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This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...
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Polity
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2019-12-18
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Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media representations ofAsian Americans. The book also explores waysAsian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized the terrain of challenge and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-12-18
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Media and Minorities
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This volume addresses the impact of the September 11th terror attacks on funded programs in policing. Comparing New York City's policing, community policing, and homeland security programs, this brief examines twenty-four years of federal grants to identify shifts in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Modern Studies exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2019-12-16
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This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability.
Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-16
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Das Buch versammelt prozesssoziologisch und historisch orientierte arbeits- und organisationssoziologische Ansätze, um den Transformationen (in) der Arbeitswelt auf die Spur zu kommen und so Antworten auf aktuelle, gesellschaftliche Fragen zu entwickeln. Dabei...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-16
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This multidisciplinary collection probes ways in which emerging and established scholars perceive and theorize decolonization and resistance in their own fields of work, from education to political and social studies, to psychology, medicine, and beyond. In this time of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-14
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Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-13
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Dejan Petkov explores the tramway renaissance in Western Europe from a socio-technical standpoint and focuses on the development in Germany, France, and England. A multiple case analysis reveals the drivers, impact forces, actors and interest constellations behind the...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-12-13
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In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-13
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Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, history, gender and sexuality studies, and other critical fields. ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-13
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In September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism and in this book he recounts his experiences of some of the young people he met and counselled. He describes what he...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-13
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Der Band stellt die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes „Die jugendkulturelle Dimension des Salafismus aus der Genderperspektive“ vor und konzentriert sich dabei auf drei zentrale Forschungsfragen:Inwiefern werden jugendkulturelle Aspekte im Salafismus erfüllt?Welche...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-12
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Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes both the comic and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-12-12
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This book offers an alternative analysis of the various theories and dimensions of green and environmental justice which are rooted in political economy. Much green criminological literature sidelines political economic theoretical insights and therefore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-11
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This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to carve out a framework for intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence.The authors purport that risk is pervasive in the Global North, and is fast becoming a hegemonic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-11
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This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the allure and survival of a current-archaic institution—the Western theatre—in an era of diverse technological media. Central to the theory is the spectaculum—a stage “world” that mirrors a monotheistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-11
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Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity is one of the largest religious movements in the world today. It is a recent form of Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. While the literature on Pentecostalism is...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-12-10
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“An interestingly idiosyncratic and personal vision of how to make podcasts.”—Ira Glass Veteran podcast creator and strategist Eric Nuzum distills a career’s worth of wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking to help...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2019-12-10
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Die Forderung nach „mehr Transparenz“ ist allgegenwärtig. Der Transparenz-Imperativ beschränkt sich dabei nicht auf die Politik; man begegnet ihm auch in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, im Journalismus und im Gesundheitssystem. Wie konnte sich diese Norm derart...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-10
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