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The identity of Taiwan is a matter of intense local and international debate. This book shows how engineers helped produce two distinct visions of the land of Taiwan and its people, elevating the value of engineering as a career path in the process.The book...
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Springer
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2024-09-19
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This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.
NTDs are a group of infectious diseases...
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Springer
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2024-09-19
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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 :
2024-09-19
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The growth and adoption of social media has significantly impacted the writing and publishing landscape, challenging traditional concepts of authorship and prompting a re-evaluation of how authors present themselves in digitally social spaces. This book explores how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-19
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This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-19
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“This is a must-read for anyone concerned with where we are today and looking for a better path forward.” ?Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Inc. Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2024-09-18
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Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds....
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Polity
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2024-09-17
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This book analyses of public participation in the different development stages of urban renewal in Macao. Three types of participation are summarized from practice, analyzed their characteristics. And then develops a framework and a set of standards of participation...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-16
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Die Beiträge dieses Bands kartographieren das soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Feld in Bezug auf Drogen und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Praktiken.Die Neuauflage wurde um einen Teil über Drogen und Rassismus erweitert...
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Springer VS
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2024-09-16
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In öffentlichen Diskussionen wird jungen Arbeitnehmenden häufig eine veränderte Arbeitseinstellung zugeschrieben. Anders als vorherige Generationen scheinen sie unter dem Schlagwort Work-Live-Balance einen Ausgleich verschiedener Lebensbereiche aktiv anzustreben. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-16
Collection :
BestMasters
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This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the environmental challenges and innovations shaping our world. It represents a collective effort to understand and address the pressing issues that define our era, from climate change to resource management. Through a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-14
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This is an open access book.
Integrated art, also known as composite art, is an art classification that refers to the art formed by the synthesis of several art forms, such as songs combining poetry and music, architecture combining painting and sculpture, drama...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-09-14
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This book argues that, given the complex nature of the urban environment, we cannot find one optimal solution to reducing environmental injustice, in part because there is no singular cause. Environmental injustice emerges in particular settings because of the combined...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-13
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This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of cultural and museum resources, aiming to explore its transformation and utilization from the cultural value theory.This book for the first time examines the current situation of cultural and museum resources in...
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Springer
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2024-09-13
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This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically. It offers a unique contribution at the intersection between music and popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-13
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Recent social and political events in Spain have prompted a resurgence of feminism in the Spanish public sphere. Popular culture intervenes in these debates, and television does so specifically through the dramas which foreground female stories and female subjects, in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-13
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A Sunday Times Bestseller'Incredibly interesting and very funny.' - The Times'This book sparkles like the cut glass of a crystal decanter.' Tom Allen, comedian_____________________________________________________________________What is the correct way to queue at the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-09-12
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This book examines migrant smuggling and migration governance in the European Union. Following the 'refugee crisis' of 2014-15 and the rise in the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea, growing concern has been expressed in the media and elsewhere as to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-12
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Whether in everyday disagreements, bargaining episodes, or high-stakes disputes, people typically see a spectrum of possible responses to dealing with differences with others, ranging from avoidance and accommodation to competition and aggression. When coming across...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-11
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The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-09-11
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