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This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 25–26, 2021. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and...
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Springer
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2021-10-26
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This book provides a full scale description and discussion of science, technology, society, cross-cultural communication and modernity and is presented at a level that makes it accessible to the interested academic. Starting with the historical overview, the text...
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Springer
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2021-10-26
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This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict.This book is a collection of heritage studies from a...
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Springer
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2021-10-26
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This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-26
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In Crossroads of Jewish Bratislava, the author identifi es several key junctures that determined the history of Jews in Bratislava between the 19th and 21st centuries, especially in terms of their culture and way of life. The fi rst part of the book (History) provides...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-10-26
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This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
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Horizons anglophones
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Continuing the series on Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’, this second volume extends existing scholarship by exploring a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the diasporic condition. Embodiment, memory and intimacy form three core themes through which...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
Collection :
Horizons anglophones
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Reflecting current debates in the intersecting fields of African American Studies and African Diaspora, these critical essays and case studies explore the articulation between the fluctuating concepts of ‘race’ and Diaspora and the negotiations of identities across...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
Collection :
Horizons anglophones
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Die zunehmende Technisierung von Alter und Pflege ist nicht nur mit Chancen, sondern auch mit zahlreichen Gefahren verbunden. Selbst vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels und der damit verbundenen Herausforderungen ist die Integration technischer Innovationen...
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Springer VS
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2021-10-26
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This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture. Using demographic data on municipal levels, the book identifies...
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Springer
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2021-10-25
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This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book enumerates the unique challenges, barriers, needs, and trauma of being an African American in the United States, and at the same time highlights what needs to be done to improve and foster the mental health healing of this population.This includes practical...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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The 1960s (a.k.a. the 60s) remains a terrain of contemporary politics—with the values of the period embraced or rejected, as well as differently interpreted. Popular culture (movies, television) is an important means to understand and analyze the political issues and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-25
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‘Following the data’ is a now-familiar phrase in Covid-19 policy communications. Well-being data are pivotal in decisions that affect our life chances, livelihoods and quality of life. They are increasingly valuable to companies with their eyes on profit, organisations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Praxisnah gewährt das Buch Einblick in die Mechanismen von Wirtschaftskriminalität und Non-Compliance. Im Fokus der Betrachtung stehen dabei die verschiedenen Ausprägungen menschlicher Handlungsmuster und daraus entstehende Risiken. Ziel des Buches ist es,...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region. It familiarizes the reader with the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-23
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This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-23
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