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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019.As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a...
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Sceptre
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2016-12-01
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This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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Der Sammelband bündelt aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zum Forschungsbereich Social Media im Sport und bietet zugleich durch ausgewiesene Praxisexperten Einblick in die Vermarktung des Sports über Soziale Medien. Durch interdisziplinäre Betrachtung aus den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book provides a sociological examination of young people’s pathways into, and out of, substance abuse. Drawing from in-depth, life-history interviews with over sixty young people who have experienced problematic drug use, the author uses participants’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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Slechthorendheid en doofheid zijn ernstige handicaps. In Nederland hebben ongeveer 1,3 miljoen mensen geen goed gehoor en de helft van hen ondervindt daarvan werkelijk hinder. De situatie in België is vergelijkbaar. Geen goed gehoor, wat nu? biedt informatie over de...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Parution :
2016-11-30
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The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbinski–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
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As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism features a collection of essays that represent the most recent criminological research relating to the origins and evolution of, along with responses to, terrorism, from a criminological perspective. Offers an authoritative...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-11-29
Collection :
Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects personal identity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-11-28
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Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and material. It examines the sites and performances of a wide range of therapeutic art practices, including painting and drawing,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders, multicultural policy and approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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Die empirischen sowie medien- und modernisierungstheoretischen Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die Notwendigkeit, Mediatisierung als non-linearen, diskontinuierlichen und ambivalenten Prozess zu verstehen. Das Konzept De-Mediatisierung reklamiert eine in der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-26
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Communiceren met mensen met een verstandelijke en/of communicatieve handicap vraagt om een bewuste communicatieve houding. We noemen deze basishouding Totale Communicatie. In de praktijk betekent dit dat de omgeving zich aanpast aan het communicatieniveau, dus aan de...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women’s access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
Collection :
Gender, Development and Social Change
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This volume explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres. New media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural production,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development. The book succinctly presents the historical context and progress of social development. By reflecting on the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, it discusses the increasing ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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