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This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It...
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Springer
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2024-07-25
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This book explores male health psychology in relation to chronic health conditions. Using data from men with rheumatic diseases as a starting point, this book draws on the wider literature to focus on how men talk about different aspects of living with long-term health...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-25
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In this updated version of a contemporary classic of discourse research, Reiner Keller develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD). Translated from the original German into English for the first...
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Springer
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2024-07-24
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Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is...
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Polity
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2024-07-24
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This book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the early education and care of young deaf children, and the support of their caregivers. The authors investigate what it takes...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-24
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The past 200 years have witnessed revolutionary...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-23
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This accessible, short book provides scientifically informed guidance on effective wholistic place management strategies for preventing crime. It integrates theoretical perspectives and practical examples of crime prevention methods that can be readily implemented by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-23
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Erwachsene lernen nicht nur in intendiert-pädagogischen Settings, sondern auch durch die Bearbeitung lebensweltlicher Herausforderungen. Aus der Perspektive einer reflexiven Übergangsforschung, die sich für die Herstellung und Gestaltung von Übergängen interessiert, und...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-23
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Scene affiliations can be understood as socially produced and meaningful commonalities of action in style-specific practices. They are displayed, staged, stabilized, and disseminated in the respective style formations via material artifacts and their use, the body, and...
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Springer
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2024-07-23
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This volume is the first manual book to address fire-cracked rock (FCR) or fire-affected rock analysis, thus filling a significant gap in the market and in the existing literature.This book develops a method and theory for how FCR was used, to familiarize readers with a...
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Springer
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2024-07-22
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This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music. Music has generated substantial interest among geographers, but other academic disciplines have also developed related spatial perspectives on music.This trilogy brings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-22
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Public History ist ein Weg, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nicht nur in die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen, sondern ihnen auch Akzeptanz zu verschaffen. Dies kann gelingen, indem die Öffentlichkeit, d. h. auch die so genannten „Laien“, in den wissenschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-22
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While many of us may strive to locate a sense of identity and belonging expressed via a home or ancestral homeland; today, however, this connection is no longer, if it ever was, a straightforward identification. This collection aims at mapping narratives or artwork of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-21
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This book emphasises the importance of difficulties identifying victims of human trafficking. It is often challenging for trafficked victims to be identified, for victims to self-identify, and for victims to be distinguishable from other groups of vulnerable people such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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This book uses sociolinguistic approaches to explore how media discourse on undocumented migration informs Morocco-Spain political relations. Historically, much of the contact between these two nations has been through conquest - first through the Umayyad Caliphate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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Sophie Reitmeier widmet sich in ihrem Buch der Frage, wie wir uns für eine Serie oder einen Film entscheiden. In Anlehnung an bereits vorliegende Konzepte teilt sie (Selektions-)Entscheidungen in zwei Phasen ein. In der sogenannten Editing-Phase findet zunächst eine...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-20
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This volume elucidates international biographical and narrative perspectives on how COVID-19 influenced people’s daily lives across different countries and contexts. It draws together global interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and conceptualizes the lived...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-19
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This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer...
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Springer
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2024-07-19
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Invertebrates are the neglected majority of the animal world. Even though they make up over 95% of animal life, they rarely feature in discussions of speciesism, animal ethics or species justice. This book aims to extend the work of non-speciesist criminologists to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-19
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Observant Muslims strive to fulfill the pillars of Islam, which include praying five times a day, preceded by a cleansing ritual and followed by physical prostrations facing Mecca. In a society not always understanding or accepting of these practices, how do observant...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-19
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