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Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shojo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-02-22
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Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.‘What a beautiful book’ MAX PORTERInWho Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-02-21
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This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development,...
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Springer
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2019-02-21
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Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the ‘heart of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-02-21
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This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and...
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Springer
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2019-02-21
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Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays,...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-02-21
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This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people’s sense of identities and belongings in diverse international contexts. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-20
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This book analyses social democratic parties’ attempts to tackle inequality in increasingly challenging times. It provides a distinctive contribution to the literature on the so-called ‘crisis’ of social democracy by exploring the role of equality policy in this crisis....
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Springer
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2019-02-20
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This is the second volume in the series that documents the 19th edition of the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The volume contains contributions on the variety of musical genres from all over the world. Authors engage...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-20
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Entgegen der verbreiteten Annahme, dass nur Kinder und Jugendliche zu Adressaten von Erziehung werden, wird in dem Buch theoretisch und empirisch gezeigt, wie Erwachsene, besonders als Mitglieder von quasi-totalen Wohnorganisationen, erzogen werden. In einem Kloster,...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-20
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This book examines the social practice of mistrust through the lens of social anthropology. In focusing on the citizens of the Caucasus, a region located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Mühlfried counters the postcolonial discourse that routinely treats these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-20
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In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger ‘generation rent,’ to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom. Current differences...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-19
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In this book, Eleonora Redaelli investigates the arts in American cities, providing insight into urban cultural policy discourse through the lens of space. By unpacking the ways in which scholars and policymakers account for geographic configuration and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-19
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This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-19
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Ob und inwiefern Diskursanalyse ein kritisches Unterfangen ist, gilt als strittig. Der Band beleuchtet die Gründe und Gegenstände dieser Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Diskursanalyse und Kritik. Gibt es einen Erziehungs- bzw. Aufklärungsauftrag der Diskursanalyse?...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-18
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This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment. While there is a fairly large amount of literature...
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Springer
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2019-02-18
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This volume presents a selection of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Anticipation, Agency and Complexity held in Trento (Italy) on April 2017. The contributions contained in the book brilliantly revolve around three core concepts: agency, complexity and anticipation,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-15
Collection :
Anticipation Science
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This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives. These include lowest-low fertility in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, early population aging in China relative to the developmental level, and various modes of...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-15
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