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This is the first anthology that conveys in detail the actual situation of population geographies in Japan, a country facing some of the world's most serious demographic trends such as low fertility, population aging, and depopulation. The anthology consists of two...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
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This is the first anthology that conveys in detail the actual situation of population geographies in Japan, a country facing some of the world's most serious demographic trends such as low fertility, population aging, and depopulation. The anthology consists of two...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
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This book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a basic dimension of the sonic environment, sonic technologies, sonic arts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Rio de Janeiro's favelas have become well-known sites of gang and police violence. Since the 1970s, dangerous networks between drug traffickers and corrupt state actors have transformed these poor neighborhoods into sites of armed conflict and political repression,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Public health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Discover (or rediscover!) history’s greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you’re looking for a helpful companion to this wild...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Bringing together a range of scholarship, this edited volume investigates the limits and boundaries of women’s empowerment toward shaping sustainability by unpacking power relationships that affect women’s inclusive citizenship; analyzing concrete examples of limits...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-10
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The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities.The processes are influenced by neoliberal developments and controversial discourses on migration, commercial sexual...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-09
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This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.) of this cross-cutting sector. It offers an overview of French knowledge, mainly in sociology,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-09
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This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing others...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-09
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How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain?
Ever since Homo sapiens, armed with his electronic machines,...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-06-09
Collection :
L’inconnu
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Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’. When young Somali men and women refer to the ‘unknown’, they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys.This uncertainty is partly due to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-06-08
ePub
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This book analyses social movements, digital activism and protest actions in Africa using a de-colonial approach, with selected case studies of #BringBackOurGirls, #OurMumuDonDo, #FeesMustFall, and #OccupyGhana from Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.This book examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-08
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