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Plastics have now been our most used materials for over fifty years. This book adopts a new approach, exploring plastics’ contribution from two perspectives: as a medium for making and their value in societal use. The first approach examines the multivalent nature of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-01-07
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The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by...
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Springer
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2021-01-07
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SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project “People,...
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MOM Éditions
Parution :
2021-01-07
Collection :
Archéologie(s)
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Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It analyses how...
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Polity
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2021-01-07
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Children’s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people’s interests. Yet, in practice, evidence suggests the contrary: the international framework of treaties, procedures, and national policies contains fundamental...
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Polity
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2021-01-07
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Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-06
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This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold. Focusing on the...
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Springer
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2021-01-05
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full of wisdom and entertaining anecdotes' The Economist'fascinating' Financial TimesSocial Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about 'networking.' Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-01-05
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This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue — and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-05
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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Erst mit jahrzehntelanger Verspätung kamen die Belange ehemaliger Heimkinder in den Fokus von Politik und Öffentlichkeit, sodass in Folge des Runden Tisches Heimerziehung auch in Bayern eine Anlauf- und Beratungsstellen für ehemalige Heimkinder eingerichtet wurde. Die...
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Springer VS
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2021-01-04
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European countries have faced profound changes in family structures and family forms over the last few decades. This volume provides insights from elevenEuropean countries with varying welfare state arrangements, exploring the extent to which the intergenerational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-01-04
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,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich. Die Veränderlichkeit von Landschaft wird häufig als Wandel verstanden. Im Verhältnis dazu wird deren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-01-04
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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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This book focuses on the Chinese context to investigate how informal institutions (Confucian culture and its dimensions, religion, political connections) in China affect accounting behaviors.This book tries to show that cultural influence and religious impacts in China...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-04
Collection :
Contributions to Finance and Accounting
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This collection advances vigilance as a critical feminist concept and strategy for addressing contemporary challenges. The assembled chapters develop feminist vigilance by elaborating concrete examples that emphasize action, ethics, and hope. Chapter authors expand on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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Carolin Schönewolf untersucht die soziotechnische Transformation der Automobilität durch die Linse der Technikzukünfte des autonomen Fahrens. Die Analyse von Vereindeutigungen an drei Fallstudien zeigt den Umgang mit der paradoxen Gleichzeitigkeit von disruptiver...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-01-03
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This book presents an original contribution to the study of care and care work by addressing pressing issues in the field from a Latin American and intersectional perspective. The expansion of professional care and its impacts on public policies related to care are...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-03
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