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Das Buch befasst sich mit Nahrungslandschaften, sogenannten ‚foodscapes‘, die ein noch recht junges Forschungsfeld der Sozialwissenschaften darstellen und im Kontext von Fragen der räumlichen Ungleichheit ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre erstmals thematisiert wurden. Neben...
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Springer VS
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2021-11-18
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This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to...
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Springer
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2021-11-18
Collection :
Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
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While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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The third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Paul Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while...
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Polity
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2021-11-18
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This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women’s prison in Lima, Peru. Using feminist and decolonial perspectives, it explores power and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Das Open Access Buch bietet eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme zum freiwilligen Engagement in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf dem Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey, der zum fünften Mal im Jahr 2019 durchgeführt wurde und vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-17
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The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-17
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In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday.In movies, books, and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2021-11-16
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This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-16
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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How do the dead live among us today? Approaching death from the perspective of media and communication studies, anthropology, and sociology, this book explains how the all-encompassing presence of mediated death profoundly transforms contemporary society. It explores...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-11-16
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This important book “weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narrative” (San Francisco Chronicle) to look at dietary differences along class lines and nutritional disparities in America, illuminating exactly how inequality...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2021-11-16
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A searing exposé of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed from wrongfully accused prisoner to acclaimed public defender Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer,...
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Seal Press
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2021-11-16
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This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-15
Collection :
Consumption and Public Life
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This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China. It argues that sustainable urban design and mobility should be “people-centered” and concerned about “place-making” in the new era of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-15
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This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-15
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This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-15
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Traditionally, men’s mental health woes have been attributed to male stubbornness and rigid notions of masculinity. However, there is growing recognition that mental health issues in men are socially determined by a range of factors including family, educational,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-15
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A nation's cultural heritage represents its past, its present and its path to the future, but for many years, the cultural heritage in or adjacent to war and conflict zones has been subject to continual assault, both deliberate and unintended.
This book presents papers...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-15
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Amplified by a volatile security environment, technology and globalization, terrorism and violent extremism have become a genuine threat on a global level, and the ability of terrorist groups to capitalize on local issues such as poverty and inequality have helped to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-15
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