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This volume aims to explain the mechanisms for the “epidemic-like” rise in homicide rates São Paulo, Brazil during the late 20th century as well as their sharp decrease after 2000. The homicide rates increased 900 percent from 1960s-2000, and then dropped relatively...
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Springer
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2016-06-09
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This book critically examines the psychology of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao. Covering the history of gambling and its development in the two jurisdictions, it highlights the prevalence and status quo of problem gambling, the theoretical perspectives on the etiology...
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Springer
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2016-06-08
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Within the study of language and social interaction, the concept of 'accountability'-including related concepts, such as 'account' or 'motive,' 'accounting,' and 'being accountable'-has been of longstanding interest in terms of how interactants in both ordinary and...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-08
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This comprehensive and engaging textbook provides a fresh and sociologically-grounded examination of how deviance is constructed and defined and what it means to be classed a deviant. Covers an array of deviances, including sexual, physical, mental, and criminal, as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-06-08
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Das Buch befasst sich aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive mit dem Entstehen und der Entwicklung von StadtLandschaften. Diese StadtLandschaften lassen sich als Teil gesellschaftlicher Hybridisierungsprozesse deuten. Diese lassen sich nicht oder nur noch unzureichend...
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Springer VS
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2016-06-07
Collection :
Hybride Metropolen
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This book presents a case study of shichigosan, an extremely popular childhood family ritual in contemporary Japan. It is an interesting example of a custom with very ancient roots (going back to the tenth century), that has undergone several transformations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-07
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In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety of media formats and different regions of the world, Adrian Athique provides a much-needed critical exploration of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-06-07
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-06-07
Collection :
Digital Futures
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The current "obesity epidemic" has been at the top of the national and, increasingly, global public agenda for the last decade, the subject of extensive and intensive concern, scrutiny, and corrective efforts from various quarters. In the United States, much of this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-07
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With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight. However, jury room secrecy has long prevented a rigorous analysis of its complexities. Expert Evidence...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-07
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With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight. However, jury room secrecy has long prevented a rigorous analysis of its complexities. Expert Evidence...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-07
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Building on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-07
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This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-06
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This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in...
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Springer
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2016-06-06
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This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-06
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Maya
Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the
global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming
from the community level. Arguing that
the existing global agenda for children has failed, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-06
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This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event studies, tourism geography, cultural anthropology and sociology. It covers issues which are typically related to the most popular type of events: festivals....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-03
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'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
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'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-06-02
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