| |
This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author’s journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements.In Australia, freegans’ consumption of ‘garbage’ in the food waste movement of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy, reserved and sexually passive, to having active sexual strategies and often mating with multiple males. Why did it take so long to discover female active...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
This open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-04
Collection :
New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
PDF, ePub
|
This brief maps the available data augmented by expert interviews on the impact of the Covid-19 measures on DV in eight European Member States during the first lock-down. The volume addresses an on-going situation, additionally complicated by renewed lockdown...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
Dieses Buch über das Leben und Werk von Francis Huxley (1923–2016) zeichnet zugleich die Suche nach dem Verständnis der Conditio humana nach und nimmt seine Leserinnen und Leser mit auf eine biografische, philosophische, kulturelle, historische, politische und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored. It demonstrates the significance of German Idealism for feminist philosophy, and simultaneously brings out the relevance of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
Afrika ist ein Kontinent im Aufschwung, der eine große wirtschaftliche Dynamik entwickelt. Wenn deutsche Unternehmen am Aufschwung Afrikas partizipieren wollen, müssen sie mit einigen Besonderheiten vertraut sein. Das Buch zeigt diesen Weg zu erfolgreichen Geschäften in...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2023-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
This book provides an opportunity for researchers, scientists, government officials, strategist and operators and maintainers of large, complex and advanced systems and infrastructure to update their knowledge with the state of best practice in the challenging domains...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
This book focuses on the interrelations between nature and humans, in particular on those segments of societies that have been left behind (marginal groups). Nature is both the friend of humans and their adversary, depending on the way people treat and use it....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law – namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law – to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, etc....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession. Information on the history of nursing and the evolution of the nursing profession tends to focus on critical events or key persons who...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents a unique, feminist approach to ‘sex’ dolls and ‘sex’ robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
The increasing visibility of Islam in France and the vehemence of debates about it have often contributed to narrow public perceptions of secularism to a simplistic antireligious crusade, a misleading image disseminated by the media and politicians...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|
?This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-01-01
PDF, ePub
|