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This volume provides a basic introduction to the philosophy of science and its central concepts, theories, and philosophical, scientific, and spatial positions and approaches.
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Springer
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2022-09-23
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Affirmative action in college admissions – considering whether an applicant is part of an underrepresented group when making selection decisions – has long been a topic of heated public debate. Some argue that it undermines racial equity. Others advocate for its ability...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-09-23
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Debating Race
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"If a child falls victim to a crime, or becomes witness to it, they may well be questioned by the police. Perhaps even tasked with selecting a suspect from a line-up. But how reliable can a child be under such strenuous circumstances?In this book, Dr. Ben Cotterill...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-22
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What happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a politician and they will generate a convincing video in which that person appears to say and do things they have never actually said...
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Polity
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2022-09-22
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Trauma’s die ontstaan door huiselijk geweld en kindermishandeling laten levenslang sporen na, bij alle vormen, van partnergeweld en kindermishandeling tot verwaarlozing, fysiek en emotioneel geweld. Ook jarenlange therapie laat het trauma niet verdwijnen. Wat wél...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Parution :
2022-09-22
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Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food to feed themselves. Desperate overcrowding is found in the shadow of ultraluxury property developments. A...
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Quercus
Parution :
2022-09-22
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Von Hegel zu Nietzsche ist Löwiths bekanntestes Buch, das ihm weltweiten Ruf eingetragen hat – es wurde ins Französische, Englische, Japanische und Italienische übersetzt und ist deutschsprachig bisher in neun Auflagen erschienen. Löwith hatVon Hegel zu Nietzsche im...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-22
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Karl Löwith gilt als eine der herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der deutschen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er studierte bei Edmund Husserl in Freiburg und folgte nach der Promotion in München 1923 seinem Lehrer Martin Heidegger nach Marburg, bei dem er sich 1928 mit...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-09-22
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In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-21
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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings. The volume focuses on three case study regions: East African...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-21
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch zeigt, dass feindliche Einstellungen gegenüber Muslim*innen oder als Muslim*innen markierten Menschen und gegenüber der Religion des Islams oftmals nur wenig differenziert betrachtet werden. Die mangelnde Trennschärfe zwischen Einstellungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-21
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Das Konzept „Resilienz“ erfährt seit einigen Jahren in der Soziologie eine bemerkenswerte Resonanz. Es scheint für die Sozialwissenschaften allgemein und die Soziologie im Besonderen eine interessante und vielversprechende neue Zugangsweise zu zentralen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-21
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This book ? critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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Der zweisprachige Band untersucht Kämpfe und Regimes der Zugehörigkeit und diskutiert „Inclusive Citizenship“ in Originalbeiträgen und Konversationen von internationalen Forscher*innen und Aktivist*innen. Im Spannungsfeld von Acts und Regimes of Citizenship stellen sich...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-20
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A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. ...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-20
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The book deals diachronically with Irish crime fiction, from the picaresque of the 17th century up to the late 1990s when the «Emerald Noir» boom began. Irish writers, often without due recognition, have been instrumental in the development of the genre on an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-20
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This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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This handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice. Authors from diverse disciplines discuss how principles and practices of restorative justice can be used to address the threats and harms facing the environment today. The book covers a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania’s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-19
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