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Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book adopts an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers’ food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization,...
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QUAE
Parution :
2020-12-18
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In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically)...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world. Temporary urbanism has become a core concept in urban development, and its application is increasingly crossing the borders of both the North and the Global South. There is...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-18
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The Urban Book Series
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This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-18
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Social Development Experiences in China
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This book synthesizes the critical advances in holistic understanding of innovation intermediation. It aims to enable researchers, policy-makers, analysts and practitioners to understand and exploit the best practice in designing and deploying interventions in support...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction. It is a key text for scholars and students in social science, history, science and technology studies (STS), cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies, and a resource for journalists,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This edited volume presents a comprehensive examination of contemporary Confucian philosophy from its roots in the late 19th century to the present day. It provides a thorough introduction to the major philosophers and topics in contemporary Confucian philosophy. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This edited volume assesses the progress that sub-Saharan African countries have made towards gender equality and offers strategies that can be used to empower African women to contribute to the fulfilment of the United Nations’ (UN) 2030 sustainable development goals...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This book is a comprehensive study on the education system of Saudi Arabia, placing the reforms and changes it has undergone in the past two decades within the context of the historical evolution of the education system. An education system cannot be seen in isolation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-17
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Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Some observers consequently have gone so far as to suggest that human rights are a concept alien to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-17
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Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Some observers consequently have gone so far as to suggest that human rights are a concept alien to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it highlights the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-17
Collection :
New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
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This volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter between tradition and modern western evolutionary thought. Such thought encompasses the biological theories of Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Earnest...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-17
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This book explores the relationship between religion and citizenship from a culturally diverse group of contributors, in the context of the developing tendency towards fundamentalist and conflicting religious beliefs in European, North African, and Middle...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-16
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Computer haben sich seit den 1960er Jahren in einer rasanten Geschwindigkeit entwickelt. Das Internet mit E-Mails, Verkaufsportalen, Suchmaschinen und sozialen Netzwerken verändert Geschäftsmodelle, Sozialverhalten und politische Institutionen. Die Entwicklungen der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-16
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This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being ‘respectable’ has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty years. Mary Evans shows how the term ‘respectable’ has changed and how, most importantly, the basis of the ways...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-16
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A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-15
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This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-15
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Das Projekt «Soziale Arbeit in der Suchtprävention und Suchthilfe der Deutschsprachigen Schweiz» hat die Professionalisierung der Sozialen Arbeit in der Suchtarbeit zum Ziel. In einem ersten Schritt soll mittels dieser Open Access Fachpublikation eine Bestandsaufnahme...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-15
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