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This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-06
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Maya
Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the
global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming
from the community level. Arguing that
the existing global agenda for children has failed, this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-06
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This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology. It covers issues which are typically related to the most popular type of events: festivals....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
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'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
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Written by an academic and researcher with over twenty years' experience in teaching and convening Media Studies courses, Media Studies: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that...
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Teach Yourself
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2016-06-02
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'A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2In the past two years humanity has produced more data than the rest of human history...
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Piatkus
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2016-06-02
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This volume focuses on the intangible elements of human cultures, whose relevance in the study of archaeology has often been claimed but rarely practiced. In this book, the authors successfully show how the adoption of ethnoarchaeological perspectives on non-material...
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Springer
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2016-06-02
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Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-02
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In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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This books provides a timely comparative case study that reveals the factors driving the International Monetary Fund's policy reform in Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs), as a resurgent IMF expands its footprint in the world's poorest states. Through a research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-02
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Human trafficking is a thriving business around the world. Although attention had been focused initially on those who were trafficked over international borders for sexual exploitation, awareness has slowly increased of the trafficking of US citizens within its own...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-01
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Several Asian cities have already invested in initiatives to build and promote Green Cities. Owing to the limited capacity of local governments, the funding of urban infrastructure has become a critical issue. Against this background, this book explores a new funding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-01
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This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-01
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This volume addresses the topic of circular migration with regard to its multiple dimensions and human, political and civil rights implications from a global perspective. It combines theoretical and empirical studies and presents different case studies illustrating...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-06-01
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This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-31
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The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed,...
Editeur :
Headline
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2016-05-31
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Emese Domahidi analysiert in dieser Studie anhand eines umfassenden systematischen Reviews die bislang unübersichtliche Forschungsliteratur zum Zusammenhang von Online-Mediennutzung und wahrgenommenen sozialen Ressourcen. Zunächst skizziert sie die theoretische...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-05-30
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This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-30
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