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In a rapidly advancing technological culture, social work practitioners are frequently challenged to invent new strategies to meet client needs and foster social change. Despite the Council on Social Work Education's new standards for technology in social work practice,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-31
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The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow In Faces at the Bottom of the Well,...
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Basic Books
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2018-10-30
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Der Band gibt einen Überblick über 40 Jahre Diskussion zum Grundeinkommen mittels einer Auswahl zentraler Artikel aus dieser Zeitspanne von einem ausgewiesenen Experten im Bereich Sozialpolitik und Sozialstaat. Deutlich werden dabei sowohl die gleich bleibenden als auch...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-30
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Mindful meditation is now embraced in virtually all corners of society today, from K-12 schools to Fortune 100 companies, and its virtues extolled by national and international media almost daily. It is thought to benefit our health and overall well-being, to counter...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-30
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Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) have received increased attention in light of international corruption scandals, high-profile leaks about extensive tax abuse schemes, and the continued fight against terrorism financing and organized crime. Reducing IFFs is now a key...
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Springer
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2018-10-30
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The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents. It is simply no longer possible to understand coming of age in the inner city without an appreciation of both the face-to-face and online relations that structure...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-30
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?This book offers a clear analysis of Foucault’s work on scientific knowledge and its relationship to individuals and society. It suggests a way of using Foucault’s tools for science criticism and resistance, while avoiding the pitfalls of vulgar relativism or...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-29
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"Superbly conceptualises and contextualises social justice in and for our global age. The stellar cast of sociologists connect concepts to practices and outline the challenges we face, as well as providing necessary responses."
Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society...
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Springer
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2018-10-29
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As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-10-29
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During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-28
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This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office.This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-26
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This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-26
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This book analyzes the impacts on peoples’ lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Família has been...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-26
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?Im Fokus des Bandes stehen die Beziehungen zwischen Ungleichheitskonflikten und Europäisierungsprozessen. Wie und wann tragen Ungleichheitskonflikte zum Wandel europäischer Ordnungen bei? Inwieweit werden sie durch europäische Rechtsetzung, Staatstätigkeit oder...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-10-26
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Das vorliegende Buch setzt sich aus einer Reihe von Aufsätzen zusammen, welche stets von neuem die Forschungsfrage beantworten, wie sich kulturelle Objektivationen, wie sie Literatur, Malerei, Filme, politische Inszenierungen und Schulstunden darstellen, auf eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2018-10-26
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THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OFTHE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-10-25
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How to do the impossible, do it yourself, and do it now.Tiffany Pham was born in France to Vietnamese parents. Moving to Texas without speaking a word of English, she founded her own company, Mogul, from her laptop, having taught herself how to code. ELLE UK has...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2018-10-25
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