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Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas’s sophisticated contributions to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-01-03
Collection :
Theory and Media
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In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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The book describes the Ankarana plateau and its cave network in Madagascar, depicting the natural environment of the Plateau as well as the natural processes which created the cave network of more than 100km with many galleries, some are very large and draped with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-02
Collection :
Cave and Karst Systems of the World
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"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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Accessible and instructive,ÂPalliative CareÂguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice. Through the lenses of environmental theory and intersectionality, rich case narratives highlight...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-02
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The book looks at the factors influencing the level of preparedness of communities exposed to flooding. It is based on original research carried out in twelve areas in southern Poland that suffered serious flood damage in the past thirty years.The underlying research...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book provides an original contribution to the planning and design literature. Not only does it provide a fresh and finely grained examination of the daily challenges and opportunities of design review practice, but it does so in an ethnographically compelling...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book explores the complex category of the ‘skilled migrant,’ drawing on multi-sited narrative interviews with migrants who have all lived in Australia at some point in their lives (as an origin and/or destination). Developing the more nuanced concept of the ‘mobile...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book explains the dynamics behind the economic transformation from the colonial era to the post-independence period in Indonesia and Vietnam. It analyses the different Vietnamese and Indonesian government approaches to the economic legacies of colonialism remaining...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
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Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored father, who was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book presents an overview of urban and regional planning in Turkey. It discusses the fundamental topics and contemporary issues in the field. The book is organized in two parts and it includes 14 chapters. Chapter 1 is designed as an introduction defining the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once the current spate of civil conflicts is over:...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world. The various case studies focus on the multi-functionality of the rural world and the driving forces behind it. The book demonstrates that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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The 2nd edition was fundamentally changed and adopted to be displayed not only in book form, but also on all kinds of electronic devices.The following sections have been reduced or skipped: Tables, Scheme and diagram, Perspective drawing, Technical drawing and bill of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Dieses Buch ist der Versuch, die Krise des hierarchischen Systems zu analysieren und Möglichkeiten einer Weiterentwicklung aufzuzeigen. Einer der möglichen Wege ist dabei eine Neubelebung der Gruppen, die in der Urgeschichte eine wichtige Bedeutung für das...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Das essential erforscht subjektive Diskriminierungserfahrungen von muslimischen Menschen in Deutschland und berücksichtigt dabei auch Menschen, welche sich selbst nicht dem Islam zugehörig fühlen, aber aufgrund einer vermeintlichen Zugehörigkeit zum Islam...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as ‘modern’ (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in the name of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making. Side A illustrates how creativity arises out of a system in action, and introduces the history, culture, traditions and institutions that contribute to the process of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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