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This book deals with issues related to undernutrition and anaemia in India. It establishes its interconnectedness with poverty, tribal living conditions, contraception usage, dietary diversity, and socioeconomic inequality. It addresses SDG 2, namely “end hunger,...
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Springer
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2023-02-27
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Wie entfaltet sich Bildung angesichts der Handlungsmöglichkeiten in digitalen Medien? In dieser Grounded-Theory Studie werden Fragen zu Medienbildung und Medienhandeln verknüpft. Das Phänomen Instant-Messaging-Gruppen in Schulklassen steht im Zentrum der Analyse....
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Springer VS
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2023-02-27
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Das Buch stellt eine empirische Analyse der subjektiven Bedeutung von Armut und sozialer Aus-grenzung innerhalb eines gewandelten sozialstaatlichen Arrangements dar. Es zeigt auf, dass von Armut betroffene Menschen ständig damit konfrontiert sind, dass sie von ihren...
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Springer VS
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2023-02-27
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As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-02-27
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This brief examines various dimensions of the immigration-crime relationship in the United States. It evaluates a range of theories and arguments asserting an immigration-crime link, reviews studies examining its nature and predictors, and considers the impacts of...
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Springer
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2023-02-27
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This work is dedicated to map the modes of thinking and acting of legal professionals who work in white-collar crime. Lawyers, whose decisions generate economic and political consequences, stand at a strategic location between the state and key segments of society.This...
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Springer VS
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2023-02-25
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This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It focuses on the methodological and empirical aspects of the analysis of culture and its...
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Springer
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2023-02-24
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This volume interrogates global health and especially the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role that science has played in mitigating the human experiences of pandemics and health over the centuries. Science, and the scientific method, has always been at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-24
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This brief examines the influence and prestige of scholars and works in the field of criminology and criminal justice, as well as changes in influence and prestige over a period of 35 years, using citation analysis. Based on responses to prior research, most...
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Springer
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2023-02-24
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Die Theorie der sozialen Interaktionsmedien gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Beiträge zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung. In Analogie zu Geld als spezifischem Medium des ökonomischen Tausches interpretiert Parsons zunächst Macht als symbolisch generalisiertes...
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Springer VS
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2023-02-23
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The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-02-23
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This handbook integrates and discusses a growing evidence base concerning individual development across middle and late adulthood. The book includes a comprehensive analysis of what growth implies within midlife and older age and considers how different developmental...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-22
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A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-02-22
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In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates on platforms and their impact on everyday life in urban space. This...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-02-22
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Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-02-22
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This book identifies police leaders who have stood out and chalked a path that has transformed their organizations. It describes these thinkers, who look deep into the challenges of policing and comment critically upon various responses and actions.Featuring profiles of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-21
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This book provides the opportunity to explore the variety of meanings, undertones and contextual connotations that currently pertain to the expressions of "virtual (or digital) restoration" and "reconstruction".
The book focuses on the latest applications of virtual...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-20
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This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the ‘penal colony’ as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-20
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This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being. By integrating spatial and geostatistical methods, it sheds new light on the spatial and geographical aspects of subjective well-being. Geographical analysis allows us to measure...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-20
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This book explores the tantric concept of Shakti, or the principal female cosmic entity and her pilgrimage sites. It offers a first-hand view of the multidimensional ways in which Shakti asserted its supremacy over existing Vaishnava and orthodox Brahmanical traditions...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-20
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