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This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish...
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Springer
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2023-05-28
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Africa is commonly regarded as a "continent on the move" in scholarly observation and mass media reportage. Movement is seen primarily in the direction of Europe. Yet the public debate is characterized by two misconceptions. The first is that high population growth in...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-27
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This compact book is constructed using psychological theory and research to empower university faculty to facilitate student engagement and address student resistance to diversity and social justice education more effectively. University faculty teaching diversity...
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Springer
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2023-05-27
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This volume presents psychobiographical research in non-WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary work. It creates a platform for researchers, scholars and scientists from...
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Springer
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2023-05-27
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This is an open access book.According to Castells, power now rests in networks: “the logic of the network is more powerful than the powers of the network” (quoted in Weber, 2002, p. 104) – it is whether nation states or local communities are deeply affected, especially...
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Atlantis Press
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2023-05-27
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Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-26
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Was hat die „Tropenmedizin" im „Globalen Norden" zu suchen?Was kann eine Universität, ein „Tropeninstitut", im „Globalen Norden" zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitssituation im „Globalen Süden" beitragen? Die Antwort: „Tropenmedizin" muss sich zu „Globaler Medizin" hin...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-05-26
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Over the last decade or two, a handful of powerful, monopolist platforms have embraced our lives worldwide. They intermediate our socialities and relationships, what we search for on the Internet, and our online purchases. We are living in a global economy that is...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-26
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The No. 1 BestsellerBiography of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023The Last Word Listeners' Choice Award, Irish Book Awards 2023'One of the best [books] I have read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' GuardianLike...
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Sandycove
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2023-05-25
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What would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-05-25
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In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-25
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This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-25
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This book investigates perceptions against the people of north-east India, and why such prejudicial attitude exists. It subsequently quantifies and develops measures to counter such stereotypes and affiliated violence.
This research examines the north-east Indian...
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Springer
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2023-05-25
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For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies,...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-25
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'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller Home...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2023-05-25
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Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our livesSpecial commendation from the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize'A gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'[A] thoughtful,...
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Virago
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2023-05-25
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Dilly's Story
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This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents Otherness – anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm – in terms of gender, race, sex, disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-24
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This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-24
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Serving in the military is often a disruptive event in the lives of those who join, precipitating a reassessment of the service member’s ethical sensibilities or, tragically, resulting in lasting moral injury and trauma. The military experience compels them to navigate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-23
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This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate change. Different patterns of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-23
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