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This 2nd edition of the Handbook provides an interdisciplinary coverage of new understandings of the most important developments in the sociology of crime and deviance that is current and emerging for research, methodology, practice, and theory in criminology. It...
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Springer
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2019-08-28
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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. SeanRedmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-08
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This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-15
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Wie reagieren öffentliche Organisationen auf die migrationsbedingte Diversität? Das Buch untersucht städtische Verwaltungen und die Beschäftigung von Einwanderern und ihren Nachkommen. Anhand einer organisationssoziologisch basierten Studie zu Berliner Verwaltungen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-28
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This book highlights the rise of the Strauss-Corbin-Gioia (SCG) methodology as an important paradigm in qualitative research in the social sciences, and demonstrates how the SCG methodology can be operationalized and enhanced using RQDA. It also provides a technical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-23
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Das Handbuch ist das erste im deutschen Sprachraum, in dem qualitative und quantitative Methoden gleichberechtigt dargestellt werden und in dem systematisch nach Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden hinsichtlich Problemen, Prinzipien, Vorgehensweisen, Standards und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-19
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Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-01
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Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-21
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This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-06-23
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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
2006-10-05
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This open access book adopts two approaches developed in political philosophy, "ideal" and "non-ideal" theory, to develop a new approach to bioethics. It argues that both ideal theory and non-ideal theory may be preferable depending on the situation. On this basis, it...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-03-14
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This open access volume presents the select peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Library & Technology on “Artificial Intelligence and Humanities in Library and Education 4.0 (AIHLE 2025).
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2026-03-14
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This book is an open access.
In an era of rapid technological developments and unprecedented burgeoning global challenges, the conventional bounds that once defined our creative and problem-solving abilities are blurring. While it is evident that technological...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2026-03-13
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This is an open access book.
The Future of Life: Legal, Scientific, and Geopolitical Challenges conference, hosted by the Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies, REVA University, and The Centre for Contemporary Coronial Law at the University of Greater
Manchester, will...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2026-03-12
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This open access book explores how machine learning can enhance both quantitative and qualitative research in sociology. By developing algorithms tailored to specific data, machine learning enables social scientists to uncover patterns, generate new theories, calibrate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-03-12
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