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This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.
Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-06-17
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"Representing the fruit of in-depth dynamics it invites us to give all necessary attention to the concepts of conflict, cooperation and competition. By reflecting on the possible articulations of these concepts and attempting to apply them in diverse fields of social...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-05-22
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Instantaneous and raw, unedited and uncensored, Weblogs are self-publishing at its best and its worst -- occasionally brilliant but often pretentious, sometimes shocking but always fascinating. We've Got Blog is the first book to explore this phenomenon, which has been...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-29
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Nothing happening in America today will do more to affect our children's future than the wave of new immigrants flooding into the country, mostly from the developing world. Already, one in ten Americans is foreign-born, and if one counts their children, one-fifth of the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-27
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"A masterpiece... the one single indispensable book that all media students and scholars need to read to understand this vital and growing area of research."
- Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"A contemporary classic of media studies....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-04-23
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Psychologists, political scientists, and experts in election law present a multidisciplinary perspective on voting. Personality characteristics such as motivation, values, and efficacy are considered, as are demographic variables such as education, age, and social...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-22
Collection :
Journal of Social Issues
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Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology, and politics as well as some engineering fields...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-04-14
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Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-26
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Finally a book for anyone who has ever thought about starting a Weblog but wasn't sure how to post, where to find links, or even where to go to register. The Weblog Handbook is a clear and concise guide to everything one needs to know about the phenomenon that is...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-25
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From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-25
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Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people’s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. Rich case studies of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-25
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Volume 1...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
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Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Volume 1...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
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How can policy makers justify public intervention into private life? And why does this interference often translate into contradictory or non-reflexive politics on lifestyles?
This engaging title discusses the social, cultural and policy consequences of these...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-03-19
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In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education.In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-03-07
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Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history....
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-06
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This book offers a better insight into the comparison of Western and Islamic cultures, with studies that address the issues of Islam and modernity, violence in Islamic law and history, and respect for individuals' privacy in Islamic cultures.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-02
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They work at some of America’s most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the lowest wages. Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States describes this understudied and underserved population. Taking a social justice stance, this volume examines...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-02-27
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This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health care Considers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
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