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This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (such as complaint commissions), in different parts of Europe. It asks who complains and why? How are complaints from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-25
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Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attitudes to mental illness based on a sample of probation staff from 27 countries. It sets out the significance of mental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-25
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Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
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We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stabilizing or revitalizing existing neighborhoods. This comprises area-based strategies, improvements of public infrastructure...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-25
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In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural...
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Springer
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2024-11-25
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«Jenkins’ meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were such sightings plausible? A fascinating exploration of military...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-25
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‘I bought an El Al Israel airline ticket.
Destination: Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sixty years ago, my mother was born a few dozen kilometres away, in Haifa, Palestine.’
So begins the story of the ‘return’ of Ziyad Clot, grandson of Palestinian exiles. In...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-25
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The most prosperous company in Mexico is not in the top 10 Aztec companies and is not even listed in the legal commercial register. It is a consortium of drug cartels that floods the world market with illicit products, from cocaine to heroin and synthetic drugs, and...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-25
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Diese Arbeit analysiert Entstehungspunkte des ökonomischen Modellierens in kolonialen Kontexten zwischen dem frühen 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. In drei Fallstudien rekonstruiert Lukas Helbich die offenkundigen und weniger offensichtlichen Spuren des Kolonialismus in den...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-23
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This book proposes a broad synthesis of the state of the art regarding the debate on the phenomenon of Emergence. Discussing from a theoretical and a theological perspective, it aims to propose a new interpretation, according to the theological and metaphysical...
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Springer
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2024-11-23
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New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
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This book provides an analysis of the evolving BDSM scene in Central Europe, with an emphasis on selected post-communist countries. It explores how the region’s communist past delayed the development of BDSM communities and public discourse compared to Western...
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Springer
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2024-11-23
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Die seit rund zwanzig Jahren in ganz Lateinamerika gegründeten „Interkulturellen Universitäten“ erheben gegenüber den Hochschulen euroamerikanischer Tradition den Anspruch einer „alternativen“ Forschung und Lehre. Die Arbeit analysiert, wie solche Universitäten...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-22
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This book reviews photographic portrayals of contemporary Italian migrants living in the area between Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland (Arc Lémanique). Drawing from the archives of Swiss-French illustrated magazines (L’Illustré and L’Hebdo) and other online...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
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Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
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This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish male prisons. Set within the context of Finnish immigration, it provides an excellent backdrop for studying social processes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren. Expanding the knowledge about hitherto under-researched grandchildren, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-11-22
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Eine Nachhaltige Entwicklung ist unabdingbar für die weitere Entwicklung menschlicher Gesellschaften. Die Sustainable Development Goals der Vereinten Nationen sind mit dem Anspruch angetreten, diese sicherzustellen. Diese wurden auch mit einem weitreichenden Set an...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-22
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RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is a work detailing the life and works of the twentieth century scholar and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois. It contains fifty chapters covering the multidimensional life and works of Du Bois.The contributing authors are experts on the...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-22
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There are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how did we arrive at the current distribution of humans on the planet? What shape is it taking, and how will it evolve? This book proposes an original answer to this, which is based on the explicit desire to place...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
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2024-11-22
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ISTE Consignment
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We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to this sound-based definition. Performances of sign language music are defined culturally as music, but they do not...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-22
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This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into dialogue the different experiences and perspectives...
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Springer
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2024-11-21
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last twenty-five years, many...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-21
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