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While many of us may strive to locate a sense of identity and belonging expressed via a home or ancestral homeland; today, however, this connection is no longer, if it ever was, a straightforward identification. This collection aims at mapping narratives or artwork of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-21
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This book emphasises the importance of difficulties identifying victims of human trafficking. It is often challenging for trafficked victims to be identified, for victims to self-identify, and for victims to be distinguishable from other groups of vulnerable people such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-20
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Sophie Reitmeier widmet sich in ihrem Buch der Frage, wie wir uns für eine Serie oder einen Film entscheiden. In Anlehnung an bereits vorliegende Konzepte teilt sie (Selektions-)Entscheidungen in zwei Phasen ein. In der sogenannten Editing-Phase findet zunächst eine...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-20
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This volume elucidates international biographical and narrative perspectives on how COVID-19 influenced people’s daily lives across different countries and contexts. It draws together global interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and conceptualizes the lived...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-19
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This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer...
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Springer
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2024-07-19
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Invertebrates are the neglected majority of the animal world. Even though they make up over 95% of animal life, they rarely feature in discussions of speciesism, animal ethics or species justice. This book aims to extend the work of non-speciesist criminologists to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-19
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Observant Muslims strive to fulfill the pillars of Islam, which include praying five times a day, preceded by a cleansing ritual and followed by physical prostrations facing Mecca. In a society not always understanding or accepting of these practices, how do observant...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-19
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The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the concepts and methods used in fractal analysis and modeling in order to study the spatial distribution of human settlements.The main concepts and mathematical tools are reviewed, and emphasis is placed on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-07-19
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ISTE Invoiced
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Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography The leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, Urban Geography covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world....
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Wiley
Parution :
2024-07-19
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This book introduces part of the advances of the aging research conducted by Dr. Yang Wang and his collaborators since 2022. It covers several topics related to older adults, including their psychological and social well-being, their role as caregivers and care...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-18
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In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America’s fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and politics in a way that is particular to the US and consonant with mythological-historical narratives of America. As a result,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis. Demonstrating the relevance of phenomenology, it provides a systematic overview of the contemporary pragmatic landscape, taking into account not only a family of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book conceptualises the diagnosis ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ (SAD) in women as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain. By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author’s lived experience, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-17
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Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges that framework by examining the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-17
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Das Buch befasst sich mit zwei Themen, die eng miteinander verwoben sind: muslimisches Leben und islamische Bildung. Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze liefern zum einen tiefgreifende religionssoziologische Einblicke in die Bandbreite und Vielschichtigkeit der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-07-16
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This books offers a comprehensive overview of the possible effects of disasters or crisis situations on civil protections which have been challenged and tested during these scenarios. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on security and threats, describes the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-16
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This book analyzes Istanbul's bus rapid transit, the metrobus, as an encountering space to unfold the perception and practice of togetherness. Based on field research with regular metrobus passengers, the book presents a layered analysis between everyday life, everyday...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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Dwelling is both an action and a location; it combines the spatial idea of habitation (dwelling in) with the temporal idea of lingering (dwelling on). We live not only in bricks and mortar, a tent, a hut or a spaceship, but also in that most changeful of forms, our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This timely and ambitious volume - a product of close research collaboration with the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia - is conceived as a holistic “journey” across various domains of progress in a region that, despite fundamental common traits,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-15
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