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This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-24
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This book examines Hong Kong’s struggle against the disappearance of its unique identity under the historical challenges of colonialism, in addition to the more recent reimposition of Chinese authoritarian government control, as reflected in three under-researched forms...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-23
Collection :
East Asian Popular Culture
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This book explores the ways in which the spatio-temporal contingency of human life is being conceived in different fields of research. Specifically, it looks at the relationship between the situatedness of human life, the situation or place in which human life is...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-23
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This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime. It includes empirical research on migrants and crime to explore the risk and realities of crime and migration, as well as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-23
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The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the ‘welfare’ industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity. Class After...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-22
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Be inspired to enhance classroom learning with this textbook, by highly respected and experienced author Louise Burnham.-Build your learning support skills with guidance tailored to the extensive new CACHE qualification due to launch in January 2018-Gain confidence in...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-10-22
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Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Covering what you really need to know for OCR A-level Geography - in just 120 pages - this revision guide makes revision easy - whether...
Editeur :
Philip Allan
Parution :
2018-10-22
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The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-19
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Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds—from queer as ‘LGBT’ to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum—intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-19
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This book is the newest and one of the very few existing examinations of the full nature of corruption throughout Central and South America. In detailed chapters written by experts with extensive in-country experience, it reveals the political and economic roots and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-19
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Marie, a nurse on the island of Mayotte, adopts an abandoned baby and names him Moïse, raising him as a French boy. As he grows up, Moïse struggles with his status as an "outsider" and to understand why he was abandoned as a baby. When Marie dies, he is left alone,...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2018-10-18
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One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our actions and the state of the planet that we all share. We need a new...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-10-18
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The perfect gift for the Spice Girls fan in your life!‘Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers.’ Dolly Alderton'A joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. If you have ever sung into the lid of a can of Impulse body spray, you...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2018-10-18
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The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research.The authors provide comprehensive coverage of relevant case law and legal statutes, as well as issues...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Over the last two decades, Australia and Indonesia have built a remarkable partnership in the fight against terrorism and other transnational crimes. Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations is the first in-depth study of this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam Gopnik. Known for his...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2018-10-18
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A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'. Of course, that was...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2018-10-18
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The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there seemed to be a new de-synchronicity – a huge reality gap – between the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media’s interpretations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-17
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This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-17
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his Sleeping Cupid (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean migrant crisis? And why was his painting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-17
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