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This book provides a demographic profile of the Syrian diaspora into Europe and identifies the issue of forced migration as a separate and increasingly salient topic within the more general field of migration research. It describes the progressive increase in...
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Springer
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2020-01-14
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Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in a troubled world. Recent economic and political developments do not bode well for the theory and practice of civil...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-13
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This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-01-13
Collection :
Rethinking International Development series
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Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city. It...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2020-01-13
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of the ways in which the criminal justice system of England and Wales has regulated, and failed or refused to regulate, lesbianism. It identifies the overarching approach as one of silencing: lesbianism has not only been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-11
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest technological evolution which is transforming the global economy and is a major part of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” This book covers the meaning, types, subfields and applications of AI, including U.S....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-11
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This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants. The collection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-10
Collection :
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Hendrik Lager untersucht, wie Produktionsunternehmen im Kontext der Debatte um Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 Umfelddynamik bewältigen. Am Beispiel der Lichtindustrie und des Maschinenbaus beleuchtet er, welche Rolle digitale Technologien sowie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-10
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This research uses an Interactionist approach to understand how children and youth in street situations in Nepal and elsewhere negotiate their social identity while confronted with dynamics of domination, labelling and violence. Their capability to survive on the street...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-01-10
Collection :
Éducateurs et Préventions
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This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe. While most contemporary literature on shrinkage focuses on these issues from a planning standpoint, this book uniquely applies a policy perspective when approaching the material....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This book assembles ten scholarly examinations of the politics of representation in the groundbreaking animated children’s television series Steven Universe. These analyses address a range of representational sites and subjects, including queerness, race, fandom,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Die Deponie ist eine paradoxe, risikobehaftete Einrichtung.Die moderne Gesellschaft erhofft sich durch sie, weggeworfene, unbrauchbare oder gefährliche Dinge, Stoffe oder Substanzen ein für alle Mal sich selbst überlassen zu können. Zugleich erfordern die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This edited volume brings together cutting-edge studies from emerging scholars of East/Southeast Asia who explore the role of mobile media in the contemporary transformation of the region’s social intimacies, from the romantic to the familial to the communal. By...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Egal ob lange ersehnt oder völlig unerwartet? Wenn Ihr Kind ein Kind bekommt, finden Sie sich plötzlich in einer völlig neuen Rolle wieder: Sie werden Großeltern und eine spannende Zeit liegt vor Ihnen! Doch die Erziehung Ihrer eigenen Kinder ist schon lange her und Sie...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-01-09
Collection :
Für Dummies
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Laura Best stellt mithilfe eines innovativen videobasierten Forschungsdesigns das Erleben von Nähe und Distanz in Beratungsbeziehungen aus der Perspektive der Adressatinnen und Adressaten dar. Es werden Einflussfaktoren auf die Entwicklung der Beratungsbeziehung sowie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-09
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This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding normativity...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-09
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**A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell, directed by Clint Eastwood**On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, the town square of the 1996...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-01-09
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Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them? In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-08
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Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is especially true in social interactions: consider the difference between silence after "lemme think," and silence after "will you marry me?"
This book examines a particular form of silence, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-08
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