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Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these “idea systems” as an academic concept. Through three intense episodes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-20
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A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023.A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2023.A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2023. Winner of the Voltaire Medal.'An untold story of...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-01-19
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This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood. Contributors explore diverse local and national contexts spanning several countries aiming to shed light on the shifting and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-01-18
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What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an increasing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-18
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This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Global Entrepreneurship
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Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-01-16
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This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal part...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-01-16
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet zunächst eine kompakte Übersicht über Viktimisierungserleben und -bewältigung und stellt die Grundlagen der Verfahrensgerechtigkeitsforschung vor. Es skizziert die Entwicklung der Opferschutzvorschriften in der Strafprozessordnung und auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-15
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Malaysia ist eine wohlhabende, sich entwickelnde Nation in Südostasien. Seine Bürger sind mit den Problemen konfrontiert, die das Leben der Menschen überall auf der Welt kennzeichnen. Diese Probleme betreffen die Familie und die wirtschaftliche Sicherheit ebenso wie die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-13
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This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-13
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This book explores the current impasse that global regulators face in the digital sphere. Computer technology has advanced human civilization tenfold, but the freedom to interact with others in cyberspace has made individuals, discrete communities, organizations and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-13
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Methods designed to guide the allocation of healthcare so as to maximize population health have been criticized as fundamentally unfair. In a closer analysis of this ethical critique of the use of cost-effectiveness author Daniel M. Hausman responds to the main...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-01-13
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Schulsozialarbeiter*innen ihr professionelles Handeln im beruflichen Alltag reflektieren. Am Beispiel der bayerischen Jugendsozialarbeit an Schulen (JaS) wird in ethnografischer teilnehmender Beobachtung folgenden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-13
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Das Konzept der Smart City wird in wissenschaftlicher, politischer, medialer und projektpraktischer Hinsicht bislang überwiegend in großen Städten bearbeitet. Demgegenüber empfinden kleine, ländlich geprägte Gemeinden den Smart-City-Diskurs überwiegend als fremd. Es...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-13
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T?his book critically explores how and to what extent artificial intelligence (AI) can infringe human rights and/or lead to socially harmful consequences and how to avoid these. The European Union has outlined how it will use big data, machine learning, and AI to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-12
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Drawing on theory and empirical research, this book provides an analysis of the intersections between LGBTQ+ identification and chronic illness. Chapters focus on the theoretical meaning of chronic illness as a queer notion, as well as the lived experiences of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-12
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Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and...
Editeur :
Radar
Parution :
2023-01-12
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It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting machines....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-01-12
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Smart(er) Internet Regulation is about applying better regulation principles to the internet. The book addresses difficult-to-quantify policy objectives, such as protection of fundamental rights and the preservation of the internet ecosystem, and proposes a method to...
Editeur :
Presses des Mines
Parution :
2023-01-12
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This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity;...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-12
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