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'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the...
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Brazen
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2018-09-20
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Cet ouvrage apporte une réflexion multidisciplinaire sur les droits, la protection, la réception et les pratiques d'intégration s'adressant aux migrants forcés en Italie, avec un focus spécifique sur les femmes et les mineurs isolés.
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2018-09-20
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Harmattan Italia
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This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world. It is not only concerned with documenting patterns of population change but also with an intriguing and ever-present issue like "Who is a Jew?" The latter transcends the limits of...
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Springer
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2018-09-19
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This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-19
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Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of the...
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Springer
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2018-09-19
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IMISCOE Research Series
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This multi-sited island ethnography illustrates how the embattled politics of (im)mobility, belonging, and patronage among coastal fishing communities in Sri Lanka´s militarised northeast have intersected in the wake of civil war. It explores an undertheorized puzzle by...
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Springer
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2018-09-19
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In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the 'five giants on the road to reconstruction' -- the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Social Progress in Britain investigates how much progress Britain has...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-19
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A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-19
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex. What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2018-09-18
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This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-18
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In ganz Europa wird die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der unterschiedlichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Systeme diskutiert. Gesucht wird unter anderem nach innovativen Ideen, die die Leistungsfähigkeit sozialer Dienstleistungen erhalten oder erhöhen können und im Sinne...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-18
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The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition ofThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-09-18
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Der Band setzt sich mit Fragen nach dem erkenntnistheoretischen Status des Dokumentarischen und dem Wesen des Dokumentarfilms insbesondere in historischer Hinsicht auseinander. Ein Blick in heutige Medienkulturen zeigt, dass gesellschaftliche Kommunikation über...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-17
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This volume includes chapters by historical archaeologists engaged in original research examining the role of the British Empire in Latin America. The archaeology of Latin America is today a rapidly expanding field, with new research being accomplished every day....
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Springer
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2018-09-17
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This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world — and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.
Conventional sociological accounts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-15
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This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-15
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The city of Clermont-Ferrand in central France is inextricably linked to the global tire company Michelin—not only by the industrial, social, and economic realities that tie employees to employer, but also by a multi-generational, regional belief in the company’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-15
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Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-15
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This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Project Chunauti (English translation: Project Challenge) focused on a group of intellectually disabled, orphan children who were survivors of abuse, exploitation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-14
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