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In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-30
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Patchwork in times of plurality encompasses the multitude of actions as a revealing symbol of ethos, actors, organisms, and manifestations of preservation and dialogue frontiers. This plural metaphor, almost like a patchwork, aggregates and yet segregates, conforms, but...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-30
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny Wonder, and Puck, between 1893 and 1917. It situates the work in relation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN’S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-29
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This book conducts a panoramic study on the history of China’s Science and Technology which focuses on the Medium and Long-Term Science and Technology Program (MLSTP). In general these Programs have a duration of 5-30 year.This book provides an epochal assessment of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-28
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This brief discusses the benefits and various considerations for participants and justice agencies involved in experiential programs for students. Using case studies and interviews with justice agency administrators, it assesses programs in law enforcement, courts,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-28
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This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-28
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This book presents the first in-depth academic investigation published in English about one of the most radical incarnations of the current global wave of new right-wing movements and governments: the movement that brought to power the current Brazilian president, Jair...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-28
Collection :
Latin American Societies
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Almost all search queries are now made via Google and the search for a new job via Google is also increasing steadily. Thanks to Google for Jobs, Google's claim to offer users the best search experience is now also evident in the job search. Henner Knabenreich presents...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-27
Collection :
essentials
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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR**Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about.A bad sexual experience.A grey area. Not rape but... A violation .These are the terms we use to describe the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-26
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In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise.In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the case, looking at...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal experiences building...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-26
Collection :
Springer Polar Sciences
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This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-25
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Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. Although the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the Buddha's teachings,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-25
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Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how complex these systems are or of the fact that they have a unique character distinguishing them from both populations and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-24
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Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-24
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Im „Jahrbuch geschlechterbezogene Hochschulforschung“ werden regelmäßig Forschungsergebnisse zur Geschlechter(un)gleichheit an nordrheinwestfälischen Hochschulen veröffentlicht. Diese basieren auf detaillierten Analysen hochschulstatistischer bundes- und landesweiter...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-08-23
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This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-23
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Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-23
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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