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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-02-01
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Comparative research has gained enormous popularity in communication and media studies in the last two decades and is increasingly conducted in international research teams. Collaboration with scholars from different countries brings many advantages, but it is also...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-01
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This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces,...
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Polity
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2022-02-01
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After the Postcolonial
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'This book should be mandatory reading for all young people' - Pragya Agarwal'I wish this book had been around when I was a kid. . . If every child read it, the world would be transformed. This book will make the world a much better place for all of us' - Mikaela...
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Quercus
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2022-02-01
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This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue. The...
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Springer
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2022-01-31
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Chinese Culture
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Die Diagnose der „Wissens- und Informationsgesellschaft“ prägt seit den 1960er Jahren die wissenschaftliche Diskussion um die Beschreibung der Gesellschaft in einem internationalen Debattenkontext. Bis heute spielen die „Wissens-“, die „Informations-“ respektive die...
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Springer VS
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2022-01-31
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„Wenn Du Frieden willst, sorge für Gerechtigkeit“ steht in lateinischen Worten auf dem Grundstein des ersten Gebäudes der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (bekannt als ILO, deutsch: IAO), die vor mehr als 100 Jahren als Teil des Friedensvertrags von Versailles...
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Springer VS
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2022-01-31
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In wenigen schriftstellerischen Œuvres steht die Reflexion zeitgenössischer Medienpraxis sowie die Medialität des eigenen Schreibens so im Zentrum wie im Werk Werner Koflers. Die Beiträge zu Kofler intermedial untersuchen die verschiedenen Aspekte des Medienwechsels und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2022-01-31
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This open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, the book sheds new light on the intricate...
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Springer
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2022-01-31
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IMISCOE Research Series
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This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-29
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The book introduces the concept of encounter CONNECT-ED from the practice of working with the elderly to impart media skills and presents empirical data on the social participation and quality of life of the participants.The research results show the potential of the...
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Springer
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2022-01-28
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From the data collected, the ’Yan Daba, ’Yan Banga and ’Yan Daukar Amarya appear to operate independendy of each other. The ’Yan Daba were originally the strong arm behind various political parties, the ban on party politics and the subsequent loss of income has led...
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IFRA-Nigeria
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2022-01-28
Collection :
African Dynamics
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At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were...
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Polity
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2022-01-28
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Claudia Hille untersucht in dem vorliegenden Buch die Auswirkungen berufsbedingter, residenzieller Multilokalität auf das Verkehrshandeln. Zu diesem Zweck analysiert sie im Rahmen einer qualitativen empirischen Erhebung individuelle Mobilitätsentscheidungen und...
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Springer VS
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2022-01-28
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). A prominent ethicist, feminist, champion of animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, Cobbe was well known and highly...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-01-28
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This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-27
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After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism...
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Springer
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2022-01-27
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A Sociological View of AIDS
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Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. The Caribbean context is unique as it was birthed out of colonization, which was violent and brutal for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-27
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incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London.
London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-27
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