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An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-07-06
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This monograph overviews the importance of electrochemistry in the field of cultural heritage, including archaeology, conservation and restoration topics. The application of electrochemical techniques in these domains have experienced a notable growth during the last...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-05
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This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's critical role in this rebuilding process and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Why do some militaries support and others thwart transitions to democracy? After the Arab Spring revolutions, why did Egypt's military stage a coup to end the transition? Conversely, why did Tunisia's military initially support the transition, only to later facilitate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-04
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“I don’t want to gp. I just can’t do it anymore.” "My stomach hurts, and I'm afraid of throwing up." "It sucks. What’s the point.” "I'm tired. I need a break. "I'm just fine where I am, in my room."
Since the health crisis, Thierry Delcourt has observed a considerable...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Our contemporary societies let us believe that we are free—it is a delusion. We are still shackled in our chains, even in the West. Chains that we take for wings: we believe ourselves to be in a democracy, we think that work allows us to emancipate ourselves, and we...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Is it possible to subsidize fossil fuels on the one hand, while at the same time claiming to be committed to the fight against global warming?
Is it possible to promote free trade treaties throughout the world while claiming that CO2 emissions must be reduced?
Can we...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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“Kids are great. It’s a unique process that everyone should experience.” Except that today, 1 in 20 French people refuse to have children. What are the reasons for this “voluntary infertility?”
Do we really know why we have children? Isn’t having children an obstacle to...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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How was human (in)equality built across the table? Why were the first great banquets at the origin of the communal goods of humanity? Who, after forcing men from eating bread, wanted to forbid them chestnuts and popularized the potato? The Egyptian food table invented...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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• The rich have always existed because inequality is natural.
• With hard work, anyone can become rich.
• We criticize the rich out of jealousy.
• The rich spend and invest.
• The rich create jobs.
• The rich take risks and innovate.
• The more rich there are, the fewer...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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• "TV unleashes the imagination and feeds intelligence."
• "A child deprived of TV risks social isolation."
• "TV dumbs you down."
• "TV makes you obese."
It seems that everything—and its opposite—has already been said about TV. But what is it really? How can we...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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In America, liberalism brings prosperity to the majority?
False.
In America, "anything is possible" for those who work hard?
False.
In America, the unemployment rate is minimal?
False.
In America, poverty is relative and the poor live "like modest...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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In 6,000 food products, aspartame is found everywhere in so-called diet nutrition. However, several scientific studies show that this sweetener is harmful for children, pregnant women and epileptics. Used to replace sugar and reduce the caloric intake of food, aspartame...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-04
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This book focuses specifically on policy mixes and wind power diffusion in four Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Although these Nordic welfare states have much in common, they have adopted different wind power policies and experienced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-03
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Why do certain parts of the state in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-03
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This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-01
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This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-01
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This edited volume gathers top scholars from across disciplines, generations, and countries to provide constructive commentary on the theory, methods and practices of institutional ethnography. These contributions explore themes of relevance to institutional...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-01
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This book analyses the systematic and procedural issues that are faced by women in the Parliament and brings to light the systematic ignorance of certain issues supported by data on the Parliamentary Debates, Question Hours and functioning of Parliamentary Committees....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-30
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