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This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder...
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Springer
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2022-01-01
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Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
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This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms. It offers an inclusive and intersectional treatment of gendered violence...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
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This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race. In the aftermath of globalization, humanity has experienced unprecedented levels of interaction.This book presents evidence to show that in the...
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Springer
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2022-01-01
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The volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
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This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sound
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This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book is a critical examination of recently introduced individual accountability regimes that apply to the financial services industry in the UK (SMCR) and Australia (BEAR and the forthcoming FAR), together with a forthcoming new individual accountability regime...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s agency in Frank Herbert’s six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood—from Jessica to Darwi Odrade—secure control and influence through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores the potential of Pan-African thought in contributing to advancing psychological research, theory and practice. Euro/American mainstream psychology has historically served the interests of a dominant western paradigm. Contemporary trends in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-01
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Viele Menschen nutzen täglich die Vorteile des digitalen Zeitalters: wenn sie mal eben ihr Zugticket mit dem Smartphone buchen, sich von ebendiesem zum vereinbarten Treffpunkt navigieren lassen und dann per Textnachricht erfahren, dass die werten Kolleg*innen ein...
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Springer
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2022-01-01
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This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health. It covers several broad themes: representing and mediating health; marketing and promoting health, co-producing health; and managing health crises...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This edited collection brings together essays that share in a critical attention to visual culture as a means of representing, contributing to and/or intervening with discursive struggles and territorial conflicts currently taking place at and across the outward-facing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Zur Ehrung des 2018 verstorbenen Peter A. Berger werden die Wirkungsgeschichte und die heutige Bedeutung seiner soziologischen Arbeiten dargestellt. Dabei kommen ehemalige KollegInnen zu Wort, die ihre jeweils eigenen Schlussfolgerungen und von Peter A. Berger...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture. It argues that the rule of law should not be defined solely through the development of institutions, but also through the mobilization of existing culture...
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Springer
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2022-01-01
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Policing in the US and many western nations is in an era of crisis, facing extensive calls for reformation and change. This edited book outlines the major challenges and changes needed to achieve a more stable future for the policing profession and police...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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wiefern lassen sich soziale Tatbestände in Gesellschaften von Wildbeutern und tribal organisierten Bauern/Viehzüchtern mit Hilfe von Spieltheorie, Institutionen- und Organisationsökonomik, "Public choice"- Theorie und der Evolutionsökonomik besser...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-01
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