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A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-11-28
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This open access book outlines how the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence. It presents theory and research methods to enable students and scholars to investigate the changes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-28
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Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich als explorative, qualitative Fallstudie theoriegeleitet und empirisch mit der Entstehung staatlich geförderter Projekte zum ‘Sport mit Geflüchteten’ in Sportdachverbänden im Rahmen der Geflüchtetenkrise 2015/2016 auseinander.
Über eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-28
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This book presents the first scientific outcomes of a project aimed at scrutinizing the forms and meanings of exhibition systems from the perspective of display. Due to its inherently cross-disciplinary nature, the display device is a negotiation ground resistant to a...
Editeur :
Hermann
Parution :
2024-11-27
Collection :
HORS COLLECTION
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This book explores user labor in the internet age, offering innovative perspectives on digital labor. It broadens the discussion on topics like technology and power, the reproduction of network user labor, labor relations in cyberspace, economic rewards of network user...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-27
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Der Wille zur Wiederholung behandelt die Faszination eines Widerspruchs: Er richtet sich an alle, die in der Freizeit, bei der Lektüre von Literatur, im Kino oder vor dem Bildschirm darüber staunen, dass sie immer etwas anderes im Selben suchen. Warum den Spin Off...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-27
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Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities. 'Inventraset' is a concept that shows...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-27
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This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty. Divided into eight chapters, the book first outlines the scale, characteristics, and causes of poverty among elderly people and discusses the significance of social work in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-27
Collection :
Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China
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Marie Rosenkranz‘ Monografie ist in das expandierende Feld sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Analysen der Kunst einzuordnen, die u¨ber eine immanent kunstwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von ku¨nstlerischen Werken hinausgehen.
Das Kunstfeld ist in der Spätmoderne...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2024-11-27
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Von Gestaltung jenseits ästhetischer Traditionslinien zu sprechen, heißt zwangsläufig das moderne Design in den Blick zu nehmen. Zwischen Alltagskultur und Design-Avantgarden bewegen sich vielfältige interdisziplinäre Strömungen, deren theoretische Modelle in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-26
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This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to the increasing integration of technical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-26
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This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian cinema from multiple human rights perspectives, such as freedom of expression and censorship, socio-economic rights, caste...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-26
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This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions. The book begins by introducing the concept of antiblackness and the many ways we...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-26
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Der schwerste islamistische Anschlag in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik – der Anschlag auf den Berliner Breitscheidplatz – hat eine Besonderheit: verschiedene Polizeien ermittelten über Monate gegen den späteren Täter, stellten ihre Ermittlungen dann aber Monate vor...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-26
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
Collection :
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...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-11-25
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