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'Truly inspirational' The Sun'Honest and authentic - I could not put it down' Michelle Griffith Robinson OLY'Black Sheep is powerful testimony for anyone seeking to deepen their own anti-racist journey. This is passionate, raw writing, with moments of reflection that we...
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Quercus
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2022-06-09
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While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their experience and allows us to speak of their work under the same umbrella? Is it even possible to talk about digital labor as...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-06-08
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-06-08
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The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry...
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Polity
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2022-06-08
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Anhand der Interpretation empirischer Daten aus der ethnographischen Begleitung einer praxisreflexiv angelegten Fortbildungsreihe zu pädagogischer Professionalität in der Migrationsarbeit werden im Buch Anforderungen an das Handeln in Organisationen der...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-07
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«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-07
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This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles. The islands are distributed in the tropical and cool temperate zones, and the most distant inhabited islands are more than 1,000 km from the mainland. In the past, they were...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-06
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Digitalisierung und technologischer Fortschritt verändern das menschliche Selbstverständnis. Während sich der Mensch in Abgrenzung zu Tier und Natur als kultiviertes und autonom handelndes Wesen definiert, steht er angesichts der zunehmenden Technologisierung nun vor...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-06
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The Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure. Through phenomena such as influencers, ‘fake news’,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-06
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The volume «Language and Identity in Migration Contexts», which contains studies from different languages and migration contexts across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This Open Access book presents a pioneering research on brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions, and specifically in the European Alps. The origins and causes, the actual conditions as well as the future challenges and potentials of mountain brownfields are...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-06
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This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-04
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Based on the success of the first published book on “Nondestructive Evaluation and Monitoring Technologies, Documentation, Diagnosis and Preservation of Cultural Heritage”, this book will includes peer reviewed papers submitted to the conference in form of single...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-04
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Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-03
Collection :
Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
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Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning. In fact, the disorganization that prevails has become so complex that the concept of urbanism itself has been called into question. This book highlights the need to...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales. Focusing on the Germanic folktale, the author investigates how retelling and reinterpreting fairy tales in online fan fiction both criticizes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-03
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This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.This book situates the project of decolonizing the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a ‘ground’ for the further development of quantitative approaches. In order to do so, the volume explores wide scale...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-02
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Die Ausgangsfrage dieser Untersuchung ist, wie sich eine Gesellschaft an den 1. Weltkrieg erinnert und inwiefern sich diese Erinnerung mit der Zeit wandelt. Das Phänomen eines solchen „kollektiven Gedächtnisses“ und die verschiedenen Konzepte von Halbwachs, Nora („lieux...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-02
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