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Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 queer icons, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are activists, sportspeople, scientists or superstars, every one of these people has been a trailblazer in their field, and deserves to have...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2019-03-14
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"Perez Velazquez has written a little gem that I advise reading to anyone persuing a scientific career, as well as for the general public interested in the sociological aspects of science. It alerts the reader about the rise of a new type of scientist, buried in...
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Springer
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2019-03-13
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A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-13
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today. The author draws...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-13
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Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Bandes ist der einzigartige historische Moment des Anarchismus in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts in Bezug nicht nur auf seine politische, sondern vor allem auf seine kulturelle Bedeutung. Anarchismus wurde zum...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-03-11
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Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power is the first book to interrogate the organizational turn towards performance metrics critically. Performance measurement is used to evaluate a diverse range of activities throughout the private,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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The Varieties of Grounded Theory explores the range and depth of grounded theory methodology, and the ways in which discussions in the field have developed and expanded in recent years.
In this SAGE Swift, Anthony Bryant provides a jargon-free overview of grounded...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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Social Work and Science in the 21st Century enhances the inclusion of natural science concepts and knowledge into social work education and practice. The book highlights basic scientific theories and ideas in a broad array of natural science fields, including chemistry,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-11
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Der Sammelband stellt die gegenwärtigen Erfolge des Rechtspopulismus in den westlichen Demokratien in den Kontext der Formation einer neuen gesellschaftlichen Konfliktlinie (cleavage), die öffentliche Debatten bestimmt, Gesellschaften polarisiert und den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-03-11
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Do new "smart" technologies such as AI, robotics, social media, and automation threaten to disrupt our society? Or does technological innovation hold the potential to transform our democracies and civic societies, creating ones that are more egalitarian and accountable?...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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This book explores the historical origins, activities, and structure of the archetypal ‘new’ Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB). It traces their illegal immigration abroad from Guangzhou, the extent to which they are organised and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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This book explores how the ‘new’ Asian criminal entrepreneurs in Canada, known as The Big Circle Boys (BCB), competitively dominated the Canadian heroin market in the 1990s without a formal organisation or explicit hierarchical structure. Drawing on the market...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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This book asks a critical question for our times: why do an increasing number of people support, admire and aspire to be outlaws? Outlaw motorcycle clubs have grown, spread and matured. Popular culture glamorizes them; law enforcement agencies fight them and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Ostmitteleuropa rückte nach dem Fall des Kommunismus in den Vordergrund der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Interessen. Die früheren Ostblockstaaten versuchten ihre Unabhängigkeit zu verifizieren, viele neuen Staaten entstanden, Europa wurde bunter, damit auch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-03-08
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Noch immer bildet die Siedlungs- und Sozialform des Dorfes einen zentralen Bezugspunkt für individuelle und kollektive Erfahrungen und Imaginationen – und zwar auch unter den Bedingungen industrie- und mediengesellschaftlich geprägter Moderne. Das Handbuch präsentiert...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-03-08
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Unter dem Wissen der Moderne, dass die gesellschaftlichen Lebensformen vom Menschen selbst geschaffene Lebensformen darstellen und an Bedingungen gebunden sind, die sich zum System entwickelt haben, muss der Begriff der Gerechtigkeit von dem Problemgehalt der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-03-08
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-03-07
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-03-07
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GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays exploring what it's like to be othered in an...
Editeur :
Dialogue Books
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2019-03-07
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Africa is a laboratory for managerial and societal innovations built out of pragmatic arrangements. Some African companies offer products and services that go beyond the standard practices of their international counterparts, based on original and inventive managerial...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-03-07
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