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The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking. This book examines the role of skyscrapers and open spaces in promoting placemaking in the city of Chicago. Chicago’s skyscrapers tell an epic story of...
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Springer
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2020-07-09
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The Urban Book Series
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Conventional wisdom suggests that the pervasiveness of digital media into our everyday lives is undermining cherished notions of politics and ethics. Is this concern unfounded?In this daring new book, Tim Markham argues that what it means to live ethically and...
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Polity
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2020-07-09
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British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of twentieth-century...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2020-07-09
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Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-09
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The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so central to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-07-09
Collection :
Debating Race
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This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell. It discusses the complexities of this specific carceral space and addresses its significance in relation to the everyday experiences of incarceration. The collected chapters highlight...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-08
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This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-à-vis migration. It analyses the African integration project that is being used to effectively manage migration within Africa and across its RECs, and harnessing it for development.
The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-08
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Aktuell wird häufig von einer Krise des Sinns in der Arbeit gesprochen. Doch was wissen wir eigentlich über das Erleben von Sinn in der Arbeitswelt? Was zeichnet es aus und welche Barrieren verhindern Sinnerleben? Welche Folgen hat der digitale Wandel der Arbeitswelt...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-07-08
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Im Buch wird die Organisation der Spitzengastronomie unterhaltsam, aber gleichermaßen wissenschaftlich fundiert erklärt. Auf der Grundlage von Interviews mit 1-, 2- und 3-Sterneköchen, Servicekräften, Restaurantkritikern und vielen anderen Quellen werden...
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Springer
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2020-07-08
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This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-07-07
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This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective.
The chapters combine both legal and sociological approaches. Coverage for each country includes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-07-07
Collection :
Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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Narrative sind mehr als nur ein Buzzword. Sie bieten uns eine neue Perspektive auf politische Sprache und helfen uns, die Komplexität alltäglicher Sinngebungsprozesse zu dechiffrieren. Denn wenn wir über Politik sprechen, dann nutzen wir den Modus des Erzählens. Wir...
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Springer VS
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2020-07-07
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This book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tuhoe leaders. However, by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-07
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Following on from Volume I on the formation of the Urewera District Native Reserve, this monograph examines the period from 1908 to 1926, during which time the Crown subverted Tuhoe control of the UDNR, established a mere decade earlier. While Volume I described...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-07
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This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time. As a collection of readings drawn from twenty-two books,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-06
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Turkey’s neoliberal transformation in the early 1980s drastically changed the structure of the work life and the issues of the labour differentiated since then. The book uses a multi-dimensional approach by considering the economic, poli-tical and social aspects of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-06
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What are the borders of risk? How is the perception of risk related to new technologies and digital changing? This book discusses these topics, moving from theories to research data, looking for concrete answers now, or taking a picture of reality. The volume is divided...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-06
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This original, scholarly collection of essays investigates the intersections of large-scale international migration and solidarity-building. Unpacking how civil courage occurs, under what forms, and what sustains it, Carlo Tognato, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, and Jeffrey...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-04
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This book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the 50-year development of the personal social services in England, located throughout the changing ideological, political and relevant professional contexts of the period.
Drawing on the experience and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-04
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This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa. It offers contemporary and interdisciplinary analyses on the role of protests as an alternative route for citizens to challenge the ballot...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-03
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