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What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Die an der Schnittstelle von Phänomenologie und Science and Technology Studies angesiedelte wissenssoziologische Arbeit rekonstruiert die Binnenperspektive einer transdisziplinären Expertengemeinde auf die manipulationsanfälligen technischen Grundlagen eines sich im...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-15
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These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-04-14
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>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-04-14
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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THE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM ‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-04-14
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2021-04-13
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Rather than providing a global solution to the problem of abortion —to abort or not to abort—this volume sheds light on different but equally critical dimensions of abortion in global debate and practice. The aim is to elaborate on different value systems and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-13
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Das Handbuch versteht sich als aktualisierte und vertiefende Fortschreibung des Diskurses zu sozialer Ausschließung in der Sozialen Arbeit. In den Beiträgen wird anhand einer Reihe von Theorie-, Forschungs- und Handlungszugängen ein breites und komplexes Spektrum an...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-13
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As the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled ‘Your Year on Facebook’. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the highest number of comments and likes over the last year. The video is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-04-13
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-04-13
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Der Sammelband umfasst 16 Beiträge über interaktionsdichte Handlungsfelder, in deren Mittelpunkt soziale Gruppen, Organisationen, Gemeinden und Städte stehen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der Gemeindesoziologie sowie der Großstadtsoziologie bilden die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-12
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René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand
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Kunst wird gesehen, gehört, geschmeckt, gerochen und gespürt. Sie wird im Zusammenspiel mit den Sinnen empfunden, erfahren und erlebt. Wie Kunst von wem wahrgenommen wird, ist – so die soziologische These – stets eingebettet in praktisches, inkorporiertes...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-12
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In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-12
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This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-12
Collection :
European Social Work Education and Practice
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Taking a novel approach that adapts Freud’s theory of the Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on women’s lives, myths, and rituals. Women’s and men’s separate myths and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-12
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Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen unserer Zeit, die durch die Folgen der Globalisierung geprägt ist. Im Zentrum der Beiträge steht die Reflexion über die Bedeutung von kulturellem Erbe, von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-04-12
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French and Irish societies have been characterised in recent times by major upheavals brought about by the threat of terrorism, the collapse of economic and social structures, mass migration, the diminished role of organised religion, the ghettoization of minorities,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-12
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This book reviews the evolutionary forces behind sex differences in fear responses and, crucially, delves into the mechanisms through which sexual selection might have driven sex differences in connection with fear. Fear is an evolved mechanism that helps us stay alive,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-10
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Anthropology
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This book explores those who long for “bygone utopias,” times before rapid, culturally destructive social change stripped individuals of their perceived agency. The case of the wave of foreclosure protests that swept through the rural American Midwest during the 1930s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-09
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