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This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels.This project may be considered a call for action. Its urgency derives from the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book explains how the walls of Liangzhu City were made from bedding stones and mud, with the total area of bedding stones covering roughly 290,000 square meters. Based on ongoing research and studies, the book tells the story of how these stones were collected from...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
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Whether formally incorporated into curriculum and teacher training or informally integrated in contexts such as state or NGO initiatives dealing with resolving social, ethnic, and religious conflicts, peace education is increasingly recognized as a critical component in...
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Springer VS
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2022-10-02
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Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung
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This book presents a series of studies focusing on the role of social capital in the labor market and beyond. Using the effect of individual social capital on labor markets as an example, this book pays special attention to the origins of and solutions to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-02
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As a client or a developer, what do you need to consider when developing an age-appropriate website or mobile application? This book explains how age-related limitations affect the use of websites and mobile applications. If gerontological aspects are not taken...
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Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2022-10-01
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Trotz zahlreicher Hinweise darauf, dass verschiedene Messarten sozialer Herkunft zu Unterschieden bei der Erfassung herkunftsspezifischer Disparitäten der Bildungsbeteiligung führen, werden soziale Ungleichheiten in der Bildungsforschung überwiegend eindimensional...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-01
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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-30
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This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965), the world’s bestselling science fiction novel. Kara Kennedy discusses the novel’s exploration of politics and religion, its influential ecological messages, the focus on the human mind...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-30
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Die Autorin analysiert die gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen um den frühen Implementierungsversuch einer Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologie. Diese Maßnahmen sind vom Weltklimarat als ein Baustein zur Eindämmung des Klimawandels anerkannt.Die EU setzte eine solche...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-30
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Arbeit bedeutet im 21. Jahrhundert nicht (mehr) das sprichwörtliche ›halbe Leben‹, sondern erstreckt sich heute in zunehmender Entgrenzung auf alle Lebensbereiche. Der vorliegende Band umfasst 20 Beiträge und stellt die Untersuchung von Repräsentationen vonArbeit in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-30
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Instapoetry zählt zu den populärsten literarischen Phänomenen der Gegenwart. In wenigen Jahren sind Millionen von kurzen bis ultra-kurzen Texten auf Instagram publiziert und geteilt worden. Im Kampf um Aufmerksamkeit mit unzähligen anderen Texten müssen die Mechanismen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-30
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Interaktionen in Organisationen – wie Meetings oder Workshops – bergen ein hohes Frustrationspotenzial: Man redet aneinander vorbei, wiederholt sich ständig und häufig kommt es zu einer Verlagerung von der Sach- auf die Sozialdimension, was konstruktive Diskussionen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-30
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A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from his long-time friend, Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2022-09-29
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisisIn Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present -...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This book addresses new conceptual bases for thinking critically about communication as a necessary way in which to confront power, property and the market as part of the daily resistance of Latin American subaltern cultures. The chapters research an urgent field of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This book will advance readers’ understanding of the knowledge development, building and/or management process within human service organizations, informed by the author's experience in human service organizations, as consultant, and practitioner. Readers can come to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-29
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Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung, Formen und Funktionen zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in Krisenzeiten einnimmt. Expliziert wird dies am Beispiel der sogenannten Flüchtlingskrise 2015 in Deutschland untersucht. Zunächst wird die lokale...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This new book gathers together essays concerning the strategic modes of appropriation that Bourdieu practiced with regard to Marx, together with their various outcomes. It is especially devoted to the practice of critique that both thinkers exercised vigilantly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-29
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Some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide who should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What are the conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception that shape people's options? This...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-09-29
ePub
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What are the ways in which the study of Black life becomes a field of knowledge, institutionalized and at the same time forming epistemological modes of inclusion and exclusion within academe? Notes from the Diaspora tends to these distinctive forms of Black life as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-29
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