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This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over “culture” and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-24
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This book contributes to current discussions about the meaning, history, and theorisation of maps. The monograph focuses on William Blake (1757-1827), whose astute critical angle on cartography invites us to think in a new light about mapping in the eighteenth century,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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This book aims to explain the self as understood decades ago and its evolution in the time of postmodernism. Approaching it primarily from a sociological perspective, while incorporating insights from psychology and philosophy, it portrays the modern self as a unitary,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-21
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Why have we failed so badly to end men’s violence against women? What can we actually do about it? This insightful, provocative and practical handbook suggests a bold and potentially game-changing solution.Pioneering educator, expert scholar, and activist Jackson Katz...
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Penguin
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2025-02-20
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For 75 years, Woman’s Hour has brought us the most iconic and inspirational women from all over the world, delving into their lives and opinions, desires and lessons to others. Now, their wise words are brought to you each day in this daily guide.Woman’s Hour: Daily...
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Bbc Digital
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2025-02-20
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This book’s significance is in its African-centred border crossing overt and covert forces working against genders and sexualities, reinforcing endemic gender and sexual based complexities. Pragmatically, sexualities and genders in Africa remain contested and an area of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-20
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Sharded Media is the story of how the unleashing of individual public opinion and rage became the most valuable of political currency. The digital’s sharding of experience through personal networks, platforms, recommendations and peer-linked sources, has splintered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-20
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This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective. The volume explores and presents a coherent, research supported argument for the role of religion in promoting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-19
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Die öffentliche Dienstleistungsbranche, deren paradigmatische Berufe – Verkehrsplanung und Lok- bzw. Triebwagenführen – männlich segregiert und codiert sind, ist seit den 1990er-Jahren von Privatisierungstendenzen, deren Infragestellung seit der Finanzkrise sowie einer...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-19
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This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and civic engagement. It focuses on the memories and expectations of young inhabitants from London and Rio de Janeiro in relation to the 2012 London...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-19
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From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more...
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Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2025-02-18
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Women’s Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society. Manga illuminate how women have been treated stereotypically and confined to their gender roles. Fictional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-18
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The study presented in this SpringerBrief uses GIS tools to analyze incidents of violence against women in West Bengal India, identifying “hotspots” and offering tools and strategies to predict and prevent future violence.The aim of this study is to understand the...
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Springer
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2025-02-17
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1. Challenges in Current Research on Immigrant Health: Insights from Spain (Mikolaj Stanek, Sol P. Juárez and Miguel Requena).- 2. Caught up in a Broader Struggle: Expansions and Restrictions of Migrants’ Healthcare Entitlements in the Spanish Decentralised System...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-17
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Das Verhältnis Europa–Islam ist historisch betrachtet fragil. Demgegenüber arbeitet das Buch heraus, dass beide keine Gegensätze sind: Vielmehr ist es eine zentrale Zukunftsfrage für Europa , wie sich der Islam in Europa entwickelt, und ein europäischer Islam kann einen...
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Springer
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2025-02-17
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This book comprehensively covers various causal mediation analysis (CMA) methods developed across multiple fields, organizing them into a reader-friendly progression of methodological advancements. Interest in the mechanisms that form causal relationships is...
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Springer
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2025-02-17
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Interessen- und Erwartungswidersprüche sind ein wesentliches Merkmal komplexer Gesellschaften, die unter dem Druck rapider Veränderungen stehen. Sie prägen alle Formen von Organisationen, die von außen wie von innen mit einer Vielzahl heterogener, teils unvereinbarer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-15
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The Pivot explores bystander intervention and image-based sexual abuse. It fills a critical gap in the market on a significant and contemporary legal, social, public health, and criminal justice issue. It is timely in light of a number of recent high-profile instances...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-15
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Das Buch bietet die erste systematische Einführung in das Werk des kürzlich verstorbenen, postkolonialen Autors Munasu Duala-M'bedy, ausgehend von der Analyse seines Hauptwerkes Xenologie. Die Wissenschaft vom Fremden und die Verdrängung der Humanität in der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-15
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