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This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization...
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Springer
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2026-02-07
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This book engages with masculinity in modern and contemporary Buddhism in Sri Lanka (1850-today) through the lens of exemplary male religious leaders, politicians and the culture of boys’ education since the late nineteenth century. Through mixed methods, archival and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-07
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Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are often thought of...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2026-02-06
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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Gender Equality Behind Bars represents the first analysis of prison and immigration detention policies, broadly identified as penality policies, within the context of gender policy studies. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it provides a roadmap for better...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-05
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This book examines Nigerian women’s experiences of migration, work and mobility across European borders through a unique problematisation of the boundary between madams and victims. Rizzotti brings together the voices of women positioned by humanitarian categories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-05
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After its Freudian phase, psychoanalysis had to rethink its conception of sexuality. Lacan showed that Freud’s entirely phallic Oedipal logic was not the norm, but only a male norm. Some women adopt it, but many others prefer a logic that is not entirely phallic, in...
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Hermann
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2026-02-05
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Hermann Psychanalyse
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A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.'Just what these times are crying out for’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut Economics'Poverty and inequality are at the...
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Vintage Digital
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2026-02-05
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Are we alone in the universe? Or are there more planets like ours, which support life, including intelligent life? What will be the impact of the encounter with extraterrestrial life on us and vice versa? From the 16th century, scientists and authors have imagined...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Social media is proliferating with influencers, but despite their prevalence and the extensive body of scholarship, there is no comprehensive book that frames the historical and contemporary phenomenon of child influencers.Drawing on original empirical ethnographic...
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Polity
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2026-02-04
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Das Buch antwortet auf die Frage, weshalb in modernen Ländern faschistische Krisenlösungen so viel Anziehungskraft haben. Für die Bewegungs- und Regimephase wird gezeigt, wie tief weitrechte Positionen verwurzelt sind, während Linksaußen sich...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-04
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original and compelling way of thinking about civil society. The book...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Colorism – discrimination based on skin darkness within a racial group – has plagued black Americans since their first arrival in the United States. Although colorism has taken different forms over time, lighter-skinned black people have always received advantages at...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
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Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered? In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
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The edited volume aims at presenting the various forms of stereotyping. As a matter of fact, such logical inclination is not only perpetrated through common sense and public discourse, but also through regulation and various ethical practices. Law and politics, indeed,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume presents an original, community-based study of Greek heritage language education in Canada. Through empirical data and stakeholder narratives, it explores the pedagogical, sociolinguistic, and policy dimensions of sustaining minority languages in...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume explores the complex landscape of disinformation and its broader implications on trust within society. It tackles questions such as: What constitutes disinformation or fake news? What are the ramifications of its detrimental effects? Are we navigating...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work. "Remind[s] us...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This book examines the rise of financial totalitarianism and its profound implications for criminal justice and criminological theory. It explores how the concentration of wealth and social exclusion, driven by corporate CEOs, has altered the role of politics in shaping...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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