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This book explores young women’s negotiations of female beauty and beauty practices in contemporary China, based on 20 semi-structured interviews, 10 beauty diaries, and 10 follow-up interviews with women aged 18–25. The research takes an interdisciplinary feminist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition...
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Springer
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2025-02-11
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The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory is a collection that explores how best to teach the systems of thought that organize the study of international relations and global politics. All chapters document and advance intradisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-11
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Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-11
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This book studies China’s Internet in the 2000s, with a focus on the challenges and dilemmas of the authorities and the battles between the authorities and the newly networked society in the cyber space, which has been a critical centerpiece in the Chinese authorities'...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
Collection :
Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
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This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the physical, symbolic and cultural uses of bamboo in China, where it has long had a ubiquitous presence in all aspects of the lives of the Chinese people: how and what they eat, what they wear, where they live,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-02-11
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In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue.In nations like the United States, advocates on both sides of the debate have actively worked to amplify their voices and change legislation.In other parts of the world, such as China, abortion is not a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-10
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This volume delves into how cutting-edge geospatial tools are revolutionizing social physics—the quantitative study of human behavior and spatial dynamics. Through real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how geospatial analysis is applied to pressing social and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-08
Collection :
Springer Geography
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Albert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologie und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Die Gesellschaft", war nach seiner Emigration 1935 Professor an der New School for Social Research in New York, wo er in alteuropäischer Tradition eine humanistische Soziologie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-07
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This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings.This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-07
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Der Sammelband thematisiert Masken und Maskierungen. Im Vergleich der Künste untersucht er die funktionale Verwendung dieses Theaterrequisits, das eine Technik impliziert, und die Ausgestaltungen von Persona in den Künsten, Maskenverwendungen, -gestaltungen und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-06
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This book delves into the transformative efforts that sought to redefine punishment and rehabilitation, highlighting the pivotal role of Community Service Orders (CSO) and the legislative push to abandon the use of Short-Term Prison Sentences (STPS) for fine default....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-06
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This open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside Africa, and takes as a starting point the 2015...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-06
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'Victoria Smith is a brilliant writer who every feminist should read' Sharron Davies'This brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology' Susanna RustinA brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture...
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Fleet
Parution :
2025-02-06
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On September 15, 2017, in front of millions of television viewers, Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou, his Keeper of the Seals at the time, delivered his first lie: “It is now impossible to be elected when you have a B2 criminal record”. Nothing could be further from...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-02-06
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For four centuries, the modern world has been dominated by machinery. It was born with capitalist production. It quickly became symbiotic with capitalist development, which found its driving force in mechanics. Calculation, predictability, the power of abstraction - the...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-02-06
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“More than just a survival guide for the bride-to-be, this book is a collection of women’s wisdom, a testament to sharing and love. It celebrates Parisian elegance and chic, as well as the distinctive culture of French romance.”
Delphine Manivet is an internationally...
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Flammarion
Parution :
2025-02-05
Collection :
Beaux livres
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