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Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union, The Great...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-11-01
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An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-11-01
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The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood. With academic and popular interest on the rise, many books have been written about Scientology and surely more will follow. Although academics have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-01
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This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Using quantitative research, this volume investigates the characteristics, problems and trends of the automobile society in China’s mega cities and large cities. It also addresses topics related to cars and cities, traffic safety and cars’ consumption.China has...
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Springer
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2018-11-01
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis makes the argument for studying everyday life through a combination of introductory theoretical approaches and a grouping of applications to specific aspects of American culture. The first part of the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-31
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In a rapidly advancing technological culture, social work practitioners are frequently challenged to invent new strategies to meet client needs and foster social change. Despite the Council on Social Work Education's new standards for technology in social work practice,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-31
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The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In Faces at the Bottom of the Well,...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-10-30
ePub
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Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) have received increased attention in light of international corruption scandals, high-profile leaks about extensive tax abuse schemes, and the continued fight against terrorism financing and organized crime. Reducing IFFs is now a key...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-30
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The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents. It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-30
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Der Band gibt einen Überblick über 40 Jahre Diskussion zum Grundeinkommen mittels einer Auswahl zentraler Artikel aus dieser Zeitspanne von einem ausgewiesenen Experten im Bereich Sozialpolitik und Sozialstaat. Deutlich werden dabei sowohl die gleich bleibenden als auch...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-30
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Mindful meditation is now embraced in virtually all corners of society today, from K-12 schools to Fortune 100 companies, and its virtues extolled by national and international media almost daily. It is thought to benefit our health and overall well-being, to counter...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-30
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?This book offers a clear analysis of Foucault’s work on scientific knowledge and its relationship to individuals and society. It suggests a way of using Foucault’s tools for science criticism and resistance, while avoiding the pitfalls of vulgar relativism or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-29
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"Superbly conceptualises and contextualises social justice in and for our global age. The stellar cast of sociologists connect concepts to practices and outline the challenges we face, as well as providing necessary responses."
Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-10-29
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As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-29
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During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-28
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This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office.This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-26
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