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For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarely fail to bring up...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-25
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Vidarbha—the parched heartland of central India—has
become the foremost site of farmer suicides in the country. These suicides are the most striking indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state. But the story of the farmers’ distress does not end with their...
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OUP India
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2018-01-25
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This book examines how African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American diasporas use media to communicate among themselves and to integrate into European countries. Whereas migrant communities continue employing print and broadcasting technologies, the rapidly growing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-24
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This book studies the motivation of crowdworkers to find out how to attract more people and reach a higher quality of outcomes. The book first proposes a taxonomy for studying the motivation of crowdworkers including the potential influencing factors, different types of...
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Springer
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2018-01-24
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This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-24
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This book argues that we are witnessing the emergence of ‘commercial democracy’ in which public relations, promotional culture and the media play a new, central role. As the conventional democratic promise of political representation loses traction with the public in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-24
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This book explores the relevance of social networking from the perspective of its users to reveal the sociological significance of (inter)active experiences on Facebook. In doing so, the work examines obscure aspects of Facebook by addressing such questions as: What...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-23
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This book offers a Christian engagement with the realities of academic life and work. Examining this topic from intellectual, institutional and spiritual perspectives, the author explores how the two identities – as a Christian and an academic – can both coexist and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-23
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This book uses storytelling as an analytical tool for following wider social attitude changes towards sex and female sexuality in Iran. Women born in 1950s Iran grew up during the peak of secularization and modernization, whereas those born in the 1980s were raised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-22
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?Dieses Handbuch vermittelt einen systematischen Überblick über Möglichkeiten und rechtliche Fallstricke im Bereich der PR-Arbeit online wie offline. In 17 Kapiteln mit mehr als 2.000 Fundstellen werden die für die PR-Kommunikation täglich relevanten Themen...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-22
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By assessing the transition in enterprise-employee relations in China over the six decades since the founding of the nation and the three decades since the implementation of a reform and opening up policy, this book investigates these changes from three key...
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Springer
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2018-01-22
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L’impostazione dei problemi relativi alle vicende dell’insediamento protostorico nella Sibaritide, quale si era enunciata introducendo la precedente relazione, Ricerche non aveva avuto ancora modo di subire una evoluzione molto sensibile al momento della stesura di...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution :
2018-01-22
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Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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L’ampiezza del territorio calabrese, le sue difficoltà orografiche e di collegamento, la scarsità di personale scientifico e tecnico hanno sempre limitato, finora, le capacità di tutela territoriale della Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria.La differenza tra...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2018-01-22
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Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-19
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Instead of outsourcing tasks to providers using labor-intensive countries, libraries around the world increasingly appeal to the crowds of Internet users, making their relationship with users more collaborative . These internet users can be volunteers or paid, work...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2018-01-19
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Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of considering trade as the sole determinant of creation of settlement in the coastal regions....
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-01-19
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Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-19
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This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji. Typically viewed as ‘out of place’, these young people disturb what it means to be young and Fijian. Despite their marginal existence, they through their activities demonstrate the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-17
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In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly literature from media and cultural studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-17
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