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“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
Patrick Süskind, Perfume.
The manufacturing secrets of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the hero of Süskind’s novel, have been forgotten. Or nearly forgotten. Master perfumer Septimus Piesse (1820-1882) was one of the last to...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-23
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This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
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A student union recently estimated that “40,000 students are now prostitutes in France.” The primary cause is the growing precariousness and high cost of student life. This study, carried out in 2006-2007, is a vivid description of the novelty of this form of...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa presents to a broad readership an accessible, comprehensive, up to date, and topical comparative analysis of sociological thinking in Africa. Sociological discourse about African societies has been challenging and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-07-21
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This book deals with the geological record and the evolution of ideas concerning the Variscan orogenic belt in France and neighboring regions. Volume 1 is based on a general introduction concerning the imprint of the Variscan period on the geology of France, as well as...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2023-07-21
Collection :
ISTE Consignment
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For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written...
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Quercus
Parution :
2023-07-20
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This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores children’s rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-19
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Accountancy is an elite profession, wielding its influence in every step we take in business and political life, from takeover to bankruptcies and from Brexit to war: we need accountants to help us see the bigger picture and to enable us to trust one another in public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-19
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"Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). Modern medicine should make pregnancy...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2023-07-18
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Während sich Massenkommunikation lange an ein anonymes und disperses Publikum richtete, scheint sich dies mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung der Massenkommunikation grundlegend zu verändern. Denn die Möglichkeiten der Verdatung und Analyse digitaler Kommunikation – ob...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-18
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?Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Aufsatzbandes steht eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit Max Webers Rechtssoziologie. Ergänzt wird diese durch werkgeschichtliche und systematische Texte zu einzelnen Aspekten des Weberschen Werkes wie auch...
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Springer VS
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2023-07-18
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This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices. It addresses diversity in happiness and eastern and western thoughts and practices by contributing authors from around the world from varied...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-18
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Ce numéro thématique des cahiers L'Ouest saharien présente des recherches récentes en sciences humaines et sociales sur les diasporas sahariennes et sahéliennes installées en Europe. Il aborde la migration et l'exil en interrogeant les logiques liées à l'autodésignation...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2023-07-18
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The book examines the nature of the Real Living Wage as a body of civil regulation, the organizations behind the campaign and the methods they have used, the response of employers, including the motives and characteristics of businesses that have adopted the Living...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-17
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Winner of the 2025 Kyoto Prize for Arts and PhilosophyCarol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-07-17
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While several atlases of Ancient Egypt exist, no atlas of contemporary Egypt has yet been published. Thus, this work fills a void and offers the general public an illustrated panorama of Egypt at the beginning of the 21st century. Through the contributions of some fifty...
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CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition
Parution :
2023-07-16
Collection :
HORS COLLECTION
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Given the over-involvement of young men in crime and young men’s disproportionally high rates of reoffending, it is surprising that more research has not explored young men’s experiences of prison. This book is based on the findings of a nine-month ethnographic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-14
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This book rethinks the anthropology of friendship from the perspective of theology and disability, and suggests the respect for human dignity and the person´s vulnerability as the criterion in reconsidering such an anthropology. The reality of disability is not only the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-14
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'Kenny's story shows us that we all have the potential to achieve extraordinary things. What a hero.' Bear Grylls'If you are compelled by a hero's journey, then Kenny Imafidon is a hero for this generation.' Simon SinekFor fans of Poverty Safari and Skint Estate, That...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2023-07-13
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