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The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries. It includes the major developing countries such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Cambodia, Ghana, Nigeria and countries from the Middle East and...
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Springer
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2019-07-30
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Green Energy and Technology
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While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Religion hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten verstärkt die Aufmerksamkeit der politischen und medialen Öffentlichkeit auf sich gezogen und ist zu einem oft durchaus kontrovers diskutierten Thema geworden. Gleichzeitig istReligion auch (wieder) vermehrt in den Fokus...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social offers a sustained argument that the social is experienced in various ways, through the senses as well as through conceptualizations such as self, time, and friendship. By looking at the experiences of everyday life in...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-07-30
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In this book, the author examines the media coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by six Polish media outlets in 2014 and 2015. Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, the author explores how cultural and historical factors, as well as the national security...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-30
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This book examines interreligious dialogue from a European perspective. It features detailed case studies analysed from different disciplinary perspectives. These studies consider such activities as face-to-face discussion groups, public meetings, civic consultations...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core. The book uses a highly regional focus to investigate the imaginative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. Located within the theoretical framework of queer and critical pedagogy and based on extensive empirical research, the author explores the dynamics of heteronormativity and its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Arbeit und Produktion sind im 21. Jahrhundert immer stärker grenzüberschreitend vernetzt. Dies galt aber bisher nicht in gleichem Maße für die Regulierung der Arbeits-, Beschäftigungs- und Partizipationsbedingungen der erwerbstätigen Menschen. Nationale Mechanismen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Sharp, in-depth and highly visual, this is the fully revised textbook and teaching aid for students, tutors and in-house learning and development teams keen to know more about the world of trends, forecasting, innovation thinking and strategic foresight.Designed and...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration.The (in)visibility of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-27
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This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming. In so doing, it illustrates how pregnancy loss, involuntary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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Is being colorblind the most effective way to address overt and covert racism in schooling today? Should educators pretend that race doesn’t matter? Award-winning sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll argues that, as long as society is stratified along racial lines, taking a...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-25
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A FINANCIAL TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019From Beatlemania in the early 1960s to the Directioners and Beyhive of today, female music fans have long driven the objects of their affection to the dizzying heights of life-changing fame. But marginalized fan groups are...
Editeur :
Quadrille
Parution :
2019-07-25
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