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From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, an exploration of how we are killing ourselves to live longer—not necessarily better."Sharp and fearless." —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted:...
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Twelve
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2018-04-10
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Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New Womanhood effectively introduces a ‘new’ wave of gender research from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the world. The volume conceptualises ‘new womanhood’ as a complex,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-09
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There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-09
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This book examines expectations for justice in transitional societies and how stakeholder expectations are ignored, marginalized and co-opted by institutions in the wake of conflict. Focusing on institutions that have adopted international criminal trials, the authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-09
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Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-09
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The participatory turn in media, arts and design along with interrelated developments in the proliferation of social and network media have changed our understanding of the contemporary mediascape. Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones reveals how...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-07
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Ziel des Bandes ist es, aktuelle interdisziplinäre Ansätze der Forschung an der Schnittstelle von Kommunikation und Technik aufzuzeigen und Einblicke aus ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu ermöglichen: Technischer Wandel oder Innovation als Gegenstand der...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-07
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Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation
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This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-06
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Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-06
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An increasing number of families around the world are now living apart from one another, subsequently causing the defining and redefining of their relationships, roles within the family unit, and how to effectively maintain a sense of familial cohesion through distance....
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-06
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The volume is the first to take a life-course approach to the study of domestic work in Italy. It provides a coherent and systemic overview of time spent on housework, childcare and adult care over the life course. While most previous research has focused on the time...
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Springer
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2018-04-06
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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Der Band führt als erweiterte Dokumentation des Bundeskongresses Soziale Arbeit 2015 Einzelbeiträge zusammen, die ein breites Spektrum kritischer Perspektiven in der Theoriebildung, Forschungspraxis und Handlungsorientierung in der Sozialen Arbeit repräsentieren. Im...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-06
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Perspektiven kritischer Sozialer Arbeit
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This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.Unlike any...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-06
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Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight,...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-04-05
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This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.In thinking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-05
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This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat adults and children in the same way as the child liberationists claim. However, the basis of that...
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Springer
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2018-04-05
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes interessieren sich für Spielfilme als Impulsgeber, empirische Basis und Medium einer theoriebildenden und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Film wird dazu als kulturelles Gedächtnis und als Ort der Konstruktion und...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-05
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Medienbildung und Gesellschaft
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This book brings together contributions from scholars across Europe to present findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences and audience analysis, looking towards an increasingly datafied world and anticipating the ubiquity of the internet of things. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-05
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In diesem Buch berichten 20 Wissenschaftler/innen aus ihren praktischen Erfahrungen in der Feldforschung im Bereich der Sozialgeographie. Im Einzelnen gehen sie auf die Herausforderungen bei der Konzeption, im Prozess der Durchführung und im Nachgang von Datenerhebungen...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-04-04
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This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore...
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OUP India
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2018-04-04
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