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This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what “works” in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-21
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This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-21
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This book examines the geography of partisan polarization, or the Reds and Blues, of the political landscape in the United States. It places the current schism between Democrats and Republicans within a historical context and presents a theoretical framework that offers...
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Springer
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2019-01-21
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Eine Hörsaalbesetzung und ein Schulcamp dienen Michael Ernst-Heidenreich als Fallbeispiele, um die ambivalente Dynamik „situativer Nichtalltäglichkeit“ zu erörtern. Mit dem Konzept situativer Nichtalltäglichkeit öffnet der Autor ein sozialwissenschaftliches...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-21
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Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of complications resulting from access, scholars have tended to focus on groups affected by elite governance rather than on...
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Etnográfica Press
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2019-01-21
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Antropologia
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Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-19
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New Directions in East Asian History
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This book traces the life course of Richard Quinney, one of the most cited authors in the social sciences and a key figure in the development of critical criminology in the 70s, 80s and 90s. It provides a look into his personal thoughts in becoming a 'radical'...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-18
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Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological system has been challenged by continuously changing paradigms like airports....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-18
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Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-01-18
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This book examines the media and cultural responses to the awful crimes of Brady and Hindley, whose murders provided a template for future media reporting on serial killers. It explores a wide variety of topics relating to the Moors Murders case including: the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-17
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Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence. This is puzzling given the country's celebrated transition to democracy and massive reform of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-17
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This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-16
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This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of scientific and policy nature. The model is based on the example of New Zealand, but will be applicable to...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-16
Collection :
Computational Social Sciences
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Many people want to help bring about changes in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities. Leaders and scholars of change efforts are likewise eager for insights into what makes some organizations and coalitions capable of building and exercising power. Why are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-16
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The objective ofThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises."The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-16
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New aspects of the misogyny that impacts girls and women worldwide continue to emerge every day. However, recent movements (e.g., #MeToo, Time's Up, the Women's March) indicate a strong hunger for a meaningful resource for thoughtful activists. Impassioned but...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-16
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Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital ingredient in shaping our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions, as they circulate through the media, can also be divisive and exclusionary. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-01-15
Collection :
Contemporary Political Communication
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Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studied them? How are...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-01-15
Collection :
Short Introductions
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Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and...
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Polity
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2019-01-15
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As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-12
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