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Dwelling is both an action and a location; it combines the spatial idea of habitation (dwelling in) with the temporal idea of lingering (dwelling on). We live not only in bricks and mortar, a tent, a hut or a spaceship, but also in that most changeful of forms, our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This timely and ambitious volume - a product of close research collaboration with the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia - is conceived as a holistic “journey” across various domains of progress in a region that, despite fundamental common traits,...
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Springer
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2024-07-15
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Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by...
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Springer
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2024-07-15
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In the UK, women's economic empowerment through employment is a success story of the last three decades.
And yet women are over-represented in low-paid, insecure jobs, are under-represented in top jobs, and earn less than men on average, with a marked income gap over...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-15
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Between the 1860s and the early 1920s, more than two million Jews moved from Eastern Europe to the United States while smaller groups moved to other destinations, such as Western Europe, Palestine, and South Africa. During and after the First World War hundreds of...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-15
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This open access volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of geophysical methods in archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It compiles contributions from 74 experts...
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Springer
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2024-07-13
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This book seeks to understand how women's experiences both within and outside prisons shape their ability to engage in crime-free living after the experience of prison. It uses women's stories to examine their cognitive shifts toward desistance as well as the structural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Media plays a significant role in reshaping, restructuring, and recalibrating the existing understandings of society and politics, giving birth to new cultural forms. Video, as a medium, captures not only real-time events but also the ethos of a milieu. Video Culture in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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A concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants.
Britain owes reparations to the Caribbean. The exploitation of generations of those trafficked from Africa, or born into enslavement, to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum dargelegt. Damit leisten diese Bände nicht nur einen eminent wertvollen Beitrag...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-12
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Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Human Factor establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis.The authors take a multidisciplinary approach, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the mischievous and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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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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2024-07-12
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This book specifically focuses on young adults who have the highest usage of digital technologies in their daily lives. We have assembled contributions of knowledge from scholars and students in Higher Education as they have the most direct experience of going through...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-11
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After decades of descriptive studies, the biology of cancer is undergoing a real revolution: with genetic approaches, researchers have identified many of the cell deregulations likely to drive tumours. A treatment combining arsenic and retinoic acid targets the protein...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2024-07-11
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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This book surveys the testimony of international organizations of the impact of American foreign policy on Iraq. Each reveals a fragment of Iraq’s mosaic of misery and desolation, but lacks the context to permit our understanding why this has happened. A parallel lack...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-10
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Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, this book explores the social factors that influence the ways in which societal norms police fat bodies. Chapters examine the racist and colonial constructions of Western beauty norms as well as the evolution of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-09
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Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future –...
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Polity
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2024-07-09
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ? which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ? was caught so unprepared when the crisis...
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Polity
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2024-07-09
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