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This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tracks lethal risk volume and type across 134 years of the New Zealand Police/Nga Pirihimana o Aotearoa’s 137-year existence. Using data gathered from public...
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Springer
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2023-11-08
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Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack....
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Polity
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2023-11-08
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This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people,...
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Polity
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2023-11-08
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AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom The Sopranos to streaming: the scandalous behind-the-screens story of the TV revolution by the author of the cult film classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows...
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Penguin
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2023-11-07
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The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency.The pandemic isolated us and imposed prolonged contact with ourselves and our solitary thoughts. Against...
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Springer
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2023-11-07
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Das Rechtshandbuch stellt die Ahndung und Verfolgung von Ordnungswidrigkeiten in Online-Medien (Rundfunk und Telemedien) mit ihren Besonderheiten dar. Es konzentriert sich auf die Gesichtspunkte, die in der Praxis eine Rolle spielen. Damit versetzt es Leser in die Lage,...
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Springer
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2023-11-07
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This contributed volume considers the emergence of coworking as centered in labor issues. More specifically, its chapters consider it as a coping mechanism in the worldwide rise of independent modes of work (i.e., self-employment) that leaves more and more workers...
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Springer
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2023-11-07
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From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly. In America, we teach...
Editeur :
Balance
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2023-11-07
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This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-07
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In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent....
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Springer
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2023-11-06
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Dieser Band führt in Niklas Luhmanns erkenntnistheoretische Perspektive des operativen Konstruktivismus ein und diskutiert auf dieser Grundlage das Zusammenspiel von Massenmedien, Many-to-Many-Kommunikation und publizistischen Angeboten im Social Web in der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-11-06
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This guidebook highlights the process of a software internship project facilitated by the Schulich School of Engineering. The Scrum Team is comprised of student developers pursuing either a master’s or bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering with their professor as...
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Springer
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2023-11-04
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This book is a linguistic analysis of the British obesity media narrative, analysing a large corpus of published newspaper articles to demonstrate how the language used perpetuates common misconceptions and stereotypes about weight and obesity, and then exploring the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-04
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The small group uniquely benefits from the ubiquitously available connective possibilities of mobile communication technologies.The group chat feature of mobile instant messaging applications (MIMAs, e.g., WhatsApp, Signal) provides small groups with a permanently...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-11-03
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This is an open access book. As the biggest university in Jambi province, Indonesia, Universitas Jambi has played an essential role as a key-player in both human and natural resources development in Jambi province. We have successfully developed cooperation in all...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-11-03
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Bei der Betrachtung des Phänomens psychoaktive Substanzen ist es auffällig, dass wesentlich mehr Männer Drogen gebrauchen als Frauen. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema aus einer sozialwissenschaftlichen und geschlechtertheoretischen Perspektive. Anhand von...
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Springer VS
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2023-11-03
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This book discusses Egyptian Muslim women’s dress as the social, political and ideological signifier of the changing attitudes towards Western modernity. It employs women’s clothing styles as a feminist act that provides rich insights into the power and limits of legal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-03
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This book aims to introduce in everyday language the profound culture and unique legacy of the ancient healing art with mesmerizing stories, allusions and anecdotes in the history of its evolution, handpicked from three perspectives, including contributions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-02
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Die Befassung mit ‚Landschaft‘ hat in den letzten Jahren in der Öffentlichkeit und den Wissenschaften an Bedeutung gewonnen. Verbunden war dies nicht vorwiegend mit den Konflikten, die sich in den letzten Jahren um physische Manifestationen der Verminderung von und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-11-02
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This handbook focuses on the dynamic nature of global migration and its implications for international business. Migration shapes the societal and organizational contexts of international business; yet studies on migration have only recently become more prominent. For...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-02
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