic governance, particularly transparency,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-14
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This edited collection considers the significance of Creole cultures within current, changing global contexts. With a particular focus on post-colonial Small Island Developing States, it brings together perspectives from academics, policy makers and practitioners...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Seit den 1980er Jahren haben sich in zahlreichen Staaten innerhalb wie außerhalb Europas beratende Ethikgremien auf nationaler Ebene gebildet. In Deutschland geschah dies erstmals 2001 aufgrund der in dieser Zeit aufkommenden Debatte über embryonale Stammzellforschung,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-14
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«This is a very good argument, with impressive detail, clear structure, and vehement commitment.»
(M. McEldowney, Emeritus Professor of Planning)
This book provides a post-Covid recovery strategy for the UK that is based on all aspects of health, but also addresses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-11-14
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This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes—the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-14
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This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai. His immersion in China’s art world is grounded in a topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-13
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This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships.This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-11
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This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country. It investigates their motivations for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-10
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This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Communications (ICSPIC 2023), which was held in Singapore, on February 25-27, 2023. The conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-10
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Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-11-10
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A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGING THE MANY MISCONCEPTIONS SURROUNDING THE TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION.'A book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions . . . an important book' The Telegraph‘A careful, balanced, and convincing take . . . challenges...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines how we freely exchange our personal data for access to online platforms, services, and devices without proper consideration of the implications of this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to belong to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology is the science of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Das „K“ in „K-Pop“ steht nicht einfach für „koreanisch“. Es ist ein Branding, ein Corporate Design, ja ein globaler ästhetischer Trend. Neben K-Popmusik und K-Dramen formieren auch Food-, Mode- und Beauty-Produkte die sogenannte Hallyu („Koreanische Welle“). Wie es...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-11-09
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