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The comprehensive volume focuses on spatial, temporal, conceptual and empirical approaches to various elements of urban dynamics, environment and urban health. It demonstrates a multidisciplinary account of the significant dimensions of urbanization and urban life....
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-03
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Ausgehend von Roberto Llaryoras Fallstudien und seiner Kritik an dem in den Medien und der Wissenschaft vorherrschenden, historisch und ethnographisch verkürzten Mafiabild geht das Buch folgenden Fragen nach:Erstens: Was verbirgt sich eigentlich hinter dem mafiosen...
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Springer VS
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2024-01-03
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This book offers a comprehensive exposition of the mathematical methods that can be used to model landscape dynamics. It is systematically shown how mathematical models of progressively higher complexity can be derived from ordinary landscape maps and related data...
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Springer VS
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2024-01-02
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This book presents and discusses some of the problems that are increasingly emerging today in our relationship with food as well as in our style of eating and drinking. The first three chapters focuses on issues concerning eating, and on our relationship with what we...
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Springer
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2024-01-01
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This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences. The dynamically developing relational movement in social and cultural sciences is fueled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-30
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This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses. Demonstrating that the one-child family is still favoured by the one-child...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-30
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The ?Alawi community constitutes one of the oldest secret communities originating in what is known today as the Middle East. Today, the community members are scattered over many different countries around the world.The first ?Alawis came to Germany as...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-29
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This is an open access book. As a leading role in the global megatrend of scientific innovation, China has been creating a more and more open environment for scientific innovation, increasing the depth and breadth of academic cooperation, and building a community of...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book highlights the changing dynamics of Muslim identity and integration in Britain, focusing on the post-9/11 era. Historically, Muslims faced discrimination based on ethnicity rather than religion. However, contemporary discrimination against Muslims is rooted in...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book explores the symbiotic relationship that exists between African spirituality and ethics. Felix Murove discusses how these two concepts are entwined, and illustrates how they play a role in applied ethical issues. He argues that the general understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-28
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This book is an introduction to the philosophy of science, covering the main concepts — as well as a number of seminal authors — in dictionary form.The prologue and introduction place particular emphasis on the value and usefulness of science, and the obstacles it has...
Editeur :
Éditions EMS
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Business Science Institute
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Drawing on Tarde's and Deleuze’s monadology, this book investigates the affective turn of contemporary capitalism. The concept of affect provides critical insight to overcome the limitations of social constructivism and cognitive capitalism. Affective capitalism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This edited book gives an updated overview of methods of analysis of academic and non-academic genres in a digital era. The advent of digital and social media has deeply transformed academic and non-academic communication practices in the past two decades. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-21
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird erstmals die sozialrechtsbezogene Beratung von Verbänden als Strategie im Zugang zum Recht in die Tiefe gehend analysiert und anhand von drei exemplarisch dargestellten Beratungssituationen die Herstellung eines Zugangs zum System...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-12-16
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Temporalität ist eine der grundlegenden Herausforderungen der Forschung, die im Fluss der Zeit Dinge erkennen, definieren und systematisieren möchte. Für die Forschung wird der Ereignisstrom selektiv still gestellt. Damit verschwindet, mit Bourdieu gesprochen, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-12-15
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A writer uses the same adventurous spirit that took him all over the world to look inward and embark on a journey of self-discovery.
If there was one thing Dustin Grinnell craved, it was adventure. From running the Paris marathon, to bungee jumping in New Zealand, to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-12-14
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This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-13
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Even though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self. This book investigates the body as an essential vector of inequality, shaped by institutions, interaction and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-12-11
ePub
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