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This book talks about “Human Spirit and its Manifestations: A ‘Civilizational’ Perspective”, “Image and Expectations: China from the Perspective of the ‘Other’ Lecture Series”, “Civilization Communication and Mutual Enrichment”, and “Civilizational Problems: A Cavalier...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity. How does it come about that, in George Orwell’s words, ‘the divorce between poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-08-17
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This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-08-16
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Die medienethnographische Forschungsarbeit ermöglicht einen Einblick in die Lebenswelt von Menschen ohne Lautsprache und deren Nutzung von Mitteln der Unterstützten Kommunikation, ins besonders von Sprachcomputern. Es wird gezeigt, wie Technik und Medien den Alltag mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-14
Collection :
Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
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Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the uncontrollability of the world. Rosa is widely regarded as one of the most original contemporary European social theorists....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-14
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'Powerfully entertaining. A true thriller of resilience and defiance' JANELLE MONÁE'Tanya Smith's story is unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving. Never Saw Me Coming is a wild ride from start to finish. She is my hero' ISSA RAEThe true story of how a middle-class...
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Quercus
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2024-08-13
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This book is the first of its kind to explore how women challenge the powerful sociocultural and gendered phenomenon of diet culture across the broad anti-diet movement and beyond. Showcasing the voices of over 150 everyday women, activists, and health professionals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-13
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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite,...
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Algonquin Books
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2024-08-13
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This book explores the authors' legal thinking on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of burgeoning interest in the technology sector and among the general public. As part of the Human Intelligence book series, it primarily addresses the legislative and philosophical...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-12
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This edited volume proposes a radical change in perspective, fighting the prevalent ageist culture that tends to relegate the oldest old to isolation and irrelevance. The chapters show that having plans and projects, being involved in life, is possible for those aged 80...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-12
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Das Buch leistet einen originellen Beitrag für eine leibphänomenologisch-soziologische Architekturforschung. Die Autorin schließt mit Helmuth Plessner und der Neuen Phänomenologie von Hermann Schmitz an theoretische Ansätze an, die von der Prämisse ausgehen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2024-08-12
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This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style. It addresses ideas about smell and odor in culturally diverse...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-12
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The book addresses conceptual issues around urban transportation policy and practice in selected west African cities. It highlights the institutional, socio economic and infrastructural barriers of transit-oriented development in West Africa. Through a series of case...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-12
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This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects. The book begins with a chapter...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-08-11
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This book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects. The authors discuss causes, developments and challenges faced on a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-08-10
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This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-09
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Der Open-Access Band diskutiert das neue Bürgergeld in seiner sozialpolitischen Geschichte und Bedeutung. Das seit 2023 in Deutschland geltende „Bürgergeld“ sollte die unbeliebte Sozialleistung „Hartz 4“ ablösen, zugleich aber auch (noch) kein „Grundeinkommen“ sein. Es...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-09
Collection :
Perspektiven der Sozialpolitik
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In this ground-breaking book, we navigate the uncharted terrain of social virtual reality (VR), a technology that, while offering unprecedented immersive experiences, brings forth significant governance challenges. By merging theoretical insights with practical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-08
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This book draws upon qualitative interviews with lower-middle class men with adult children. It provides important insight into a region of the world that has not been sufficiently studied in the field of Masculinity Studies and analyzes manhood/fatherhood from a novel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-08
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