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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...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-11-22
Collection :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Großsein ist großartig. Körpergröße ist ungeheuer wichtig. Wer groß ist, erscheint kompetent, verdient mehr Geld, nimmt bevorzugte Positionen in der Gesellschaft ein. Wer auf andere herabschauen kann, wirkt nicht nur auf seine Mitmenschen dominant, sondern ist zu allem...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung wurde viele Jahre als Allheilmittel für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Stadtplanungs- und -entwicklungsprozessen angesehen. Immer deutlicher jedoch wird, dass die alltäglichen Erfahrungen auf kommunaler Ebene häufig stark von den normativen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-21
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Diese theoretische Arbeit gründet auf der Beobachtung, dass einzelne Funktionssysteme der Gesellschaft wie Politik, Wirtschaft oder Erziehung nicht einheitlich auf Herausforderungen der Gegenwart reagieren können. Lösungsversuche sozialer Probleme verlagern sich...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-20
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This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the contemporary global landscape characterized by unsettling dynamics in identity politics, state authority, capitalism, nationalism, and nationhood, during the twenty-first century. Using cricket as a lens, it argues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-20
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Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-19
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This book first traces the evolution of Chinese culture, which has a triple structure. It traces back to the economic basis of the formation of Chinese culture and analyzes the pattern of the formation of Chinese civilization. The book goes deep into the level of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-19
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Facing the reality of the social transformation in contemporary China, this book analyzes the structure, nature and influence of social classes in contemporary China based on the new development of the theoretical paradigm of class analysis at home and abroad, and the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-19
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What contributions can LGBT activists make to eliminating the inequities that drive the HIV epidemic in countries that are hostile to sexual and gender minority rights? In Breaking Barriers: Sexual and Gender Minority-led Advocacy to End AIDS in Africa and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-19
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A groundbreaking critical discourse analysis of everyday language, reveals the underlying racist stereotypes circulating in American culture In The Everyday Language of White Racism, prominent linguist Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of the relationship...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-11-19
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
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The book provides deep insights into heritage politics in Myanmar on the basis of the conservation history of Bagan and its entanglement in national politics. It particularly investigates the heritage practice of the dictatorial regime that ruled Myanmar from 1988 to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player interaction. It will discuss a variety of commercial video games, both mainstream and somewhat niche, that use...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This book analyzes how the use of digital media by young children can affect their development. Children are starting to use digital media at an earlier age and this use is increasing. With the adoption of technology moving so quickly, research in the area also needs to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-18
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While there has been a wealth of research and conversation about the role of racism in shaping our social, political and economic structures, antiracism – its highly publicized counterpart – has been very little studied, discussed or debated. Veteran race scholar John...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This book tells the story of what happens when the “adventure” of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign welfare system...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-18
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The digital communication technologies that emerged at the turn of the century have profoundly disrupted long-practiced norms of nearly every media industry. In particular, internet distribution has fundamentally changed the foundation of the media industry to enable...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-18
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