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This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-16
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For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries. No longer are refugees to be found only in major metropolitan areas and gateway cities; instead, they are arriving in small towns,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-15
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This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-09-15
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"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New RepublicA tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-09-15
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Clark Atlanta University Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work was founded in 1920 in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Atlanta School of Social Work to prepare social workers for practice in underserved black neighborhoods. Spearheaded by black scholars and progressive...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-15
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Die historisch-genetische Theorie verfolgt den Anspruch, die Genese der menschlichen kulturellen Lebensweise aus den naturgeschichtlichen Ausgangsbedingungen und die historisch differenten gesellschaftlichen Organisationsformen in ihrer Strukturfolge erklären zu können....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
essentials
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One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Gerlinda Smaus gilt als wichtigste feministische Kriminologin im deutschen Sprachraum. Sie selbst bezeichnet ihren theoretischen Ansatz als einen sowohl materialistischen wie interaktionistischen. Dabei bezieht sie sich stets auf konkrete Praxisbereiche (Kriminalität,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Die Autor*innen stellen die in der empirischen (Evaluations-)Forschung gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über Wirksamkeit und Wirkungen von Lotsen-, Mentoren- und Patenprojekten für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund dar. Zudem reflektieren sie die Potenziale und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research. Field research can be a risky and dangerous journey where the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries. Aimed at the nexus of cultural and environmental concerns, the book...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-14
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"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHSHORTLISTED FOR THE...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Im Buch wird das Verhältnis zwischen dem Raum und der Kultur reflektiert. Die räumlichen Prägungen (Schlesien, Kärnten, Mähren, Ostpreußen) zeigen jene kulturellen Überschneidungen, die nicht eine Identität, sondern eine existentielle Wohnhaftigkeit des Raumes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of Mexican scientists and engineers—or the Brains, as coined by the author—working in the UK. It provides an insight into how...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA, including...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-13
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Bildungschancen sind in allen westlichen Gesellschaften sozial ungleich verteilt, ebenso wie die Chancen auf ein gesundes Aufwachsen von Kindern. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass Gesundheit eine bildungsrelevante Ressource ist, untersucht Julia Tuppat mit Hilfe einer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-12
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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-12
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This book explores the population development challenges in China. It started by analyzing two of the major challenges: designing a suitable family planning policy and dealing with the serious provincial population difference. It then proposes effective measures to...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-12
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