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The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-07
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Completely revised and updated, this new edition provides a readable, beautifully illustrated journey through world cultures and the vibrant array of sky mythology, creation stories, models of the universe, temples and skyscrapers that each culture has created to...
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Springer
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2017-05-05
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Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next...
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Springer
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2015-10-26
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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm GladwellWITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATIONAssume nothing, question everything. This is the...
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Penguin
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2006-10-05
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Starting from the paradox that undocumented migrants—known as sans-papiers inFrench—often have pockets, backpacks, and drawers full of papers, this book explores the role of documentation in how migration is governed and experienced. Drawing on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-01
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This book is the second of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender-based inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings.This volume is dedicated to Argentina and offers a rigorous feminist...
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Springer
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2026-01-31
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This book considers the lessons that can be gleaned from the Occupy movement, some 14 years after its inception. The Occupy movement brought with it many things, including a renewed interest in class and class struggle. Using the work of Nicos Poulantzas as its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This open access book responds to the need for rapid and transformative societal change towards a sustainable future. The editorial introduction and conclusion bookend 27 case chapters about urban sites of experimentation and contestation, spaces of conviviality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from...
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Springer
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2026-01-31
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Von und über Popmusik wird zwar erzählt, seit es sie gibt. Eine umfassende Kulturgeschichte dieser Kunstform, die in den mittleren 1950er Jahren ‚erfunden‘ wird, viel mehr als ‚nur‘ Musik ist und die unser Selbstverständnis...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory and environmental analysis into our understandings of production, movement and exchange in the so-called Long Classical Millennium (c.300 BCE – 900...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This edited collection reflects the diversity of gender-based violence and presents new perspectives and expands current scholarship in global contexts. It considers behaviours and actions including digital, interpersonal and institutional violence which are not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This book explores the intersection of densification and urban renewal in the context of China’s new urbanization, with a particular focus on social sustainability. It shifts the discussion from a citywide perspective to the community level, emphasizing a...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-30
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The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-30
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Wie verändern sich die kulturellen und politischen Bedingungen von Protest im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung? Am Beispiel der Anonymous-Operationen #OpTrump und der White Rose Society zeigt diese Ethnografie, wie sich Anonymous als fluides und deutungsoffenes...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-30
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This edited volume examines how the arts and sciences have had to adapt, engage, confront, and even alter research, teaching, and community service because of modern media. The book describes how academics work with and through the media in their daily and professional...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-29
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This open access volume analyses the conditions needed for greater participation of children in social change and development, focusing on Nordic countries. With the idea that citizens of future societies are best placed to envisage their ideal future, and that...
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Springer
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2026-01-28
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Die Anforderungen in der Arbeitsgesellschaft haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten tiefgreifend gewandelt – mit weitreichenden Folgen für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Insbesondere Menschen mit psychischen Belastungen finden sich zunehmend in Werkstätten...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-28
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This book focuses on the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C settlement of Atlit-Yam (dated to the end of the tenth millennium to end of the ninth millennium BP). Located off the Carmel coast of Israel, it is the earliest and best preserved of 23 submerged prehistoric in...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-28
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