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A step-by-step guide to the underpinning theoretical knowledge in social work helping your students to confidently apply theory in practice. - Exercises will help them get to grips with the essentials and reflect on learning. - Case studies from...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-11-11
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This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York City spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. The context of epicenter formation determined the rapid, extreme rise...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-10
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This book explores the social psychological aspects of trans women’s experiences of living with HIV in the UK. Drawing on theories from social psychology, the author provides a fine-grained analysis of the EXTRA Study – one of the first in-depth empirical studies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women to be constantly ‘baring all’ in physical exposure and psychic confessions. As famous women tell their story, in their ‘own...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men?How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn Connell – one of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-11-10
Collection :
Short Introductions
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Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-11-10
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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...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-06
Collection :
Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
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