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This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry. The book focuses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-21
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This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from a socio-legal and theoretical perspective and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-21
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Embark on a journey through Africa’s social innovation landscape with this groundbreaking book, which presents a comprehensive framework for transformative change. Across its five captivating parts, it intricately weaves together cultural heritage, participatory...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-21
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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 :
2024-10-21
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This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académicienne more than twenty years after Mémoires d’Hadrien, the three-volume work was her most ambitious undertaking. Drawing...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-21
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This open access book develops a typology of cities by exploring how current levels of migration-related diversity and segregation relate to three groups of factors: international mobilities, inequalities and political-institutional aspects of local governance. Based on...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-19
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The book presents the importance of restorative justice in today’s energy transition across the world. It emphasizes the importance of a fair, equitable and inclusive shift towards a low-carbon economy. It recognizes climate change as the primary global challenge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-19
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This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices. Presented in three parts,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-19
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Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Thematik der nachrichtendienstlichen Devianz durch Emissärinnen und Emissäre, welche aufgrund ihrer Prävalenz für die kriminologische Forschung von hohem Interesse ist. Die Notwendigkeit der Auseinandersetzung ergibt sich aus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-18
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AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhat makes people believe in conspiracy theories? Why have they taken...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2024-10-17
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An Origin Story Book
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we don’t, shape our realities.‘An earnest and intimate...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-10-17
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This book presents original qualitative research on the lives, identities, and experiences of queer Canadian Muslims and is the largest study to date on this population. Presented through a queer intersectional framework, the volume contains core evidence-based...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-17
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This brief explores trauma-informed practices in adult drug courts, highlighting the roles of judges, attorneys, court managers, case managers, law enforcement, treatment providers, and alumni. It emphasizes the need for all staff to operate from a trauma-informed care...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-17
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In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long twentieth century. Using the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, he postulates that within the Anti-Enlightenment mode of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-17
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The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-16
Collection :
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations. In particular, contributions focus on six...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-16
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This book fills a critical void in African research: a lack of engagement with the question of how digital capabilities can be harnessed to liberate Africa from the subtle grips of neocolonization. Bringing together seasoned and emerging scholars from diverse regions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-16
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With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and big data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector. This book argues,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-16
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20,99€
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Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Muqaddimah (‘Prolegomenon’), written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-10-16
Collection :
Critical South
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65,00€
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This book provides the current knowledge on prehistoric human contacts and migrations in Northeast Asia (consisting of far eastern Russia, Northeastern Siberia, Korea, Northeast China, and Japan), using obsidian as a commodity. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-16
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