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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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Paul Scheibelhofer beschreibt Prozesse der sozialen Herstellung und Aushandlung von Männlichkeiten im Migrationskontext. Anhand der in Österreich durchgeführten Studie präsentiert der Autor einerseits eine differenzierte Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, unter...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-04
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This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography. It combines a collection of work and research within the new field of Critical Physical Geography, which gives critical attention to relations of social power with deep knowledge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-04
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This festschrift commemorates the legacy of UK-based Portuguese sociologist Hermínio Martins (1934-2015). It introduces Martins’ wide-ranging contributions to the social sciences, encompassing seminal works in the fields of philosophy and social theory,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-03
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This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-03
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The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Cities examines the study of cities...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-04-03
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Oceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300. This is about the same time that related Polynesian populations began erecting Easter Island's gigantic statues, farming the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-03
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Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology’s first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover topics such as: water pollution, access to fresh water in the Global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-03
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A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-04-03
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the...
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Springer
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2018-04-03
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This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen studies, sociology and cultural studies whose research interests lie in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-31
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This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years.This follows from the support from the former EU INTERREG Community Initiative, since 1989, later...
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Springer
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2018-03-31
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This is the first scholarly book dedicated to reading the work of contemporary filmmakers and their impact on modern marketing and advertising. Drawing from consumer culture theory, film and media studies, the author presents an expansive analysis of a range of renowned...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-31
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This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women’s experiences of violence and abuse. Through in depth interviews and analysis the author reveals their feelings of being silenced as children, women, Black women and as victims/survivors. Being silenced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-31
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The ageing of our population is a key societal issue across the globe. Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of life and independence and to prevent rises in health and social care costs. This timely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-31
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This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people—manufacturing their feelings and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-30
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This book analyses the relationship between youth and participation, looking specifically at those repertories of involvement that are commonly clustered under the concept of “unconventional political participation”. The author focuses on the connections between youth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-30
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This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-30
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This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence. Each chapter explores the various roles that Christian theologies, teachings, and practices have played in shaping contemporary understandings of gender...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-29
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Religion and Radicalism
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This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do. In particular, it argues that what people do is neither right nor wrong and that they are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for doing it. Morality and moral...
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Springer
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2018-03-29
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