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This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.
Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-17
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Set against a backdrop of concerns about the potential break-up or radical change to the global world order, this volume sets out to investigate the use of sports mega-events by a number of emerging states.Sports mega-events, it is argued, can be understood as a key...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-17
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Wenn Religion gefährlich wird, ziehen Forscher, Politiker und Feuilletonisten den Containerbegriff Fundamentalismus heran. In ihm hat alles seinen Platz: Gewaltbereite Gotteskrieger, militante Abtreibungsgegner, bibelgläubige Kreationisten. Allerdings führt dieses...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-17
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Combining the conceptual tools of interactionist and social constructionist positions, this book presents an in-depth investigation of emotions in digital interactions. Through the central case study of online bereavement communities for women who have suffered...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-16
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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2019-07-16
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This book explores the political economics and cultural politics of social media news sharing, investigating how it is changing journalism and the news media internationally. News sharing plays important economic and cultural roles in an attention economy, recommending...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-16
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Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white,...
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Seal Press
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2019-07-16
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Live Girls
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Gewalthafte Ereignisse schaffen Atmosphären von Bedrohung und Unsicherheit. Unter den Rufen nach politischen und justiziellen Lösungen wird die Sicherheitsfrage mit der Bestimmung und Bearbeitung vermeintlich spezifischer sozialer Gruppen beantwortet: die islamistischen...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-16
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This book is the first to elaborate on radical and extreme right movements in contemporary Australia. It brings together leading scholars to present cutting edge research on various facets and manifestations of Australia’s diverse far-right, which has gained...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-15
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Land is a subject of great conflict and debate in India. Over the last decade, it has influenced electoral verdicts and political fortunes and remains one of the most persistent challenges facing the nation. This book argues that the focus on politics and land...
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OUP India
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2019-07-15
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This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-15
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt die 2018 begonnene Sammlung von Methoden für transdisziplinäre, transformative wie nicht-transformative Forschung fort. Auch in Band 2 werden Methoden der Wissenserzeugung, Wissensintegration und Transformation so ausführlich beschrieben,...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-15
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Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems. Exemplified with examples, including the Aberfan disaster, the death of Baby P, and Mid Staffs Hospital, this...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-13
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This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology. In doing so, it situates paradigms of thought and representation that capture the lived...
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Springer
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2019-07-13
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This book reports on innovative interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural studies. The study spans the early twentieth to twenty-first centuries and fills a gap in our understanding of how girls’ and women’s religious identity is shaped by maternal and...
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Springer
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2019-07-12
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Gender Hate Online addresses the dynamic nature of misogyny: how it travels, what technological and cultural affordances support or obstruct this and what impact reappropriated expressions of misogyny have in other cultures. It adds significantly to an emergent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
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The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn examines the...
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Polity
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2019-07-12
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews. Specifically, it investigates how these worldviews emerge, how they are constructed,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-12
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Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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This volume presents a detailed synthesis of the historical, present-day and future state of service delivery in South Africa. The generation and distribution of services in any geographical space has been and is always a source of inequality in human society. Thus, in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-11
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Japanese Influence on American Children’s Television examines the gradual, yet dramatic, transformation of Saturday morning children’s programming from being rooted in American traditions and popular culture to reflectingJapanese popular culture. In this modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-11
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