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The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. From fears over killer robots in sci-fi dystopias, to driverless cars in real life, we are both inspired and horrified by the prospect of an advanced intelligence that is not our own. Could AI take...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2022-11-23
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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2022-11-23
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Nach der letzten Auswanderungswelle der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Anfang der 1990er-Jahre wurde der Erhalt von Deutsch als Minderheiten- und Kultursprache in Rumänien als gefährdet eingeschätzt. Der Band stellt – aus historischer wie aktueller Perspektive –...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-23
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This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand. New Zealand decriminalised sex work in 2003 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, making it the first country to do so. Decriminalisation situates brothels as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This handbook provides a unique overview of rehabilitation as practiced internationally in criminal justice. Through the contributions of a diverse group that includes, among others, academics (some of whom are former practitioners), research students, a judge, and a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Rezeptionsprozesse im Umgang mit literarischer Unbestimmtheit gehören zu den zentralen Anforderungen des Literaturunterrichts und können bereits von Beginn der Primarstufe an herausgefordert und unterstützt werden. Die Entwicklung entsprechender didaktischer Modelle...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This second edition of Helaine Selin’s successful Parenting Across Cultures comes at a time where interest in parenting has increased across the world as a result of the COVID pandemic, as parents and children were put into different and often challenging conditions....
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
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This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a variety of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. By examining the mix of public and private sector funding of healthcare services as well as the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Die hier vorgestellten Alternativen zur traditionellen Hierarchie, die Anfang des Jahrtausends zum ersten Mal die Bühne betraten und zunächst in der Open-Source-Bewegung und dann auf kommerziellen Crowdplattformen ihren Siegeszug antraten, haben sich im Laufe kurzer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-22
Collection :
Organisation und Gesellschaft
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Spesso nel dibattito pubblico italiano prostituzione e lavoro sessuale vengono affrontati in modo riduttivo, conflittuale o sensazionalistico, attraverso il ricorso a stereotipi o proclami ideologici, sia nel dibattito politico che in quello mediatico, talvolta anche...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2022-11-22
Collection :
Questioni di genere
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The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-22
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In diesem Buch wird eine Ethnografie des Selbst vorgelegt, die anhand gegenwärtiger spiritueller Praktiken im Libanon durch eine bestimmte Emotionskultur verkörpert wird. Es erzählt von einer radikalen Subjektivierung, die als Teil und Effekt gesellschaftlicher...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This book addresses the question of variability in backed bladelet-based technologies. It also examines the role of LSA microlithic industries as adaptive strategies for coping with paleoenvironmental changes in North Africa. The multidisciplinary research activities...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-22
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Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere draws on criminology and social theory to explore and expand social historical themes in the analysis of perceptions of deviance and crime in the eighteenth century. Developing the theoretical device of Folk Devils and Moral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-21
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The Second Edition of this book is completely revised and updated throughout providing an overview of current challenges faced within the area of Agri-food in relation to policymaking, ecological conservation and socio-environmental justice. Including a range of new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-21
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In contemporary culture, accountability is usually understood in terms of holding people who have done something wrong accountable for their actions. As such, it is virtually synonymous with punishing someone. Living Accountably argues that accountability should also be...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-21
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History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the earliest writings...
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Polity
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2022-11-21
Collection :
Why It Matters
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This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-19
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This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children’s lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements. It focuses on the socialising ritual and customary practices of present-day...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-19
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