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The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises. It explores the endurance of social movements over time, by developing analytical tools to study how social movement heterogeneities are simultaneously acknowledged...
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Springer
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2017-05-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination,...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Debating Race
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Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations—such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis. It discusses a broad range of image and word-based adaptations of popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-22
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This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-22
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Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the way cities around...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-05-22
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"Sprechertraining" lautet nicht nur der Buchtitel, es handelt sich wirklich um ein allgemein verständliches Trainingsprogramm zur Präsentation von Texten in den Medien mit praktischen Beispielen und Übungen. Vom einfachen Zwei-Wort-Satz bis zu schwierigen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-21
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This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries. Chapters focus on: the impetus for the international development of such initiatives,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco. Beginning with constructs of the body, femininity and masculinity, it analyzes the central role played by the sociopolitical writing of sexuality in creating gender hierarchy. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective. Developmental changes and risk factors as direct causes for violence and psychopathy have started to receive increased recognition...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-19
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Der Sammelband beruht auf der Annahme, dass Medientechnologien, Medienpraktiken sowie Medienbilder und die Konstitution und Vermittlung sozialer Realität in einem reziproken Verhältnis zueinander stehen. Es werden kulturell-normative Deutungsmuster sowie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-18
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'Magisterial . . . you reach the end of this profound, revealing book rewarded. West shows how scientific method helps to peel back the hidden reality of our world' MATTHEW SYED, THE TIMESGeoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-05-18
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This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-17
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