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**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to...
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Robinson
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2019-02-05
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From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L. Robbins, comes the 10th Anniversary Edition of his classic book used by scores of companies globally for diversity training.This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved classic ...
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John Murray Business
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2019-01-24
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Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of complications resulting from access, scholars have tended to focus on groups affected by elite governance rather than on...
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Etnográfica Press
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2019-01-21
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Antropologia
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Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle...
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Polity
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2019-01-18
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Winner of the 2020 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book Prize
Bangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Bringing the reader through sixteen distinct "sonic niches" where dissidents...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-04
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The book describes the Ankarana plateau and its cave network in Madagascar, depicting the natural environment of the Plateau as well as the natural processes which created the cave network of more than 100km with many galleries, some are very large and draped with...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-02
Collection :
Cave and Karst Systems of the World
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Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once the current spate of civil conflicts is over:...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-01-01
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Durch die Jahrhunderte und die Jahrtausende zieht sich die Spur der Macht im Verhältnis der Geschlechter.Durch sie sind bedeutsame Möglichkeiten des Daseins unterdrückt und zunichte gemacht worden. Denn wir müssen davon ausgehen, dass zu allen Zeiten und in allen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-28
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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Die Philosophie der Lebenskunst gehört seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den aktuellen Denkrichtungen, die nicht nur in Lehre und Forschung vertreten, sondern auch von einem breiteren Publikum wahrgenommen werden. In ihr geht es um ein gelungenes, schönes und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-26
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For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-20
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Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-14
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In Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Bringing media theory to bear on trauma theory, Pinchevski reveals the technical operations that inform the conception and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-03
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An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-11-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Warum es sich lohnt, die Welt mit der Nase wahrzunehmenEntdecke das Riechen wieder riecht wie alle anderen Bücher, aber nachdem Sie es gelesen haben, werden Bücher und vieles andere für Sie nicht mehr so riechen wie zuvor. Ob es bei Menschen Pheromone gibt,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-30
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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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In 1961, Rosina 'Rose' Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves caught up in Nigeria's Civil War, which...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-11-15
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Providing an original perspective on the construction of nations and national identities, this book examines national symbols and ceremonies, arguing that, far from being just superficial or decorative, they are in fact an integral part of nation building, maintenance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-12
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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