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Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-02
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This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-12-01
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The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-12-01
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This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge. ...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-01
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How does control of media resources serve political and economic ends? What is the impact of media concentration and monopoly in the era of technology convergence, with not just traditional and ‘new’ media but also consumer electronics, telephony and computing...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-01
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This book sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people within a discussion of the rights of the child. Through extensive case studies and a close review of contemporary literature, in relation to early childhood through...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-01
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Maligned as "deadbeat dads" or sexually and financially irresponsible inner-city fathers and overlooked in discussions of poverty and family policy, economically vulnerable nonresident fathers are a greatly misunderstood population.
Failing Our Fathers summarizes the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-01
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Working with families, carers, groups and communities is something all social work students must prepare for. Written to guide you through these varied and complex groupwork situations, this book explores the knowledge, skills and values required for groupwork practice....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-01
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This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about "bowling alone" seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty-first century civic renaissance-an explosion of participatory innovations in public life....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-28
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"An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly accessible way to help students understand processes underlying the changing urban economy, urban governance, and the role...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-28
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This book provides a portrait of the family in France today, revealing many of the deep-seated, demographic changes that have affected French society in recent decades. It first focuses on conjugal and family trajectories, examining union formation, types of union,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-28
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This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist internal and external...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-27
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The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-27
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For more than a century party members have played a central role in many parliamentary democracies, helping political parties to mobilize voters, and visibly linking party leaders with their grassroots supporters. Yet in the twenty-first century, party membership is...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated entirely to examining the lives of au pairs, traces their experiences across five continents showing how this form of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Significantly updated and expanded, this indispensable resource offers students and scholars alike real advice in navigating the ever-changing academic landscape. Offering practical guidance on graduate school, dissertation-writing, job interviews, promotions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation ofPuerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-26
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