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Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources funding healthcare, the American system continues to be dogged by persistent inequities in the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities and women.ÂInvisible VisitsÂanalyzes how middle-class Black...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-18
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The recent resurgence of academic interest in caves has demonstrated the central roles they played as arenas for ritual, ceremony and performance, and their importance within later prehistoric cosmologies. Caves represent very particular types of archaeological site and...
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Springer
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2018-12-18
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Ina Kaul untersucht die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Bildungskonzepten von Pädagoginnen im Handlungsfeld der Kindertageseinrichtung. Sie zeigt, wie sich eine Vorstellung von dem, was die Pädagoginnen unter Bildung verstehen, über biografische Erfahrungen und im...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-18
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Kasseler Edition Soziale Arbeit
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Offers a human rights perspective on the topical issue of financial crisis at a time of the growing importance of human rights for development and public policyMarks the first known comparative analysis of the human rights consequences of systemic banking crisis that...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-12-17
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In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-17
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Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: Media StudiesFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS); Summer 2019 (A Level)Build, reinforce and assess the knowledge and skills required for OCR A Level Media Studies; this accessible guide provides full coverage...
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Hodder Education
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2018-12-17
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Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients. Through case studies of patients in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-17
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Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book is the first to undertake a gendered analysis of geoengineering and alternative energy sources. Are either of these technologies sufficiently attendant to gender issues? Do they incorporate feminist values as articulated by the renowned social philosopher...
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Springer
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2018-12-14
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Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of ‘precariat’: single...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-14
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The book covers all the important aspects of research methodology, and addresses the specific requirements of engineering students, such as methods and tools, in detail. It also discusses effective research in engineering today, which requires the ability to undertake...
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Springer
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2018-12-14
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This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice. Bringing together exemplary ethnographies of repair work around the world, it examines the politics of repair, its work settings and intricate networks, in and across a wide range of situations, lay and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-14
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Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for...
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Polity
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2018-12-14
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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...
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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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Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-14
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The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. International and national policies and protocols have been developed and billions of dollars spent to combat the issue and...
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Polity
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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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