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This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-20
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This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-11-20
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This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This edited volume lays the groundwork for Social Data Science, addressing epistemological issues, methods, technologies, software and applications of data science in the social sciences. It presents data science techniques for the collection, analysis and use of both...
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Springer
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2017-11-17
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A lively contemporary study combining in-depth scholarship with a focus on popular comedy and satireSuccessfully integrates numerous cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary perspectives on comedy and humour studiesOffers new research informed by practitioner perspectives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the social struggle to achieve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-17
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox‘The father of virtual reality’ (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.‘Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the...
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Springer
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2017-11-16
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What is good sex from the perspective of liberation theology? Thia Cooper argues that sex can be a way to know God. God created humans with a desire to be in relation with each other. From this understanding, sexual desire, sex, and partnerships are re-imagined...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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Der vorliegende Band führt empirische Forschungsresultate aus unterschiedlichen Teilgebieten der Familien- und Arbeitsmarktsoziologie zusammen, die sich der Untersuchung der Folgen atypischer Beschäftigung für Familien und Partnerschaften widmen. Das Ziel des Bandes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-16
Collection :
Familienforschung
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This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ‘ways of seeing’ through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent. Across Africa, the idea that homosexuality is un-African, un-Christian, un-natural, and un-cultural is now well established.This book analyzes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZEFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch'...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2017-11-16
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The proliferation of designated terrorist groups in majority-Muslim countries has greatly affected civilian populations. Humanitarian workers and
assets have been targeted by terrorist groups through the use of violent methods. This study addresses the state of...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2017-11-15
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Julia Drews untersucht die Bedeutung von Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation bei deutschen Behörden. Sie analysiert die Erwartungen von Journalisten an diese Kommunikationsprozesse und inwiefern Behörden diese Erwartungen erfüllen. Das Thema wird am Beispiel der Kritischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-15
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Axel Kuhn de- und rekonstruiert die bisherige Forschung zu Zeitschriften und Medienunterhaltung und entwickelt einen interdisziplinär-integrativen soziokulturellen Rahmen für weitere Erkenntnisse. Hierzu bestimmt er Zeitschriften historisch als sich evolutionär...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-15
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