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Drawing on historical and contemporary ethnographic research, this edited collection addresses tangible and intangible forms of urban heritage, their impact on urban policies, and their consequences for urban life, both at individual and social levels. The chapters look...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-11
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Recent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring independence in
1991, Belarus remained a little-known republic in the West, despite its important geostrategic position between Poland and Russia, and as a conduit for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the identity-forming interplay between text, textiles, and skin in and through film. Its central thesis proposes that film, through the oscillation between textiles and bare skin, creates iconic condensations that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This interdisciplinary volume situates British Chinese cultures and identities at the centre of contemporary discourses that negotiate the complex entanglements between diasporic communities and belongings, migration and transculturality, representation and plurality....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia. Besides encompassing a vast chronological and geographical range, the themes of this book represent a broad illustration of the current main approaches, methodologies, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball's greatest rivalries. For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2026-02-10
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Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before.Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women, or...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-02-10
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The book explores the concept of counter-narratives to terrorism within the context of Pakistan’s unique socio-political, cultural, and historical experiences. It provides actionable insights to combat extremism, focusing on the role of ideology, socio-economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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“A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle...reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This is an Open access book which provides a comprehensive framework for identifying monopolistic behaviors in the digital economy, with a focus on discriminatory pricing as one manifestation of these practices. As digital platforms increasingly dominate markets and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This book is the first volume in the two-volume set Artifical Intelligence and Discourse. It examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is represented, debated, and imagined across diverse cultural contexts and global media. With contributions from eight countries,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This comprehensive volume offers a critical, socio-demographic examination of the COVID-19 crisis and human mobility in Indonesia. Drawing on data from across the archipelago, it covers the demographic, economic, psychosocial, and socio-political contexts of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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Subjektivierungsforschung erfährt zunehmend Relevanz in den Sozialwissenschaften und daru¨ber hinaus. Zentral trägt zur insbesondere deutschsprachig geprägten Methodologie-Debatte die Arbeit von Saša Bosancic bei. Er hat gemeinsam mit zahlreichen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-09
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In recent years, the study of human evolution has made substantial advances—from major fossil and archaeological discoveries to breakthroughs in paleogenetics and analytical methods. Yet, does more data necessarily lead to better science?
This volume challenges...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This book examines environmental law enforcement in the 21st century, tackling urgent challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and transnational environmental crimes. It traces how environmental offenses evolve and shows which legal frameworks address them...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This edited volume is a decolonial/deconstructive approach to South Asian gender and sexuality studies, which it reimagines through a pluralized, multivariate lens. New understandings of South Asia have emerged during the time of unrest and shifting geopolitics. It is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This book engages with masculinity in modern and contemporary Buddhism in Sri Lanka (1850-today) through the lens of exemplary male religious leaders, politicians and the culture of boys’ education since the late nineteenth century. Through mixed methods, archival and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are often thought of...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2026-02-06
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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