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At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-07
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'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community -...
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Vintage Digital
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2020-02-06
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Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to monitor our every...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2020-02-06
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This book seeks to unravel the changes in rural governance sparked by state-led programs, evaluate the programs’ implementation, and refine the interpretation of governance theory with new empirical material from rural China. When it comes to rural issues in...
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Springer
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2020-02-06
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Springer Geography
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This book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series of studies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together the studies shed light on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-06
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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American Studies has witnessed the emergence of major freeways, as well as more obscure lanes, while featuring ideological collisions during the last decades of the 20th century and at the beginning of the present millennium. The volume undertakes to contribute a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-02-06
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work' BILL BRYSON'A fascinating and timely refutation of the casual racism on...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-02-06
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This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of...
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Springer
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2020-02-05
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This book gathers contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster user-centric, cross-modal and sustainable transport systems in Europe. It reports on cutting-edge approaches discussed within the project MOBILITY4EU, a Coordination and Support Action funded...
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Springer
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2020-02-05
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Mobility
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The book studies the “Manchurian immigrants” from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women’s issues. It contains thefollowing features: first, readers can get deeper understanding on the “Manchurianimmigrants” policies by...
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Springer
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2020-02-04
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This book explores diverse parent-child relationships from around the world, drawing on connections between culture and parenting values and challenges. It identifies parenting practices within various countries’ unique historical, political, and cultural backgrounds,...
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Springer
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2020-02-04
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Das Handbuch positioniert den inflationär gebrauchten Begriff „Virtualität“ neu. Er soll nicht länger einen Ausnahmetatbestand unserer Gegenwartskultur bezeichnen. Auch soll er nicht länger auf bestimmte Bereiche (Unterhaltung, Computerspiel) beschränkt bleiben....
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Springer VS
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2020-02-04
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen des Sozialen erarbeitet: Interaktion, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft.
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2020-02-04
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American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent ofAmerican women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and...
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Seal Press
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2020-02-04
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The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death
as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes
involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration.The disciplines represented are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-04
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The debut book from a celebrated artist on the urgent topic of street harassmentEvery day, all over the world, women are catcalled and denigrated simply for walking down the street. Boys will be boys, women have been told for generations, ignore it, shrug it off, take...
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Seal Press
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2020-02-04
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This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-03
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A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences. Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-03
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European public discourse often frames (forced) migration solely as a security issue and ignores the implications of societal diversity for health, quality-of-life and well-being, in both Africa and Europe. The present volume offers an interdisciplinary and...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-03
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You hear a lot these days about "innovation and entrepreneurship" and about how "good jobs" in tech will save our cities. Yet these common tropes hide a stunning reality: local lives and fortunes are tied to global capital.You see this clearly in metropolises such as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-03
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