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This brief explores the justification of the death penalty, using the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, as a case study. The authors argue that when an offender’s impairments severely impact their ability to make rational...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-08
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Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.'David Graeber has always been an inspiration to me. Reading him fills me with both hope and joy... The tools he has shared to help...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-11-07
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From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-11-07
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This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan. For horses, everyday practices of care as well as ever-changing understandings of what is good care directly shape their living...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-07
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Leadership with Impact offers new ways of thinking and approaching complex problems through a conceptual and practical leadership approach founded on innovation and diversity. The authors introduce the I.D.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Diversity, Execution, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-06
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This book presents up-to-date perspectives on pre-farming innovations through material practices, resource intensification, and emerging technologies, particularly pottery manufacture. It includes original studies on the earliest pottery productions among foragers from...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-06
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By using informers to provide intelligence on terrorism, the security and intelligence agencies who handle them gain knowledge of their offences. Charges may then be brought against them, provided evidence supports this course of action. But if imprisoned, an informer...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-06
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As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it.As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-05
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Two recent developments created a need for this book, the first is the ratification of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in most of the countries. The convention clarifies the provisions of their social inclusion and rights...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-05
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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult...
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Polity
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2024-11-05
ePub
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22,99€
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Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-05
Collection :
Critical South
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A woman’s life is different. This is clear when a stranger’s catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the-cuff sexist remarks. When media commentators wade in with their condemnation of free, unrestricted abortion. When a father is...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-11-05
ePub
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11,99€
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This monograph identifies and investigates the ‘other-conscious’ ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in the African Diaspora of ethical writings that put the Other first, this work shows how black poets writing in an avant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-04
Collection :
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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This open access book, supported by FEPS and Fondation Jean-Jaurès, centres on the work of contemporary progressive feminist thinkers and the idea that there is no democracy without gender equality. The authors develop the concept of a feminism that works for everyone –...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-04
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This book provides a critical account, a state-of-the-art review, as well as novel research methods of information technology development and the corresponding changes of socio-economic spatial organization in China.With the rapid development of the Internet over the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-04
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This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice.This compact volume strings together new content from internationally recognised authors in the field of social work to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Advancing Social Work and Social Work Education
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Dieser Band befasst sich mit den neusten Serien des Star Trek-Franchise, die seit Erscheinen von Star Trek: Discovery (2017) entstanden sind. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das augenfällige Interesse dieser Serien an der Geschichte der Franchise-eigenen Zukunftsvisionen....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This Handbook explores the current dynamics, threats, and opportunities of social work education in terms of its origin, growth and development within different regions and political regimes. The book aligns with overarching contemporary themes such as changing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book breaks down barriers between disciplines engaging with flow, by speaking from geography into psychology to establish geographical foundations for this psychological phenomenon. It frames and works with the multiple contradictions within the extant literature...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-31
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In den letzten 60 Jahren hat sich die Welt radikal gewandelt, angetrieben von bahnbrechenden Fortschritten in Wissenschaft und Technologie. Von den 1960ern bis heute erlebten wir einen beispiellosen Anstieg unseres Wissens in Bereichen wie Physik, Chemie, Biologie,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-31
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