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This book presents a reconstruction of the history of well-being on the European continent with special attention to the European Union, as people from Europe have a history of a long-term march towards well-being. It discusses ancient civilizations on the European...
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Springer
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2018-12-14
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From Paris to San Bernardino, Barcelona to Manchester, home-grown terrorism is among the most urgent challenges confronting Western nations. Attempts to understand jihadism have typically treated it as a form of political violence or religious conflict. However, the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-12-14
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Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education,...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-12-14
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This book questions if spherology is a philosophy for designers, giving guidance on ways to read Spheres, how to approach the trilogy’s indexicality, and apply the key tropes and ethics of atmospheres to digital design. Each chapter includes a design-in, that is a...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective. The intense migratory flows registered during the year 2015 and the tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea have tested the mechanisms of the Union’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women’s magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to reveal how men are talked about and ‘sold’ to women as part of a successful performance of hegemonic femininity.This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-13
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Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in the nation’s public discourse. This short introduction explores how surrogacy is practiced and understood in India and...
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OUP India
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2018-12-13
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This is the era of Big Data and computational social science. It is an era that requires tools which can do more than visualise data but also model the complex relation between data and human action, and interaction. Agent-Based Models (ABM) - computational models which...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-13
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Eva-Maria Lessinger beschreibt, wie der Klatsch in den Massenmedien als mediale Adaption alltäglicher Klatschgespräche theoretisch und historisch aus dem Face-to-Face-Klatsch abgeleitet werden kann und welche Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Interdependenz zwischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-12
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This book provides an in-depth account of a qualitative study on the familial arrangements and domestic settings shaping interracial gay partnerships in the South African context, and it offers both empirical and theoretical insights on the topic. While heterosexual...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-12
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.
Neocleous follows the struggles of the labour movement which raised the issue of social insurance and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-12
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Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-12
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A vital and sweeping examination of today's "boy crisis," demonstrating the ways in which we raise boys into a culture of toxic masculinity and offering solutions that can liberate us all Whether they're being urged to "man up" or warned that "boys don't cry," young men...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
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Jeremias Herberg problematisiert die Fachkräftemangeldebatte in einer 2. korrigierten Auflage neu. Drei Fallstudien über pädagogisch-ökonomische Kooperationsbemühungen entlarven die steuerungsoptimistische Vorstellung von Zufluss und Abfluss als...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-11
Collection :
Politische Soziologie
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This timely book focuses on influence and behavior analysis in the broader context of social network applications and social media. Twitter accounts of telecommunications companies are analyzed. Rumor sources in finite graphs with boundary effects by...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture. The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspectives, covering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods. Despite the importance of the consumer in counterfeiting policy, there has been a lack of attention within criminology about the demand for counterfeit goods. A tendency to explain counterfeit consumption...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-11
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
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