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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings. The volume focuses on three case study regions: East African...
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Springer
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2022-09-21
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch zeigt, dass feindliche Einstellungen gegenüber Muslim*innen oder als Muslim*innen markierten Menschen und gegenüber der Religion des Islams oftmals nur wenig differenziert betrachtet werden. Die mangelnde Trennschärfe zwischen Einstellungen...
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Springer VS
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2022-09-21
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Das Konzept „Resilienz“ erfährt seit einigen Jahren in der Soziologie eine bemerkenswerte Resonanz. Es scheint für die Sozialwissenschaften allgemein und die Soziologie im Besonderen eine interessante und vielversprechende neue Zugangsweise zu zentralen...
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Springer VS
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2022-09-21
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This book ? critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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Der zweisprachige Band untersucht Kämpfe und Regimes der Zugehörigkeit und diskutiert „Inclusive Citizenship“ in Originalbeiträgen und Konversationen von internationalen Forscher*innen und Aktivist*innen. Im Spannungsfeld von Acts und Regimes of Citizenship stellen sich...
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Springer VS
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2022-09-20
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A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. ...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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The book deals diachronically with Irish crime fiction, from the picaresque of the 17th century up to the late 1990s when the «Emerald Noir» boom began. Irish writers, often without due recognition, have been instrumental in the development of the genre on an...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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This handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice. Authors from diverse disciplines discuss how principles and practices of restorative justice can be used to address the threats and harms facing the environment today. The book covers a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania’s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children’s rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic. It brings together the voices of leading scholars, policy advisors, psychologists, charities engaged in empowering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-16
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The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-15
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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-14
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Angesichts großer Herausforderungen hat utopistisches Denken aktuell Konjunktur. Dass Utopien, mit ihren Vorstellungen einer idealisierten Zielgesellschaft, mit den Grundzügen einer Offenen Gesellschaft nicht vereinbar sind, hat bereits Karl Popper in seinem Buch ‚Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of informality, or living outside of the state, its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This memoir that "will take your breath away" chronicles a harrowing journey through homelessness and poverty in New York City, followed by a turbulent experience in foster care (Jeanette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle).This...
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Legacy Lit
Parution :
2022-09-13
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For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects, integrating chips everywhere: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of men and the...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This book is the first to apply systematic palaeopathological, archaeological and historical investigations (using bones as a focus as well as other supporting lines of information) to Chinese osteological materials in order to answer the question about the origins of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-13
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