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Learn about key moments in New York City's development, starting with the history of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and its role in shaping the city from World War II to the present.The J.M. Kaplan Fund was established in 1945 by Jacob M. Kaplan, and would go on to play a...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-11-10
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This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition. Focus is placed on the work of the United Nations which has led international efforts to improve food security in the world’s poorest countries. The book first reviews the long-term project to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-09
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As violence against LGBTQ+ persons continues to be a pervasive and serious problem, this book aims to inform mental health providers about the unique needs of LGBTQ+ survivors of interpersonal and structural violence. Individual chapters analyze unique aspects of...
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Springer
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2020-11-09
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This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors.
The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-09
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In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinská explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world. Podolinská illuminates how Mary as a Great Enchantress has colonised the modern world and survived...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-09
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This brief comparatively reviews the security and safety features of hotels and home sharing services. It reviews crime data, laws, and applicable theories – such as defensible space, rational choice, and routine activity theories - to determine how responsibility for...
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Springer
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2020-11-09
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Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology
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Negli ultimi anni il femminicidio e la violenza contro le donne hanno ottenuto crescente visibilità, tuttavia restano inesplorati molti aspetti riguardanti gli autori di questi reati. Chi sono gli uomini violenti? Quali sono le loro motivazioni? In che modo giustificano...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-11-09
Collection :
Questioni di genere
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This book develops the idea of the "Eastern" as an analytically significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the “Eastern” encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern frontiers of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-07
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This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-07
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This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China. It explores the means and characteristics of as well as the differences in conflict resolution in various forms of...
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Springer
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2020-11-06
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This volume considers strategies, modalities, and styles of media use and reception. Dynamic changes in media technology and infrastructure have spurred important changes in media use. Looking at these developments within the common conceptual framework of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-06
Collection :
Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
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Foucaults Werk hat nicht nur die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften entscheidend beeinflusst. Das Handbuch gibt einen systematischen Überblick überFoucaults Leben und Werk. Es stellt die Kontexte dar, aus denen heraus seine Werke entstanden sind und erklärt Grundbegriffe...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-06
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Marriage is a major step in a relationship, and each member of that newly joined pair brings with them their own existing family and the corresponding complexity and richness of in-law relationships. These are multi-generational, multi-layered, and, like a kaleidoscope,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-06
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Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?
Technological advancements are poised to completely transform the financial system, and soon it will be unrecognizable. Banks are increasingly using financial technologies ("fintech") to deliver products and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-06
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?The book discusses the theoretical and methodological challenges of an interculturally valid sociology of religion and provides insights into the autochthonous socio-religious research in Muslim societies and Asian countries. In this way, it links discourses that have...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-06
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'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book ReviewIn this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-11-05
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What does it mean to be a man in the twenty-first century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, the last century and...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2020-11-05
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