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This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia. Drawing on a machine-generated literature review of select Springer publications, it highlights the critical turn in Food Studies rooted...
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Springer
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2024-10-30
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This book examines the discourse of Muslim televangelism in the West, particularly looking at the emergence of 'home-grown' televangelists who grew up in the West and deliver their sermons in English, addressing audiences in contexts such as the UK and the USA. In their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Ancient Salt Roads of China is the most comprehensive book to date on the transportation routes of the ancient Chinese salt industry and offers complete coverage of extant research on the spread of the salt industry culture. It reconstructs the distribution of the salt...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-29
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The effects of social media can be observed particularly in relation to the religious commitment and religious practices of young people - who today are summarized under terms such as "internet generation", "media generation" or "digital natives". Online media exert a...
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Springer VS
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2024-10-29
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Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal culture from which friendship, camaraderie and solidarity could...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Theory Redux
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This book presents a theory-historically grounded blueprint for a responsive sociology of law. It is based on the conviction, gained in research in the sociology of law, that sociology has more to say about law than its disciplinary surface reveals and than its...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people's choices and actions, and how they live together in communities. With insights from social science, organisations...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-29
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Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to violence can be muted, corrupted, or even inappropriate. This book discusses the strategies and efforts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-29
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The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern the everyday work of personnel in Argentina's criminal justice system.The book shows that Argentina's justice system faces...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-29
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This book outlines an interdisciplinary normative framework that makes sense of the historical transformation of cities and helps to assess contemporary urban conditions and policies for the built environment.This normative framework is embedded in what the editor and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Der vorliegende Band vereinigt Beiträge anlässlich der Pensionierung von Peter Sommerfeld. Sein Wunsch war, dass das Abschiedssymposium nicht primär geprägt sein soll durch Rückblicke auf sein Wirken, sondern dass gemeinsam nach vorne geschaut wird. Deshalb wurde die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Dieses Buch bietet eine auf empirischen Fallstudien basierende gabentauschtheoretische Analyse des belohnungsbasierten Crowdfunding. Projekte des belohnungsbasierten Crowdfunding zielen darauf, Produkte herzustellen, die zumeist neben einem Konsumwert auch Wertbezüge in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This volume challenges the status quo by addressing a selection of intensely discussed themes in contemporary archaeological practice from a gender perspective. It aims to demonstrate that gender is intrinsic to archaeology and that gender archaeology can enrich our...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-28
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Im österreichischen Justizsystem werden Personen, die aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen haben, in speziellen forensisch-therapeutischen Zentren auf unbestimmte Zeit untergebracht und betreut. Frauen sind in diesem System eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-28
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This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-27
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This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-27
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This book uniquely operationalizes "sustainable ageing" as a concept for reimagining ways by which: (1) social and health threats (i.e., climate change events, extreme industrialization, infectious disease outbreak, and war) can constrain the implementation of healthy...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as sites of cultural diplomacy. It focuses on the proliferation, network and operation of Japanese Film Festivals (JFFs) in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-26
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This book describes relevant theories, such as task-centered and strength-perspective interventions for the practice of social group work, within contemporary India. These two theories are complemented by additional theories including Gestalt Therapy, Spirituality, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-26
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