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This book focuses on journalistic news values from an audience perspective. The audience influences what is deemed newsworthy by journalists, not only because journalists tell their stories with a specific audience in mind, but increasingly because the interaction of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-11
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This book presents a new methodology, ludonarrative synchronicity, to analyze the interplay between narrative and gameplay in video games. Using the BioShock franchise as a case study, this book aims to show the interaction of these two elements can form various...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-11
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This brief examines 36,263 homicides in Chicago over a 53-year study period, 1965 through 2017, at micro place grid cells of 150 by 150 meters.This study shows not only long-term historical patterns of homicides in Chicago, but also places that historical context of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-10
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This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, “why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?” Although successes and failures in the prevention of gun violence are examined, it is a...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-09
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This open access book adopts a rights-based approach to shed light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been developed to implement circular migration policies in the EU, and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-09
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A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To explain how sex and crime...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-12-09
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?This book introduces the concept of the ‘autonomous city’- a concept that has been developed from the ‘smart cities’ model that is based on a city’s ability to gather data and taking it one step further. The digital revolution has brought about numerous changes in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-08
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This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. It explains what scenario-based training is, how it works to improve police-community relations, and provides a guide for how the training...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-08
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This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe. In recent years, cross-border migration has become an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
Collection :
Health, Technology and Society
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This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book written by police scholars — predominantly former practitioners from Europe, Australia and North America — who draw from their own...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Das Forschungsfeld der Transkulturalität und Interkulturalität reicht von literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen über philosophische und ästhetische Ansätze.In diesem Sammelband setzen sich Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen mit der Frage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Nürnberg, Frankfurt und Regensburg erscheinen in Reisebeschreibungen römisch-katholischer Geistlicher als interkonfessionelle Stadträume. Die spezifisch konfessionellen Wahrnehmungen der Reisenden eröffnen vielfältige Perspektiven auf Raum als kulturell und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility. It is based on large survey answered by 14,000 participants in the bike to work action in Switzerland, and quantifies the various dimensions of utility...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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Wie gehen wir am besten mit Altern, Sterben und Tod um? Dies ist eine zentrale ethische Frage des 21. Jahrhunderts: Hier werden die Erkenntnisse verschiedener Wissenschaften dazu in einem Handbuch zusammengefasst. Es vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse über...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-06
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In der vorliegenden Studie bietet Annika Müller detaillierte Einblicke in die Lebenswelt Digitaler Nomaden. Diesen onlinebasiert arbeitenden und ortsflexibel lebenden Personen wurde in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung bislang nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-06
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Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.
It is the result of a collaboration between...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-05
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