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«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-07
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This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles. The islands are distributed in the tropical and cool temperate zones, and the most distant inhabited islands are more than 1,000 km from the mainland. In the past, they were...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-06
Collection :
International Perspectives in Geography
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Digitalisierung und technologischer Fortschritt verändern das menschliche Selbstverständnis. Während sich der Mensch in Abgrenzung zu Tier und Natur als kultiviertes und autonom handelndes Wesen definiert, steht er angesichts der zunehmenden Technologisierung nun vor...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-06
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The Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure. Through phenomena such as influencers, ‘fake news’,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-06
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The volume «Language and Identity in Migration Contexts», which contains studies from different languages and migration contexts across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This Open Access book presents a pioneering research on brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions, and specifically in the European Alps. The origins and causes, the actual conditions as well as the future challenges and potentials of mountain brownfields are...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-04
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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Based on the success of the first published book on “Nondestructive Evaluation and Monitoring Technologies, Documentation, Diagnosis and Preservation of Cultural Heritage”, this book will includes peer reviewed papers submitted to the conference in form of single...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-04
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Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-03
Collection :
Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
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Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning. In fact, the disorganization that prevails has become so complex that the concept of urbanism itself has been called into question. This book highlights the need to...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales. Focusing on the Germanic folktale, the author investigates how retelling and reinterpreting fairy tales in online fan fiction both criticizes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.This book situates the project of decolonizing the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a ‘ground’ for the further development of quantitative approaches. In order to do so, the volume explores wide scale...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Die Ausgangsfrage dieser Untersuchung ist, wie sich eine Gesellschaft an den 1. Weltkrieg erinnert und inwiefern sich diese Erinnerung mit der Zeit wandelt. Das Phänomen eines solchen „kollektiven Gedächtnisses“ und die verschiedenen Konzepte von Halbwachs, Nora („lieux...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Angesichts der sozial-ökologischen Krisendynamik stehen kapitalistische Gesellschaften vor dem Scheideweg. Gelingt es in den nächsten Jahren nicht, die ökologischen Wachstumskosten dauerhaft zu minimieren und die subjektiven Ressourcen der privaten Lebensführung vor...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Das Handbuch Körpersoziologie verfolgt das Ziel, den grundlegenden Stellenwert des Körpers für soziologisches Denken zu veranschaulichen. Die Körpersoziologie begreift den Körper als bedeutsam für subjektiv sinnhaftes Handeln sowie als eine soziale Tatsache, die hilft,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Once the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everything from how we perceive the value of a professional athlete to the intelligence gathering activities of governments. We are told that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Cities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-06-01
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This book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research. Consisting of three main parts, the first analyzes the interaction between land redevelopment and traffic congestion as well as the mechanisms...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-05-31
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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