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This book critically examines the foundational assumptions of vaccine systems, challenging the dominant linear narrative of vaccine creation and production, regulation, and distribution. Rather than treating these components as isolated and sequential, the project...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This open access volume provides an absorbing analysis of the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. James Bultema identifies and investigates four central factors that have contributed to the movement’s development: religious...
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Springer
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2026-05-18
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This book offers a pioneering exploration of disability through Indigenous epistemologies and decolonial theory in Latin America. It challenges dominant Western biomedical and rights-based models by foregrounding relational ontologies, community-based care, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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This volume delves into intersections of identities in complex societies, which reproduce and cross symbolic boundaries and form as well as challenge power relations. The volume offers both descriptive and analytical contributions with evidence-based suggestions of the...
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Springer
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2026-05-17
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Orientierungslosigkeit von Heranwachsenden ist in der postmodernen westlichen Welt, zwischen unendlichen Möglichkeiten, individualistischen Ansprüchen und fehlenden strukturierenden Rahmenbedingungen, ein häufiges Problem. Orientierungslose Jugendlichen...
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Springer
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2026-05-17
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Mittels biografieanalytischer Fallstudien wurden lebensgeschichtlich bedingte Positionierungen zum Umgang mit Erwerbsarbeit rekonstruiert. Aufgrund der stetigen Zunahme von Prekarisierung, Flexibilisierung, Entgrenzung und Subjektivierung und der engen Verwobenheit von...
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Springer VS
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2026-05-17
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This book presents the relationships and conflicts between the so-called two cultures, which separated the social and human sciences from the hard theoretical and applied sciences. Today more than ever, engineering, and especially young engineers, need to build...
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Springer
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2026-05-17
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Modern life is speeding up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels as though we are running out of time. In all Western societies,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-05-15
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Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour...
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Polity
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2026-05-15
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From its obscure mid-twentieth-century origins in clinical assessments of intersex individuals, "gender identity" – understood as an inner sense of self that may or may not align with one's natal sex – has become central to the public and private culture of selfhood...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-05-15
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This book explores the potentiality and criticality of integrating Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) technologies and slow mobility. The book broadly considers the so-called e-velomobility and deals with practices, systems, and technologies of e-cycling. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book explores environmental victims’ movements and how they have shaped the history of East Asia. The book focuses on the impact of these movements and whether the ideas of environmental justice in this region align with Western concepts or whether they take...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book offers a rich, cross-disciplinary examination of military, modern, and industrial heritage through fresh perspectives on interpretation, reuse, and technological integration. Structured into five focused sections, it explores strategies for reimagining...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book examines how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are designed and used to produce, organise, and circulate information, and why this matters for information integrity in contemporary digital societies. Written for scholars, designers, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-13
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This book provides a concise-yet-comprehensive overview and critique of leading theories of family violence. It addresses various forms of violence, including elder abuse, sibling abuse, child abuse, and intimate partner violence. The book provides several frameworks to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-13
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The notion of intangible heritage as a key urban element is underexplored, yet inherently intertwined with urban life that can influence and be influenced by urban policies and practices. This book undertakes the fundamentally interdisciplinary tasks of...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-13
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Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity explores how nostalgia-driven fantasies shape contemporary masculinity and capitalist culture, and how these dynamics constrain our ability to imagine new futures. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, cultural theory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-13
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This book explores the concept of ‘dissent’ within the realm of art and cultural heritage through a rich and multidisciplinary lens. It investigates how dissent shapes the very definition of cultural heritage and the systems that govern cultural heritage,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-13
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HipHop wurde 50 und diese Entwicklung war nicht nur in Amerika sondern auch in Deutschland ab Anfang der 1980er Jahre alles andere als homogen, widerspruchsfrei und immer überall gesellschaftlich akzeptiert. Vielmehr ist sie gezeichnet von vielfältigen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-05-13
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This book examines how older adults with physical disabilities living at home develop dietary resilience strategies to maintain independence, agency, and dignity in later life. Drawing on extensive theoretical literature and rich qualitative research with home dwelling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-13
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