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Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition ofSearch Engine Society enlightens readers on the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-27
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
ePub
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20,40€
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More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-27
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
ePub
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Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met. This book offers students a...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-27
ePub
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21,99€
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This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-27
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The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and art-history,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved, addressing the three levels of micro (individual buildings), meso...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime. In this thought-provoking work, Mark Wood examines the phenomenon...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-26
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This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders. Trans people are marginalised in society and already negotiate complex physical and emotional challenges...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-25
Collection :
Palgrave Hate Studies
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Im Kontext des Forschungsfeldes der narrativen Persuasion untersucht Freya Sukalla die Annahme, dass Narrationen auch Zielgruppen erreichen können, die aufgrund ihrer deutlich dissonanten Einstellungen klassischen Persuasionsversuchen gegenüber eher resistent sind. In...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-25
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This book, the second of two volumes edited by Kemshall and McCartan, focuses on responses to sexual offending, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
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This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community. Unlike much of the research on this topic, Harris places strong emphasis on how men who have committed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-25
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This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting French...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-24
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Den 100ten Geburtstag von Aimé Césaire, einem der Vordenker der weltumspannenden Bewegung der Négritude, im Jahr 2013 nahmen die Beiträger dieses Bandes zum Anlass, die neuen Ideen eines Vivre ensemble von den Antillen bis zu den Hispanics in den USA, von der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book presents the integrated use of magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar geophysical mapping to understand the human presence within buried archaeological landscapes. Ground-penetrating radar can be used to identify buried living surfaces, geological...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-24
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This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War. It examines questions such as the culture of human sacrifice, the religious principles that sanction egregious violence and most importantly the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-24
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