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Explores the forces that have shaped global population growth over millennia Understanding the mechanisms that govern the size and trajectory of the human population is essential to navigating today's most pressing global challenges. A Concise History of World...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-11-12
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This book provides a timely and comprehensive examination of how cyclones and environmental stresses are changing the socioeconomic structure of one of the most vulnerable deltaic areas in the world—evidence from the Indian Sundarbans. The intricate relationships...
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Springer
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2025-11-12
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Why are bilateral migration agreements (BMAs) concluded the way they are? "Of Times Ontologically Insecure" combines the newest datasets on both bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) and other types of BMAs to get at the question in how far ontological security seeking...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-12
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This book contributes new insights into the construction and implementation of global justice across different constituencies in the Global South. In particular, it investigates the impact of NGOs and victims’ representatives on redress mechanisms for mass...
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Springer
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2025-11-11
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There are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'attachment crisis' in forming and maintaining intimate relationships. Enter sex robots. Built from the bodies of sex dolls,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-11
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Der Sammelband hat das Ziel, einen multiperspektivischen Beitrag zum Wissenszuwachs und aktuellen Diskurs des jungen akademischen Feldes der Kindheitspädagogik zu leisten. 23 Professor*innen und drei weitere Wissenschaftlerinnen aus der Kindheitspädagogik mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This edited volume is the first collection to critically explore the role, limitations, and internal fragmentation of social activism for corporate accountability across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It analyses a variety of NGOs, trade unions, and grassroots...
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Springer
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2025-11-11
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Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant cultural lives...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-11
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The increasing frequency, scope, and magnitude of global extreme events affect humans and their animal co-inhabitants on our shared planet. This book features a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive text addressing human-animal interactions (HAIs) in the context of climate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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We tell stories to make sense of chaos.We come to understand the world and our places in it through these stories. And we share these stories with others, finding points of connection. Storytelling is part of who we are and, with digital media, it?s more accessible and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book — a two-volume work —reexamines the development of sociology during the Weimar Republic, characterising it as a period of remarkable theoretical, institutional, and disciplinary vitality. Contrary to conventional assumptions, sociology experienced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book explores how the intertwined challenges of climate change and human (im)mobilities are being narrated, governed, and resisted. From media and policies to art and activism, the book investigates the stories we tell—and the ones we silence—about who...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-08
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This open access book on open-source data and the trade in cultural heritage is foundational for object biography, provenance research studies, and social science methodological education.
Interest in studying the (illicit) trade in cultural objects, as well questions...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-08
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This book offers a nuanced exploration of gender politics, agency, and coercion across two interconnected contexts: Muslim diasporic communities in the UK and Muslim-majority countries, including Morocco, Pakistan, and Iran. It traces issues such as religious...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-08
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The book provides step-by-step guidance on integrating blockchain into construction information management, offering not just theory but also a practical blueprint for implementation. This ensures readers can confidently apply these insights to their operations....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-08
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This book examines the lives and experiences of Vietnamese Americans in Louisiana, to highlight novel aspects within the politics of race in the USA. In doing so, it considers Vietnamese Americans’ conformity to white supremacy. Following more than 35 years living...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-08
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Das Buch widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Protestbewegungen zu journalistischen und sozialen Medien.Das Ziel ist, die strategischen Überlegungen von Aktivist:innen im Umgang mit Medien systematisch zu vergleichen und dabei zu ergründen, wie und warum sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-08
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This book — a two-volume work —reexamines the development of sociology during the Weimar Republic, characterising it as a period of remarkable theoretical, institutional, and disciplinary vitality. Contrary to conventional assumptions, sociology experienced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-08
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The notion of sense of place developed across disciplines to study the range of experiential, relational, and emotive attachments between people and spatial constellations. This collection proposes a sense of placing to render visible complex cultural practices of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-08
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Intimate partner violence, also known...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-07
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