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This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union. The VIS is embedded within a setting of pan-European...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-29
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This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women’s television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka. Both Sri Lankan migrant women’s soap opera clubs in Melbourne, Australia, and female friendship groups watching soap operas in Colombo,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-29
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This volume explores the notion of “affective media” within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone product or connected to other genres such as theatre and photography. The volume explores the Japanese reception of this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-29
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-29
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Serving Refugee Children shows the struggles and traumatic experiences that unaccompanied and undocumented children undergo they seek safety in the United States and instead find imprisonment, separation from their families, and immigration enforcement raids. Current...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-29
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This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living—from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy. Along the way, readers will learn about the field of sustainability and the “three E’s” of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-28
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This volume examines the rise of an emerging sport as a grassroots effort (or “new social movement”), arguing that the growth of non-normative sports movements occurs through two social processes: one driven primarily by product development, commercialization, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-28
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For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages and rising costs of living. Sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale talked with people across Appalachia, at the Standing Rock...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-07-28
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This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation model. Two new dimensions are then added,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-28
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Digitale Assistenztechnologien sollen ältere Menschen unterstützen, auch bei altersbedingten Einschränkungen möglichst lange selbstbestimmt leben zu können. Wie aber werden diese Technologien entwickelt? Welche Vorstellungen von Alter(n) spielen dabei...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-27
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This book explores the contributions of Eastern female pioneers in science, politics and arts from Ancient Egypt to modern times, and discusses the possible psychological and social impact of this knowledge on today’s gender role in Eastern and Western Societies.
Based...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-27
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Der Übergang in den Ruhestand ist für viele Betroffene ein biographischer Einschnitt. Eine Vielzahl von Aspekten bestimmt dabei die Entscheidung über das „Wann“ und „Wie“ des Renteneintritts. Ein Aspekt bleibt in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion eher unberücksichtigt:...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-27
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This book includes speeches given during five seminar sessions held in honor of Prof. C. R. Rao, on his 100th year.This book also contains a few write-ups touching on the diverse aspects of this august personality. The chapters pay tribute to Prof. C. R. Rao, the Padma...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-26
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This is the first book devoted to the topic of Manila galleon shipwrecks in North America; previous research on Manila galleons either has focused on the economics of the Manila galleon trade or has been limited to reports of the galleon wreck sites in the western...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-26
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A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-26
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This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-24
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This book explores in depth the significance of soft skills within engineering education and the profession of engineering and emphasizes the importance of integrating hard and soft skills effectively, thereby enhancing personal acumen. Among the most important soft...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-24
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This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-22
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Youth
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Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political systems. Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on original...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-22
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Dieses Fachbuch zieht ein vorläufiges Fazit über die ersten 12 Monate der COVID-19-Pandemie in den verschiedenen Ländern der Welt, die aus nichtmedizinischer Sicht eine Vielzahl von Fragen aufgeworfen hat: Aus der Sicht der Wirtschaft standen die Auswirkungen im...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-07-21
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