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This volume focuses on the process of return migration, from a holistic and policy-oriented perspective. Studies in return migration, which remains a vibrant field for academics, researchers, and policy-makers, have provided a large body of knowledge on particular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-01-30
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Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-30
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Gegenstand des Buches ist der theoretische, empirische und gegenwartsdiagnostische Entwurf einer Soziologie des Privaten. Das Private ist ein komplexes Struktur- und Kulturelement moderner Gesellschaften. Als solches unterliegt es gesellschaftlichem Wandel und ist...
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Springer VS
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2021-01-30
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This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-28
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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This edited book engages with the richly interdisciplinary field of business and professional communication, aiming to reconcile the prescriptive ambitions of the US-centred business communication tradition with the more descriptive approach favoured in discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
Collection :
Communicating in Professions and Organizations
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This book explores ethos and games while analyzing the ethical dimensions of playing, researching, and teaching games. Contributors, primarily from rhetoric and writing studies, connect instances of ethos and ethical practice with writing pedagogy, game studies, video...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
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Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by...
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Hachette Australia
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2021-01-27
Collection :
On Series
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This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. Using a case study approach of Mexico and Venezuela, peasants and lower rural classes are examined at the local, meso and national levels. Additionally, the study analyzes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
Collection :
Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
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This book draws upon empirical data to offer a fresh and unique perspective on hate crime victimisation, using transphobic hate crime as a case study. It adopts the lens of ‘visibility’ as a way of understanding hate crime victimisation and to challenge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-26
Collection :
Palgrave Hate Studies
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An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you...
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Bold Type Books
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2021-01-26
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The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2021-01-26
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This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of...
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Springer
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2021-01-25
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In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-25
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This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual’s legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements – legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-25
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This volume shows that the emergence of computational social science (CSS) is an endogenous response to problems from within the social sciences and not exogeneous. The three parts of the volume address various pathways along which CSS has been developing from and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-22
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Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition. Co-editors Jan Stets, a social psychologist,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-22
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We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just...
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Polity
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2021-01-22
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Der historischen Ritualforschung ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen, Gruppen zu formen und in diesen kollektive Identität zu entwickeln, seit langem bekannt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die kulturellen Praktiken Prozession und Heiltumsweisung auf ihre Bedeutung für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-01-22
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Mario Störkle untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch das freiwillige Engagement von Expatriates in der Schweiz. Sein Untersuchungsraum ist dabei der Kanton Zug. Ein Kanton, dessen gesellschaftliches Leben in den letzten Jahren stark von Expatriates geprägt wurde. Der...
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Springer VS
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2021-01-22
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