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Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-08-28
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Die Herausgebenden legen mit „Globale Soziologie“ einen Band vor, der in Debatten um die Dekolonisierung der Disziplin interveniert. Sie vereinen Beiträge, die anhand dreier Fragenkomplexe die international bereits geebneten, im deutschsprachigen Raum jedoch kaum...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-28
Collection :
Neue Soziologische Theorie
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This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world. It asks what do we lose and gain when legal proceedings go online? Adopting a multi-disciplinary socio-legal perspective, it draws on an emerging body of empirical evidence from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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This book seeks to understand young men’s mental health by going to the places and spaces where they spend their time. It is essential reading for researchers, clinicians, policymakers and members of the general public who care about men’s wellbeing. Each chapter...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-27
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Die interreligiöse Hermeneutik erweist sich in einer von kultureller Vielfalt und religiöser Pluralität geprägten globalisierten Welt als unverzichtbar für den interreligiösen Diskurs. Sie bietet einen Rahmen für einen konstruktiven Dialog zwischen verschiedenen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-26
Collection :
Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung
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In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation. This book unravels the workings behind these promises through the story of remaking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-26
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This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning and capability approach (FCA), this framework radically departs from the conventional approach...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-26
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It is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented andradical transformation. Due to the impacts of global warming, physical, climatic,and environmental conditions of the Arctic Region are rapidly changing. This rapidtransformation of the icy...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-26
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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This open access book discusses cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage in nations facing diverse forms of fragility. Through case studies and a critical analysis, it explores preserving cultural heritage to spur regional socioeconomic development and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-23
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This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-22
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It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It’s time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It’s time for women to rise. In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2024-08-22
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In Burkina Faso stellt Migration den gesellschaftlichen Normalfall dar. Auch Kinder migrieren im Rahmen ihrer Anvertrauung, einer sozialen Praxis, bei der Kinder bei anderen als ihren leiblichen Eltern aufwachsen.In diesem Buch wird untersucht, warum und auf welche...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-21
Collection :
Migrationsgesellschaften
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What is death? How can we respond to death? Why must we die? Where do we go from here? Do we go anywhere? Understanding Death offers a thorough introduction to the views and practices of various religions regarding death and life after death. Drawing on examples from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-21
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Der Band „Die Praxis soziologischer Theoriebildung“ fragt nach den (Produktions-)Bedingungen soziologischer Theoriebildung. Im Zentrum stehen die konkreten, empirischen Bedingungen der Herstellung von soziologischen Theorien sowie die Reflexion und methodische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-20
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Everyday mobility is neither favorable nor unfavorable to health. While it can facilitate social interactions, increase access to remote services, or encourage physical activity, it can also generate pollution, promote the spread of epidemics or cause traffic accidents....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-08-20
Collection :
ISTE Consignment
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A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe "gives a fresh perspective on what it means to be a survivor." (Kirkus starred...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2024-08-20
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